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If the Sleeper does wake up, a [[Dream Apocalypse]] might occur (even in the real world, if the sleeper in question is a [[Reality Warper]]).
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== [[Mythology]] ==
* Later addendums to the [[King Arthur|Arthurian myth]] have Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, hidden in a cave and magically kept asleep, only to be awoken when he is truly needed. Waking him up ''early'' would be a very bad plan indeed (although in that case, one wonders why Merlin apparently included a giant gong in the cave.).
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* In the ''[[Tain Bo Cuailnge]]'', Fergus notes that ''nobody'' dares to wake Cu Chulainn when he's asleep - the last man who tried found his forehead smashed all the way into the back of his skull.
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