Where lying down is a simple physiological act, lying down among people is a far more complicated thing. When my own body requires me either to lie down in public places or absent myself from the social world, I face complicated questions about who I am and who I want to be in a world where I do not conform. Interweaving diaries and memory with conversation, observation, secondary research, and reflection, this autoethnographic text is a celebration of the rebel body and of a search for a more curious way of being. Unfolding a collective need for courage to break rules that cry out to be broken, Lying Down Anyhow begins with my body but is, more truthfully, a tale for every body.