He was still sitting up in the bed listening -- just as I have done, night after night.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

So you would say in the past tense "I lay on the bed because I was tired."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

I feel like a fish out of water just flapping around in my bed at night" Louis's brother Henry McAnespy showed us a map of the oyster beds they lease from the state.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04