Wagner says that Hagen is sitting asleep in an open space outside the hall of the Gibichungs.
By contrast, of 393 men sentenced to death for falling asleep on sentry duty in all theatres in World War I, only two were executed (sentries were usually posted in pairs to keep one another awake; these two, who served in Mesopotamia, were made an example of because they were found sitting asleep together, suggesting that they had colluded).
I also remember, one night, age seven, sitting half-asleep and watching Psycho with my uncle, which was quite amazing and surreal.
Baboons, for the record, do not have nests or dens but spend the night perched in trees on their callosities, built-in baboon Barcaloungers, which Dr. Sapolsky describes as "gun-metal gray calluses on their rear ends that allow them to fall asleep sitting up on a branch without their tushes falling asleep".
I fell asleep sitting up on my bed, leaning against Borden's shoulder.
To my surprise, despite the front-row seat to the tumble derby, I had fallen asleep, sitting there in the car.
Before dawn on Wednesday, a protester, Frank Kushner, got into an argument with a Brookfield security guard after, Mr. Kushner said, the guard went around the park waking up protesters who were asleep sitting up.
I made a mental note to do productive things in the morning — disseminate the stacks of books that dominated my floor, finish the unfinished, walk a longer distance, and then fell asleep sitting up.
"The game went really slow and nothing happened for about 20 minutes and I was just sitting there falling asleep.
Some of them have fallen asleep sitting up or stretched out on picnic tables, laid low by a singing schedule that begins at the crack of 9 a.m. and ends at maybe 1 a.m., when the last diva sighs out the last version of "Can't Get Out of This Mood".
For a while, I was on one medication that made me fall asleep sitting up.
