Meanings
- An illuminating realization or discovery revealed in a dream or during sleep.
I had, if you will, a sleepiphany. I had achieved third-trimester pregnancy nirvana — a heavenly, pain-free night of sleep.
2017 November 15, Caroline Hand, “I Had My Baby, But I Will Not Give Up My Pregnancy Pillow”, in Romper.com, archived from the original on 07 Jul 20223 more examples
Von den Vorschlägen rest-creational activity, ennightenment, indreamuity, daybreakthrough, temporeverie, dozepiphany, sleeplution, somnolution, hypknowsis, hypnosynthesis, sleepiphany, twilightenment und einigen weiteren bevorzuge ich ennightenment und dozepiphany.
2013 December 4, Kurt Bracharz, Für reife Leser, Haymon Verlag, →ISBNIf nothing else, this list might explain why I shun webinars and go to bed every night hoping for a sleepiphany. And the people I know on Twitter are my friends. Don’t even think about calling them tweeple.
2015 May 29, Alison Crutchley, “Phablets and fauxhawks: the linguistic secrets of a good blended word”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2022Alan J. Rocke, in his book Image and Reality, describes several great thinkers who have experienced the Eureka, a Pentecost or outpouring of the spirit, the aha moment, a “semi-hypnagogic state”, or “sleepiphany” and “ennightenment.”
2020 June 9, Carolyn H. Pells, The Immortal Soul: An Explanation of My Near-Death Experience Through Science, Religion, and Art, iUniverse, →ISBN
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sleepiphany. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleepiphany
“sleepiphany.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleepiphany. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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