It's more like "half-asleep" texting, as doctors describe it as a state of rest where a person isn't fully awake.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Half-asleep, I shuffled to the canopy-level observation deck of my rustic wooden cabin, grabbing binoculars and Tito Narosky's "Birds of Argentina and Uruguay" just as a flurry of yellow plumage transformed into what locals term the "banana toucan, " a rare and striking saffron toucanet.

WSJ: Bird Watching in Misiones Province, Argentina

It also shows a quarter of those who die in fires have alcohol in their systems and over half of alcohol-related fires happen because someone has fallen asleep.

BBC: Euro 2012: London fire safety posters translated

The Lamb had tried to eat the sand, and had cried so hard when he found that it was not, as he had supposed, brown sugar, that he was now tired out, and was lying asleep in a warm fat bunch in the middle of the half-finished castle.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Five Children and It'