sleepwaking

Etymology

From sleep + waking.

sleepwaking means the state of one who is mesmerized, or in a trance. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.

Why this word is great

SLEEPWAKING — [Noun] A state of mesmerized passivity, a trance of consciousness suspended between sleep and wakefulness. From the English words sleep and waking, indicating a hybrid or intermediate state. Unlike somnambulism, which denotes the physical ambulation of true sleep, or hypnosis, an artificially induced state of directed suggestibility, sleepwaking is a spontaneous, internal drift. It is the slackened stare at city lights smearing past a rain-streaked window, the heavy-lidded fixation on a candle flame as its dance becomes the world’s only rhythm, the auditory fuzz of a distant radio played just below comprehension—a gentle abdication from presence, where thought dissolves into pure, weightless sensation.

noun

The state of one who is mesmerized, or in a trance