Why should Mikoto sleep in her own bed when Mai is softer?
Two characters find themselves in a There Is Only One Bed situation. They awake the next morning to discover that at least one, or possibly both of them are clinging to each other in bed.
Might involve a case of What Did I Do Last Night?. If at least one of the characters was inebriated it could involve a Bedmate Reveal and/or Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality.
It can be particularly embarrassing if one of the parties involved Sleeps in the Nude. Such a character will also often, for comedy purposes, be The Shameless, and ironically be the least concerned about their current situation when they wake up.
It might also serve as a dose of Ho Yay/Les Yay.
May overlap with Sleep Cute. It can result in a degree of Ship Tease, as well. This is particularly true if one party had climbed into bed with the intent of having the other person cling to them.
Usually happens to couples, or possible couples, but non-romantic versions also exist, particularly with a Cuddle Bug. May or may not be Played for Laughs if the characters hate each other in their waking lives or present a tough persona that would not allow cuddling. The Slapstick variant is Sleep Squashing, where a smaller character gets Squashed Flat by the bigger one.
Compare Suggestive Collision and Accidental Kiss. Subtrope of Accidental Hug.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Ai Yori Aoshi: Aoi climbs into Kaoru's futon with him. When he questions her about this, she states that he clung tightly to her in his sleep, which makes her very happy.
- Azumanga Daioh: When the girls get the photos back from their first summer vacation together, Kaorin, who was unable to attend, is horrified to find a picture of Tomo sleeping in the same futon as, and clinging tightly to, a sleeping Miss Sakaki. When asked why (Kaorin has an unrequited crush on Sakaki), all Tomo can offer by way of explanation is that she tends to cling to things in her sleep. When Kaorin further demands to know why, Tomo shrugs and says there's no real reason.
- Chained Soldier: Nei is shown to be this, when yuuki was sharing the same room with unit 7.
- Delicious in Dungeon: Befitting her catlike nature, despite her standoffishness while awake, Izutsumi likes having someone to share body heat with in her sleep.
- Fate/stay night: Coupled with a Bedmate Reveal, after the battle with Berserker, Shirou wakes up in his futon being lectured by Saber, only for them both to hear a request to keep it down. Shirou pulls back his covers to find Illya clinging to him. Rin is not amused when she learns of this.
- Goblin Slayer: Downplayed. After the titular character is nearly killed, he wakes in bed. He is about to get up when he feels a tug and turns to see a naked Priestess holding onto his arm. He gently extricates himself from her grip and covers her with a blanket.
- In Grave of the Fireflies, Seita pulls Setsuko up close to him while he is sleeping to comfort her when she cries, waking their increasingly irritable Aunt. Later in the film, when the siblings have sought refuge in a disused bomb shelter, Seita once again pulls Setsuko up close to him after she has fallen asleep but she quickly tags on to this and gently kicks him off.
- My-HiME: The anime and manga each play this their own way.
- (Anime): One episode actually shows a time-lapse of Mikoto leaving her own bed, climbing into Mai's, and glomming onto her. Comments by Mai suggest this is a daily occurrence.
- (Manga) After it's revealed that Yuuichi is Mai's Key (and Natsuki's), he is made to share a dorm room with Mai and Mikoto. He is then subjected to the sight of Mikoto glomming tightly to Mai, to the point she's about to inadvertently expose a sleeping Mai's boobs to Yuuichi. Yuuichi begs someone to get him out of there. Natsuki obliges.
- Negi Springfield, the protagonist of Negima! Magister Negi Magi has trouble sleeping alone so he would often crawl into the bed of his cousin Nekane without thinking. When he stays with Asuna and Konoka, he'd often sneak into her bed since she bears a resemblence to Nekane. Being an Ecchi series, Asuna often ends up half-naked from the encounters and displeased with Negi.
- Squid Girl: Squid Girl will often cling to Eiko's bare leg with her tentacles in her sleep. Once this resulted in them somehow trading spaces between the bed and the floor, with Eiko firmly in Squid Girl's tentacles, the sleeping cephalopod mistaking Eiko for a delicious shrimp and attempting to chow down.
- To Love Ru: Mikan begins to climb into her brother Rito's bed at night to keep Pretty Freeloader Momo from doing so. Unfortunately for Mikan, Rito is a clingy sleeper and grabs onto her rump talking about finding a big soft marshmallow. She pinches his hand hard to make him release her, at which point he declares that the marshmallow bit him.
- Usagi-chan de Cue!!: After Haru has taken the bunny-girl Mimika into his home, she insists on sleeping in Haru's bed with him. This is normal for rabbits, who sleep huddled in a group to conserve warmth and to alert everyone to danger. As Mimika cuddles Haru, she reverts form to Inaba Mikami, an asocial Action Girl with a troubled past. It's out of character for Inaba to cuddle anyone; that she continues to cuddle next to Haru reveals that, despite her "shinigami" reputation, she secretly longs to belong with someone. Haru can only stroke her hair as she switches between Mimika and Inaba forms.
- Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!: Sakurai seems prone to do this whenever she falls asleep near Uzaki. One time, during a vacation trip, he grabs her when she's about to take a photo of him while he sleeps, and uses her as a body pillow. Later, he falls asleep during a mid-class break at college and she lies next to him and falls asleep too. A few minutes later they're found by Sakaki and a few other students who watch them sleep while Sakurai holds Uzaki by the waist.
- WATATEN!: an Angel Flew Down to Me: Hinata loves Mya-nee so much, she will cling to her like a tick every time they sleep together. Because it is impossible to tell who else is on the bed while asleep, that means Hinata will cling like a tick to whoever is sleeping in the same bed as her.
Fan Works
- The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan: After Twilight suffers from a major psychological nightmare, Nova lets her sleep in his bed for the night. When he wakes up, she's clung so hard to one of his hooves that he can't feel it anymore.
- Harry Tano: A familial/platonic version. Ahsoka, shortly after coming to Earth by accident and deciding to take in the four-year-old Harry, wakes up one morning to find that he snuck into her bed and his hugging her.
- Once Upon a December Night: The Turtles, as little kids, often slept in a pile in the living room during the winter (since they were more sensitive to cold than Splinter). April, after being adopted into the family, gets in on it too (with Splinter noting that she and Donatello are holding hands as they sleep). The Turtles insist, however, that they are not "cuddling", they're "huddling for warmth".
- True Potential: In the omake from Chapter 17, Kurotsuchi decides to prevent Shikamaru from sleeping during an entire night as a revenge for when he declined to play a card game with her earlier that day. The next morning, Naruto walks into the room and sees the two of them sleeping, with Shikamaru underneath the covers and Kurotsuchi on top of them while also cuddling each other. The Uzumaki then leaves the room and grins while thinking about having found "the perfect blackmail". This is followed by Shikamaru and Kurotsuchi waking up and, after realizing their current position, agreeing that this never happened.
Films — Animated
- At one point in The Incredibles, Dash awakens to find he had been sleeping on top of his sister Violet, and apparently snuggling her too, to which he quickly pulls away from her and gags in disgust.
Films — Live-Action
- Tremors. Valentine and Rhonda are trapped together on a rock by a Graboid and have to spend the night there. When Valentine wakes up in the morning they're nestled together. He quickly scrambles away and when she wakes up she doesn't realize that they were together.
- Neal and Del of Planes, Trains and Automobiles find themselves waking up in a cuddling position after being forced to share a single-bed motel. No Yay quickly ensues when they take stock of the situation:
Neal: Del... Why did you kiss my ear?
Del: ...Why are you holding my hand?
Neal: Where's your other hand?
Del: Between two pillows.
Neal: ...THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!
*both men leap from the bed in horror* - The Sure Thing: After bickering throughout the movie, including on who gets the bed, Gib and Allison thaw enough in their relationship to sleep in the same bed together. When Gib wakes up, he notices he has his arm around Allison, and he immediately jumps up, swearing he didn't try anything. Unlike before, Allison doesn't seem to mind.
Literature
- Gate: Tuuka will deliberately climb into Itami's bed in the buff and cling to him. This is during a time when she's under the delusion that he's her father. Itami is generally asleep when she does this, so during that time he wakes to find her clinging to him.
- Otherside Picnic: In one instance, Sorawo, Toriko, Kazakura, Akari, and Natsume all have a party at a Love Hotel together. After some supernatural intervention from Otherside, the five of them wake up to find themselves all naked and intertwined, and with Sorawo having no memory of what took place. They all agree to just write it off as something weird that happened and not bring it up ever again.
Live-Action TV
- Arrested Development: Buster is kicked out of his mother's apartment and forced to stay with Michael, and Michael discovers Buster is not only this trope, but also has a penchant for sleep-humping.
- The Big Bang Theory: After the group attends Penny's Halloween party, Raj wakes up to find himself in the grip of one of Penny's sleeping friends. He tries to free himself from her grip at first, but after a moment decides that he's in bed with a not-unattractive young woman who is holding him, and shrugs and goes back to sleep.
- In Farscape episode 1.06 "Thank God it's Friday... Again", Crichton and Zhaan find themselves in a There Is Only One Bed situation and, at John's insistence (Zhaan is from a culture that is much more relaxed about nudity and physical contact) sleep on opposite sides of the mattress. When they wake up, John has snuggled up to Zhaan, and she is amused by his embarrassment.
- In Friends episode 7.06 "The One With The Nap Partners", Ross and Joey fall asleep watching TV and wake up snuggling each other. Ross is horrified and wants to forget it ever happened; Joey, on the other hand, enjoyed it and pressures Ross to do it again.
- The O.C.: After spending the night at a hotel in Tijuana, Ryan and Marissa end up in a cuddling position, his arms around her while she's cuddled into his side. Marissa is already awake and makes no move to roll away from the sleeping Ryan.
- In an episode of Two and a Half Men right after Walden bought the late Charlie Harper's Malibu house, and got drunk with Alan in an effort to forget his ex-wife, the two woke up the next day lying on the same deck chair naked and cuddling. Berta told them they'd gone skinny dipping the night before.
Video Games
- Happens one-sidedly in Final Fantasy XIII between Vanille and Sazh. Vanille set up a line between them before they went to sleep and told Sazh not to cross it. A short while later, it was Vanille herself who crossed the line and hugged Sazh from behind while she was asleep. However, this was done to show Vanille secretly being lonely rather than any romantic hints.
Visual Novels
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Happens one-sidedly between Mikan Tsumiki and Hajime Hinata. When tired, Mikan seems to have a tendency of getting into bed without checking if it is already occupied, and then cuddling suggestively with possible occupants. Later, when awake, she will compound any possible Not What It Looks Like scenarios by describing it as "sleeping together" or "spending the night together". It's implied that — much like her suggestive tripping — she does this on purpose out of a perverse need for attention.
Web Animation
- V&U Entertainment: According to Echo, while the two were on vacation in November of 2023 and sharing a room, Meeta was very clingy.
Web Comics
- Prequel: Katia and Quill-Weave share a bed. Katia is excited for a Slumber Party with her new friend, but Quill-Weave clearly feels awkward for several reasons, including the revelation that she is attracted to women. She huddles to one side of the bed with no intention to touch Katia. But when Katia wakes (from a Catapult Nightmare) she finds Quill-weave sprawled gracelessly across her, almost slumping out of the bed. Katia admits it's endearing but not romantic.
- Questionable Content: Marten and Claire go back to their hotel room drunk after a wedding reception, collapse on the same bed, and end up cuddling
in the night. They initially pretend not to have noticed, but both he and she dwell on it afterwards, and it contributes to their Relationship Upgrade later.
Claire: I didn't, like, grab your butt or anything, did I?
Marten: Nah, I checked in the morning and the tamper-proof seal was still intact. - Sinfest: Whenever Fuchsia naps with Criminy, she tends to cling to him affectionately. Not that Crim ever seems to mind. Seen in this Sunday strip.
Western Animation
- Total Drama: In "The Big Sleep," Noah and Cody fall asleep next to each other and end up spooning, with Noah even kissing Cody's ear in his sleep. They both scream in humiliation upon waking up, and Noah does not live down the fact he kissed a dude on television. As a Call-Back in the Celebrity Manhunt special next season, Noah ends up with his head on Cody's lap when the cast falls asleep.
