Just Dozing Myself Small

I LOVE Ghanaian turn of phrase (when I can understand it), and I hope that I pick up on how to communicate in stories the way my colleagues and acquaintances do. The other morning I caught my guard sleeping, the day guard had arrived. They conversed in their language, maybe something along the lines of 'what are you doing? You aren't supposed to be sleeping?' (or maybe it was more like 'oh! you got to sleep longer than I did last week!') and the guard exclaimed;
"Oh! I was just dozing myself small"
I love it. Everything is 'small small'. I am trying to incorporate it into my general conversation, it is definitely a quirk I'd like to take back with me.

Admittedly this is not the guard that I quoted, but the one who arrived to find the guard sleeping. Catching his own forty winks.