The fifth stanza of the "Choric Song" shifts the mood again. As it opens, the sailors have stopped talking about death (at least directly). Now they're dreaming about their new sleepy life on the island of the Lotos-eaters. They imagine how sweet it's going to be to listen to the sound of the stream, and to "half-shut" their eyes in a "half-dream." Party on, fellas.
That "half" thing seems pretty key to us. It's not that the guys dream about being fully asleep. What they want is to be stuck forever in the sleepy world between being asleep and being awake. Actually, we can kind of see what they mean. We like that moment as we're drifting off, where everything seems peaceful and calm. We're not sure we'd want to be like that all the time, though.