The state of being half-asleep, half-conscious

I came across this word several years ago and promptly forgot it.  Thanks for your help…

I would suggest somnolent.  :)

"Hypnagogic" and "hypnopompic" are a nice pair of words, describing things that relate to the process of falling asleep and the process of waking up, respectively.

Grant

Reverie is a daydreaming state.

I believe it’s also used in the dream-research community to describe the neither-here-nor-there condition between supine consciousness and unconsciouness.

But I will, er, stand to be corrected.

Huh?  Semiconscious? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

How about drowsy/drowsiness?  

"Hypnopompic" was the word I was looking for, but it was also interesting to see what other words came up.  

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

Tipping my hat towards Mark Twain, how about

Mondaymorningitis
:D ;D :o 8)

Mondaymorningitis
:D ;D :o 8)

Question:  If it happens on Tuesday, is it still Mondaymorningitis?

[quote author=Linnet link=board=what;num=1030125011;start=0#8 date=08/29/02 at 12:36:35]Question:  If it happens on Tuesday, is it still Mondaymorningitis?

Late-onset Mondaymorningitis

[quote author=Brad Ross-MacLeod link=board=what;num=1030125011;start=0#9 date=08/29/02 at 14:33:17]

Late-onset Mondaymorningitis

I’d say Mondaymorningiasis would be better, but better yet would be to emulate the medical community and go straight to Latin:

Manedierilunaeiasis

All from the Latin (it’s a disease, remember!):

Mane:  morning
dieri:  of the day (dies, dieri)
lunae:  of the moon (luna, lunae)
iasis:  disease having characteristics of or produced by (something specified)

(Classical scholars feel free to excoriate me if I have the grammar wrong.)

In this instance, a disease having characteristics of or caused by Monday (Moon Day) Morning.  Since it has the characteristics of Monday Morning, it will suffice for any day of the week, any morning after the night before.  

I think the pronounciation should be something on the order of:
    mah-nay-dee-air-ee-lu-nye-ah-sis

-itis:  means disease or inflammation, but is usually reserved for inflammation, as in arthritis (joints), bronchitis (bronchial), bursitis (bursa—seen on Agora recently in the burse thread), and so on.  Compare to psoriasis and elephantiasis, for example.  Elucidating the etymology of these two words is left as an exercise to the student.  

My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don’t live Jesus.
That kind of morning, really was that kind of night.
Tryin’ to tell myself my condition is improving,
And if I don’t die by Thursday I’ll be roarin’ Friday night!"
   —Jimmy Buffett

[quote author=Stargzer link=board=what;num=1030125011;start=0#10 date=08/29/02 at 17:54:37]Manedierilunaeiasis

A nice word is already available for a more general malaise than this: matutolypea, meaning "ill-humour in the mornings".

Grant

PS (Added later, after a little research.) The derivation is mixed Latin and Greek: Matuta, the Roman goddess of the dawn; lype, Greek for "grief". A better, all Greek, word would have been eosolypea.

All this talk of Mondaymorningitis and possible Latin and Greek substitutes is making me feel hung over.

I now hasten to take some pelt of the dog that bit me.  ;)

I now hasten to take some pelt of the dog that bit me.  ;)

Take some and pass the rest on…  :)

[quote author=Agoraphile link=board=what;num=1030125011;start=0#12 date=08/29/02 at 19:31:36]I now hasten to take some pelt of the dog that bit me.

Gegh. Hair of the dog with the skin still attached? You must by hung over.

Grant

[quote author=granthutchison link=board=what;num=1030125011;start=0#11 date=08/29/02 at 18:17:55]
A nice word is already available for a more general malaise than this: matutolypea, meaning "ill-humour in the mornings".

Grant…

Yeah, that’s it, take all the fun out of it by giving us a real word!  I was just trying to combine Latin words with German word construction practice.  

Gegh. Hair of the dog with the skin still attached? You must by hung over. ...

I think if I woke up that bad I wouldn’t be able to find the dog in the first place!