History Main / Sleepwalking

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' adds a Pokemon Komala, which due to its Ability is treated as constantly being asleep by the game for most purposes [[CursedWithAwesome It can still attack normally, and is immune to Poison, Burn, Freezing, and Paralysis due to the fact that a Pokemon an only be affected by one of these status effects at once.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': In the third story, both Bruno the dog, and Alice do this at the same time while dreaming of their loved ones. HilarityEnsues when they run into each other.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': One of ComicBook/{{Venom}}'s early appearances -- as the symbiote rather than as just clothes, and before he was separated from Spider-Man-- has him take Peter Parker out for a swing while Parker is completely asleep. Parker later wonders why he's so tired.

** Played with in [[https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/16 This comic]], where Garfield pretends to be sleepwalking so Jon won't punish him for eating a whole chicken. Jon almost falls for it, but Garfield blows it when he begins to shred the curtains too.
** In [[https://garfield.com/comic/2007/03/11 this comic]], Odie went sleepwalking while dreaming he is burying a bone, and ended up burying Garfield in the backyard.

* King Melos, of ''Literature/{{Threadbare}}'' suffers from a tragic case of this. [[spoiler:Due to his peculiar situation as the Dungeon Master of the realm, when he sleeps, his DM avatar performs evil deeds to hurt him]].

* ''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.

* 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.]]

* Music/TheyMightBeGiants has the song [[http://www.rhapsody.com/they-might-be-giants/no/sleepwalkers/lyrics.html "Sleepwalkers,"]] which is about, well, what you'd expect, and references the "arms held out, eyes closed" thing.

* Similarly, in ''Webcomic/{{Kurami}}'', Bree Kay is seemingly capable of [[https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/t31.0-8/12604759_1395535254079404_1241908150389535436_o.jpg playing video games in he sleep]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{DC Super Hero Girls|2019}}'': In "[=#SuperSleeper=]", Kara Danvers (a.k.a. Supergirl) is shown to be sleepwalking... or rather, sleep-flying, because Kryptonian. Batgirl spends the whole short trying to bring her back to the bedroom, with great difficulties.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' dealt with Phoebe trying to stop Helga from sleepwalking to Arnold's house.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Professor Utonium, after being overworked in the lab, starts sleep-''shoplifting''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Ed Bighead experienced his childhood trauma of pirates when watching a play. He begins sleepwalking on his roof as a pirate in search of a treasure map.

* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX-tEBYZOvU Stewie observes Joe sleep-dragging.]]
* Olive Oyl sleepwalks in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "A Dream Walking", while Popeye and Bluto frantically try to keep her safe.

* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' does this in the claymation short shown after the third act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E8BogusToTheRescue Bogus To The Rescue]]". His sleepwalking results in knocking a glass off the bathroom counter before it shatters into pieces. The crash sound is what wakes up Bogus, before he notices the broken glass, inquiring if he really did do that but not remembering anything about it.

** "Real or Robots?" is an episode of the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats|1991}}'', where Stu sleepwalks and the babies believe he is a robot after [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms watching a scary movie]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': In "Gekko and the Snore-A-Saurus", the PJ Masks have to handle a sleepwalking Cameron as they fight Luna Girl.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'': In "Runaway Roley", after working hard to dig a trench, Roley sleep-rolls out of the yard and causes havoc all over town. Bob, Wendy and the machines have to get Roley back to the yard quickly.
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** "Bowl-R-Ama Drama": Phineas and Ferb literally break the record for the world's largest bowling ball in their sleep.
** "Road Trip": Candace attempts to bust her brothers while asleep. Her parents find it adorable.
** "Sleepwalk Surprise": Doofenshmirtz discovers he has sleep-invented a "Cake-o-Hug-o-Fetti-Inator".
* In the CampingEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', Zack and Melissa have to chase down a sleepwalking [[WalkingDisasterArea Milo]]. HilarityEnsues. Also includes a debate about whether you NeverWakeUpASleepwalker.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' sees ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} having to chase after ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} as she sleep-flies through the city.

* One episode of the Italian animated series ''A.E.I.O.U'', which is animated in sand instead of on paper, has the main character, a little boy who plays the violin, walk around late at night and making a lot of noise while the Sandman tries to make him fall asleep and be quiet. Somewhere around the middle of the episode, the Sandman ''does'' manage to make the boy sleep... only for the boy to immediately start sleepwalking all over the place, with the Sandman having to chase him.
* 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.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Reap Walking," Grim is accused of reaping rare white owls while sleepwalking. It turns out it was Billy's mom who was getting rid of the owls and she tried to frame Grim for it. As for Grim's sleepwalking, he was merely headed to the kitchen for a midnight snack.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyKwaterner'': In "Mystery and Mammoths Trunks", Rocky is accused of wrecking the statue of a mammoth. In an attempt to [[ClearMyName clear Rocky's name]], Theo and Luna ultimately discover that, while Rocky did do it, he was sleepwalking at the time and reliving a memory about how he once had to save himself and his pet tiger from an angry mammoth by tricking it into getting tangled up in vines.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'': In the episode "Sleepytime", it's revealed that Bingo has a habit of wandering around the house whilst she's dreaming.

* ''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.

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* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': In one video, Ian suddenly sleepwalks at night to create baked goods in a mini-oven.

* The Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}, whose body is taken over by an alien being at night when he's asleep.
* One of ComicBook/{{Venom}}'s early appearances -- as the symbiote rather than as just clothes, and before he was separated from Franchise/SpiderMan -- has him take Peter Parker out for a swing while Parker is completely asleep. Parker later wonders why he's so tired.
* In ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'', 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.
* In a ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' comic book story, Richie's dog Dollar pretends to sleepwalk so that he could binge on what is in the kitchen refrigerator without Chef Pierre stopping him. However, Chef Pierre ends up pretending to sleepwalk so that he could chase Dollar out of the kitchen the next time he pretended to sleepwalk in order the raid the kitchen.
* Paul Same, a friend of ComicBook/HowardTheDuck, had a sleepwalking alter ego called the Winky-Man, who committed parodic acts of vigilantism that the meek Paul would never do while awake.
* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': In the third story, both Bruno the dog and Alice do this at the same time while dreaming of their loved ones. HilarityEnsues when they run into each other.
* In ''ComicBook/MagicTheGatheringIDW'', the villain Ashiok creates a curse which causes mages to sleepwalk and commit crimes in their sleep.
* Franchise/{{Superman}} suffered from this due to the events of ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlSaga'', causing him to go out and fight crime as the vigilante Gangbuster. When the Guardian snaps him out of this, Superman is so freaked, he exiles himself from Earth for a time.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'': In the episode "Sleepytime", it's revealed that Bingo has a habit of doing this whilst dreaming.

* ''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".

* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' features the famous sleepwalking scene of Lady Macbeth, which demonstrates her {{Sanity Slippage}} due to guilt. She sleepwalks, [[TalkingInYourSleep sleep-talks]], and [[OutDamnedSpot tries in vain to wash imaginary blood from her hands.]]

** "Real or Robots?", an episode of the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', where Stu sleepwalks and the babies believe he is a robot after [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms watching a scary movie]].

* There's no sleep'''walking''' in ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', but lead character and dedicated rocker Zii can play "[[Music/{{Metallica}} Enter Sandman]]" [[http://www.ma3comic.com/strips-ma3/i_was_tuning_it_for_you in her sleep.]]