Basic Trope: A character regularly sleeps somewhere that isn't a bed, by choice.
- Straight: Alice has a bed, but she tends to sleep in the bathtub instead.
- Exaggerated: Beds exist, but nobody uses them.
- Downplayed:
- Alice sleeps in a sleeping bag on the floor.
- Alice sleeps in a hammock.
- Alice usually sleeps in bed, but sleeps in the bathtub when she's feeling adventurous.
- Alice sleeps in a chair when her back acts up but prefers a bed otherwise.
- Justified:
- Alice is just eccentric.
- Alice likes to take a bath first thing in the morning and believes sleeping in the tub is efficient.
- Alice isn't used to beds because she was brought up in a place with no beds.
- Alice is a vampire and likes the bathtub because it's a narrow space, similar to a coffin.
- Alice is an anthropomorphic cat and sleeping in weird places is one of her cat traits.
- Alice tends to fall asleep while browsing TV Tropes.
- Alice has a serious preference for her privacy and sleeps in very unconfortable locations to stave off Clingy Sleepers.
- Inverted:
- Animals like cows and sheep sleep in beds.
- Alice uses her bed for all kinds of unusual purposes.
- Subverted: Alice is seen sleeping in the bathtub but it turns out that she just has visitors and there's nowhere else for her to sleep.
- Double Subverted: Ordinarily, she'd sleep on the couch.
- Parodied: ???
- Zigzagged: Alice fluctuates between sleeping in bed, in the bathtub, on the couch, in a hammock, in a box, on the ground outside, and in a chair.
- Averted:
- Alice sleeps in bed.
- Alice doesn't need to sleep.
- Enforced: The writers added this to make Alice more interesting.
- Lampshaded: "Why do you even have a bed, Alice?"
- Invoked: Alice decides to try sleeping in the bathtub to see what it's like.
- Exploited: There Is Only One Bed, but that's not a problem because Bob can take the bed while Alice takes the tub.
- Defied: "No way I'm ever sleeping anywhere other than a bed."
- Discussed: "I went to use the bathroom at Alice's house and she was sleeping in the tub!"
- Conversed: "What's that show where the lady sleeps in the tub?"
- Implied: A blanket and pillow are seen in Alice's bathtub.
- Deconstructed: One morning, Alice wakes up to Bob using the toilet, embarrassing them both.
- Reconstructed: She remembers to hang a "Do not disturb" sign on the bathroom door.
- Played for Laughs: At bedtime, Alice says that she needs to "hit the bathtub".
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