sleepghost
/ˈsliːpˌɡəʊst/nounVerified NewAlso in: Schlafgeist (Deutsch) · sueñofantasma (Español) · sommeilfantôme (Français)
The feeling of a dream presence that lingers after waking — someone was just here, and the room is not empty yet.
The sleepghost is the warmth beside you that was a dream, the conversation still hanging in the air, the sense of having been watched kindly. It fades with the light, but the fading is slow, and some mornings the ghost stays for breakfast.
Etym. — sleep + ghost — the haunting metaphor for the dream's residual presence; a ghost is exactly what remains when the person is gone.
Rel. — dreamtenant · dreamorphan
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