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* ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dragons: Race to the Edge]]'' episode, ''Recap/DragonsRidersOfBerkS6E7TheLongestDay'' features 'The Midnight Sun', a 2 week endless day. As a result all characters suffer from this in different ways. Hiccup becomes careless with a slower reaction time; Astrid is overcome with euphoria, becoming obnoxiously optimistic and carelessly carefree; Snotlout suffers from severe mood swings, switching from laughing to crying to shouting in an instant; and Fishlegs becomes increasingly paranoid of the others. Heather loses all sense of coordination, tripping on her own feet and spilling her water bucket trying to clean Windshear. She later starts losing focus, confusing Windshear with a rock. Ruffnut and Tuffnut are overcome by visual hallucinations; Gothi spends her time "babbling" for hours, drawing in the sand with a blank stare; and Sven dances with his sheep, though Hiccup points out that he does that all the time. Eventually, the dragons just [[StatingTheSimpleSolution dump them in a dark cupboard to sleep it off]].
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* The ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderNightmaresAndDaydreams "Nightmares and Daydreams"]] has Aang unable to sleep due to stress over the impending attack on the Fire Nation, which causes him to have AnxietyDreams.
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** [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderNightmaresAndDaydreams "Nightmares and Daydreams"]] has Aang unable to sleep due to stress over the impending attack on the Fire Nation, which causes him to have AnxietyDreams.
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** [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderNightmaresAndDaydreams "Nightmares and Daydreams"]] has Aang unable to sleep due to stress over the impending attack on the Fire Nation, which causes him to have AnxietyDreams.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Poe-Pourri" has Beej desperately trying to get a decent night's sleep (which you wouldn't expect a dead guy to need) but constantly being interrupted by various elements of Creator/EdgarAllenPoe's works. It's subverted in the end, when the entire episode is revealed to have been a series of nested bad dreams he was having.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': Bob is unable to sleep for several nights while trying to watch the kids, due to Dash's difficult math homework, Violet's relationship trouble, and Jack-Jack's newfound powers. He spends a chuck of the film completely exhausted and out-of-it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': Bob is unable to sleep for several nights while trying to watch the kids, due to Dash's difficult math homework, Violet's relationship trouble, and Jack-Jack's newfound powers. He spends a chuck chunk of the film completely exhausted and out-of-it.
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* ''Film/MyCousinVinny'': A recurring gag throughout the film is that CityMouse Vinny (and his girlfriend Mona Lisa) can't get a good night's sleep due being unfamiliar with a noise of mostly rural small Southern town. The first two places they stay they get woken up incredibly early (by a pig farmer, and early train). The prosecution attorney loans them his cabin in the woods, but the sounds of animals keep them awake. It gets the point where he's held in contempt of court, he refuses to let Lisa bale him out hoping to finally get some rest. The scene cuts to a riot going on, with Vinny sound asleep as it reminds him of home in New Jersey.
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* ''Film/MyCousinVinny'': A recurring gag throughout the film is that CityMouse Vinny (and his girlfriend Mona Lisa) can't get a good night's sleep due being unfamiliar with a noise of mostly rural small Southern town. The first two places they stay they get woken up incredibly early (by a pig farmer, farmer and an early train). The prosecution attorney loans them his cabin in the woods, but the sounds of animals keep them awake. It gets the point where where, when he's held in contempt of court, he refuses to let Lisa bale bail him out hoping to finally get some rest. The scene cuts to a riot going on, with Vinny sound asleep as it reminds him of home in New Jersey.
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* In a flashback episode of ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', Rob is shown working as a radio DJ doing a promotional stunt trying to break the record for the most hours broadcasting continuously without sleep..... immediately after which, it turns out, he has his important job interview to be a writer on the Alan Brady Show. Needless to say, he is so sleep deprived that he bombs the interview completely, being a weepy, rambling, incoherent sloppy mess. Fortunately the producers recognize the situation and give him a second opportunity.
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** Phoebe can't sleep because her fire alarm keeps going off. She rips it out of the wall and even smashes it, but the alarm continues to beep. She tries to throw it down the garbage chute, however, a fireman manages to find it and brings it back, reminding her that it's illegal to remove it. The alarm continues to go off, with Phoebe going crazy from the sound.
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** Phoebe can't sleep because her fire alarm keeps going off. She rips it out of the wall and even smashes it, but the alarm continues to beep. She tries to throw it down the garbage chute, chute; however, a fireman manages to find it and brings it back, reminding her that it's illegal to remove it. The alarm continues to go off, with Phoebe going crazy from the sound.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Poe-Pourri" has Beej desperately trying to get a decent night's sleep (which you wouldn't expect a dead guy to need) but constantly being interrupted by various elements of Creator/EdgarAllenPoe's works. It's subverted in the end, when the entire episode is revealed to have been a series of nested bad dreams he was having.
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** In one Treehouse of Horror segment, the kids try to stay awake as long as possible. If they fall asleep, Willy kills them. It's rather desperate attempt because they know they can't stay awake forever.
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dragons: Race to the Edge]]'' episode, ''Recap/DragonsRidersOfBerkS6E7TheLongestDay'' features 'The Midnight Sun', a 2 week endless day. As a result all characters suffer from this in different ways; Hiccup becomes careless with a slower reaction time, Astrid is overcome with euphoria, becoming obnoxiously optimistic and carelessly carefree, Snotlout suffers from severe mood swings, switching from laughing to crying to shouting in an instant, Fishlegs becomes increasingly paranoid of the others, Heather loses all sense of coordination, tripping on her own feet and spilling her water bucket trying to clean Windshear. She later starts losing focus, confusing Windshear with a rock, Ruffnut and Tuffnut are overcome by visual hallucinations, Gothi spends her time "babbling" for hours, drawing in the sand with a blank stare and Sven dances with his sheep, though Hiccup points out that he does that all the time. Eventually the dragons just [[StatingTheSimpleSolution dump them in a dark cupboard to sleep it off]].
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dragons: Race to the Edge]]'' episode, ''Recap/DragonsRidersOfBerkS6E7TheLongestDay'' features 'The Midnight Sun', a 2 week endless day. As a result all characters suffer from this in different ways; ways. Hiccup becomes careless with a slower reaction time, time; Astrid is overcome with euphoria, becoming obnoxiously optimistic and carelessly carefree, carefree; Snotlout suffers from severe mood swings, switching from laughing to crying to shouting in an instant, instant; and Fishlegs becomes increasingly paranoid of the others, others. Heather loses all sense of coordination, tripping on her own feet and spilling her water bucket trying to clean Windshear. She later starts losing focus, confusing Windshear with a rock, rock. Ruffnut and Tuffnut are overcome by visual hallucinations, hallucinations; Gothi spends her time "babbling" for hours, drawing in the sand with a blank stare stare; and Sven dances with his sheep, though Hiccup points out that he does that all the time. Eventually Eventually, the dragons just [[StatingTheSimpleSolution dump them in a dark cupboard to sleep it off]].
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* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', "The Work Song Nanocluster": Penny finds her business: she starts making artificial flowers , called "Penny Blossoms", and sells them online. The guys become involved and Leonard makes the mistake of adding "one-day-rush order" button. They end up spending all night trying to make one thousand Penny Blossoms. They drink tons of coffee (even Sheldon, who considers it a dangerous drug) and are exhausted. When they are done, Penny receives another 24-hour order for one thousands flowers, but they no longer want to help because as Howard puts it, they do have lives of their own.
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* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', "The Work Song Nanocluster": Penny finds her business: she starts making artificial flowers , flowers, called "Penny Blossoms", and she sells them online. The guys become involved and Leonard makes the mistake of adding "one-day-rush order" button. They end up spending all night trying to make one thousand Penny Blossoms. They drink tons of coffee (even Sheldon, who considers it a dangerous drug) and are exhausted. When they are done, Penny receives another 24-hour order for one thousands flowers, but they no longer want to help because as Howard puts it, they do have lives of their own.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' explored this in "Night Terrors" when the ''Enterprise'' comes across another Federation starship where all of the crew (except one) killed themselves or each other. Investigation determined that the ship became trapped in a [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Tyken's Rift]] with an alien vessel whose attempts at communication slowly drove the crew mad through sleep deprivation (specifically, deprivation of REM sleep and dreaming). And now the same thing was happening to the ''Enterprise'' crew.
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* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', "The Work Song Nanocluster": Penny founds her business: she starts making artificial flowers , called "Penny Blossoms", and sells them online. The guys become involved and Leonard makes the mistake of adding "one-day-rush order" button. They end up spending all night trying to make one thousand Penny Blossoms. They drink tons of coffee (even Sheldon, who considers it a dangerous drug) and are exhausted. When they are done, Penny receives another 24-hour order for one thousands flowers, but they no longer want to help because as Howard puts it, they do have lives of their own.
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* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', "The Work Song Nanocluster": Penny founds finds her business: she starts making artificial flowers , called "Penny Blossoms", and sells them online. The guys become involved and Leonard makes the mistake of adding "one-day-rush order" button. They end up spending all night trying to make one thousand Penny Blossoms. They drink tons of coffee (even Sheldon, who considers it a dangerous drug) and are exhausted. When they are done, Penny receives another 24-hour order for one thousands flowers, but they no longer want to help because as Howard puts it, they do have lives of their own.
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* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'': Sleep deprivation turns out to be [[BigBad Kayaba Akihiko's]] ''real'' motivation for everything he tried. Or, rather, the extremely stupid decision he took while suffering from 500 hours' worth of sleep deprivation, which was to pretend the glitch that was killing players when their avatars died was completely intentional, and locking them in game to pretend to be an evil mastermind rather than an utter fuckup; he thought, at the time, the game would get better scores in Metacritic that way. When he had slept and got back to his senses, he realized how absolutely idiotic this was, but was in too deep to quit.
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* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'': Sleep deprivation turns out to be [[BigBad Kayaba Akihiko's]] ''real'' motivation for everything he tried. Or, rather, the extremely stupid decision he took while suffering from 500 hours' worth of sleep deprivation, which was to pretend the glitch that was killing players when their avatars died was completely intentional, and locking them in game to pretend to be an evil mastermind rather than an utter fuckup; he thought, at the time, the game would get better scores in Metacritic that way. When he had slept and got back to his senses, he realized how absolutely idiotic this was, but was in too deep to quit. He also notes, as an aside, that other effects of this level of sleep deprivation were thinking "Flubar, king of the mole men" ran the government, and that the night janitor was God.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'': Bob and Pickles have such an active sex life that Milo gets anxious and can't sleep if he doesn't hear their bed creaking. When his parents go through a rough patch and stop having sex, Milo becomes zombie-like and desperate to get some shut-eye.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' - Abe spends an episode refusing to sleep in order to study for a standardized test. Joan reveals that she too used to stay awake all the time, and it made her judgement so poor, she got a really ugly tattoo.
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dragons: Race to the Edge]]'' episode, ''Recap/DragonsRidersOfBerkS6E7TheLongestDay'' features 'The Midnight Sun', a 2 week endless day. As a result all characters suffer from this in different ways, Hiccup becomes careless with a slower reaction time.
Astrid is overcome with euphoria, becoming obnoxiously optimistic and carelessly carefree, Snotlout suffers from severe mood swings, switching from laughing to crying to shouting in an instant, Fishlegs becomes increasingly paranoid of the others, Heather loses all sense of coordination, tripping on her own feet and spilling her water bucket trying to clean Windshear. She later starts losing focus, confusing Windshear with a rock, Ruffnut and Tuffnut are overcome by visual hallucinations, Gothi spends her time "babbling" for hours, drawing in the sand with a blank stare and Sven dances with his sheep, though Hiccup points out that he does that all the time. Eventually the dragons just [[StatingTheSimpleSolution dump them in a dark cupboard to sleep it off]].
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dragons: Race to the Edge]]'' episode, ''Recap/DragonsRidersOfBerkS6E7TheLongestDay'' features 'The Midnight Sun', a 2 week endless day. As a result all characters suffer from this in different ways, ways; Hiccup becomes careless with a slower reaction time.
time, Astrid is overcome with euphoria, becoming obnoxiously optimistic and carelessly carefree, Snotlout suffers from severe mood swings, switching from laughing to crying to shouting in an instant, Fishlegs becomes increasingly paranoid of the others, Heather loses all sense of coordination, tripping on her own feet and spilling her water bucket trying to clean Windshear. She later starts losing focus, confusing Windshear with a rock, Ruffnut and Tuffnut are overcome by visual hallucinations, Gothi spends her time "babbling" for hours, drawing in the sand with a blank stare and Sven dances with his sheep, though Hiccup points out that he does that all the time. Eventually the dragons just [[StatingTheSimpleSolution dump them in a dark cupboard to sleep it off]].
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Astrid is overcome with euphoria, becoming obnoxiously optimistic and carelessly carefree, Snotlout suffers from severe mood swings, switching from laughing to crying to shouting in an instant, Fishlegs becomes increasingly paranoid of the others, Heather loses all sense of coordination, tripping on her own feet and spilling her water bucket trying to clean Windshear. She later starts losing focus, confusing Windshear with a rock, Ruffnut and Tuffnut are overcome by visual hallucinations, Gothi spends her time "babbling" for hours, drawing in the sand with a blank stare and Sven dances with his sheep, though Hiccup points out that he does that all the time. Eventually the dragons just [[StatingTheSimpleSolution dump them in a dark cupboard to sleep it off]].
Astrid is overcome with euphoria, becoming obnoxiously optimistic and carelessly carefree, Snotlout suffers from severe mood swings, switching from laughing to crying to shouting in an instant, Fishlegs becomes increasingly paranoid of the others, Heather loses all sense of coordination, tripping on her own feet and spilling her water bucket trying to clean Windshear. She later starts losing focus, confusing Windshear with a rock, Ruffnut and Tuffnut are overcome by visual hallucinations, Gothi spends her time "babbling" for hours, drawing in the sand with a blank stare and Sven dances with his sheep, though Hiccup points out that he does that all the time. Eventually the dragons just [[StatingTheSimpleSolution dump them in a dark cupboard to sleep it off]].
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* Max Damage of ''[[ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}} Incorruptible]]'' becomes increasingly [[SuperStrength strong]] and [[NighInvulnerability tough]] the longer he remains awake, and reverts to normal human levels when he sleeps. This leads him to force himself to say awake as long as possible -- unfortunately, sleep deprivation and stimulant drugs have the same mental effects on him that they do on anybody else, which tends to [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mess up his judgment]].
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* Max Damage of ''[[ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}} Incorruptible]]'' becomes increasingly [[SuperStrength strong]] and [[NighInvulnerability tough]] the longer he remains awake, and reverts to normal human levels when he sleeps. This leads him to force himself to say awake as long as possible -- unfortunately, sleep deprivation and stimulant drugs have the same mental effects on him that they do on anybody else, which tends to [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mess up his judgment]].
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* ''Series/SchittsCreek": A ''very wired'' Moira comes home from Bosnia having not slept during her three-day plus journey and having taken one or two Bosnia uppers. She wakes up her husband and children to tell them some stories from the set of her film and then proceeds to "plow through" to make it an even four days. This leads to jealous LoveLetterLunacy when she finds some old letters Johnny had been reading in her absence, [[spoiler: only to be told that she wrote the letters.]]
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* In ''Fanfic/BrilliantLightsWillCeaseToBurn'', Izuku suffers from intense Sleep Deprivation over the course of the story between his TripleShifter tendencies and [[ChronicHeroSyndrome inability to say no when someone asks for help.]] His sheer HeroicFatigue makes him profoundly sarcastic and bitter to the point of joking about wishing for death practically every chapter.
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* In a flashback episode of ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', Rob is shown working as a radio DJ doing a promotional stunt trying to break the record for the most hours broadcasting continuously without sleep..... immediately after which, it turns out, he has his important job interview to be a writer on the Alan Brady Show. Needless to say, he is so sleep deprived that he bombs the interview completely, being a weepy, rambling, incoherent sloppy mess. Fortunately the producers recognize the situation and give him a second opportunity.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderNightmaresAndDaydreams "Nightmares and Daydreams"]] has Aang unable to sleep due to stress over the impending attack on the Fire Nation, which causes him to have AnxietyDreams.
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The All-Night Mask in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has the description that it doesn't let its wearer fall asleep, even if they want to. It's used in the game to allow Link to stay awake through Granny's long stories (and earn a prize by doing so), but supplementary information within the game indicates it was originally used as a torture device.
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* Burning the midnight oil. Typical for over-worked or poor-planning students before tests or examinations; writer who are suddenly inspired or need to meet the deadline; night owls who want to work at night, but are forced to wake up early as well and so on.
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* Burning the midnight oil. Typical for over-worked or poor-planning students before tests or examinations; writer writers who are suddenly inspired or need to meet the deadline; night owls who want to work at night, but are forced to wake up early as well and so on.
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* In a flashback episode of ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', Rob is shown working as a radio DJ doing a promotional stunt trying to break the record for the most hours broadcasting continuously without sleep..... immediately after which, it turns out, he has his important job interview to be a writer on the Alan Brady Show. Needless to say, he is so sleep deprived that he bombs the interview completely, being a weepy, rambling, incoherent sloppy mess. Fortunately the producers recognize the situation and give him a second opportunity.
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* WebVideo/Local58's "Real Sleep" video's final section shows a bunch of [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]] and [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages against sleep and dreaming]].
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* WebVideo/Local58's "Real Sleep" video's final section shows a bunch of [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]] and [[SubliminalSeduction Th[[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages against sleep and dreaming]].
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* TruthInTelevision: If you don't get sufficient sleep, it ''will'' affect your brain functions and even your physical health. It can be caused by illness such as insomnia or sleep apnea, or through a busy schedule or stress. Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation has the details]].
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia Fatal Insomnia]] is a genetic condition that's as just bad as it sounds. The disease first shows up with complete insomnia and processes to hallucinations, panic attacks, dementia, and finally death. [[ParanoiaFuel There is no known cure]]. The good news (if we can call it that) is that only 40 families worldwide are known have the genetic markers for the disease, so just don't be the descendent of any of them intermarrying and you should be fine.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder) Randy Gardner]] holds the world record for going 264 consecutive sleepless hours without using stimulants. DoNotTryThisAtHome. Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords no longer keep records for sleep deprivation out of concern for the ill effects.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia Fatal Insomnia]] is a genetic condition that's as just bad as it sounds. The disease first shows up with complete insomnia and processes to hallucinations, panic attacks, dementia, and finally death. [[ParanoiaFuel There is no known cure]]. The good news (if we can call it that) is that only 40 families worldwide are known have the genetic markers for the disease, so just don't be the descendent of any of them intermarrying and you should be fine.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder) Randy Gardner]] holds the world record for going 264 consecutive sleepless hours without using stimulants. DoNotTryThisAtHome. Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords no longer keep records for sleep deprivation out of concern for the ill effects.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderNightmaresAndDaydreams "Nightmares and Daydreams"]] has Aang unable to sleep due to stress over the impending attack on the Fire Nation, which causes him to have AnxietyDreams.
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* They can't fall asleep and if they do, bad things happen. That's why they try to stay awake as long as possible.
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* [[NeverSleepAgain They can't fall asleep and if they do, bad things happen.happen]]. That's why they try to stay awake as long as possible.
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* SleepAndWakefulnessTropes
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Not having slept enough sucks, both in Real Life and in Fictionland. This trope deals with such situations. Characters more or less voluntarily choose not to sleep, or there are some external factors causing them not being able to sleep, or they keep waking up all the time.
Characters who can't sleep or haven't slept well become irritated, tired, exhausted, sick, crazy, desperate, proud of the accomplishment... It depends how serious the situation is and how it is played. It can be played for laughs, for drama or horror. Those who can't sleep will often have ExhaustedEyeBags and the situation might lead to them looking SeriouslyScruffy, even after just one sleepless night, though it's more common to show after a longer period of sleeplessness.
!!Sleep Deprivation in fiction can come about in various ways:
* Noisy inconsiderate neighbours who want to party the whole damn night... or worse, {{ahem}}, [[RightThroughTheWall partying in the bedroom]].
* Never-ending noise (airport, train station, traffic, construction site) -- typical plot is that a new building is being built in a peaceful neighbourhood.
* CountryMouse is visiting a big city and the noise level is too much at night and too different from their normal environment; likewise CityMouse in the country can find the silence or the different ''kind'' of noise too weird.
* Emergencies. Sudden serious and potentially dangerous situations which need immediate action to deal with them.
* Burning the midnight oil. Typical for over-worked or poor-planning students before tests or examinations; writer who are suddenly inspired or need to meet the deadline; night owls who want to work at night, but are forced to wake up early as well and so on.
* Stressful jobs: Cops, doctors and others sometimes must prolong their shifts. In business, characters must deal with last-minute orders or important accounts.
* Anxiety. They feel nervous or worried over something which prevents them from falling asleep.
* They have to keep thinking about a specific thing, trying to figure out something. Or perhaps they have just seen ''something'' and need BrainBleach.
* They can't fall asleep and if they do, bad things happen. That's why they try to stay awake as long as possible.
* Self-imposed scientific or artistic experiment.
* Crying babies and sick children who need their parents' care and help.
* The character's spouse starts snoring.
* ... and more!
!!Related tropes and subtropes:
* DeniedSleepAsPunishment: Torture, bullying, punishment or abuse with sleep deprivation.
* TheInsomniac: Characters can't fall asleep for long periods of time.
* InsomniaEpisode: Characters are unable to sleep for one episode/chapter/instalment.
* TheSleepless: Characters who don't need to sleep, and some are of the ''cannot sleep'' well variety.
* TripleShifter: Characters who work multiple jobs or lead double life; their need of sleep (or lack of it) might be lampshaded or hand-waved.
!!Indexing:
* SleepAndWakefulnessTropes
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!!Examples:
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* In ''Fanfic/AnAppleSleepExperiment'', Applejack drinks a potion that was meant to keep her awake for 24 hours straight, but it works too well and instead makes it impossible for her to sleep. By the time Twilight cures her, Applejack had already gone insane from lack of sleep and had killed several ponies due to insomnia-invoked hallucinations.
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': As recounted in "Exhaustion", Ami stayed awake for four days straight in an ice golem body, so she could maintain enough attention to handle "unforeseen complications" from a rescue mission.
* In ''Fanfic/BrilliantLightsWillCeaseToBurn'', Izuku suffers from intense Sleep Deprivation over the course of the story between his TripleShifter tendencies and [[ChronicHeroSyndrome inability to say no when someone asks for help.]] His sheer HeroicFatigue makes him profoundly sarcastic and bitter to the point of joking about wishing for death practically every chapter.
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[[folder: Film -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': Bob is unable to sleep for several nights while trying to watch the kids, due to Dash's difficult math homework, Violet's relationship trouble, and Jack-Jack's newfound powers. He spends a chuck of the film completely exhausted and out-of-it.
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[[folder: Film -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/MyCousinVinny'': A recurring gag throughout the film is that CityMouse Vinny (and his girlfriend Mona Lisa) can't get a good night's sleep due being unfamiliar with a noise of mostly rural small Southern town. The first two places they stay they get woken up incredibly early (by a pig farmer, and early train). The prosecution attorney loans them his cabin in the woods, but the sounds of animals keep them awake. It gets the point where he's held in contempt of court, he refuses to let Lisa bale him out hoping to finally get some rest. The scene cuts to a riot going on, with Vinny sound asleep as it reminds him of home in New Jersey.
* Much of the drama and horror in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' comes from the fact that a person ''has'' to sleep sooner or later, no matter how drastic the measures they take to stay awake. And when they do sleep, Freddy will come for them.
* The ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'' (remake) ups the ante by including the concept of "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsleep micronaps]]," where a sleep-deprived brain will temporarily switch into a kind of sleep-mode to try and recover. So the kids aren't even safe from Freddy before the point where they simply can't stay awake any longer. The film also mentions that if you do push wakefulness far too long, you can fall into a permanent coma.
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[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', "The Work Song Nanocluster": Penny founds her business: she starts making artificial flowers , called "Penny Blossoms", and sells them online. The guys become involved and Leonard makes the mistake of adding "one-day-rush order" button. They end up spending all night trying to make one thousand Penny Blossoms. They drink tons of coffee (even Sheldon, who considers it a dangerous drug) and are exhausted. When they are done, Penny receives another 24-hour order for one thousands flowers, but they no longer want to help because as Howard puts it, they do have lives of their own.
* ''Series/ChicagoHope'': Heart surgeon Kate Austen has spent extremely long hours operating. As a result, she inadvertently leaves an instrument inside a patient who later dies. Kate is crushed, and struggles whether to stay silent and protect both herself and the hospital, or tell the patient's parents.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
** Debra pulls an allnighter when she's searching for clues in the Skinner case (serial killer of the season). She says she had a metric fuck-ton of coffee and is extremely fidgety in the morning.
** Dexter stalks his victims at night and it's mentioned he's an extremely early riser who doesn't sleep well. In one episode when he finds Lumen, he spends with her the whole night, trying to calm her down. When he comes home to his baby son and his new nanny in the morning, the nanny's pissed that she can't trust him because he didn't inform her he wouldn't be coming home.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'', episode "The One Where They're Up All Night":
** 6 friends plus Tag are sitting on the roof looking for a comet. Everyone except Ross and Joey head back inside. Those two remain stranded on the roof. They go down the fire escape, but it doesn't go all the way down and it lasts for a long time until they finally make it.
** Phoebe can't sleep because her fire alarm keeps going off. She rips it out of the wall and even smashes it, but the alarm continues to beep. She tries to throw it down the garbage chute, however, a fireman manages to find it and brings it back, reminding her that it's illegal to remove it. The alarm continues to go off, with Phoebe going crazy from the sound.
** Tag and Rachel head to their office in the middle of the night to check for some contracts that were supposed to be mailed.
** Chandler can't fall asleep, so he wakes Monica up and wants to talk. Monica however wants to go back to sleep. Chandler decides to read a boring book and make some hot milk to help him sleep, but makes a loud noise in the kitchen... which wakes Monica up for the night. They stay up and talk, then they have sex and somehow one or the other keeps falling asleep and getting woken up throughout the night. In the morning Chandler calls in sick and stays home from work.
* ''Series/Zoey101'':
** In one episode, Dustin has agreed to help Quinn with an experiment by wearing a bracelet that shocks him when he starts to fall asleep. He quickly starts to hate it, becoming irritable and delirious in addition to being constantly tired.
** In an episode, none of the people in the boys' dorm can get a full night sleep for at least three days, as they keep being woken up in the middle of the night for a fire alarm. When it turns out to be Logan's expensive new phone causing it, he gets beaten up.
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[[folder: Video Games]]
The All-Night Mask in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has the description that it doesn't let its wearer fall asleep, even if they want to. It's used in the game to allow Link to stay awake through Granny's long stories (and earn a prize by doing so), but supplementary information within the game indicates it was originally used as a torture device.
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[[folder: Web Video]]
* WebVideo/Local58's "Real Sleep" video's final section shows a bunch of [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]] and [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages against sleep and dreaming]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Homer gets a second job in the episode where Lisa gets a pony. He works days (his old power plant job) and nights (his new job in the Kwik-E-Mart). He gets no sleep and is absolutely exhausted.
** In one Treehouse of Horror segment, the kids try to stay awake as long as possible. If they fall asleep, Willy kills them. It's rather desperate attempt because they know they can't stay awake forever.
** In one episode, there is a new airport in the Evergreen Terrace. The whole family can't sleep and are in poor shape physically as a result.
** Marge can't sleep well when Homer starts snoring.
** Maggie is crying non-stop in one episode when they try to take away her dummy. Cue the whole family looking like zombies without their sleep.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Because Timmy wants to experience the night, he wishes that he and the rest of the world would never sleep. The sleep deprivation quickly catches up to Cosmo and Wanda, making them hideous and grouchy.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", when Krusty Krab starts opening for 24 hours a day, Mr. Krabs gets an order of 10000 Krabby Patties. Cue Spongebob making patties nonstop, without any sleep, for days. This later results in him hallucinating people as walking, talking Krabby Patties.
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[[folder: Real Life]]
* Artist Creator/SalvadorDali deliberately gave himself sleeping problems for the sake of his art. He typically slept in an armchair, while holding a spoon over a metal plate--so as soon as he began to relax, he'd drop the spoon and the resulting sound would wake him back up again. Dali claimed this prevented him from dreaming in his sleep, so he instead dreamed while awake, and used those as artistic inspiration.
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Characters who can't sleep or haven't slept well become irritated, tired, exhausted, sick, crazy, desperate, proud of the accomplishment... It depends how serious the situation is and how it is played. It can be played for laughs, for drama or horror. Those who can't sleep will often have ExhaustedEyeBags and the situation might lead to them looking SeriouslyScruffy, even after just one sleepless night, though it's more common to show after a longer period of sleeplessness.
!!Sleep Deprivation in fiction can come about in various ways:
* Noisy inconsiderate neighbours who want to party the whole damn night... or worse, {{ahem}}, [[RightThroughTheWall partying in the bedroom]].
* Never-ending noise (airport, train station, traffic, construction site) -- typical plot is that a new building is being built in a peaceful neighbourhood.
* CountryMouse is visiting a big city and the noise level is too much at night and too different from their normal environment; likewise CityMouse in the country can find the silence or the different ''kind'' of noise too weird.
* Emergencies. Sudden serious and potentially dangerous situations which need immediate action to deal with them.
* Burning the midnight oil. Typical for over-worked or poor-planning students before tests or examinations; writer who are suddenly inspired or need to meet the deadline; night owls who want to work at night, but are forced to wake up early as well and so on.
* Stressful jobs: Cops, doctors and others sometimes must prolong their shifts. In business, characters must deal with last-minute orders or important accounts.
* Anxiety. They feel nervous or worried over something which prevents them from falling asleep.
* They have to keep thinking about a specific thing, trying to figure out something. Or perhaps they have just seen ''something'' and need BrainBleach.
* They can't fall asleep and if they do, bad things happen. That's why they try to stay awake as long as possible.
* Self-imposed scientific or artistic experiment.
* Crying babies and sick children who need their parents' care and help.
* The character's spouse starts snoring.
* ... and more!
!!Related tropes and subtropes:
* DeniedSleepAsPunishment: Torture, bullying, punishment or abuse with sleep deprivation.
* TheInsomniac: Characters can't fall asleep for long periods of time.
* InsomniaEpisode: Characters are unable to sleep for one episode/chapter/instalment.
* TheSleepless: Characters who don't need to sleep, and some are of the ''cannot sleep'' well variety.
* TripleShifter: Characters who work multiple jobs or lead double life; their need of sleep (or lack of it) might be lampshaded or hand-waved.
!!Indexing:
* SleepAndWakefulnessTropes
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!!Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder: Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/AnAppleSleepExperiment'', Applejack drinks a potion that was meant to keep her awake for 24 hours straight, but it works too well and instead makes it impossible for her to sleep. By the time Twilight cures her, Applejack had already gone insane from lack of sleep and had killed several ponies due to insomnia-invoked hallucinations.
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': As recounted in "Exhaustion", Ami stayed awake for four days straight in an ice golem body, so she could maintain enough attention to handle "unforeseen complications" from a rescue mission.
* In ''Fanfic/BrilliantLightsWillCeaseToBurn'', Izuku suffers from intense Sleep Deprivation over the course of the story between his TripleShifter tendencies and [[ChronicHeroSyndrome inability to say no when someone asks for help.]] His sheer HeroicFatigue makes him profoundly sarcastic and bitter to the point of joking about wishing for death practically every chapter.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Film -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': Bob is unable to sleep for several nights while trying to watch the kids, due to Dash's difficult math homework, Violet's relationship trouble, and Jack-Jack's newfound powers. He spends a chuck of the film completely exhausted and out-of-it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Film -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/MyCousinVinny'': A recurring gag throughout the film is that CityMouse Vinny (and his girlfriend Mona Lisa) can't get a good night's sleep due being unfamiliar with a noise of mostly rural small Southern town. The first two places they stay they get woken up incredibly early (by a pig farmer, and early train). The prosecution attorney loans them his cabin in the woods, but the sounds of animals keep them awake. It gets the point where he's held in contempt of court, he refuses to let Lisa bale him out hoping to finally get some rest. The scene cuts to a riot going on, with Vinny sound asleep as it reminds him of home in New Jersey.
* Much of the drama and horror in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' comes from the fact that a person ''has'' to sleep sooner or later, no matter how drastic the measures they take to stay awake. And when they do sleep, Freddy will come for them.
* The ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'' (remake) ups the ante by including the concept of "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsleep micronaps]]," where a sleep-deprived brain will temporarily switch into a kind of sleep-mode to try and recover. So the kids aren't even safe from Freddy before the point where they simply can't stay awake any longer. The film also mentions that if you do push wakefulness far too long, you can fall into a permanent coma.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', "The Work Song Nanocluster": Penny founds her business: she starts making artificial flowers , called "Penny Blossoms", and sells them online. The guys become involved and Leonard makes the mistake of adding "one-day-rush order" button. They end up spending all night trying to make one thousand Penny Blossoms. They drink tons of coffee (even Sheldon, who considers it a dangerous drug) and are exhausted. When they are done, Penny receives another 24-hour order for one thousands flowers, but they no longer want to help because as Howard puts it, they do have lives of their own.
* ''Series/ChicagoHope'': Heart surgeon Kate Austen has spent extremely long hours operating. As a result, she inadvertently leaves an instrument inside a patient who later dies. Kate is crushed, and struggles whether to stay silent and protect both herself and the hospital, or tell the patient's parents.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
** Debra pulls an allnighter when she's searching for clues in the Skinner case (serial killer of the season). She says she had a metric fuck-ton of coffee and is extremely fidgety in the morning.
** Dexter stalks his victims at night and it's mentioned he's an extremely early riser who doesn't sleep well. In one episode when he finds Lumen, he spends with her the whole night, trying to calm her down. When he comes home to his baby son and his new nanny in the morning, the nanny's pissed that she can't trust him because he didn't inform her he wouldn't be coming home.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'', episode "The One Where They're Up All Night":
** 6 friends plus Tag are sitting on the roof looking for a comet. Everyone except Ross and Joey head back inside. Those two remain stranded on the roof. They go down the fire escape, but it doesn't go all the way down and it lasts for a long time until they finally make it.
** Phoebe can't sleep because her fire alarm keeps going off. She rips it out of the wall and even smashes it, but the alarm continues to beep. She tries to throw it down the garbage chute, however, a fireman manages to find it and brings it back, reminding her that it's illegal to remove it. The alarm continues to go off, with Phoebe going crazy from the sound.
** Tag and Rachel head to their office in the middle of the night to check for some contracts that were supposed to be mailed.
** Chandler can't fall asleep, so he wakes Monica up and wants to talk. Monica however wants to go back to sleep. Chandler decides to read a boring book and make some hot milk to help him sleep, but makes a loud noise in the kitchen... which wakes Monica up for the night. They stay up and talk, then they have sex and somehow one or the other keeps falling asleep and getting woken up throughout the night. In the morning Chandler calls in sick and stays home from work.
* ''Series/Zoey101'':
** In one episode, Dustin has agreed to help Quinn with an experiment by wearing a bracelet that shocks him when he starts to fall asleep. He quickly starts to hate it, becoming irritable and delirious in addition to being constantly tired.
** In an episode, none of the people in the boys' dorm can get a full night sleep for at least three days, as they keep being woken up in the middle of the night for a fire alarm. When it turns out to be Logan's expensive new phone causing it, he gets beaten up.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Video Games]]
The All-Night Mask in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has the description that it doesn't let its wearer fall asleep, even if they want to. It's used in the game to allow Link to stay awake through Granny's long stories (and earn a prize by doing so), but supplementary information within the game indicates it was originally used as a torture device.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Web Video]]
* WebVideo/Local58's "Real Sleep" video's final section shows a bunch of [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]] and [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages against sleep and dreaming]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Homer gets a second job in the episode where Lisa gets a pony. He works days (his old power plant job) and nights (his new job in the Kwik-E-Mart). He gets no sleep and is absolutely exhausted.
** In one Treehouse of Horror segment, the kids try to stay awake as long as possible. If they fall asleep, Willy kills them. It's rather desperate attempt because they know they can't stay awake forever.
** In one episode, there is a new airport in the Evergreen Terrace. The whole family can't sleep and are in poor shape physically as a result.
** Marge can't sleep well when Homer starts snoring.
** Maggie is crying non-stop in one episode when they try to take away her dummy. Cue the whole family looking like zombies without their sleep.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Because Timmy wants to experience the night, he wishes that he and the rest of the world would never sleep. The sleep deprivation quickly catches up to Cosmo and Wanda, making them hideous and grouchy.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", when Krusty Krab starts opening for 24 hours a day, Mr. Krabs gets an order of 10000 Krabby Patties. Cue Spongebob making patties nonstop, without any sleep, for days. This later results in him hallucinating people as walking, talking Krabby Patties.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Real Life]]
* Artist Creator/SalvadorDali deliberately gave himself sleeping problems for the sake of his art. He typically slept in an armchair, while holding a spoon over a metal plate--so as soon as he began to relax, he'd drop the spoon and the resulting sound would wake him back up again. Dali claimed this prevented him from dreaming in his sleep, so he instead dreamed while awake, and used those as artistic inspiration.
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