Also, what does sleeping in a dream mean?
In most cases dreams about sleeping mean that you may have problems in your life, but you ignore them. Also, dreams about sleeping may represent your mental or your emotional exhaustion, so you would like to have more time to sleep in your real life. Sometimes these dreams may also be associated with death.
Secondly, what does it mean when you can see yourself in your dream? Seeing yourself as a person in dreams is therefore quite common. It often refers to the rational part of your life. If you're having the same dream over over and over again and it's yourself who is on the stage, it could mean that the rational part of of your being is trying to tell you something.
Keeping this in view, what is it when you see yourself sleeping?
Out of body experiences (OBEs or OOBEs) involve the vivid sensation of moving outside your physical body and sometimes traveling far beyond it. OBEs are most likely to occur when you are asleep, meditating or practicing wake-induced lucid dream exercises.
Why do I see myself sleeping in my dreams?
Sleeping is symbolic of not caring or being bothered about something at all or not being aware of something at all. So to dream about it would be symbolic of how you are aware that you are completely unaware of something or that you completely don't care about something in your waking life.