Sleep is the long stretch of physical relaxation that humans undergo usually at night in a quiet comfortable location. Naps are the short versions of sleep that happen usually midday.
Sleep is a central part of rest but rest is more than sleep.
Rest is the feeling of relaxation, calm, balance, and wholeness in all aspects of a person’s life. Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith considers 7 aspects of life needing rest: physical, social, sensory, creative, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Sleep promotes all these 7 areas of rest but it primarily a physical type of rest.