Instant Waking Skills: Difference between revisions

== Literature ==

* [[Conan the Barbarian]] exhibits these on several occasions in the original stories by [[Robert E. Howard]] - or, to be more precise, every single time he wakes up on page.

* In ''[[Doc Savage]]'' novels, Doc could do this. Justified, in that he had been specifically trained in the ability by an aged Ubangi tribesman.

* [[Tortall Universe|Aly]] tends to leap up with knives in hand when woken up unexpectedly.

* Sayid from [[Lost]] demonstrates [[Instant Waking Skills]] when in a doctor's office - upon waking up from drug-induced unconsciousness, he immediately reaches out and begins to strangle the doctor, Jack. It takes him a few seconds to realize where he is and what he's doing. Justified, being a military man who had originally been knocked out in the middle of a fight.

* Pierce is shown to have this in ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1 E24 English As a Second Language|English as a Second Language]]. It just takes the right phrase to trigger.

'''Pierce:''' Preposterous!. }}