Indicator light when screen is off

Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2010 (OS X Lion 10.7.2). I may be getting insane here, but I have this strong feeling in the past (i.e., in Snow Leopard) the MacBook indicator light would turn on whenever you reduced all the screen brightness, so that you knew the laptop was on.
Have this "feature" been removed from OS X, or it never existed in the first place?
Thanks,
Alex

Try using the "Deep Sleep" widget and see what happens.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/deepsleep.html
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