MBA will not wake until after I flip it upside down

Relevant system info:
MBA 11"mid 2011
1.6 GHz i5
OSX 10.9.5
Recently, my mba began to refuse to wake from lid closing-induced sleep.  I suspect that this behavior is related to closing the lid while on battery, plugging in, then trying to wake while on power.  The first time I was hitting random buttons and then picked up the unit, turning it over for some reason. When I flipped it back the screen was on and restored to where it was when I put it to sleep.  The second time this happened, I just happened to remember inverting the unit and tried it with success. No other long or short, combination or single, key presses seems to do anything.
Why will my MBA not wake and why does inversion have anything to do with it?
Regards.

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