an hour of sitting here with nothing to do , and with nothing to stare at save for the empty blackness of space all around the minutes trickled past , and his mind wandered visions of escape fiddled with his focus he felt his eyelids grow heavy again his straightened posture was beginning to slacken strange stirrings occurred at the back of his ears and then a blissful quiet had stolen over him , so that he couldnt even hear his snores echoing within the hull .