doze off

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Each is composed of four stages: The first two are considered light sleep, where your muscles relax, your body temperature drops, and your heart rate and breathing slow as you doze off.

From Seattle Times

Police said the 25-year-old "dozed off" and lost control of his car, which flipped over twice and caught fire.

From BBC

Or maybe it’s the other way around: I’ve watched, rewatched, paused, rewound and, yes, dozed off during “Everything Everywhere All at Once” more times over the last year than I care to count.

From Los Angeles Times

As you doze off, you enter the first stage of non-REM.

From Seattle Times

“I stayed on the couch and I dozed off,” he told the state police in an interview two months after the murders that was played publicly for the first time at trial this week.

From New York Times