sleep, n.Definitions

Sleep is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole.

Sleep is a good night's sleep.

Sleep is a kind of meditation.

Sleep is a little loathsome slice of death.

Sleep is a little slice of death.

Sleep is a bizarre activity where, while the sun is gone, one goes to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything one knows and understands and then when the sun returns, one resumes one's life.

Sleep is a morsel of death borrowed to keep up and renew that part of life which has been exhausted by the day.

Sleep is allowing gravity to hold us and recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours (the tensions and terrors of our individual days), stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.