Eye Bogies

[4getmenot]

Now I wake up with eye bogies all the time, and I have always called these sleep. But when I said I had sleep in my eye the other morning no-one knew what I was on about. I have asked numerous people over weekend what they called eye bogies and I have had the answers sleep dust, sleepers, wakers, sleepy men, so which is the correct answer?

[rom]

morning!!
i call it sleep in my eyes aswell !!

[raysparx1]

I go along with you 4get, allways called it "sleep" maybe it depends where you live,I am from London,even my old nan called it Sleep,stupid word though, don't really mean anything does it.

[nat_84]

I call it 'sleep' too..

[redcrx]

i call it sleep too sis, but then i suppose i would lol

[4getmenot]

My mate was saying I was wrong, saying �sleep is the thing you do� as if I was thick or something, then when no-one agreed I did wonder. Even looked it up in dictionary.

[4getmenot]

Found this, wooohooooo, I'm gonna print it and shove it in his face :-)

http://www.stargazettenews.com/newstouse/healt h/bodyworks/020105.html

[Carakeel]

Definitely 'sleep' ... never heard it called anything else really. Morning all XX

[Goodsoulette]

I call it sleep and my dad always told me the sandman came and put it in my eyes in the night, he worked hand in hand with the tat man.

[warpig1]

Its sleep over here in Norn Iron too.

[mnko]

sleep here aswell. never heard of eye bogies.

[whiskeysheri]

Morning, hun.

We've always called it 'sleep' here too. x

[teag1rl]

Hiya
It's sleep with me too.

[Quizmonster]

There isn't a current technical/medical name for this partly-solidified mucus that lubricates the eyelid's movement over the eyeball during sleep. In polite English circles, it is usually just called 'sleep', as in: "You've still got some sleep in your eye"...as you say 4getmenot. (Many families have their own childlike names for it, such as �sleep dust', �dream dust' etc. Others use 'gunge', 'gunk', 'crust' or whatever.)
It has some imaginative names in other countries. In Denmark, it is called �sleepy seeds' and in Scotland, �sleepy willies'. (Yes, I realise the latter could be misinterpreted!)
However, there are two now-obsolete English words for this substance listed in The Oxford English Dictionary (TOED). One is a 15th century word, �gound', based on the Old English word �gund' meaning pus. TOED defines it as " foul matter, especially that secreted in the eye". The other is a 17th century word, �gowl', probably based on the Old Norse word �gulr', meaning yellow. The OED defines it as "a gummy secretion in the eye".
Sadly, both 'gound' and 'gowl' have now vanished, but it is just possible that you might hear a very old person, speaking in their dialect, still making use of them.

[Hellion]

Yup we call it 'sleep' too.

[noxlumos]

Hello warpig where are you from? It is indeed sleep in Belfast. Eye bogies? That's revolting!.

[PinkFizz]

I have always called it sleep as well,but never knew what it was till you just printed that link .Well I've learned something new today - thanks 4get.x

[dee5]

I call them sleepy mans and have done since i was little but my fiance calls them eye bogies and finds it very funny that i call them something different.

[mandimoo]

i used to call it sleep (in the middle of the midlands), but what is strange is that i thought i invented the term 'eye bogies'!

[wonderwoman1]

We call it sleep up here too!! xxx

[azif]

Call it "milky bar goo" lol