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As the question says. I'm aware that the use of に with verbs like 座る and 立つ is not actually "location" に, but the "target/destination" に. However with 寝る in particular, it's still very ambiguous for me, and I have seen 寝る plenty of times with both に and で.
The most recent sentence that threw me is: 「自分のベッドで寝る。」 "I sleep in my bed." Is there a reason に would be incorrect or less natural here?
ベッドに寝る sounds natural when 寝る means “to lie down”. Like 立つ and 座る, this refers to an instantaneous action, or change of state, that results in a state of you being at some place.
When 寝る means “to sleep”, which is a durative action, で sounds more natural.
