SATS gets talked about like a doorway — the drowsy, threshold state where the analytical mind loosens its grip. It's a real, describable state, and plenty of people find it easier to hold a new story there. But it isn't a requirement. It's a container, same as any other.
If you want to try it: lie down, relax the body fully, and let your thoughts slow until they feel heavy and slightly detached. That's the state. Once there, a brief scene implying your wish fulfilled tends to land easily, because your usual arguing has quieted down.
But the mechanism was never the drowsiness. It was that a quiet mind makes it easier to actually believe something instead of just reciting it. You can believe a new story wide awake, standing in a kitchen, mid-conversation. It's simply harder to convince yourself when your usual objections are running at full volume.
So use this the way you'd use a quiet room to think clearly — because it helps, not because the law requires it.
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