INTRODUCTION The foremost objective of this work is to bring to bare the difference(s) between sleeping and dozing.

But like in any academic work it is imperative we clarify the basic terms which serve as raw materials for the work; in this context then sleep and doze serve as raw materials for this work. Also, it would not be out of place to state here that this work does not serve as a defense on the matter in which this work is centered on. But its aim premises on the notion of an academic work. So in order to move this work to the next level, let us plunge ourselves swiftly into the discourse by first and foremost clarifying the key concepts: sleeping and dozing. In this work, I am going to be using more of sleep and doze. CLARIFICATION OF TERMS What is sleep? The Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary (international students edition 7) defines the term sleep in its verb form as a process to rest with your eyes deeply closed and your mind and body not active. This is a process of having a deep and sound rest. For instance, I had to sleep on the sofa or he sleeps solidly for six hours. However, the dictionary makes it clear that it is more common to say that someone is asleep than to say someone is sleeping. According to the Websters Dictionary and Thesaurus for Students created in cooperation with the editors of Merriam-Webster the term sleep is a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body rests and refreshes itself. Also in that phrase book, the term was described as to take rest by lying asleep. As an addendum, the Encarta dictionary describes the term sleep as a state of full unconsciousness in people and animals, during which voluntary functions are suspended and the body rests and restores itself, or a period spent in this state. So the point here is that the act of sleeping is to be fully unconscious of what is happening around you. It implies that when one is fully unconscious of events around him or her then he or she is engaging in the act of sleeping. During sleep the brain in human beings and other mammals undergoes a characteristic cycle of brain-wave activity that includes intervals of dreaming.1
1 Arnold Carr (ed.), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English language, 3rd Edition, 1982

Having briefly clarified the concept sleep let us now move quickly to the other side of the coin that is as regards this work, namely doze. What do we mean when we say somebody is dozing? In other words, what is doze? What is doze? The term doze is to sleep or rest slightly for a short time, especially during the day.2 According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language dozing is an act of resting slightly and intermittently or sporadically. Thus, when a person is unconsciously conscious 3 with his or her eyes closed and dozy he or she is considered to be dozing. For instance, when someone is watching television and sleeping at the same time he or she can be considered as dozing. Let us now mull over this illustration. He was dozing in front of the television. That act in front of the television could be regarded as dozing not sleeping. According to the Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary (international students edition 7), the term doze refers to the process of sleeping lightly, waking up easily, often when you are not in bed. This can also be linked with dozy.4 For instance, doze off is to fall into a light sleep, especially unintentionally.5 CONCLUSION From the above exposition therefore, we have come to realize that both concepts have some similarities and that this similarities come in terms of the qualification of the term sleep. Put differently, it is in trying to qualify or describe the term sleep that we come across a difference between both terms, namely sleep and doze. So by definition they are the same but in description, they are different since doze is a slight sleep while the act of sleeping is a deep and solid rest. In another development, during the course of my research I came across a problem which seems to be above my reach, but with the help of our highly respected and enlightened Father and Lecturer whom we (the students) and possibly formators in house still look up to, the only practicing Liturgist in the entire Western Region of the Church in Nigeria to please assist his
2 The Encarta Dictionary. 2009. 3 By this, I mean sleeping but still he or she is aware of what is happening around him. 4 Half sleep or drowsy 5 Arnold Carr (ed.), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English language, 3rd Edition, 1982

children as we wait to sip from his wealth of theoretical and experiential knowledge both from home and abroad. Father, the problem I am in contact with is that when I went further to seek clarifications from dictionaries and thesauruses I discovered that the term sleep has doze as a synonym. And I grow up to know that synonym is a word or expression that has the same meaning as another in the same language. The problem came in trying to reconcile the idea that sleep and doze are the same as I have earlier exposed in this work and sleep having doze as its synonym. So Father I humbly seek your assistance in this regard.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Arnold Carr (ed.), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English language, 3rd Edition, 1982 The Encarta Dictionary. 2009. Sally Wehmeier, Collins Mclintosh, Joanna Turnbull, (eds.) The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of current English (international students edition 7th), Oxford Universsity Press, New York, 2005. Websters Dictionary and Thesaurus for Students created in cooperation with the editors of Merriam-Webster, United States of America, 2006.