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the sleep that swears it isn't sleep right up until you snore
means To drift into a light, shallow sleep, often briefly and without meaning to.
from English from around the early 1600s, probably borrowed from a Scandinavian source — compare Danish 'døse,' to make dull or drowsy, and Old Norse 'dúsa,' to doze. The whole family hums with the same idea of a mind gone soft and slow, the way fog dulls a window.
- microsleep
- Brains can doze for seconds with eyes open
- dozers
- Bulldozers earned the name from slow shoving force
- old root
- Comes from a Scandinavian word for stupor
- driving danger
- Drowsy dozing causes crashes rivaling drunk driving
for instance
rip van winkle — washington irving's 1819 character who slept for 20 years in the catskill mountains
sleeping beauty — princess aurora cursed to sleep for 100 years in disney's 1959 film
narcolepsy — sleep disorder affecting millions worldwide, causing sudden uncontrollable sleep episodes