We’ve talked before about that stuff that builds up in your eyes after a night’s sleep, and listeners keep chiming in with more, including googlies, eye-winkers, and from a listener who grew up in the Philippines, morning stars. This is...
A Dallas caller asked whether the grainy stuff that collects in the corners of your eyes overnight goes by different names in different families or regions. The medical term is rheum, from Greek for “to flow,” but many people prefer sleepy sand, eye...
What do you call the crust that forms in the corners of your eyes when you sleep? Sleepy dust, sleepy sand, eyejam, eye boogers, eye potatoes, sleep sugar, eye crusties, sleepyjacks. An Indiana man wonders if anyone else uses his family’s term...