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Summary
sleep is a biological process[1]. sleep ranks in the top 2% of biological process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16,167 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: state of consciousness[3]
- Followed by: awakening[4]
- Subclass of: multicellular organismal process[5], behavior[6]
- Commons category: Sleeping[7]
- Opposite of: wakefulness[8]
- Unicode character: 💤[9], 🛌[10], 😴[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Sleep[12]
- Facet of: health[13]
- Depicted by: The Sleeper[14], The Sleeping woman[15]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[18], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[20], Lean Logic[21], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[22], The Encyclopedia Americana[23], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[24], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[25]
- Partially coincident with: rest[26]
- Topic has template: Template:Sleep[27]
- Has effect: sleeping[28], dream[29]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C73425[30]
- Studied by: somnology[31]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0030431[32], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002329[33]
- Practiced by: sleeper[34]
Body
Influence
Things named for sleep include Sleep[35], a musical group[36], founded in 1990[37]; Gliridae[38], a taxon[39]; Tahajjud[40], a salah[41], founded in 0631[42], written by God in Islam[43]; and Palus Somni[44], a palus[45].
Why It Matters
sleep has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] sleep is known by 99 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]
Entities named for sleep include Sleep[35], a musical group[36], founded in 1990[37]; Gliridae[38], a taxon[39]; Tahajjud[40], a salah[41], founded in 0631[42], written by God in Islam[43]; and Palus Somni[44], a palus[45].