Turning off closed lid mode

I was wondering if there was a way to turn off the closed lid mode feature. It's the feature that allows you to use your MacBook even when the display is closed by hooking it up to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse. The problem I'm having is that when I close my MacBook to go into sleep mode, I leave my wireless mouse dongle plugged in, when my mouse gets a slight bump the computer awakes from sleep mode and goes into closed lid mode, it's really really annoying. Help please!

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