drifts off
Loses waking consciousness
Drifts off means to gradually fall asleep, usually unintentionally: She drifted off during the movie.
The phrase captures the slow, unconscious transition from waking to sleeping—attention loosening, awareness fading.
It can also describe attention wandering: His mind drifted off during the lecture.
- dozesSleeps lightly, briefly
- daydreamsIdle waking thoughts
- withdrawsPulls out or removes
- dissociatesMentally separates or disconnects
- zones outBecomes mentally absent
catches some z's · disconnects · falls asleep · wafts · adrift · floats · slumbers · snoozes · detaches · spaces out · lapses · glides · forgets · checks out · tunes out · unwinds · blanks out · in a daze
- falling asleepfell asleep, dozes, naps, napped, snoozes
attention/focus
drifts offfocuses
Concentrates attention on
concentrates · tunes in · pays attention · locks in · engages