[Vocabulary] caked with sleep

[hhtt21]

"He looked disheveled and only half awake; his eyes were still caked with sleep."


Would you please explain the bit "caked with sleep"?

https://books.google.ca/books?id=LQ... his eyes were still caked with sleep&f=false by William Peter Blatty.

 

[J&K Tutoring]

He has that dried-on gunk you sometimes have in the corners of your eyes when you wake up.

 

[hhtt21]

He has that dried-on gunk you sometimes have in the corners of your eyes when you wake up.

How do you join the blue part to the green part?

 

[GoesStation]

How do you join the blue part to the green part?

… that dried-on gunk [that] you sometimes have …. The word "that" is optional here.

 

[Rover_KE]

hhtt21, I googled your thread title and found this page.

 

[emsr2d2]

hhtt21, I googled your thread title and found this page.

I love the fact that the first hit is a piece about whether eating cake causes insomnia! :lol:

 

[Skrej]

I am plagued with recurring bouts of a bacterial infection in my eyes that makes me especially prone to this. When it flares up, I often literally cannot open my eyes without first breaking them loose with a finger. Inevitably, I lose an eyelash or so in the process. They truly are caked shut.

That's usually my signal to go visit my optometrist for some rather expensive eye-drops. Part of the home treatment also involves sitting with hot towels over my eyes. That part is actually pretty enjoyable, although prone to inducing sleep.:sleeping:

 

[tedmc]

Do you go to the ophthalmologist or optometrist for that?

 

[Tdol]

I love the fact that the first hit is a piece about whether eating cake causes insomnia! :lol:

I don't get that page. Does it? ;-)

 

[emsr2d2]

I don't get that page. Does it? ;-)

Ah, I forgot that Google results differ from person to person and country to country.

 

[emsr2d2]

Do you go to the ophthalmologist or optometrist for that?

That sounds like the sort of thing you go to your normal doctor for. The doctor might refer to an eye specialist at the hospital.

 

[GoesStation]

That sounds like the sort of thing you go to your normal doctor for.

I had a little epiphany about the practice of medicine when I was twenty or so and went to the doctor for this problem. Looking at the bottle of eye drops I'd been prescribed, I noticed it named the medicine and said "for blepheritis". That's when I realized that an important part of a doctor's job is to translate your complaint into Latin.