Sleep!?!

Sleep wtf is it? Is it just a 5 letter word? Does it have meaning?

Is it a location? I always hear people talk about "going" to sleep, or they "went" to sleep as if though its this great place to visit. If its a destination, can I mapquest it? Will my Garmon show me the way?

Is it an action, something you do? "What did you do last night, umm, I went to sleep." Ok so laying down,(its how most sleep) closing one's eyes and doing nothing is an action?

For the gamers out there; is it a mitigation tank? Because it eludes me. It evades every attempt I make to capture it. I throw ambien at it but somehow it just dodges that and walks away as if I'd thrown a tic-tac at it.

Yes! This post makes very little sense, but when sleep is the 1 thing I need most atm, and I just can't seem to get any. Any ideas from the masses?