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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of somnium.

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  • In a drama close to somnia turbula, ganglias of cables and wires, nerve fibres and raunchy buzzing lights radiated down at him from a ceiling, meshed together in a flue.

    Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) 2009

  • I was going to frame the Kimpton's sleep take-out menu and hang it above my bed like a somnia-inducing talisman.

    Sharon Glassman: Why Can't Women Sleep? Part V - The Zzz-inducing Joy of Things Gone Wrongly Right 2009

  • The first twelve Apex Featured Writers were tasked with writing the darkest, scariest short fiction their twisted minds could create using the theme of "aegri somnia."

    Something for the Person who has Everything on Your Holiday Gift List... reudaly 2006

  • Having a complex not-always-stable disability like me for instance which includes hyper-somnia, can mean while you go to bed, one day, because they shot a lot of electricity through you, and even if you are DEAD TIRED you can only sleep maybe 80 minutes, and that is with sedatives.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • This makes it pretty much impossible for someone with hyper-somnia the need to sleep every six hours like ME, to get full rest.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Having a complex not-always-stable disability like me for instance which includes hyper-somnia, can mean while you go to bed, one day, because they shot a lot of electricity through you, and even if you are DEAD TIRED you can only sleep maybe 80 minutes, and that is with sedatives.

    Why to choose "Cripple" with your guidance counselor, some gifts, my day! Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Somewhat unrelated, but on the issue of consent and culpability, I just watched the beginning of an episode of Law and Order SVU where a guy raped his girlfriend's little sister in his sleep due to some sex-somnia disorder, and they said they couldn't charge him with anything because he wasn't conscious of what he was doing.

    "Sex" with your comatose wife = rape - Feministing 2008

  • This makes it pretty much impossible for someone with hyper-somnia the need to sleep every six hours like ME, to get full rest.

    Not dead, but maybe we could change that? Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Oculi his excavantur, venti gignuntur circum praecordia et acidi ructus, sicci fere ventres, vertigo, tinnitus aurium, somni pusilli, somnia terribilia et interrupta.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Interdiu oculi, et aures occupatae distrahunt animum, at noctu solus jactor, ad auroram somnus paulum misertus, nec tamen ex animo puella abiit, sed omnia mihi de Leucippe somnia erant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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