Sleepworking

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:06 AM -0500 1/26/06, bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>How is OED for "sleepworking"?
>...
>...
>77G SUBWAY SLEEPER IS A DOZY DOOZY
>New York Post, NY - Jan 25, 2006
>Wayne Wiggins, 37, the subway-station agent caught snoozing on the
>clock Sunday, has a history of sleepworking ? and even brags to
>friends and relatives ...
>
Oh.  I thought this was going to refer to getting up in the night,
making one's way to one's study to work away on the computer for
awhile, only to wake up in the morning with only a fuzzy memory of
the event, if any.  I think I've done that, but I can't be sure.

Larry

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