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6Somnambulism, commonly known as sleepwalking, is the phenomenon where a person, while sleeping, performs physical activities, often with their eyes open but unresponsive to the world. Within the real world, the sleepwalker will typically have their eyes open and will move as normal, if sometimes a bit slower as if tired. Any complex action that is performed while awake may be replicated while sleepwalking, including unlocking of doors, catching trains, driving cars, even sex and murder.
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8The sleepwalker typically avoids obstacles, but still may be injured by non-routine events such as tripping hazards or closed doors. The disorder is common in children, but is typically grown out of. It is rarer in adults and consistent bouts of sleepwalking may indicate various psychological or brain disorders. Because sleepwalking typically occurs outside of REM sleep, dreams very seldom correlate with the actions while sleepwalking.
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10Likely symptoms include:
11* [[SleepsWithBothEyesOpen Eyes open during sleep]]
12* May have blank look on face
13* May sit up and appear awake during sleep
14* Walking during sleep
15* Performing other detailed activity of any type during sleep
16* Not remembering the sleepwalking episode when they wake up
17* Acting confused or disoriented when they wake up
18* Rarely, aggressive behavior when they are awakened by someone else
19* [[TalkingInYourSleep Sleep talking that does not make sense]]
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21In fiction, sleepwalking is generally portrayed with the sleepwalker [[ZombieGait having both arms extended in front of them]], eyes closed (and in some extreme cases, blindfolded), and possibly even snoring. The sleepwalker will again perform complex actions, but will almost always have an uncanny ability to avoid dangers in their world that they really shouldn't be aware of.
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23Folklore regarding sleepwalking states that [[NeverWakeUpASleepwalker waking a sleepwalker is dangerous]], but in reality, the worst that may happen is confusion as they awake in a strange place.
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25See 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. See SuperingInYourSleep for moments in which a superpowered person uses their powers while asleep.
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32* In one old commercial for Post Fruity Pebbles, Barney pretends he's sleepwalking to get Fred's Pebbles; Fred doesn't wake him up, [[NeverWakeUpASleepwalker afraid that it's dangerous]], but when he's upset that Barney's eating his Pebbles, Barney tells him there's more in the cupboard... And blows his cover as a result.
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36* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 5 episode 51, Headmaster Tele finds Little M. sleeping during the school day in numerous situations, including sleepwalking outside the school building.
37* ''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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41* ''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--which includes sleep ''tinkering'' on high speed gadgets that she can still operate while snoozing. However, things go awry, and she sleeps her way to a deserted island.
42* Early in ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheAnimalPlanet'', Nobita accidentally sleepwalks through a portal leading from the titular planet to earth, which inexplicably appears in his house. Nobita ends up accidentally stepping through the portal, encounters a group of andromorphic animals, picks up a plant from the planet before he finds his way back through the same portal and falling asleep when he got back, waking up the following morning when Doraemon found Nobita asleep outside the toilet. Nobita wonders if the whole thing is just a dream, but then [[OrWasItADream the flower he collected from the other world is still there]].
43* Fam from ''Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing'' has a pretty bad case, especially since she's a SkyPirate. The first scene of the entire show is her [[InnocentFanserviceGirl stripping off]], opening the hanger door of their airship and walking out, saved only by a rope with a bell on it tied to her leg. Episode 4 also shows that there's a mat placed below the entrance to her loft bedroom to cushion her inevitable falls.
44* In one ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' omake, Hikaru nearly sleepwalks out of the tent and shouting "Let's go!" while Umi tries to hold her back... and then Fuu catches it and starts sleep-tickling Umi. The next day, they're quite puzzled by Umi's inexplicable fatigue.
45* 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.]]
46* Cavendish from ''Manga/OnePiece'' has a second personality, [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Hakuba]], that only appears when he is sleeping.
47* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
48** Akane takes this a step further: she ''fights'' in her sleep.
49** Ranma has a couple of sleepwalking episodes, each time when he's been starving and hence makes a beeline to the fridge in his sleep.
50* ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'': Meme at one instance does sleep fighting, she was able to fight off her opponent without waking up, even while taking off her own clothes in her sleep.
51* 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 {{talking|InYourSleep}} about {{sweet|Tooth}}s.
52* In ''Anime/WorldConquestZvezdaPlot'', Professor Um has a tendency to sleepwalk, at one point sleepwalking into Asuta's bed during the night. Itsuka jumps to the wrong conclusion upon finding them together in bed in the morning and is ready to beat Asuta up, but the other Zvezda members quickly let him off the hook because they're used to Um sleepwalking.
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56* Comedian Mike Birbiglia has this problem, which he details in his book ''Sleepwalk With Me.'' One incident had him jump from a window while asleep, which almost took his life. As a result, he only allows himself to sleep on the first floor of a building.
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60* ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'': Paul Same had a sleepwalking alter ego called the Winky-Man who committed parodic acts of vigilantism that the meek Paul would never do while awake.
61* ''ComicBook/MagicTheGatheringIDW'': The villain Ashiok creates a curse that causes mages to sleepwalk and commit crimes in their sleep.
62* ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem'': In "Bedtime For Drainhead", [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], after binge-reading his "Dirk Drainhead" comics for 72 hours, falls asleep and sleep-acts like the superhero. According to Luigi, this has happened before. He spends the story wandering all over creation and busting heads, eventually defeating King Koopa. When Mario wakes up and Koopa learns the truth, the evil king was ''not'' happy.
63* ''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.
64* ''ComicBook/RichieRich'': In one story, Richie's dog Dollar pretends to sleepwalk so that he can 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.
65* ''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'': Rick Sheridan's body is taken over by the titular Sleepwalker at night when he's asleep.
66* ''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.
67* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': 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, that he exiles himself from Earth for a time.
68* ''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.
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72* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin's parents often ''think'' he's been sleepwalking whenever the [[TitleDrop "homicidal psycho jungle cat"]] (that is, Hobbes) jumps him while he's going to get a drink of water. In one strip, Hobbes goes sleepwalking and makes a tuna sandwich, while Calvin follows him in a state of confusion and mild concern, and ultimately gets the blame for making a mess in the kitchen.
73* ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'': Played with in [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2023/08/06 this comic]]; Miles pretends to be sleepwalking so he can sneak into the kitchen and get some cookies. His dad catches him in the act, but pretends to also be sleepwalking while ordering Miles to return to his room.
74* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
75** 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.
76** 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.
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80* The ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'' implies that Jack does this if he drinks carrot juice before bed, leading to crazy things happening, as mentioned when he came out of a trance and discovered he was wearing a jester's outfit (actually the rest of the town being transformed by Aragon).
81* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'': Sasuke and Sakura are both surprised to see Naruto able to eat [[TrademarkFavoriteFood ramen]] while still being asleep.
82* ''Fanfic/TwinklingInTheDark'': In Chapter 13, [[Anime/SmilePrecure Majorina]] finds [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Mai]] sleepwalking while looking for Bad Energy.
83* ''Fanfic/UsAndThem'': Pregnant [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cetra]] are apparently prone to sleepwalking episodes, among other things.
84* ''Fanfic/YourAlicornIsInAnotherCastle'': Part of what happens when [[spoiler:Bowser]] tries to avoid his destiny:
85-->'''Bowser:''' I would sleepwalk, wake up at my desk, find ''plans'' I'd sketched during the night.
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89* Wilhemina Packard from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/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.
90* Dory from ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' not only [[TalkingInYourSleep still sleep-talks]], but she's also started sleep-swimming as well. Marlin and Nemo even note that she's been doing it often.
91* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Grinch|2018}}'': 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.
92-->'''Sleepwalking Who:''' Thank you, Mommy.
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96* {{Trope Maker|s}} for the "arms extended in front" pose is ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari''.
97* 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''.
98* In ''Film/{{Phenomena}}'', main character Jennifer is a sleepwalker, and the plot of the movie kicks off when she witnesses a murder while sleepwalking. Notably, during her second sleepwalking episode, she actually ''realises'' that she's sleepwalking and tries to snap herself out of it. She fails, but then [[spoiler:she hears a gunshot and wakes up.]]
99* One of the side effects of an experimental antidepressant called Ablixa in ''Film/SideEffects'' is sleepwalking. Emily, who has tried many other antidepressants to no avail, is determined to keep taking it despite sleepwalking, during which she prepares food for three people... even though it's just her and her husband at the apartment. Then, one night, [[spoiler:she stabs her husband during one such episode]]. In the end, her psychiatrist finds out that [[spoiler:this was all a scheme by Emily and her former psychiatrist to cause the stocks of the manufacturer of the drug to plummet and cash in on the knowledge; killing her husband, whom she secretly hated, was a bonus; her new psychiatrist's ruined career was just collateral damage]]. Fortunately, the psychiatrist [[spoiler:ends up proving himself a MagnificentBastard, and the women end up paying for their crimes]].
100* In ''Film/SecondhandLions'', Hub is a sleepwalker who does weapons drills by the lake at night.
101* ''Film/CurseOfTheCrimsonAltar'': Under the effects of hypnosis, Robert almost sleepwalks into a lake, but is saved by a passing policeman.
102* In ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'', Ruth follows a sleepwalking Sadie, trying to keep her out of danger. However, Sadie enters a room where they find the Ripper killing a victim. Despite her best efforts, Ruth cannot wake Sadie up and she is forced to watch as the Ripper [[SlashedThroat slits Sadie's throat]]. Ruth then wakes up and realises that this was a dream (although Sadie's odd choice of sleeping attire should have been a subtle clue). There is no evidence in the rest of the film that Sadie actually suffers from somnambulism.
103* In ''Film/{{Embrace of the Vampire|2013}}'', 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.
104* ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'', a side effect of falling in love with Iris is that Sir Lancelot has begun to sleepwalk around the house and even sleep-play the piano and sleep-swordfight!
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108* In ''Literature/TheBobbseyTwins'', Freddie suffers a bout of sleepwalking where he gets up and stands in front of Flossie's bed, making her think there's a ghost.
109* In ''Literature/TheDoubtfulGuest'' by Creator/EdwardGorey, sleepwalking is one of the annoying habits of the eponymous Doubtful Guest.
110-->''In the night through the house it would aimlessly creep\
111In spite of the fact of it being asleep.''
112* ''Literature/{{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.
113* A plot point in ''Literature/TheMoonstone''.
114* In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Lucy is a chronic sleepwalker who sleepwalks all the way across Whitby to the cemetery overlook the night she's first bitten by the eponymous vampire.
115* In ''Literature/TheEntail'' Daniel sleepwalks to repeat the actions of the night he committed a murder. Then his ghost continues it.
116* Creator/DrSeuss in ''The Sleep Book'':
117-->''Do you walk in your sleep? I've just had a report\
118Of some interesting news of this popular sport.\
119Near Finnigan Fenn there's a sleepwalking group\
120Which not only walks, but walks a-la-hoop!\
121Every night, they go miles. Why they walk at such length\
122They have to keep eating to keep up their strength.\
123So Every so often, one puts down his hoop\
124Stops hooping and does some quick snooping for soup.\
125And that's why they are known as the [[TongueTwister Hoop-Soup-Snoop-Group.]]''
126* At the end of ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears and the Missing Honey'', it turns out that Papa's honey was "stolen" by none other than Papa himself, who walked out to the shed and ate it in his sleep.
127* ''Literature/MyYearOfRestAndRelaxation'': Under the influence of an experimental drug named Infirmiterol, the narrator starts performing complex tasks while blacked out, including going to parties and booking spa days. She always wakes up with no memory of what transpired.
128* 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]].
129* At the beginning of ''Literature/TheMermaidsMirror'', Lena wakes up at the beach, having walked there in her sleep. Later in the book, she dreams that a voice is calling her. She follows it out of her room, and wakes up halfway down the stairs.
130* According to ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', Sergeant Colon has perfected the traditional watchman's ability to [[FellAsleepStandingUp sleep standing up]] 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.
131* The Finnish children's book series ''Literature/MrClutterbuck'' is about an anthropomorphic goat who gets in bizarre sleepwalking adventures every night and is completely unaware of them in the morning.
132* Sara, in ''Literature/GirlsKingdom'', manages to cause a ghost scare due to her sleepwalking and her sheer white negligee. She starts sleepwalking due to what Lady Angelica calls Mistress Deficiency Syndrome, where a maid who is especially compatible with her mistress and is forced to be apart from her for a long period, desperately starts missing them and starts behaving oddly in response.
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136* 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.
137* ''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' 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' former protégé, who is then killed.
138* On ''Series/ANTFarm'', Olive does this during a slumber party. While sleepwalking she makes rooster noises, plays golf and sleep-knits, and isn't aware that she sleepwalks.
139* ''Series/TheCrown2016''. While on a grueling Commonwealth tour, Prince Philip complains that he's now doing the royal wave in his sleep. Apparently this was TruthInTelevision.
140* ''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.
141* 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.
142* ''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]]. Oddly enough, this was based on a real case!
143* ''{{Series/CSINY}}'' had "Night, Mother," where a sleepwalking woman was suspected of stabbing a woman 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.
144* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': In season 4, after Bree and Orson's house is damaged during a tornado, they temporarily move in with Mike and Susan. Orson's guilt over [[spoiler:running over Mike with his car in the season 2 finale, which indirectly led to the painkiller addiction Mike has been dealing with in this season]], eventually causes him to sleepwalk while muttering apologies. For added embarrassment, he SleepsInTheNude.
145* An episode of ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' had Mark's sleepwalking brother suspected of accidentally smothering another patient. It turned out he was framed by the real killer who planted the pillow in his hands.
146* ''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.
147* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"]], Dr. John Polidori's penchant for sleepwalking makes him immune in that state to a PerceptionFilter that is involved in the house being twisted into a MobileMaze, and also allows the Doctor to figure out how everyone can escape from where they're currently trapped and move around the house again.
148* ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' had the title character sleep-eating.
149* 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.
150* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': In "Skinny Dipper" Henry tells Lieutenant Reece, after he's arrested for SkinnyDipping, that he's a somnambulist and he SleepsInTheNude. She makes the rather sensible suggestion (given what she [[ResurrectiveImmortality doesn't know]]) that he invest in pyjamas.
151* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'': In the fifth episode Will Graham starts sleepwalking and ends up several miles away from his house. He only wakes up when two police officers approach and shine a flashlight in his face. Once he's awake he realises that [[CanineCompanion his dog Winston]] had followed him and had been trying to wake him up by licking Will's hand.
152* 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.]]
153* ''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.
154* ''Series/{{House}}'':
155** One of House's clinic patients is a women who got pregnant because she had sex with her ex-boyfriend while sleepwalking.
156** Another patient is a sleepwalker who went as far as to buy cocaine in his sleep.
157* An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' had a sleepwalking cop as a suspect. [[spoiler: His neighbour had deliberately hidden his condition from him so she could use him as a fall guy.]]
158* 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 bad dreams.
159* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E3 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.
160* 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.
161* 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.]]
162* One episode of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' had Leslie discovering Ron has a disorder that occasionally causes him to have "sleep fights", which startled her when he suddenly started punching the air while passed out on a couch. When Leslie asks him if that's terrible, he replied "Only if I'm losing."
163* One episode of ''Series/PerryMason'' had this be the plot of an episode, where the defendant allegedly commits murder while sleepwalking.
164* In one multi-part episode of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', 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 spray-painted his parent's whole house once. Sure, it's [[ArtisticLicense kind of hard to believe]], but still...)
165* ''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.
166* In the ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' episode, "Mr. Conductor's Big Sleepwalk", Mr. Conductor gets a job as the Sandman's helper. He accidentally sneezes sleepy sand in his eyes, causing him to walk and talk in his sleep. He wanders around, gets lost and cannot spread his magic dust at night to help everyone sleep. Meanwhile, the kids try to keep Schemer and J.B. King from seeing and hearing Mr. Conductor.
167* In the early seasons of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Clark actually flies in his sleep a few times. At first he just hovers above his head and fall down when he wakes up, but in a later episode he wakes up several miles away from his house in the middle of the road and and Lex nearly hits him with his car. He had been having a dream of flying and suspects that it was actually happening.
168* 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.
169* 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.
170* 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.
171* On ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'', Taissa Turner has a history with this and bad things happen when she does. In the woods in 1996, she fell asleep and climbed in a tree in sleep while she was supposed to be on watch, resulting in fellow plane crash survivor Van getting badly mauled by a wolf. In 2021, she has started doing so again, causing Sammy to see a "Lady in the Tree" and the "bad one" and quite likely causing the family dog Biscuit to run off when she left a gate open.
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175* 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.
176* The main character of Music/{{Megadeth}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRGBi_ii3sk "Sleepwalker"]] ''kills people'' in his sleep.
177* Averting this trope is hailed as one of the few positive results of insomnia in The Go-Gos' "You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)".
178* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "[[Music/SeventyTwoSeasons Sleepwalk My Life Away]]" is written in the perspective of a sleepwalker who knows he has no consciousness when he does it.
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182* In ''TabletopGame/GURPSSupers'', one of the possible side effects of the [[PowerIncontinence "Uncontrollable"]] power limitation is that a sleeping super will activate their powers in their sleep. This is explicitly discussed as being a particular problem for [[{{Teleportation}} teleporters]], as the nature of their power makes it difficult to catch up to them and wake them up.
183* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' second edition has the Sleepwalker archetype, which allows you to enter a sort of half-sleeping trance that protects against mental attacks while still allowing you to move and act as normal. The archetype's highest-level feat, Ever Dreaming, makes it so that even being fully unconscious doesn't prevent you from being able to act, though you are heavily slowed.
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187* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' features the famous sleepwalking scene of Lady Macbeth, which demonstrates her {{Sanity Slippage}} due to guilt. She sleepwalks, [[TalkingInYourSleep sleep-talks]], and [[ScrubbingOffTheTrauma tries in vain to wash imaginary blood from her hands.]]
188* Bellini's opera ''La Sonnambula'' (The Sleepwalker) revolves around its heroine, Amina, being {{Mistaken For Cheating}} by her lover Elvino after she sleepwalks into another man's inn room. Her innocence is eventually proven when she sleepwalks across a dangerous bridge in front of the whole village, all the while [[TalkingInYourSleep singing]] about her love for Elvino.
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192* 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 due to his lack of sleep, which he attributed to worrying of the ways the raven clan settlement could be attacked.
193* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
194** Two moves, Snore and Sleep Talk, allow the Pokémon attack while under the "Asleep" [[StatusEffects effect]]. (Often done in combination with the Rest move, where the Pokémon goes to sleep on purpose to heal itself.)
195** ''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.]]
196* There's a card in the ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}'' series called Sleepwalk, which let the player choose another player in a set range and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin let them sleepwalks.]] When sleepwalking, the player can only roll the dice and move, unable to collect rents.
197* Amos from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'' turns into an enormous monster while sleeping, and doesn't know about it.
198* In ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles: 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".
199* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': Mythra sleepwalks into Rex's bed. When she wakes up, she yells at him for being in ''her'' bed, calls him a pervert and runs off. Pyra apologizes later. In the prequel, she does the same thing to Milton, only to end up [[UnprovokedPervertPayback fighting Milton]] when she wakes up. Even Addam, her driver, gets hit a few times in the confusion.
200* ''VideoGame/RoboticOperatingBuddy'': Professor Vector does this in game B. Somehow, he is able to ''climb ropes'' while doing this. You have to protect him from hazards.
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204* There's no sleep'''walking''' in ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', but lead character and dedicated rocker Zii can play "[[Music/{{Metallica}} Enter Sandman]]" [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/menage-a-3/i-was-tuning-it-for-you in her sleep.]]
205* 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]].
206* In ''Webcomic/FauxPas'', Randy grabs the tranq rifle and scares Dusk off the farm, while [[http://www.ozfoxes.net/cgi/pl-fp2.cgi?182 sleeping off a pain pill.]]
207* ''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 [[OrphansPlotTrinket 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.
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211* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
212** [[http://www.scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6234 SCP-6234]] (appropriately named "Somnambular Shenanigans"') features a sleepwalker who travels to some pretty odd locations, including Queen Elizabeth's bedroom at Buckingham Palace, the Pentagon, and even the surface of ''the Moon''.
213** [[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.
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217* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': In one video, Ian suddenly sleepwalks at night to create baked goods in a mini-oven.
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221* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Cock of the Sleepwalk" focuses on Stan sleepwalking. He ends up doing a lot of good deeds while unconscious such as adopting a dog and helping out an orphanage. This is due to Stan's subconscious feeling guilt over having killed so many people and his unconscious self does everything it can to stop his conscious self from taking another life, right when he's supposed to assassinate a dangerous criminal.
222* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', when the rest of Sector V try to keep their RoguesGallery at bay to prevent them from waking Number 1, he suddenly walks out of his room sleepwalking to use the bathroom. After getting him back to his bedroom, Number 5 exclaims that was too close to call... which makes Number 1 shout out of the room asking them to keep it down.
223* ''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.
224* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': one episode had Ed sleepwalking ''and'' sleepeating.
225* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' dealt with Phoebe trying to stop Helga from sleepwalking to Arnold's house.
226* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Professor Utonium, after being overworked in the lab, starts sleep-''shoplifting''.
227* 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.
228* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'':
229** Wilma states that every time Fred goes on a diet, he sleepwalks to the fridge.
230** In another episode, Barney sleepwalks to his fridge, and he drags Fred out of bed with him since [[ChainedHeat they're both glued to a bowling ball]]. Subverted; it turns out Barney was faking it because he was afraid to tell Fred he was hungry.
231* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX-tEBYZOvU Stewie observes Joe sleep-dragging.]]
232* Olive Oyl sleepwalks in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "A Dream Walking", while Popeye and Bluto frantically try to keep her safe.
233* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless in Ponyville]]", while scouting ahead, Scootaloo dozes off on her scooter, harkening near danger several times but only to end up landing safely in a bush a bit down the path.
234* ''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.
235* ''Franchise/{{Rugrats}}'':
236** "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]].
237** 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.
238* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
239** In "Crook and Ladder", Homer starts sleepwalking as a side effect of taking a sleep medication called Nappien. Bart takes advantage of the situation and uses Homer as his personal "zombie".
240** In "Penny-Wiseguys", Lisa has a dream fueled by her uncertainty over her new insect diet potentially violating her vegetarian beliefs. When she wakes up, she finds herself at the fridge with a drumstick in her hand, and she bemoans that she was "meat-walking" again.
241* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
242** In "[[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.
243** 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]].
244* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': In "Gekko and the Snore-A-Saurus", the PJ Masks have to handle a sleepwalking Cameron as they fight Luna Girl.
245* ''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.
246* 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.
247* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
248** "Bowl-R-Ama Drama": Phineas and Ferb literally break the record for the world's largest bowling ball in their sleep.
249** "Road Trip": Candace attempts to bust her brothers while asleep. Her parents find it adorable.
250** "Sleepwalk Surprise": Doofenshmirtz discovers he has sleep-invented a "Cake-o-Hug-o-Fetti-Inator".
251* 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.
252* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
253** "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E9SurvivalOfTheIdiotsDumped Survival of the Idiots]]" has [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick sneaking into Sandy's treedome while she is hibernating [[TooDumbToLive after they are told not to via a videotape at her front door]]. After all the antics they pull [[DontWakeTheSleeper while trying not to wake her]], they still manage to wake her up anyway. While she never fully wakes up, their antics cause her to sleepwalk in a feral state where she mercilessly beats them up when she mistakes them for "Dirty Dan" and "Pinhead Larry".
254** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS10E11FeralFriendsDontWakePatrick Don't Wake Patrick!]]", Patrick sleepwalks into [=SpongeBob's=] house, awakening the latter, then sleepwalks all over Bikini Bottom while [=SpongeBob=] tries to stop him and wake him up. Patrick eventually wakes up after stepping on a tiny pebble, then it's [[HereWeGoAgain SpongeBob himself who starts sleepwalking]], though Patrick doesn't wake him up, insisting he'll be fine.
255* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' sees ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} having to chase after ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} as she sleep-flies through the city.
256* ''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 he begins to cast spells everywhere in his sleep around Wuzzleburg.
257* 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.
258* 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.]]
259* ''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.
260* ''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.
261* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'': In the episode "Sleepytime", it's revealed that Bingo has a habit of wandering around the house whilst she's dreaming.
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265* Homicidal somnambulism -- an extreme form where a sleepwalker commits murder while asleep.
266* There have been many reports of Ambien and related drugs causing this type of behavior. People taking these drugs have eaten and/or prepared food, sent incoherent texts and e-mails, and most frighteningly, gotten into their cars and tried to drive somewhere, all while sleeping. They usually wake up with no memory of their activities.
267* There are cases of people who sleepwalk ending up naked in public, such as [[https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/naked-sleepwalker-approached-taxi-outside-11368880?_ga=2.30365119.1014696984.1659293326-589783653.1659293326 this case]] where police loaned a person their jackets to preserve "what remained of their dignity" to get them back to their hotel room.
268--> Officers were satisfied that it was a case of somnambulism, and not a dare. The person involved was grateful to the officers for their help, saw a funny side to what had happened, and even asked for a selfie with the officers (when they were fully clothed) as a memento of their unusual encounter with GMP.
269* Sharks, which must remain in motion in order to breathe, are able to "sleep-swim", resting while their bodies remain in motion.
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