It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place

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• Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We “go” to lots of things that aren’t places. Im going to prove it with this sentence.

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  • whimsy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can you do it after we go to lunch?

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …into space. go figure

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In English, ‘go to’ can be used as the future subjunctive tense of the verb being conjugated.

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    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds fancy. I hope it’s not expensive to use.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Planning to go into detail, or was that it?

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Go to ass.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      if you insist ;-)

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  • megane_kun@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve got to go think about it for a second, and then I get to realize what it meant.

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m going to go to sleep.

    Double going!

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let’s not go off the rails.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you don’t go places when you sleep?

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a stress sleepwalker, yes I do.

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  • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In Spanish, they talk about hunger and thirst as if they are physical objects.

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  • teft@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”

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  • Deconceptualist@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    German too. Ich habe Hunger. Sie haben Durst.

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    • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sie haben Durst

      Durst

      Heh, Fred Thirst

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can have feelings too.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    J’ai froid.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Feelings are things we have.

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• Schwim@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “It’s time to achieve unconsciousness, kiddo.”

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The void calls ceaselessly, child.

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• Nemoder@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you have trouble going to sleep then try falling asleep instead.

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• moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well then take a piss.

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  • PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d rather leave a piss.

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  • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Go poop.

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That's what i say in the bathroom, like it's a team sport.
      Goooo Poop!

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• WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish it was. I wish it was…

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m going to go, to my bed, to sleep.

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• leadore@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a state.

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• hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah I think it’s going to make me go insane

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• neatchee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Dreaming

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• Bigfishbest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tel’aran’rhiod

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  • gilgameth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Instructions unclear, summoned Cthulhu.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In german we say either say “go” or “laying to sleep/rest”

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Huh that’s funny, “laying to rest” in English is an expression for burying someone after they have died

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    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah we also say “they are not yet under the world of the living” if someone is still asleep

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    • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We also call the event of publicly watching soccer matches etc. “public viewing” so…

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• GuyFawkes@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Naw, just a state of mind.

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