sleeps

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  1. noun A natural periodic state of rest for the mind and body, in which the eyes usually close and consciousness is completely or partially lost, so that there is a decrease in bodily movement and responsiveness to external stimuli. During sleep the brain in humans and other mammals undergoes a characteristic cycle of brain-wave activity that includes intervals of dreaming.
  2. noun A period of this form of rest.
  3. noun A state of inactivity resembling or suggesting sleep; unconsciousness, dormancy, hibernation, or death.

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  • But night comes; our Conscious Self sleeps, our Unconscious Housewife wakes, and turning over her stores produces the missing impression; and when our other self wakes it finds the mislaid memorandum, so to speak, ready to its hand. —  Real Ghost Stories
  • Here he lay for many "sleeps," knowing not when the great sun rose and when he sank. —  Lords of the North
  • He was founder of the medicine hunt in which after appropriate ceremonies and incantations the Indian sleeps, and Michabo appears to him in a dream, and tells him where he may readily kill game. —  The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
  • Only lately have we been able to give them blankets: as to square meals and soft sleeps, these are dreams of the past, they belonged to another state of being. —  Gallipoli Diary, Volume I
  • Sometimes the body sleeps, the eyes do not see, the ears do not hear, the members cease to act, every function is as inactive as death; nevertheless, the spirit sees, hears and soars on high. —  The Promulgation of Universal Peace
 

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