Does Lying awake with your eyes closed count as sleeping at all?

Question

Does Lying awake with your eyes closed count as sleeping at all?
If you lie in the dark in complete silence, but you are awake, does this count as sleeping at all?

Answer

Not exactly, but I believe that it does count as rest on some level and that may be valuable enough depending on the circumstances.brbrIn my past, when I quotexperimentedquot with certain substances from South America that we referred to as quotPeruvian Marching Powder,quot I found it impossible to sleep even after several days of quotextended awareness amp consciousness.quot brbrYet, I still had to got to work.brbrId find that even a few hours of resting silently was far more helpful than not doing so, and more helpful than continued use.