I wake early and lie thinking or dozing.
A restless little girl seeks a nighttime niche of her own as the rest of her family slumbers: "She lay thinking alone and couldn't close her eyes and couldn't sleep".
"I lay thinking of Frida," she writes.
In their tents the men lay thinking of the sound of the water.
I lie thinking about her for a while.
Level of adaptive activity is rated from 0: nothing – lying thinking sleeping sitting etc. to 4: time period filled with a variety of demanding independent activities requiring significant motivation and planning and with some variation in tasks, e.g., work.
Many of the everyday fundamentals of our Western lifestyles owe a grovelling debt of gratitude to the Ancient Greeks – democracy, drama, sitcoms, organised sport, all-action blockbuster war epics, foolhardy politically-motivated military campaigns, nudey wrestling, pornographic crockery, and lying around thinking about stuff in general.
When thinking about lying, think about if your parent, colleagues, and/or boss find out.
After the conference, shocked, deeply saddened, traumatized, paralysed, and numb, I returned to Nairobi and lay in bed thinking for two days.
"If people don't know they are using heroin and lay out a line thinking it's cocaine, there is a very high chance of overdosing.
