drift off

Instead of drifting off to focus on your internal news ticker, you can practice anchoring yourself with a simple exercise.

"Sliced up eyeballs" and "goats of lust" aren't traditionally the sort of images that help your toddler drift off to sleep.

The rest of the country, meanwhile, presumably had drifted off to sleep, unenthused by late-night football between two bottom-half Big Ten teams.

“Everybody drifted off to other walks of life, but the main thing is that everyone is still alive and healthy,” Bizzle says.

"But it felt right. We settled, we watched a lot of tennis, and then Simon drifted off as planned."