Use that lever to lift the seat bottom up at an angle. Then angle the
seat-back back all the way. Now slide the front seat all the way forward,
remove the front-seat headrest and tip the front-seat-back all the way back.
Voila, a strange kind of bed no one asked for, and Honda doesn't really talk
about, except in the owners manual. Works better on the passenger side where
the steering wheel isn't in your way. Add tinted windows and you have the
world's most cramped love-mobile.
I like my 2000 CR-V anyway,
dg