History Main / TripleShifter

** In the later novels, his sleeping habits are shown a bit more... and they're very unhealthy. Apparently, he got into the habit of always sleeping under the bed, with his eyes open, and is always [[CrazySurvivalist holding a weapon of some sort]]. During the time when he sleeps, he also has [[BadDreams nightmares]] of his mother dying, and actually counts himself lucky when he gets six whole whopping hours of sleep that day (after wandering around until he passed out from fatigue). It definitely doesn't bode well for his life expectancy.

* Shirogane from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' rarely has time to sleep due to having to attend school, study hard enough to keep his position as the number 1 student, do all his duties as StudentCouncilPresident, and work multiple part-time jobs to support his family. As a result, he has permanent ExhaustedEyeBags and relies on [[MustHaveCaffeine a constant supply of coffee]] to keep himself from passing out.

* {{WesternAnimation/Steven Universe}} gives us Mr. Smiley, a StepfordSmiler who runs the local arcade and theme park. By himself. As he manically announces in one episode, "I haven't seen a bed in six days!". He finally gets a break in ''Steven Universe Future'' when Amethyst starts a retraining program for Gems and hooks several of them up with jobs at the theme park.

* In ''Manga/YozakuraFamily,'' Taiyo has to juggle his schoolwork, spy training, and missions every single day. As a result, he shows up to school exhausted and falls asleep on a roller coaster because of how relaxing it is by comparison. This also becomes a plot point in one chapter, as Kyoichiro tries to force him to go to sleep as an excuse to rough him up in class.

** Dexter Morgan seems to ignore this problem entirely, with no apparent problems. By day, he's a skilled forensic scientist, and has never been shown to doze off at work. In the afternoons and evenings, he spends time with his girlfriend/wife and her kids, or go bowling with the guys from work. At night, he stalks people he suspects of being murderers, and once he is sure, abducts them, kills them, and cuts them into little pieces he can dump in the sea. Sleep? Optional.

* As the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' English ExpositoryThemeSong tells us, the titular heroine is "Fighting evil by moonlight, [[EarWorm winning love by daylight...]]" Even before becoming a warrior of love, she was having problems getting to school on time, but somehow being ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' doesn't compound it at all.

* In the maze level of [[VideoGame/BaldursGate Watcher's Keep]], the party runs into a mad elf [[ThirdPersonPerson referring to himself in the third person]] as Yakman. He's so paranoid about the dangers of the maze that he hasn't slept in all the time he's been there. Elves don't ''sleep'' as such in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', but they do need to enter a meditative trance for a few hours a night ([[OurElvesAreBetter half as long as humans need to sleep, naturally]]). As [[AnAdventurerIsYou CHARNAME]] can note, "You can't just not sleep for two years, you'd...go...crazy."

* The Space Marines of [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40k]] sleep ''one hour'' per 24-hour day. They use this period to recharge, as operating for one or more consecutive 24-hour periods, while possible, can cause serious fatigue and impair their combat ability. Supersoldiers ''much''.
** They can also switch off a half of their brains at a time, keeping themselves awake while they sleep.
*** Though the daily rituals of a space marine as posted on the Lexicanum wiki allocate four hours for sleep, not one.
*** Presumably, 4 hours is the preferred amount, 1 hour is the minimum safe amount.

** Though [[GottaCatchEmAll catching magical and mischievous cards]] shouldn't be particularly exhausting (considering she catches 52 of them over the course of roughly 15 months; it's not even a weekly occurrence), transforming them so she can become their full-blooded owner becomes quite draining to her limited magic. (As well as using the [[TimeyWimeyBall Time and Return Cards]], [[WorfEffect which even knock]] ''[[WorfEffect Syaoran]]'' [[WorfEffect for a loop]]!) Because of this, in the third season Sakura [[HeavySleeper tends to doze off during class, or immediately after said transformation.]] She will also occasionally fall asleep in class for the purpose of having a prophetic dream ([[CaptainObvious which tends to require the dreamer to be asleep at the time]]).

* The annual of ''ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangersBoomStudios'' includes a short story that shows one week in Jason's life as he juggles high school, running an after-school karate class and saving the world from monsters. He just about manages it, but spends most of Saturday dead to the world in bed.

So we'll see them doing stuff during day and night -- constantly. Don't they ever [[TheSleepless need to take a nap]]? The actual physical consequences are rarely taken seriously, except maybe by showing a teacher or boss annoyed that the character is dozing off from time to time. Rarely anything else happens: if it ''is'' shown as a constant issue of exhaustion, it will usually be school or work that suffers, as opposed to their night-time adventures, even though being tired means they should have a much harder time fighting. Night is naturally the time for saving the world when you WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld.

* Shirogane from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' rarely has time to sleep due to having to attend school, study hard enough to keep his position as the number 1 student, do all his duties as StudentCouncilPresident, and work multiple part-time jobs to support his family. As a result, he has permanent ExhaustedEyeBags and relies on [[MustHaveCaffine a constant supply of coffee]] to keep himself from passing out.

** It is actually lampshaded in a couple of episodes of the second season, when Dexter is considering turning himself in (which would almost certainly ensure that he spends the rest of his life in prison), he comments "It might be fun to start sleeping again." Towards the end of the arc, however, with the difficulties resolved, he just shrugs it off as he prepares for another triple-shift day. "Sleep! What a concept..."

** ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has the dungeon-exploration take place during the day, avoiding this (and if you do it you can't do anything that night out of exhaustion). But the characters seem to have no trouble staying up until midnight several nights in a row to watch the Midnight Channel. They could've easily take a nap and set the timer to wake them up in time, or sleep in until the very last minute the next morning. It's also an infrequent event and a lot of reasonably healthy teens have little problem staying up until 12:05am and then getting by on 5 or 6 hours of sleep for several days every once in a while.

*** In a completely mundane instance, Sakura was shown to be dozing off in class all week long. Syaoran and Tomoyo thought she was [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld transforming cards behind their backs]]. She was actually [[spoiler:rushing to [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming knit Syaoran a scarf]] before the winter festival, knowing how much he hates the cold]].

* Video game example: ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' features a group of (mostly) high-school students who can only fight the world-threatening evil during a slice of non-time accessed at midnight. The resulting exhaustion is a status effect that puts a massive crimp in a Tired character's performance. The status effect lasts into the next day as well, can degrade further into being Sick [even worse than tired], which further interferes with classwork for the day. Bit of an aversion compared to the usual "Doze off in class, feel 100%".

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' has the dungeon-exploration take place during the day, avoiding this (and if you do it you can't do anything that night out of exhaustion). But the characters seem to have no trouble staying up until midnight several nights in a row to watch the Midnight Channel. They could've easily take a nap and set the timer to wake them up in time, or sleep in until the very last minute the next morning. It's also an infrequent event and a lot of reasonably healthy teens have little problem staying up until 12:05am and then getting by on 5 or 6 hours of sleep for several days every once in a while.

* The hero of the comic ''HeroByNight''. He's a LegacyCharacter with a MagicRing, which grants him superhuman vitality. This translates into enhanced physical abilities and toughness, but also a removal of the need to sleep. He does need to meditate, as his predecessor did, to stay sane with no ability to dream.

Of course, one could assume that Evil doesn't strike ''every'' night. But it sure seems that way. See also PlotPoweredStamina.

* In the MusicalEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', Larry briefly mentions having to deal with this in the CrowdSong

* In [[https://xkcd.com/320/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' strip, one of the characters proposes a sleep schedule that allocates 28 hour days, as the other person has a flexible work schedule. The AltText notes that actually attempting this will cause the individual to go insane.

** The fourth season starts out with him completely exhausted, to the point of dozing off while driving away from a kill. Things continue to spiral out of control from there, but the lack of sleep is noted. In this case, it's partly played for laughs, because on top of his normal routine, [[spoiler:he has to take care of his infant son]].