Word of the Day: somniculous

somniculous (adj)

Sleepy or drowsy.

"She soon went to sleep, but dreamt of distresses and vexations, of exertions demanded, and powers not to be excited; of falling from precipices, of painful adieus, and of boats foundering in shoreless waters, and was haunted by all the train of somniculous misery, which the superstitious resolve into causes, and less weak into effects."
--Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, Modes of Discipline

I sometimes get that falling feeling when I'm about to go to sleep. (I suppose that's where the phrase "falling asleep" comes from.) It probably has to do with some lizard part of my brain suddenly realizing that my body is horizontal instead of vertical.