Lies asleep as softly as a girl dreaming of lovers she cannot keep -F.Kept falling in and out of it like out of a boat or a tipping hammock -Rose Tremain.I want sleep to water me like begonias -Diane Wakoski.A somewhat different version, “Slept like any top” appeared in the German children’s story, Struwelpeter, by Heinrich Hoffman. This simile has outlived the play from which it is taken, The Rivals, as a colloquial expression. I shall sleep like a top -Sir William Davenant.Heavy with sleep, like faltering, lisping tongues -Boris Pasternak.Felt himself falling asleep like gliding down a long slide, like slipping from a float into deep water -Oakley Hall.Fell into a sleep as blank as paving-stone -Patrick White.Emerges from slumber like some deep-sea creature hurled floundering and gasping up into the light of day by a depth-charge -Francis King.Drowsy as an audience for a heavy speech after an even heavier dinner -Anon.Doze and dream like a lazy snake -George Garrett.The simile which begins the story, Blue Transfer, continues with, “A stranger to myself, a stranger to my life.” Come from sleep as if returning from a far country -Mary Hedin.Came out of a deep sleep slowly, like a diver pausing at each successive level -Norman Garbo.Samuel Pickwick) burst like another sun from his slumbers -Charles Dickens
(Paul lay in his berth) between wakefulness and sleep, like a partially anesthetized patient -John Cheever.Awoke … like some diver emerging from the depths of ocean -Francis King.
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