sleepilliterate
/ˌsliːpɪˈlɪtərət/adjectiveVerified NewAlso in: müdeblind (Deutsch) · sueñoanalfabeto (Español) · sommeilanalphabète (Français)
Unable to read one's own tiredness — fluent in the day, illiterate in the body's signals.
The sleepilliterate person cannot tell tired from hungry, bored from exhausted, wired from rested; the body's text is unreadable, and the person drinks coffee at the wrong hour and sleeps at the wrong one. The illiteracy is common and treatable, and the treatment is the one thing the illiterate cannot read: the instruction to rest.
Etym. — sleep + illiterate — the literacy metaphor for the body-signal competence; illiterate is exactly the state of being unable to read a text that is there.
Rel. — sleepferal · napbrittle
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