wakeborder

/ˈweɪkˌbɔːdə/nounVerified New

Also in: Wachgrenze (Deutsch) · despertfrontera (Español) · éveilfrontière (Français)

The border between sleep and waking, patrolled by forgetting, crossed in both directions nightly.

The wakeborder has no fence and no flag, but its enforcement is absolute: everything carried across is searched, and most of it is seized. The crossing takes a second; the paperwork takes a lifetime of mornings.

Etym. — wake + border — the geopolitical metaphor for the sleep/waking threshold; the border is the mechanism, not a decoration.

Rel. — dreamcustoms · dreamsmuggling · somnigrant

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