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Feb 4, 2008
This week's themeWords related to sleep This week's words somniloquy diurnation soporose hypnopompic lychnobite Previous week’s theme What does that company name mean? 
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with Anu GargSleep has been called temporary death, but there's so much that goes on during that time of repose. While visiting that other world one might walk, talk, grind teeth, and sometimes dream. Your brain is more active while you're asleep than when watching television. And that's even when you don't walk or talk in sleep. No wonder our language is rife with sleep-related idioms. You can sleep in, on, out, around, with, and over. You can lose sleep over things. You can go without food for a while but you can't cheat on sleep. It demands its dues. According to a report, you would be 25% less alert on the loss of just an hour's worth of sleep. This week's five words are all about sleep.
somniloquy(som-NIL-uh-kwee) noun: The act or habit of talking while asleep. [From Latin somnus (sleep) + loqui (to speak).] Read about a man whose nighttime soliloquies sold as LP albums: Dion McGregor
"Somniloquy can occur in all stages of sleep (both dream and nondream
sleep), though individuals awakened while talking in their sleep will
often recall dreaming. Sleep talking usually does not result in
significant problems for individuals; however, it may be embarrassing
if noted by family or friends." See more usage examples of somniloquy in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. X-BonusWe all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy. -Yahia Lababidi, writer (b. 1973) |
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