#49179
12/02/2001 5:48 AM
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Can anyone think of a word that relates to sleep as posthumous relates to death? I'm looking for a more elegant way to say after one has gone to sleep, or while one is asleep.
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#49180
12/02/2001 6:34 AM
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morphetic, somnolent, soporiferous
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#49181
12/02/2001 12:21 PM
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In an important conference. (Sorry, couldn't help it!  ) I do like soporiferous...[yawn].
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#49182
12/02/2001 2:43 PM
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Asleep = "In the arms of Morpheous."
Morpheous = god of sleep
That's about as elegant as it gets!
There is also one called Hypnos but I am a Morpheous fan myself.
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#49183
12/02/2001 2:45 PM
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Old, but meaningful:long sleep.
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#49184
12/02/2001 10:17 PM
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Is soporific confined to aids that put you to sleep? (Jackie, faculty meetings are soporifics.)
Inelegant:
The Rack Monster
Out like a light
Dead to this world
Unconscious
Dreaming
Riding a nightmare
Hibernating
Dozing
Sawin' Zzzzz's
Mr. Sandman (send me a dream..bum, bum, bum, bum...--good ol' song)'
Winkin, Blinkin and Nod
Nodding (especially fun to observe in symphony concerts until the snores come marching in)
Snoozin'
Spooning (now that's the best of 'em)
Interesting to consider how few words I can generate about sleep. Maybe we don't have many.
WW
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#49185
12/02/2001 11:19 PM
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#49186
12/02/2001 11:31 PM
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a word that relates to sleep as posthumous relates to death
1 born after the father‘s death
2 published after the author‘s death
3 arising or continuing after one‘s death
re-incarnate
redivivus
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#49187
12/03/2001 12:20 AM
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subdreamonic? (I think I just coined it)
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#49188
12/03/2001 1:13 AM
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#49189
12/03/2001 1:23 AM
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Having my druthers, I'd rather be in the arms of Morpheus.[asleep] ... And to awakened by Orpheus. 
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#49190
12/03/2001 1:41 AM
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Dear consuelo: gold is where you find it. So coin wherever the ore is.
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#49191
12/03/2001 4:15 AM
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You naughty boy![One hand on hip, finger shaking-e] You know that Miscellany is where you need to go to coin words. Shame on you!Guilty 'til proven innocent!  (I was raised Catholic, you know!) And I'm tickled that you found it funny, Connie...but I thought it was kind of... Poetic! 
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#49192
12/03/2001 6:03 AM
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Can anyone think of a word that relates to sleep as posthumous relates to death?
How about "narcolepsy"? Some people suffer from "post prandial narcolepsy", an uncontrollable collapse into sleep after eating. A medication has very recently been developed to treat this condition.
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