Basic Trope: A character who has sleeping troubles.
- Straight: Andrew rarely gets enough sleep to function throughout the day.
- Exaggerated: Andrew has a one-in-a-million mutation of insomnia that makes falling asleep physically impossible, leading to insanity, dementia, and ultimately death.note
- Downplayed: Andrew gets a few hours less than a normal person does, but it doesn't have a noticeable effect on his health.
- Justified:
- Andrew has insomnia.
- Andrew has a terrible sleeping schedule.
- Andrew suffers from anxiety and cannot shut his brain down in a timely manner.
- Andrew's job requires him to work very late (or maybe even only at night), so he doesn't get a lot of time to sleep.
- Inverted: Andrew has hypersomnia, so he sleeps a lot more than usual.
- Subverted: Andrew is actually The Sleepless.
- Double Subverted: See Exaggerated.
- Parodied: Andrew is so tired that he cannot even get out of bed unless his wife physically pries his mouth open and pours coffee into it."What would I do without you?"
"Literally nothing, sleepyhead." - Zig-Zagged: Sometimes Andrew sleeps well, other times he's awake all night.
- Averted: Andrew does not have sleeping problems.
- Enforced: The writer has insomnia and wants his viewers/readers to understand what it's like.
- Lampshaded:Bob: How much sleep did you get last night, Andrew?
Andrew: (half-asleep) T-two hours...? I don't know.
- Defied: Andrew takes sleeping pills.
- Implied: We see Andrew tossing and turning in his bed. The scene cuts to morning, and he looks like death warmed over.
- Deconstructed:
- Andrew's sleeplessness takes a huge toll on his health, both mentally and physically.
- Andrew develops a severe dependence on (and subsequent addiction to) caffeine.
- Andrew's job performance falters due to his lack of sleep, and he accidentally makes a huge mistake that gets him fired.
- Reconstructed:
- Andrew decides to cope with his insomnia and try sleeping anyway.
- Andrew decides to drink caffeine only when he needs to.
- Andrew decides the job wasn't worth it anyway, he just needs to sleep.
