Sleep
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Sleep the deity · Sleep the event
sleep · al-nawm · al-yaqẓah · ghaflat al-nawm · insomnolency · long sleep · much sleep · النوم · اليقظة · غفلة النوم
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Sleep, with its stilling of the senses and heedlessness, set against waking, as the state in which both false imaginings and true conjunctions occur.
and in sleep the act of this faculty grows strong, together with the stilling of the inner faculty through the ceasing of the outward senses.
And when stillness and calm occur in sleep, and there is no yielding to bodily matters, connection must needs come about with the spiritual substances that correspond to it, and it is formed with their forms, and there are traced in its essence the things known that were hidden from it and that are proper to it and to its body.
then, when the stilling of the outward senses occurs at the time of sleep's heedlessness, the phantasm of what was in the form-bearing faculty is impressed upon the faculty nearest to the senses, which is the common sense.
Exhortation to the Newly Baptized
Excessive sleep, characterized as the rival of death.
for let not much sleep get the mastery over your prayers and hymns to God, since long sleep is the rival of death.
Aphorisms
The state of sleep and its disturbance, used as a sign of disease severity and prognosis.
Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.
In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom;
When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.
Cyropaedia
A condition akin to death in which the soul reveals its divine and prophetic aspect.
Consider again, he continued, that there is nothing in the world more nearly akin to death than is sleep;