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{{quote|He was left with only a few simple choices: to cry out or keep his silence, to bleed to death or take his knife and end it quickly, to stay awake or fall asleep. At the moment, sleep seemed a tempting prospect. He was tired and bone-weary, fatigue pulling at his sluggish mind like an insistent friend, but he would not yield to it. He knew if he fell asleep now he would likely never awaken. Just as he knew that all these so-called choices were simply illusions. In the end, there was only one stark choice left to him now to live or to die and he refused to die.
|Mitchel Scanlon|[[Fifteen Hours]]}}
▲{{quote|He was left with only a few simple choices: to cry out or keep his silence, to bleed to death or take his knife and end it quickly, to stay awake or fall asleep. At the moment, sleep seemed a tempting prospect. He was tired and bone-weary, fatigue pulling at his sluggish mind like an insistent friend, but he would not yield to it. He knew if he fell asleep now he would likely never awaken. Just as he knew that all these so-called choices were simply illusions. In the end, there was only one stark choice left to him now to live or to die and he refused to die.|Mitchel Scanlon|[[Fifteen Hours]]}}
Humans need sleep. It is part of how are body preforms maintenance. When we are tired, we feel the temptation to sleep. However, sometimes falling asleep can be a very bad thing. This is a situation that usually tests will power. If the person passes this test, his mind and body are ''only'' denied vital maintenance, if the person fails ''something worse'' happens. Simply put, this trope is if someone falls asleep, something worse than the standard effects of loosing a single nights sleep occurs. Sometimes sleeping is punishable by death (e.g. sleeping while on watch in roman legions). Sometimes someone is in less then hospitable conditions, and if that person falls asleep, he won’t wake up. Other times its something different, sometimes falling asleep even has consequences worse than mere death.
This is a very common thing in fiction when a character has a concussion,<ref>This is '''no longer considered sound medical advice'''.
Please note that in some cases this might be a case of [[Artistic License Medicine]]. If this trope is done for medical (or maybe even environmental) reasons in the show that does '''not mean you should consider it sound medical advise. Often getting sleep helps getting better (as said above, sleep tends to provide the body and mind vital maintenance).
This is a supertrope of [[Never Sleep Again]], a [[Horror Tropes|Horror Trope]] that describes monstrous supernatural reasons for forcing oneself
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==Punishable by Death==
===Real Life===
*In the Roman Legions those caught sleeping on watch were to be killed, at least during time of war. For at least part of the existence, the execution
==Due to Injuries and/or at Inhospitable Conditions==
===Anime
* In ''[[Daily Life with Monster Girl]]'' Centorea tells Miia (who is cold blooded) that she will die if she falls asleep. This is because of the cold temperature, that Miia caused to make the new household member uncomfortable.
===Literature===
* ''[[Fifteen Hours]]'' Larn gets injured in no-man’s land and knows that if he falls asleep he almost certainly will never wake up. It also provides the page quote
===Fan
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
===Western Animation===
* This happens to Yumi in an episode of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' due to being out in a blizzard caused by XANA.
* Morty encourages Mr. Poopybutthole in ''[[Rick and Morty]]'' to stay awake after Mr. Poopybutthole is shot.
===Real Life===
* Charles Lindbergh, as recorded in his 1953 book ''[[The Spirit of St. Louis (literature)|The Spirit of St. Louis]]''. He had to stay awake or crash his plane in the Atlantic. He went from struggling, to shouting at himself to keep awake, to literally falling asleep with his eyes open (momentarily), to hallucinations. But he didn't crash.
==Other Cases==
===Anime and Manga===
* In ''[[Naruto]]'' when Gaara sleeps, the [[Sealed Inside a Person
===Music===
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