Notes and References. 1  U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Glossary > Christmas tree bill. 2  Lardner, George (1966) The Day Congress Played Santa: A Look at the Christmas Tree Bill, Washington Post, 25 December, p. A1, A10. 3  Shribman, David (1983) It Began as a Rather Ordinary Piece of Legislation, New York Times, 9 November, p. A22.
When the individual is awake, blinking of the eyelid causes rheum to be washed away with tears via the nasolacrimal duct. The absence of this action during sleep, however, results in a small amount of dry rheum accumulating in corners of the eye, most notably in children.
Eye boogers are the dry, crumbly or sticky gobs that can be found around the corner of the eye or one the lashes after a nightâs sleep. Some people get eye boogers even when they havenât slept. While a fairly common phenomenon in humans, dogs and even cats, the field of ophthalmology hasnât been able to come up with a scientific name for it. In fact, the only technical term that is used by eye doctors to describe what we call âsleep dustâ, âeye goopâ or âeye boogersâ in everyday life is âmatteringâ.