Does Anyone Speak Danish Or Swedish?

[venator]

I heard on Radio 4 that there's a word that describes the feeling of lying awake in the morning with your mind racing.

There should be one in English - we stole schadefreude, such a lovely word (if spelt right?)

[venator]

Just found an Old English word - perhaps this was it

Uhtceare

“There is a single Old English word meaning ‘lying awake before dawn and worrying.’ Uhtceare is not a well-known word even by Old English standards, which were pretty damn low. In fact, there is only one recorded instance of it actually being used."

[aelmpvw]

epicaricacy :-)

[dannyk13]

Schadenfreude

[Mamyalynne]

Not what you're after, but I quite like......


hypnagogic state
noun, Psychology.
1.
the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.