History Main / SleepWalking

* According to ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', Sergeant Colon has perfected the traditional watchman's ability to FallAsleepStandingUp to the point he can ''go on patrol'' while asleep. Vimes knows this because, if he were awake, he wouldn't let people write graffiti on his armour.

* There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' where Stu sleepwalks and the babies believe he is a robot.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer Simpson starts sleepwalking under the effects of sleeping medication Nappien. Bart takes advantage of the situation and uses Homer as his personal "zombie".

* 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 fifth 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.

* ''{{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.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

* 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 SleepsInTheNude.

* ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'': In the episode "Moo Moo's Snoozity Snooze", Wubbzy and his friends go on a wacky adventure to stop the said magician when begins to cast spells everywhere in his sleep around Wuzzleburg.

See also TalkingInYourSleep, a related phenomenon, and EscortMission or BadlyBatteredBabysitter for the frequent trope involving other characters trying to shepherd the sleepwalking character past danger without waking them due to the old wives' tale.

* A world event sidequest in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'' has Eivor come upon a sleeping guard named Eyvind who does this. They try to yell that they're about to go off a cliff, though his natural instinct to go down the zipline kicks in, which wakes him up. Eivor follows him down and has to tell him he's been sleepwalking while he's been having dreams of fighting for the gods.

* A world event siidequest in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'' has Eivor come upon a sleeping guard named Eyvind who does this. They try to yell that they're about to go off a cliff, though his natural instinct to go down the zipline kicks in, which wakes him up. Eivor follows him down and has to tell him he's been sleepwalking while he's been having dreams of fighting for the gods.

* ''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]].

* Creator/DrSeuss takes it UpToEleven in ''The Sleep Book'':

* ''Manga/{{CITY}}'s'' Riko Izumi is perpetually asleep, but a whole ''volume'' is dedicated to her involuntary antics while sleeping the whole time. Being LateForSchool, her body goes on autopilot to get to her destination on time--which includes sleep ''tinkering'' to make gadgets that would get her to school in record time. However, things go awry, and she sleeps her way to a deserted island.

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5586 SCP-5586]] (appropriately named "Somnambulic Shenanigans"') 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''.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Agatha's first successful act of [[MadScientist Mad Science]] was converting a tractor to a clank designed to find and retrieve her parents' stolen [[OrphanPlotTrinket locket]], in her sleep. Because all her prior attempts at building something had failed (thanks to the locket suppressing her [[TheSparkOfGenius Spark]]) it takes a couple more feats of somnolent engineering before she's confident enough to do it while awake.

* In ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'', Heidi starts sleepwalking in Frankfurt as her health fails due to homesickness. At first the servants believes the Sesemann's BigFancyHouse is haunted, until the doctor and Mr. Sesemann find a sleepy Heidi in the front door murmuring about her home...

* 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 SleepsInTheNude...

* In ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Mystery Case Files: Prime Suspects]]'', one of the suspects is a narcoleptic named [[PunnyName Constance Noring]]. What were the prior arrests this lady faced? She had a huge history of ''stealing cars'' while sleepwalking. No wonder her nickname was "The Snoozy Cruiser".

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has Dexter's father manage to sleepwalk into Dexter's laboratory through all of his security, then wreak havoc. Once Dexter manages to get him back to his own bed he slams the door...which ''then'' causes his dad to wake up and chide Dexter because he's a light sleeper.