History Main / NeverWakeUpASleepwalker

* One of the play modes in the old NES game ''{{Gyromite}}'' involves moving pistons up and down to protect a sleepwalking scientist.

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* This was the main plot point of the ''TheAngryBeavers'' episode ''[[Recap/TheAngryBeaversE26FoodOfTheClods FoodOfTheClods]]''.

* Daisy Duck once had to race ahead of her somnambulist boyfriend [[DonaldDuck Donald]] to remove obstacles out of his way, which considering he was doing gravity-defying tricks such as climbing up walls, was quite a feat.
* Bluto and {{ComicStrip/Popeye}} had to [[EnemyMine join forces]] to save Olive Oyl from herself in "A Dream Walking", especially once she wandered into a construction site.
* One ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' short involved a Fox disguising itself as a Guard Dog using this trope to smuggle chickens out, counting on the real Guard Dog's fear of causing him to his advantage.
** Another, "The Unbearable Bear" featuring Sniffles the Mouse, involves a policeman chasing a burglar in his own home, but both parties trying to stay quiet because the policeman's wife is sleepwalking. Though it's more because they're both afraid of what she'll do to them if she wakes up.
* In ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', Bernard will refuse to awake Dr. Fred because he has heard it is very bad to wake up a sleepwalker.
* In ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'', [[ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]] advises [[{{Labyrinth}} Sarah]] not to wake Christine when she finds her sleepwalking toward his room for some late-night music lessons. Sarah dryly informs him that modern science has disproved that notion, then makes him promise to forget the potential trauma and just [[BrickJoke dump a bucket of cold water on her]] if he ever finds her sleepwalking toward Jareth's room.
* In ''PowerPack'', the children bring Franklin back to Avengers Mansion after witnessing the Morlock Massacre. When the adults find out about this, Franklin claims he was sleepwalking, and the other children say that they didn't wake him because it would be dangerous.

* One of the play modes in the old NES game ''{{Gyromite}}'' involves moving pistons up and down to protect a sleepwalking scientist.

* One ''[[ArchieComics Archie]]'' comic has Jughead, for some unexplained reason, sleepwalk through almost all of his entire school day. To avoid waking him up, the teachers give all of their students tests. During lunch, Jughead stays asleep but eats the food off of everyone's trays. He eventually wakes up when the school bell rings, suffering from no ill effects. The other students aren't very happy.

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* In ''SecondhandLions'', when Walter tries to wake his sleepwalking great-uncle Hub, his other great-uncle Garth pulls Walter's hand back and says, "Don't. Last time I tried to wake him he nearly tore my head off."

* in ''SecondhandLions'', when Walter tries to wake his sleepwalking great-uncle Hub, his other great-uncle Garth pulls Walter's hand back and says, "Don't. Last time I tried to wake him he nearly tore my head off."

* Bluto and {{Popeye}} had to [[EnemyMine join forces]] to save Olive Oyl from herself in "A Dream Walking", especially once she wandered into a construction site.

* One ''Archie'' comic has Jughead, for some unexplained reason, sleepwalk through almost all of his entire school day. To avoid waking him up, the teachers give all of their students tests. During lunch, Jughead stays asleep but eats the food off of everyone's trays. He eventually wakes up when the school bell rings, suffering from no ill effects. The other students aren't very happy.

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* One ''MerrieMelodies'' short involved a Fox disguising itself as a Guard Dog using this trope to smuggle chickens out, counting on the real Guard Dog's fear of causing him to his advantage.

* In RealLife, the myth originally began from the belief that soul separates from the body during sleep, and awoken sleepwalker would wake up separate from their soul, potentially with all kinds of horrible results. While the myth has been debunked in practice several times over, it does still apply in situations where a sleepwalker ends up in dangerous locations, like an edge of the roof, in which case the shock may well end up killing them, albeit indirectly, as they stumble in panic.

Did you know what waking up a [[{{Sleepwalking}} Sleepwalker]] will cause severe shock, and even DEATH to the person?

* In ''DayOfTheTentacle'', Bernard will refuse to awake Dr. Fred because he has heard it is very bad to wake up a sleepwalker.

* In ''GirlsNextDoor'', [[ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]] advises [[{{Labyrinth}} Sarah]] not to wake Christine when she finds her sleepwalking toward his room for some late-night music lessons. Sarah dryly informs him that modern science has disproved that notion, then makes him promise to forget the potential trauma and just [[BrickJoke dump a bucket of cold water on her]] if he ever finds her sleepwalking toward Jareth's room.

* In ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', one of the wizards says that his grandmother always claimed that if you woke a sleepwalker their legs would fall off. A more sceptical wizard asks "How many times did she see it happen?"

* Bluto and {{Popeye}} had to [[EnemyMine join forces]] to save Olive Oyl from herself in one short, especially once she wandered into a construction site.

* In ''PowerPack'', the children go back to the Baxter Tower. When the adults find out, Franklin claims he was sleep walking, and the other children say that they didn't wake him because it would be dangerous.

* Bluto and {{Popeye}} had to join forces to save Olive Oyl from herself in one short, especially once she wandered into a construction site.

Did you know what waking up a Sleepwalker will cause severe shock, and even DEATH to the person?

Never mind that the Sleepwalkers half the time tend to wander off into pretty dangerous situations completely unawares, where one would think that waking up the person would be much less dangerous then risk slipping up and letting that one Crocodile eat them.

!!Examples

* In ''GirlsNextDoor'', [[ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]] advises [[{{Labyrinth}} Sarah]] not to wake Christine when she finds her sleepwalking toward his room for some late-night music lessons. Sarah dryly informs him that modern science has disproved that notion, then makes him promise to forget the potential trauma and just [[BrickJoke dump a bucket of cold water on her]] if he ever finds her sleepwalking toward Jareth's room.

* Bluto and {{Popeye}} had to join forces to save Olive Oyl from herself.

* In ''DayOfTheTentacle'', Bernard will refuse to awake Dr. Fred because he has heard it is very bad to wake up a sleepwalker.

==Examples==

* Pluto and {{Popeye}} had to join forces to save Olive Oyl from herself.
* One Merrie Melodies Short involved a Fox disguising itself as a Guard Dog using this trope to smuggle chickens out, counting on the real Guard Dog's fear of causing him to his advantage.