There are several ......... that describe the state of being asleep

and most seem to ......... to deep sleep like being sound asleep or fast asleep

There are also some ......... describing deep sleep: to sleep like a top, like a baby, like a log

When the sleeper totally refuses to be ......... , we say they are sleeping like the dead.

More colloquial expressions speak of someone being out like a light, spark out or for a very......... sleeper dead to the world

Well, I don't know about you but all this is having a very soporific ......... on me

but just assuming you are ......... awake and in the land of the living

let me leave you with a ......... expression. Next time you're off upstairs to bed

give the rest of the house a surprise by showing ......... your classical education and say:

Well I think I'll be off now and ......... my rest in the arms of Morpheus. Happy dreams!