siesta

Animals go to their shelter, humans have a siesta, even plants have mechanisms to avoid an overdose of light.

The entire town seemed to be taking a siesta.

“I did not present the award for Best Picture. I am not Al Pacino. Maybe you dreamed this during one of your courtroom siestas?”

Dubbed the “mass siesta,” the event was in commemoration of World Sleep Day.

While some argue for a stricter definition of the phenomenon, others include naps, siestas, and brief nighttime forays as examples of modern segmented sleep patterns.