History Main / AnOddPlaceToSleep

* ''{{Series/Probe}}'''s "[[Recap/ProbeComputerLogic Computer Logic]]": The first time Mickey meets Austin, he's waking up from inside a cupboard that he's turned into a sensory deprivation tank. He claims to need it in order to calm his brain enough to fall asleep.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' Link wakes up to find that he's been sleeping within an ancient pod.

* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': This is one of the defining traits of [[AnimateInanimateObject Melony]]. Anything and everything can become a proper bed for her if she feels like it ([[SleepyHead which she often does]]). Her favorite spot would be a particular hedge on the grounds of Peach's Castle. Disturb that spot [[BerserkButton at your own risk]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra,'' [[CreepyTwins Desna and Eska]] were staying in a Republic City hotel and informed that they booked a room with [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed only one bed]]. Apparently, Desna prefers to sleep in the bathtub.

** Lalli, as a manifestation of both his [[invoked]][[DiagnosedByTheAudience behavioral quirks]], including lack of social skills, and his mage powers. Give him a normal bed, he'll sleep ''under'' it and will sleep on the bed itself only if its design or location causes it to not have an "under" to speak of. Other than this, he can fall asleep leaning against just about anything, including the back of chairs with nobody sitting on them and under tables in a crowded room. This may have to do with the ISeeDeadPeople aspect of his powers, as some spirits are quite scary-looking and he frequently chooses places that can feel safe from a certain point of view.

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** Lalli, as a manifestation of both his AmbiguousDisorder and his mage powers. Give him a normal bed, he'll sleep ''under'' it and will sleep on the bed itself only if its design or location causes it to not have an "under" to speak of. Other than this, he can fall asleep leaning against just about anything, including the back of chairs with nobody sitting on them and under tables in a crowded room. This may have to do with the ISeeDeadPeople aspect of his powers, as some spirits are quite scary-looking and he frequently chooses places that can feel safe from a certain point of view.

* Sōsuke Sagara of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' makes a habit of sleeping ''under'' his bed, as a manifestation of the paranoia he carries over from his years as a {{Child Soldier|s}}. And, considering the extremely limited space and the decided uncomfortable-ness of the area in question, sleeping there tends to noticeably deter any of his many admirers from trying to cop a feel on him while he's asleep. He usually keeps a weapon nearby too, and on some occasions, he sleeps with his eyes [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/full_metal_panic_sigma/v07/c029/24.html open]]. ''Creepy''

* ''FanFic/AtChirei'': A FunnyBackgroundEvent shows Kisume sleeping in her bucket.

* Gray Ghost, the first pony Leviathan meets in ''FanFic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'', has a reputation for sleeping wherever she wants ''except'' her room, and does this often enough that those who don't know her believe she's homeless. When Leviathan first sees her, Gray is curled up like a cat in a corner of the apartment building's rooftop.

* In ''LightNovel/SideBySideDreamers'' Hitsuji has a reputation for sleeping in strange places, such as the school roof. It turns out she's choosing to sleep in isolated places because her "Blanket" ability makes anyone else in the vicinity fall asleep when she starts sleeping.

* [[TheGrimReaper Gravelord Nito]] from ''Videogame/DarkSouls'' sleeps his days away in a coffin, overseeing death. [[LordErrorProne Siegmeyer]] can fall asleep ''[[SleepyHead anywhere]]''. This includes volcanic lava filled ruins, and while standing in a deathly poisonous swamp.

* Quite possibly the most disturbing exmple, is ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'''s Jaffar, As Legault says at the end of their first support conversation; "[[BloodbathVillainOrigin There were countless corpses stacked one on top of the other...]] [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses And there, atop of the bodies,]] [[EnfanteTerrible they found a lone infant]] sleeping... You. You are death incarnate. You feel nothing, fear nothing, desire nothing... You kill. Nothing more. Angel of Death... The perfect name."

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* ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' , Halo floats a few feet above whatever couch or bed she's sleeping on due to her flight powers activated by aura.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Touma usually sleeps in his bathtub. It's uncomfortable but necessary because his roommate Index tends to sleepwalk and bite him.

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Melty naps inside Filo's body after finding her feathers incredibly soft and comfortable.

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': This is one of the defining traits of [[AnimateInanimateObject Melony]]. Anything and everything can become a proper bed for her if she feels like it ([[SleepyHead which she often does]]). Her favorite spot would be a particular hedge on the grounds of Peach's Castle. Disturb that spot [[BerserkButton at your own risk]].

* In ''Film/Daredevil2003'', the title hero is shown to sleep in a sensory deprivation tank because his SuperSenses prevent him getting to sleep.

->'''Neighbour 1''': He used to sleep on my wall.\\
'''Neighbour 2''': He used to sleep on my dustbin.\\
'''Neighbours 3 and 4''': He used to sleep on our car.

* In the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' film, the title hero is shown to sleep in a sensory deprivation tank because his SuperSenses prevent him getting to sleep.

* It's surprisingly not that uncommon for happily married people to prefer to sleep in different beds.

* At the end of ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Porky's Badtime Story]] (remade as "Tick Tock Tuckered") after Porky and Gabby (Daffy) have their bed demolished they find themselves sleeping in the drawers of the dresser bureau.

* A Chinese ruler slept on a wooden bedframe and kept a piece of bitter gall hanging near it to lick, so as not to forget the hardships he went through as the prisoner of an enemy state.

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. After Cowley is injured in "Rogue", Bodie and Doyle keep a vigil in the hospital corridor. When Cowley comes out of surgery, Bodie is shown sleeping on top of a row of filing cabinets.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', on one occasion a thoroughly exhausted Florence (who's a wolf) goes for the most quickly available spot: Winston's laundry basket.

* ''[[Anime/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]]'': Miki can sleep most anywhere, this includes the trunk of a van, two or three foldable chairs, and even while Haruka is ''piggybacking'' her in the ''Live For You OVA''.
* Manga/{{Claymore}}s only bother to sleep every few days, but Theresa of the Faint Smile was seen as unable to even ''rest'' in the best room of a local inn until she planted her {{BFS}} into the floor and sat to lean against it.

* In flashbacks to his manslayer days it's shown that [[Manga/RurouniKenshin Himura Kenshin]] used to sleep sitting up with his sword leaned against him for easy access, showing how paranoid he was about potentially being attacked. During that time period the only time we actually see him in a bed is either when he is injured or after it's implied [[spoiler:he and his first wife Tomoe had TheirFirstTime]]).
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. The teenaged assassin Pinocchio is introduced sleeping on top of a car, and gets chewed out for not showing respect for a good motor. Flashbacks show his CIA mentor used to do the same thing.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' cartoon's tie-in comic, ComicBook/{{Superboy}} spends his first night out of his pod sleeping in [[FragileSpeedster Wally's]] closet. WordOfGod says he switches to a bed after that.

* Apparently, somebody likes to sleep in an Art Gallery in the film adaptation of ''{{Film/Madeline}}''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', when Jack slips inside a Christmas Town bedroom to look at the sleeping elf children, the ones to the left of the window appear to be sleeping in dresser drawers rather than beds

* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': In ''Mockingjay'', Katniss Everdeen will frequently hide away in closets or storage rooms and end up falling asleep.

* In Episode 178 of ''Series/RunningMan'', one challenge was to play Jenga...with giant Styrofoam blocks making a tower 7 meters tall...while someone sits on top of it (Song Ji Hyo). The group manage to pass the initial challenge of removing a number of blocks, then argued with the producers over the reward for an additional challenge, during which time Ji Hyo was caught asleep on top of that tower.
* In ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', coroner Doug Murphy develops a habit of taking naps inside the drawers at the morgue. The ones normally used for dead bodies.

* Quite possibly the most disturbing exmple, is ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Fire Emblem's]]'' Jaffar, As Legault says at the end of their first support conversation; "[[BloodbathVillainOrigin There were countless corpses stacked one on top of the other...]] [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses And there, atop of the bodies,]] [[EnfanteTerrible they found a lone infant]] sleeping... You. You are death incarnate. You feel nothing, fear nothing, desire nothing... You kill. Nothing more. Angel of Death... The perfect name."
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' Link wakes up to find that he's been sleeping underwater in some sort of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6jisr1Nlk fancy bathtub]]

* Mike Chilton from ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}'' sleeps on the hood of his car.