Marika33
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- This thought has crossed my mind many times while I was falling asleep lately.
Is the choice of the present perfect at the beginning and the past continuous at the end fine?
I want to say that lately (the present perfect) each time I was (in the middle of) falling asleep (the continuous aspect), a thought came to my mind.
I don't like this version (below), as the perfect simple aspect at the end may suggest that the thought came to my mind after I fell asleep, which is not what I want to say.
- That thought has crossed my mind many times as I've fallen asleep lately.