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{{trope}}
[[File:Tanya's nap get's interrupted.jpg|thumb|400 px|link= Saga of Tanya the Evil]]
Anyone who knows how the human body handles sleep knows that being woken up suddenly isn't pleasant, and it takes a while to adjust. Not so in Hollywood. In a lot of movies and other works of fiction, characters who are suddenly woken from bed seem to be on full alertness as soon as they get out of bed. Guess they must have '''Instant Waking Skills'''.
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== 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,
* 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 ==
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** 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 ==
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* [[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
** And in ''[[
* 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.
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* 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.
* 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.
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== Music ==
* [[Rebecca Black]] has this in the beginning of her "Friday" video.
* Implied by the lyrics of the middle eight of "A Day In The Life" by [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]:
{{Quote|Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
== Real Life ==▼
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup}}
* The Masai warriors were legendary for being able to go from asleep to battle ready within seconds.▼
* Just for fun, [[Schmuck Bait|try grabbing a Marine by the throat]] while he is asleep and then once you recover try to figure out how long it took him to wake up and hand you your ass. Sometimes it happens before they are fully awake. Of course, that is only if the Marine doesn't kill you to begin with.▼
** In line with that, ANYBODY who was ever in boot camp can attest to having or developing instant waking skills.▼
*** In addition to [[Hell Is That Noise|Reveille,]] there's just no sound quite like the heels of your [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]'s boots [[Oh Crap|softly padding towards your bunk]].▼
* 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 ''[[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.▼
* This is not an uncommon skill among doctors, picked up during residency when they had to work those 36-hour hospital shifts (now only slightly reduced). In order to get the job done, they'd have to learn to be able to wake up immediately at the sound of the pager *and* be able to think clearly enough to prescribe correct dosages of medicine.▼
* Sailors also tend to be able to do this. When you're on watch, you're on watch, and someone can call all hands any hour of the night.▼
** And ten minutes into anchor watch you're starting to conk out again because it's so damned dull. Well, until it isn't.▼
* If you wake up at the right point in your sleep cycle, you pretty much have these. An alarm clock app exists for smartphones that uses an accelerometer to calculate how deeply asleep you are and wake you at the optimum point.▼
== Tabletop Games ==
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* 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.
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* 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 ==
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** 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]] ==
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': Dr. McNinja has these (and such intense combat reflexes that his sidekick is terrified of actually waking him up), it is explained that when your mother tries to stab you in your sleep all the time, certain instincts are developed.
* ''[[Looking for Group
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' seems to have this at play, too; the Kids (and the Trolls) have both physical bodies (which lived on their home planet, prior to entering the Medium) and 'dream selves' (which lived on Prospit or Derse). Switching from physical to dream (or vice versa) requires that you fall asleep in order to wake up in the other mode. The waking part seems to happen quite quickly, so long as your dream self has awakened to begin with.
* 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 ==
▲* The Masai warriors were legendary for being able to go from asleep to battle ready within seconds.
▲* Just for fun, [[Schmuck Bait|try grabbing a Marine by the throat]] while he is asleep and then once you recover try to figure out how long it took him to wake up and hand you your ass. Sometimes it happens before they are fully awake. Of course, that is only if the Marine doesn't kill you to begin with.
▲** In line with that, ANYBODY who was ever in boot camp can attest to having or developing instant waking skills.
▲*** In addition to [[Hell Is That Noise|Reveille,]] there's just no sound quite like the heels of your [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]'s boots [[Oh Crap|softly padding towards your bunk]].
▲* 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.
▲* This is not an uncommon skill among doctors, picked up during residency when they had to work those 36-hour hospital shifts (now only slightly reduced). In order to get the job done, they'd have to learn to be able to wake up immediately at the sound of the pager *and* be able to think clearly enough to prescribe correct dosages of medicine.
▲* Sailors also tend to be able to do this. When you're on watch, you're on watch, and someone can call all hands any hour of the night.
▲** And ten minutes into anchor watch you're starting to conk out again because it's so damned dull. Well, until it isn't.
▲* If you wake up at the right point in your sleep cycle, you pretty much have these. An alarm clock app exists for smartphones that uses an accelerometer to calculate how deeply asleep you are and wake you at the optimum point.
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