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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.
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'''. In fact trying to keep someone with a head injury be awake was more about diagnosis than as a way of treating someone that you ''know'' has a concussion and the extent of the problem. As such, the necessity of this might be a case of [[Artistic License Medicine]]. '''Sleep is an important part of recovering from a concussion''' and keeping a patient awake is '''not''' part of the current preferred medical practice.</ref> and a great opportunity for other characters to plead for the injured to "stay with me!"
This is a very common thing in fiction when a character has a concussion,<ref>This is '''no longer considered sound medical advice'''. '''Sleep is an important part of recovering from a concussion''' and keeping a patient awake is '''not''' (necessarily) part of the current preferred medical practice. If the patient can hold a conversation and doesn't have dilated pupils or other symptoms, he or she should be allowed to sleep. (according to https://www.marshfieldclinic.org/news/cattails/2014-winter-cattails/Medical-myth-busters-concussions at least)</ref> and a great opportunity for other characters to plead for the injured to "stay with me!"


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).'''
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).'''
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