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Posted: 6/14/2009 1:52:20 AM EDT

Where does the phrase "ounce of sleep" come from? For example... "I did not get an ounce of sleep". Is it just the application of a random measurement term? Or is there some neat root meaning to it?

Posted: 6/14/2009 1:54:17 AM EDT

[#1]

All I know is if I sleep like a log, I am happy as a clam.

Posted: 6/14/2009 1:58:07 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
All I know is if I sleep like a log, I am happy as a clam.

Yeah, not an issue on my part, but just a thought after seeing the phrase elswhere.

I am lucky, 99% of the time, I am out in 5-10 minutes, and when I am out... I AM OUT. Gunfire, explosions, earthquakes 5.0 or less, I don't wake up. I have to run multiple alarms to make sure I get up when I need to. I have always been like this.

Posted: 6/14/2009 2:00:14 AM EDT

[#3]

Yes, weighs the same as prevention.

Posted: 6/14/2009 2:04:59 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

Quoted:
All I know is if I sleep like a log, I am happy as a clam.

Yeah, not an issue on my part, but just a thought after seeing the phrase elswhere.

I am lucky, 99% of the time, I am out in 5-10 minutes, and when I am out... I AM OUT. Gunfire, explosions, earthquakes 5.0 or less, I don't wake up. I have to run multiple alarms to make sure I get up when I need to. I have always been like this.

Well, my point is there are lots of silly sayings, especially associated with sleep (clams are happy?).
Just a WAG but I would bet so many silly ones are associated with sleep because it is such a weird thing. Here you are going along just fine, and then you have "die" for a several hours to get re-charged. The association "visually" between sleep and death probably made folks just un-easy enough to make some silly saying about it.

You are lucky. I takes me a half hour AT THE VERY least to get to sleep, I would bet an hour is more common for me. And then I am up and down all night. My wife is asleep as soon as she lays down, and sleeps through anything.
My light sleep makes it so that I require at least 8 and closer to 9 hours.

Posted: 6/14/2009 4:20:58 AM EDT

[#5]

Now, how did "winking" become a unit of measure? Like, "Catching fourty winks." 40 winks seems to be the ideal amount of sleep, so I am assuming that a 'wink' is a measure of time.

I acknowledge that this thread has already lasted too long.

Posted: 6/14/2009 4:34:10 AM EDT

[#6]

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All I know is if I sleep like a log, I am happy as a clam.

If you sleep like a natural log then I can see where the math comes in.

Posted: 6/14/2009 4:35:52 AM EDT

[#7]

It may take a lustrum to decide this point.
If a wink is a measure of time is a nudge a measure of distance; as in wink-wink-nudge-nudge?
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Posted: 6/14/2009 4:36:27 AM EDT

[#8]

If I weigh myself just before bed, and then right when I get up. I have usually lost over a pound. So sleep has negative weight.

Posted: 6/14/2009 4:40:25 AM EDT

[#9]

I can wake up two or more pounds lighter. So, yeah I guess I could argue that sleep has weight? Of course, its probably the two or three head calls I make during the night.

Posted: 6/14/2009 4:43:44 AM EDT

[#10]

sleeps weighs a dikfer

Posted: 6/16/2009 11:51:57 PM EDT

[#11]

What's a di... oh never mind.

Posted: 6/16/2009 11:58:02 PM EDT

[#12]

An once of perception, a pond of obscure.

Posted: 6/16/2009 11:58:58 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Where does the phrase "ounce of sleep" come from? For example... "I did not get an ounce of sleep". Is it just the application of a random measurement term? Or is there some neat root meaning to it?

It's simply just applying a small unit of measurement to sleeping. You never hear, "a pound of sleep" etc.. It's only supposed to be used when addressing the fact that you haven't had even the smallest amount of sleep.