History Main / SleepWalking

--> I would sleepwalk, wake up at my desk, find ''plans'' I'd sketched during the night.

* FrankensteinsMonster and zombies are usually portrayed as walking like this, with hands outstretched. While they're not ''technically'' asleep, they are resurrected dead -- death often being compared metaphorically to a permanent sleep. In the original Universal film series Frankenstein's Monster only did this after an incompatible brain transplant, making him blind. And arguably, making him no longer the same character. It was then [[Creator/BelaLugosi Ygor]]'s brain in the monster's body. Most parodies of the Universal Frankenstein use this pose though, without bothering with the reason ''why''.

* In ''Film/EmbraceOfTheVampire2013'', Charlotte starts sleepwalking when she begins being plagued by nightmares, and finds herself waking up in strange places, such as the courtyard garden in the middle of her dorm building.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018'': While the Grinch steals the Whos' holiday decorations, he encounters a sleepwalking Who, whom he gets rid of by giving him a glass of milk.

* Asuka attempting to kiss Shinji in his sleep in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. [[spoiler: Subverted, she later claims that she was faking it. Then again, this ''is'' [[{{Tsundere}} Asuka]] we're talking about.]]

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* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 12 is about the goats trying to cure Tibbie of the effects of some sleepwalking grass that she ate, which causes her to sleepwalk and hurt the others.
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* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' includes [[http://www.scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5586 SCP-5586]] (appropriately named 'Somnambulic Shenanigans'), which features a sleepwalker who travels to some pretty odd locations, including Queen Elizabeth's bedroom at Buckingham Palace, the Oval Office (where he threw his slipper at President Nixon), and even the surface of ''the Moon''.
** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-716 SCP-716 ("The Train").]] Anyone who enters REM sleep within 100 meters of a contained SCP-716 will sleepwalk in its direction and enter it.

** In the third season, Star finds she's not only been sleepwalking again, but [[spoiler: turning into her GoldenSuperMode and flying through different dimensions, ''without the use of scissors'']]. It turns out she was following a noise she was hearing, which came from [[spoiler: the unicorn she created from the last piece of magic that wasn't corrupted by Toffee]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs 2020}}'' short “[=WhoDonut=]” has the Warner Siblings trying to find out who ate Wakko’s donuts. [[spoiler: Turns out Wakko sleepeats when he crashes from a sugar high.]]

** Two moves, Snore and Sleep Talk, allow the Pokémon attack while under the "Asleep" [[StandardStatusEffects effect]]. (Often done in combination with the Rest move, where the Pokémon goes to sleep on purpose to heal itself.)

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' had Tommy sleepwalking and stealing all the items on the neighbors' front lawn as a result of pressure from the 4th grade test. He is unaware he is sleepwalking and everyone thinks there is a thief in the neighborhood. Dil ends up getting blamed for it when he is caught trying to return all the stuff Tommy had stolen.

* Rito from ''Manga/ToLoveRu''. Stated to be "wild" when he's asleep according to Momo. And by that, she means that should a girl get close enough to him while he's asleep (say by getting into his bed alongside him), he'll eventually grab on to her and start fondling her without ever waking up... while [[TalkingInYourSleep talking]] about [[SweetTooth sweets]].

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' includes [[www.scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5586 SCP-5586]], a sleepwalker who travels to some pretty odd locations, including Queen Elizabeth's bedroom at Buckingham Palace, the Oval Office (where he threw his slipper at President Nixon), and even the surface of ''the Moon''.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' includes [[www.scp-wiki.net/scp-5586 SCP-5586]], a sleepwalker who travels to some pretty odd locations, including Queen Elizabeth's bedroom at Buckingham Palace, the Oval Office (where he threw his slipper at President Nixon), and even the surface of ''the Moon''.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' includes [[[www.scp-wiki.net/scp-5586 SCP-5586]]], a sleepwalker who travels to some pretty odd locations, including Queen Elizabeth's bedroom at Buckingham Palace, the Oval Office (where he threw his slipper at President Nixon), and even the surface of ''the Moon''.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-716 SCP-716 ("The Train").]] Anyone who enters REM sleep within 100 meters of a contained SCP-716 will sleepwalk in its direction and enter it.

* ''{{Series/CSINY}}'' had "Night, Mother", where a sleepwalking woman was suspected of stabbing a man with a wooden stake. It was found that the real killer stabbed the victim, then the sleepwalker went through the actions she'd seen used to try and save her young son, who died in a car crash years earlier. She did CPR, then tried to reach in and massage the dead woman's heart.

* An episode of ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' had Mark's sleepwalking brother suspected of accidentally smothering another patient. It turned out he was framed and the real killer planted the pillow in his hands.

* In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', Luke once goes into a [[AdventuresInComaland Force-induced coma]] where he has to fight a Vader-shaped manifestation of his own fear. Meanwhile, he gets captured, [[ShirtlessScene stripped]], and StrappedToAnOperatingTable. As he starts to win, his eyes open, he breaks free of the table, and he fights off a horde of guards while still fighting in the dream. He's rather surprised when he wakes up.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018'': While the Grinch steals the Whos' holiday decorations, he encounters a sleepwalking Who, whom he gets rid of my giving him a glass of milk.

* In ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', Orson's guilt over [[spoiler:having run over Mike which indirectly led to his painkiller addiction]] eventually causes him to sleepwalk while muttering apologies. For added embarrassment, he sleeps in the nude...

* In the CampingEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', Zack and Melissa have to chase down a sleepwalking [[WalkingDisasterArea Milo]]. HilarityEnsues.

* The ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "Hawk's Nightmare" has Hawkeye suffering from this (up to and including [[UsefulNotes/{{Basketball}} shooting imaginary baskets]] in his sleep) in addition to BadDreams.

* In one multi-part episode of ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', Bulk and Skull (who were, at the time, police cadets) were trying to figure out who the graffiti artist was who kept targeting the juice bar. As it turned out, the culprit was Skull himself, who was doing it while sleepwalking. (He actually claimed he did this before, having painted his parent's whole kitchen once. Sure, it's [[ArtisticLicense kind of hard to believe]], but still...)

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* Wilhemina Packard from Disney's ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' is said to sleepwalk, though we don't see her do it. The fact that she [[FanDisservice sleeps in the nude]] probably has something to do with it. The other characters wear sleep masks because of this.

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* An episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' had Zack sleepwalking and sleep-barricading the hotel he stays in after watching a [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms zombie flick]]. Needless to say, his mother was not pleased.
* Mikayla from ''Series/TheMillers'' pretends to be sleepwalking, complete with outstretched arms, when Carol catches her in the kitchen late at night digging into meat lasagna.

* In ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', Orson's guilt over [[spoiler:having run over Mike which indirectly led to his painkiller addiction]] eventually causes him to sleepwalk while muttering apologies. For added embarrassment, he sleeps in the nude...
* On ''Series/HappyEndings'', Max accuses Dave of eating his food while asleep, so he sets up a video camera to catch him in the act. Turns out Dave does sleepwalk, [[spoiler:but he's not the culprit; the real food thief is the guy secretly living in their attic.]]
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has an episode called "Somnambulist," in which there is a string of murders that seem to be committed by a vampire, in Angelus's SignatureStyle no less. Angel starts having (and enjoying) dreams about killing at the same time the murders are occurring, so naturally he suspects he has been sleepwalking and doing the killing. [[SubvertedTrope It turns out to be]] Angelus's former protege, who is then killed.
* In ''Series/CougarTown'', Jules has trouble sleeping, so she takes a sleeping pill. The next morning she wakes up fine, but everyone else is tired. Turns out the pill caused Jules to sleepwalk, keeping everyone awake with her antics.
* An episode of ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' had Mark's sleepwalking brother suspected of accidentally smothering another patient. It turned out he was framed and the real killer planted the pillow in his hands.
* In one multi-part episode of ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', Bulk and Skull (who were, at the time, police cadets) were trying to figure out who the graffiti artist was who kept targeting the juice bar. As it turned out, the culprit was Skull himself, who was doing it while sleepwalking. (He actually claimed he did this before, having painted his parent's whole kitchen once. Sure, it's [[ArtisticLicense kind of hard to believe]], but still...)
* ''Series/HogansHeroes'': Hogan has Newkirk fake sleepwalking in order to distract the guards. As Newkirk's wandering around outside, Schultz comes up to him and tries to wake him up. Newkirk "mistakes" him for a beautiful lady and begins to stroke Schultz's face... until he comes to his mustache.
* ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' had a two part episode with Rob's brother, who was shy and nervous awake but outgoing and funny while asleep. Rob and the others try to help him see that he can be the same way awake as asleep and do a comedy show.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' has an unusual take on this where the victim - a football coach who was killed via blunt force trauma - performed his morning routine before walking out of the house and keeling over dead, with a minor difference - he wasn't asleep, [[NightmareFuel he was brain-dead]].
* ''{{Series/CSINY}}'' had "Night, Mother," where a sleepwalking woman was suspected of stabbing a man with a wooden stake. It was found that the real killer stabbed the victim, then the sleepwalker went through the actions she'd seen used to try and save her young son, who died in a car crash years earlier. She did CPR, then tried to reach in and massage the dead woman's heart.
* A victim in ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' is a woman who lives in a boat and dies by falling into the sea when she's in a sleepwalking daze, drowning herself as a result.

* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' has a two-parter episode in which Don Ramón, mortified by the fact El Chavo is always hungry, starts sleepwalking at night, and leaving an empty plate inside his barrel. Doña Clotilde also sleepwalks, apparently due to her "little yellow-chested sparrow" escaping from its cage (and [[HilarityEnsues mistaking Don Ramón for it]] while she's asleep). For some reason, Quico and Doña Florinda are also seen sleepwalking.
* An episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' displays an unusually realistic example of sleepwalking. Alan wanders around at night doing things like vacuuming and baking, seeming for all the world like he's awake, apart from his speech consisting of absolute nonsense and the fact that he hasn't turned the vacuum on (he provides its sounds himself) and that he didn't bring a mixing bowl, resulting in his "baking" leaving a mess all over the dining table. Another episode reveals that Charlie routinely makes surprisingly good homemade chili while he's blacked-out drunk.
* One episode of the anthology series ''Murder in Mind'' featured Deborah, a student (Creator/KeeleyHawes), who suffered from episodes of sleepwalking. Then she woke up one morning to find herself clutching a bloodstained hammer, and her cheating boyfriend was nowhere to be found. [[spoiler:The boyfriend turned up at the end, alive and well. Not so Deborah's best friend, who she'd subconsciously realised was the woman her boyfriend was fooling around with.]]
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "One", Tom Paris is revealed to be a sleepwalker when Seven of Nine catches him fallen in the doorway to the room where the stasis chambers were located during the crew's trip through a dangerous nebula.
* One episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' centered around Steve sleepwalking into Carl and Harriette's bedroom in the middle of the night and repeatedly hitting Carl over the head with a rolled-up newspaper. While visiting a therapist, it's discovered that Steve was doing this because he was mad at Carl because he overheard him say that he hated Steve and wished that he would move away after he accidentally broke a model ship Carl was working on.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Great and the Good", the killer takes advantage of the local schoolteacher's sleepwalking, combined a little strategic {{Gaslighting}}, to make her believe she might be the murderer.
* ''Series/ShakespeareAndHathawayPrivateInvestigators'': In "The Chameleon's Dish", Frank and Lou's attempts to establish their client's innocence are complicated by the fact that he was found sleepwalking near the BodyOfTheWeek, and that earlier that night he attempted to strangle someone in his sleep.

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** In episode "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS1E14SleepSpells Sleep Spells]]", Star doesn't just walk and talk in her sleep, she also cast spells through her wand, with naturally disastrous results. Marco decides to use therapy to figure out why. It turns out she was actually doing this to defend herself from a princess who had escaped from a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors. After she's defeated, Star presumably stops sleepwalking.

* ''{{Series/CSI NY}}'' had "Night, Mother", where a sleepwalking woman was suspected of stabbing a man with a wooden stake. It was found that the real killer stabbed the victim, then the sleepwalker went through the actions she'd seen used to try and save her young son, who died in a car crash years earlier. She did CPR,then tried to reach in and massage the dead woman's heart.
** The main series has an unusual take on this where the victim - a football coach who was killed via blunt force trauma - performed his morning routine before walking out of the house and keeling over dead, with a minor difference - he wasn't asleep, [[NightmareFuel he was brain-dead]].