you don’t go places when you sleep?
It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place
Submitted 1 month ago by FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As a stress sleepwalker, yes I do.
TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I wish I did, I don’t dream so for me it’s pretty much just skipping anywhere from 6 to 10 hours and suddenly it’s the next morning.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I sure do. Just last night, I went to a store that was closed. The shopkeeper had hired a very tall and furry troll to guard the store at night. She said the shop is closed, and seemed a bit irritated. We shook hands for no apparent reasons, and then I went away. I sat into a car, we drove off, accidentally drove off road, plowed through the 1 m thick snow, fell off a cliff. We nearly crashed into a house, but somehow managed to land on a road right next to it.
That’s why you don’t try to do your shopping in the middle of the night.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 month ago
In Spanish, they talk about hunger and thirst as if they are physical objects.
teft@piefed.world 1 month ago
I think that's more that tener doesn't always mean a physical thing.
As an example in spanish they use tener for age. As in "tengo 20 años" literally is "I have 20 years" but it means "I am 20"
Or ten cuidado means "take care" or "be careful". Both phrases use tener in a nonphysical sense in the same way as in english we use "to have". Like to have compassion or to have doubts.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
but it works because abstract concepts are things an individual can own.
Like “Tengo quidado” is “i own the the abstract concept of care”.
it could work in English, but it just sounds strange or poetic, like “i have hunger”
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 month ago
German too. Ich habe Hunger. Sie haben Durst.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Sie haben Durst
Durst
Heh, Fred Thirst
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
J’ai froid.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Feelings are things we have.
Schwim@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
“It’s time to achieve unconsciousness, kiddo.”
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The void calls ceaselessly, child.
Nemoder@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
If you have trouble going to sleep then try falling asleep instead.
moonburster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In Dutch “go” means to go do a thing as well and I use it English in a similar fashion. Never thought of it weird before
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well then take a piss.
PineRune@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d rather leave a piss.
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Go poop.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 month ago
That's what i say in the bathroom, like it's a team sport.
Goooo Poop!
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 1 month ago
I wish it was. I wish it was…
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m going to go, to my bed, to sleep.
leadore@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The word “go” has lots of meanings besides physically moving to a place. It also means to change state (“the milk went bad”, “he’ll go crazy when he finds out”) and to indicate immediate future tense (“I’m going to read this book now”). Not to mention some other less relevant uses.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s a state.
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah I think it’s going to make me go insane
neatchee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m 90% sure that it was originally in the form of “to go <there/place> and <verb>” and has just been shortened over time. A refined colloquialism, if you go for that sort of thing
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Dreaming
Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tel’aran’rhiod
gilgameth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Instructions unclear, summoned Cthulhu.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
In german we say either say “go” or “laying to sleep/rest”
9point6@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Huh that’s funny, “laying to rest” in English is an expression for burying someone after they have died
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Yeah we also say “they are not yet under the world of the living” if someone is still asleep
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 1 month ago
We also call the event of publicly watching soccer matches etc. “public viewing” so…
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One night my little daughter asked me, “Where is dreamland?” I explained that it’s a made-up place you think of while you’re asleep, and how everyone has their own. Kids take things so literally, when we talked about “going to dreamland” at bedtime she probably wondered if it was an actual place we went somehow - but where could it be? Great question.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I think I believed that for a time when I was a kid, that dreamland was a physical place people went to when sleeping
GuyFawkes@midwest.social 1 month ago
Naw, just a state of mind.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
We “go” to lots of things that aren’t places. Im going to prove it with this sentence.
whimsy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Can you do it after we go to lunch?
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 month ago
…into space. go figure
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
In English, ‘go to’ can be used as the future subjunctive tense of the verb being conjugated.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sounds fancy. I hope it’s not expensive to use.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Planning to go into detail, or was that it?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Go to ass.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
if you insist ;-)
megane_kun@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’ve got to go think about it for a second, and then I get to realize what it meant.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I’m going to go to sleep.
Double going!
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Let’s not go off the rails.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Different usage. You wouldn’t say “I’m going to prove.” or tell someone “Go to prove.” Are there any examples of “I’m going to [word].” or “Go to [word].” where the [word] is not a physical place?
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yes. We regularly say “go to [verb]”.
Go to eat
Go to learn
Go to exercise
Saying “go to sleep” is exectly the same.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Not many… Heres what i came up with though: Go to great lengths
Go to an extreme
Go to bat for something
Go to town on something