First of all, I had no idea until robmandu pointed it out that what I had written could be misconstrued. I’ve also read words into things that might be construed otherwise, as well, but not this time in writing my own, obviously. After reading the responses I wonder if it also has to do with how quickly a person falls asleep. I can fall asleep within 15 minutes, it takes my husband much longer. Most of the time I can fall asleep easily after it happens but on occasion, not. But I’ve never had thoughts of falling or sliding in some fashion, although I do feel as though my body is becoming very light, kind of floating, and that’s when it usually happens.
I remember asking about it quite some years ago and no one would admit they had experienced it, maybe we were all too young to talk about something that seemed potentially embarrassing. Anyway, thanks for your responses, I’m glad that I’m not the only one.
@robmandu I have on occasion woken people when when sleeping in the train or bus or other public places to ask them if they need to be woken up at a certain time. Once I was in the bus where some guy had gone nearly to the end of the bus line and should have gotten off a lot sooner, the poor guy was so embarrassed.