Basic Trope: Using magic or superpowers in one's sleep.
- Straight: Alice can turn into a dog, and one night she wakes up as a dog, having turned into one in her sleep.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice has twenty powers and uses all of them in her sleep.
- Every character with powers uses them in their sleep.
- Alice's powers require her to be asleep.
- Downplayed: Alice grows dog ears in her sleep.
- Justified: We can move and talk in our sleep, so it's not that big a stretch that Alice could shape-shift in her sleep.
- Inverted: Alice has laser vision and it's only not working when she's asleep.
- Subverted: We see a dog who looks like Alice in dog form waking up, but it turns out to be a real dog.
- Double Subverted: ...Who also had powers and teleported in his sleep.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged:
- Averted:
- Alice does not have powers.
- Alice does not use her powers in her sleep.
- Alice doesn't need to sleep.
- Enforced: "We need more comedy centring on Alice's powers".
- Lampshaded: "Alice, you're sleep-morphing again!"
- Invoked:
- Exploited:
- Defied:
- Discussed: "What if I turn into a dog in my sleep or something?"
- Conversed: "So, that character can turn into a dog? I wonder if she ever does it in her sleep?"
- Implied: Alice can turn into a dog and a dog that looks like Alice in dog form is seen in her bed.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Alice is a young girl who can create water. When she uses this power in her sleep at a sleepover, her friends think she's wet the bed.
- Alice is levitating in her sleep. Bob suggests waking her, but Carol says, "No— never wake a sleep-levitator!".
- Played for Drama: Alice feels incredibly guilty after accidentally landing Bob in the hospital after using her fire powers in her sleep.
- Played for Horror: Alice has a Superpowered Evil Side that breaks free whenever she falls asleep. Cue the Never Sleep Again plot.
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