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Human sleep and sleep in animals are a form of rest.

Sleep or sleeping may also refer to:

People with the name

• Sleep (rapper) (born 1976), American underground hip hop artist
• Colin Sleep (born 1944), Australian footballer
• Norman Sleep (born 1945), American geophysicist
• Peter Sleep (born 1957), Australian cricketer
• Wayne Sleep (born 1948), British dancer, director, and choreographer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Computing and technology

• Sleep (command), a command that delays program execution for a specified period of time
• Sleep (system call), an operating system call to suspend the execution of a program for specified period of time
• Sleep mode, in which a computer becomes inactive
• Sleep programming language, a scripting language executed on the Java platform

Science

• Rheum, commonly known as "sleep", mucus formed in the eyes during sleep
• To "sleep with someone", implies a person having sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual activity with another person
• Transient paresthesia, the sensation produced by an extremity which has "fallen asleep"

See also

• Asleep (disambiguation)
• The Big Sleep (disambiguation)