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The best way to underline that a character has just been through a particularly harrowing experience is to have them wake up in a bed and be told that they've been
There is a kernel of [[Truth in Television]] to this, as recovery from any particularly grievous injury or sickness (or simply fatigue) can occasionally demand [[Deep Sleep|tens of hours of sleep]]. Sometimes writers can get a little [[You Fail Biology Forever|off mark]] though, unceremoniously describing characters as having slept for weeks or months on end when such long periods of unconsciousness would most likely get a person admitted to an intensive care unit for coma treatment in [[Real Life]]. Even if a character isn't literally unconscious the entire time but was merely bedridden or delirious, they would require extensive rehabilitation due to muscle atrophy before they were able to chase the Big Bad across the world or spring back into action defeating the evil vizier's mooks in hand-to-hand combat again. A person who cleanly awakens from this without the benefit of a nursing staff and a bedpan is certainly invoking the trope of [[Nobody Poops]].
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