Ronchisonant - Making a snorting noise; snorting I sometimes make rhonchisonant sounds while I'm sleeping. I don't realize it, but my wife sure does. It doesn't happen very often, but it's something that seems to annoy. If we break down the word - Ronchi means abnormal sounds that can be heard when a doctor listens to your lungs with a stethoscope. The doctors are checking for issues that may be caused by underlying conditions. Sonant means sound produced by the vocal cords. Particularly when the vocal cords are vibrating.
Dysania! What a word! It's definitely something I relate to, especially in the darker days of winter.
Dysania is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning. It’s a chronic condition that isn’t widely recognized by the medical community, but I’m sure we’ve all experienced this state of being (maybe not chronically though).
Why should we leave the comfort of our bed? Marcus Aurelius may have an answer:
At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I am rising to do the work of a human being. What do I have to complain about, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?” — But it’s nicer here…So were you born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands? — But we have to sleep sometime… Agreed. But nature set a limit on that — as it did on eating and drinking. And you’re over the limit. You’ve had more than enough of that. But not of working. There’s still more of that to do.You don’t love yourself enough. For if you did, you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. Do you have less respect for your own nature than the engraver does for engraving, the dancer for the dance, the miser for money or the social climber for status? When they’re really possessed by what they do, they’d rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts. Is not then your labor in the world just as worthy of respect and worth your effort?(Book 5, Paragraph 1) – quote from - https://reasonandmeaning.com/2017/01/09/marcus-aurelius-on-getting-out-of-bed/
Pay special attention to the last line of this passage. Your labor in the world IS worthy of respect and worth your effort!
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