You are correct.. it has happened to everyone at one point or another.
It was an incredibly bad time to do it though.
What's NOT normal though... is our legacy media actually trying to say "He wasn't sleeping.. he was pondering the moment! He was so overcome with emotions that he closed his eyes and was praying. See!? YOU CAN SEE HIS EYES WERE NOT CLOSED! HE WASN'T ASLEEP!"