the.com/insomniac
Someone whose brain treats 3am like prime networking hours.
means A person who chronically can't fall asleep or stay asleep.
from Built from Latin insomnis, 'sleepless' — in- ('not') plus somnus ('sleep,' the same root behind 'somnolent' and the god Somnus). English bolted on the Greek-style suffix '-iac' (as in 'maniac') to turn the condition into a person, giving us a word that's technically a Latin-Greek mashup — grammatically a little sleepless itself.
- official cutoff
- trouble sleeping 3+ nights a week for months
- the irony
- trying harder to sleep makes it worse
- brain state
- overactive brain regions that refuse to power down
- common cause
- racing thoughts, not lack of tiredness