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Line 12: == Anime and Manga == * Inverted by Osaka in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' , insofar as she was partially asleep at one point even when fully mobile. * ''[[Fate/stay night]]'': Despite getting 4–5 hours of sleep a night tops, ~~[[Fate/stay night\|~~Shirou]] never seems particularly impaired and even wakes up automatically at 5 am every morning. However, he's basically unique among the cast in this, with the rest basically being normal and Tohsaka [[Not a Morning Person\|on the other side of the spectrum.]] In fact {{spoiler\|his exhaustion upon waking up after sleeping with Sakura in Heavens Feel actually serves as a big warning flag that something is wrong with her. Apart from what we already know.}} * On ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', when Heero wakes up captured by OZ, he manages to somehow do so without triggering the slightest increase in his pulse or brainwaves, which keeps his captors from noticing he's woken up at all. * ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'': It's unclear if Kenshin's this trope or just a very light sleeper, but when he's on watch he rests sitting up, with his sword in his lap and his forehead resting on the hilt. Once, he heard someone sneaking up on him, started a draw with his thumb...when it turns out to be Kaoru, he drops the sword back down in relief and cuts said thumb. ** In the flashback arc, Kenshin almost slices a major character's neck when she approaches him while asleep. This actually subverts Instant Waking Skills by having Kenshin being so out of it that he almost could not identify his "attacker" in time to push her away. Just a moment more and the fully drawn katana would have drawn blood. * Zoro from ''[[One Piece]]'' has been able to go from sleeping to full-on fight mode, as seen when the Franky Family attempted to attack him while he was sleeping and he blocked the swinging sword with his own half-sheathed sword. Fans have hypothesized it's either this trope or Zoro being a light sleeper or he pretends to be sleeping to mislead people. == Comic Books == * [[Marvel Comics\|Nick Fury]] is apparently a light sleeper, being able to take out two HYDRA goons after he wakes up hearing their footsteps. == Film == Line 29 ⟶ 27: He does have trouble remembering what he saw, and it's only by the second or third dream, which all the boys share, that they gets all of the details. * Somewhat [[Truth in Television]] as keeping a dream journel increases your ability to remember your dreams. == Literature == Line 37 ⟶ 34: * [[Tortall Universe\|Aly]] tends to leap up with knives in hand when woken up unexpectedly. ** Sounds like the [[Worst Whatever Ever\|worst one-night stand ever]]. * ''[[Discworld]]'': In ~~the [[Discworld]] book~~ ''[[~~Discworld/Witches Abroad\|~~Witches Abroad]]'', Granny Weatherwax is described as having Instant Waking Skills due to her ironclad sense of self: when other people wake up, they think, "Where am I? Why am I here? Who's that in bed next to me? ''Who am I?!''" Granny skips all that. And in ''[[~~Discworld/Interesting Times\|~~Interesting Times]]'', the Bursar is so acclimated to being roused at the crack of dawn by the Archchancellor's bellows that he even skips the ''waking up'' part, getting dressed and exiting his room while he's technically still asleep. * In [[Orson Scott Card]]'s Speaker for the Dead, [[Tyke Bomb\|Ender]] takes a few seconds to become fully alert when someone wakes him up. And remembers how, back in Battle School, he would be fully alert upon being awoken. This may be [[Justified Trope\|justified]], or at least mitigated, by the fact that Battle School was military training, and Ender was raised there for a significant portion of his childhood. * Bud Not Buddy. Book' title character brags about them. Line 50 ⟶ 48: * From the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, the Aiel Wise Ones, and after receiving training, Egwene. This thoroughly annoys Suian, who cannot figure out how Egwene can don and doff sleep like a robe. == Live -Action TV ==▼ * Spoofed in ''[[Gilmore Girls]]''; after Rory joins the Powderpuffs, Lorelai wakes her up early and tells her to wear cute pajamas, put on makeup, and fix her hair before the other girls arrive to "kidnap" her for initiation.▼ ▲== Live Action TV == ▲* Spoofed in [[Gilmore Girls]]; after Rory joins the Powderpuffs, Lorelai wakes her up early and tells her to wear cute pajamas, put on makeup, and fix her hair before the other girls arrive to "kidnap" her for initiation. ** Further spoofed in a later episode, where Lorelai supposedly tried, unsuccessfully, to wake Rory before finally leaving a sticky note on her head to tell her to meet her for lunch later. * In one episode of [[MythBusters]], we learn that Jamie is a very light sleeper. We don't learn if it goes all the way to Instant Waking Skills, because Adam is too impatient to let Jamie get fully asleep. Line 59 ⟶ 56: {{quote\|'''Jeff:''' Discrimination lawsuit! '''Pierce:''' Preposterous!. }} == Music == Line 67 ⟶ 63: Dragged a comb across my head Found my way downstairs and drank a cup}} == Tabletop Games == Line 73 ⟶ 68: * The Lightsleep Talent in [[Hero System]] * In [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 3.5e; the spell ''Vigilant Slumber'' does this, but you have to set conditions for it and are limitted by what you could observe while awake. == Video Games == * The 'wake' command in ''[[Achaea]]'' takes a randomised but annoyingly long amount of time to go through, unless the player levels up in 'Survival' enough to get 'Metawake', which gives Instant Waking Skills. Characters will also wake instantly if attacked while asleep. ("The pain jerks you awake!") * In the 3D [[Super Mario (franchise)\|Super Mario Bros.]] games, Mario will go to sleep if the controls are left alone for long enough, but will instantly wake up and resume his usual running and jumping around as soon as you push something. * Wander from [[Shadow of the Colossus]]; just press a button upon resuming your game and he'll be on his feet and back to business as usual. ** [[Ico]], on the other hand, has to take a few seconds stretching and yawning when you reload a saved game, and Yorda takes a few seconds to rouse herself as well. And it's adorable. Line 84 ⟶ 78: * In [[The Sims]], Sims with a low Active stat will take roughly A WHOLE (in-game) HOUR to get out of bed, while those with a high Active stat will jump straight out. * In ''[[Fallout 3]]'' and ''New Vegas'', you can wake up any sleeping character at anytime to speak to them. After exiting the conversation, they will usually go right back to sleep. == Western Animation == Line 90 ⟶ 83: ** Played straight with Zuko in other times in the series. For instance, when falling asleep waiting for Iroh to finish a meeting, when the door opens, Zuko goes from asleep to battle ready in half a second. (Of course, at that point he'd had a certain amount of need to develop the skill.) * In the [[Tex Avery]] short ''Rock-a-Bye Bear'', a dog is house-sitting for a bear that's going into hybernation; but this bear will instantly wake up at the sound of a pin drop and pummel the dog yelling "QUIET!! SHADDUP! QUIET!!" [[Hilarity Ensues]] as a rival dog attempts to wake the bear up and steal the watchdog's job. == [[Web Comics]] == Line 98 ⟶ 90: * In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' the improbability of this trope is one of the first clues that Grace is not actually awake at the beginning of [http://egscomics.com/?date=2007-05-23 this strip] as pointed out in [http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2007-05-26 this follow up strip]. * In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', General Karl Tagon "[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-07-05 woken up by gunfire way too many times to count]". So when the mob thugs came for his neighbor, on the way out he [[Full-Frontal Assault\|didn't even grab some pants]], only an old carbine [[Break Out the Museum Piece\|hanging on his wall since forever]]. == [[Web Original]] == * In the [[Whateley Universe]], it seems like Chaka and Bladedancer both have this, due to their Ki abilities. Both of them have roommmates who do ''not'', and who gripe about it. == Real Life == Line 111 ⟶ 101: * If you wake up suddenly, you will really be fully alert for a few seconds; if you don't get up and get the adrenaline pumpin', you will get sleepy and lose the Instant Waking Skills. That's why you usually stumble slowly out of bed but can jump out of it when you're late. ** In a similar fashion, some people can ''will'' themselves awake, albeit only when planned in advance and at a similar time to when they usually get up. * Elijah Wood, according to his castmates on ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', has this ability, as well as Instant Napping Skills. The moment a take is over, if they have to reset, he'll go sit on something and be asleep instantly, and when someone says, "Elijah!" he'll instantly wake up: "Right. Scene. Here's my mark? Let's do it." Quite a handy skill for an actor. * Apparently Winston Churchill had the same knack as Elijah Wood, too. * Some anecdotes attribute this skill to [[Memetic Sex God\|Bill Clinton]], saying that he could wake up, and five minutes later be fully dressed, coiffed, and on his way to a meeting. Line 120 ⟶ 110: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes]] [[Category:Film Tropes]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]