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• n  the state of being asleep
• n  quiet and inactive restfulness
• n  the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
• v  be asleep
• v  be able to accommodate for sleeping
• s  lying with head on paws as if sleeping

• Railroads gave up their own sleeping cars for the sake of the better "Pullmans.
• New research suggests that sleeping and dreaming are crucial for the proper processing of human emotions.
• Parents are of different opinions when it comes to co-sleeping with their babies, but a growing body of research suggests it's best for infants when they fall asleep on their own.

• quiescence
• quiescency
• dormancy
• sleep
• kip
• slumber
• log Z's
• catch some Z's
• dormant

• waking
• wake

News & Articles

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• Sleeping with Sirens Make No. 3 Debut
  Sleeping with Sirens moving 59,000 copies of the band's third album, Feel
  June 17, 2013 - antiMUSIC
• Sleeping child hurt in drive-by shooting in Oakland
  A young boy in Oakland is recovering after being shot while sleeping in his bed overnight. Police believe it was a drive by.
  June 17, 2013 - KGO-TV Bay Area
• Cops: Man attacked sleeping girl in Albany Park home
  Chicago police have issued a community alert after a man broke into an Albany Park neighborhood home and attacked a girl sleeping in her home early this morning.        
  June 17, 2013 - Chicago Tribune

Quotes

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• Gen Peter Pace in Washington Post
  But Pace told the newspaper "As an individual, I would not want (acceptance of gay behavior) to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else's wife, that we...
• Barack Obama in Boston Globe
  Violence is a dead end,Obama said. "It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered."
• Lindsay Lohan in ABC News
  It's very difficult, we're not sleeping well, we're not functioning. We cry a lot and we hug a lot. She's petrified, we all are. We're angry. We're disappointed in the system,Dina Lohan said. "Lindsay's scared to death."