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Originally Posted by Timoleon
A couple of things ---
I've posted before about this strange phenomenon that has happened to me: I'll be reading in bed and sort of nod off and then suddenly snap to. But in the brief period between nodding off and snapping to, the novel has continued to "play" in my head. I then realize that what I think I've been reading has little connection with what is actually on the page! 
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Not quite the same, but...
"For a long time I would go to bed early. Sometimes, the candle barely out, my eyes closed so quickly that I did not have time to tell myself: “I’m falling asleep.” And half an hour later the thought that it was time to look for sleep would awaken me; I would make as if to put away the book which I imagined was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had gone on thinking, while I was asleep, about what I had just been reading, but these thoughts had taken a rather peculiar turn..."
(Opening words of
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, Moncrieff Kilmartin Enright translation)
Cheers,
Marc (who stops reading at night once he has read the same paragraph three times and still doesn't remember a word of it)