sleeping while awake

"Most people, about five minutes after they get up in the morning, begin to identify with negative emotions - i.e. they identify with their habitual personal reactions to life. They do not observe what happens to them simply because they have no self-observation. They let themselves go. They do not remember themselves. They do not hold themselves together internally. In other words, they instantly fall asleep on rising. They pass the day in attracting to themselves situations and things that would not come to them if they remembered themselves. Half an hour in the morning can make a great difference all day long. You can all see for yourselves what it means to be under the Law of Accident and the Law of Destiny or Fate." ~ Maurice Nicoll.