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In some cases this is done between people who are not necessarily lovers, to comfort someone who is weeping or injured.
In Japan, if they're ''really'' close, the sitter is [[Ear Cleaning|cleaning out]] the layer's ears with a
Compare [[Holding Hands]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', er... [[Loads and Loads of Characters|some guy]] does this with his Aes Sedai girlfriend after the battle to {{spoiler|cleanse ''saidin''}}.
* In ''[[The Witch of Blackbird Pond]]'', Kit's cousin Mercy is in love with John Holbrook. Kit eventually discovers that despite previous confusion, John returns Mercy's feelings, and debates whether to tell Mercy the truth {{spoiler|after they believe him dead}}. Before she gets the chance, however, the door opens to reveal John—who wordlessly stumbles across the room to drop to his knees and put his head in Mercy's lap.
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** And then it happens again nine books later in ''Ghost Story'', but this time he {{spoiler|wakes up (after being resurrected) on [[God Save Us From the Queen|Mab's]] lap}}. [[Oh Crap]].
== [[Live
* In a flashback scene at the end of an episode of ''[[Monk]]'', it is revealed that Trudy Monk would put her feet up on the coffee table (the sole reason why that piece of furniture is crooked in an apartment of perfect right angles) so Adrian could put his head in her lap.
* On ''[[Dexter]]'', when Lila and Dexter share a hotel room, he ends up falling asleep with his head in her lap after a breakdown following a confrontation with his mother's murderer.
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== [[Theater]] ==
* [[Hamlet]] lays his head in Ophelia's lap—and proceeds with a string of [[Double Entendre]]s about what else he might lay in her lap, including the trope namer for [[Country Matters]].
* Reportedly Douglas Spedden slept in his Nanny's lap like this while in the lifeboats of the ''[[Titanic]]''.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has had this happen a few times. {{spoiler|If you count passing out, that is. The puking is usually optional.}}
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' had Roy's mom offer to let him do this while she reads him his favorite bedtime story from when he was a kid after he meets her in Celestia. Due to his mother's appearance having reverted to her teenage years, he doesn't take up the offer.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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'''Joker:''' (sounding genuinely confused) What makes you say that? }}
== [[Real Life]] / [[Truth in Television]] ==
▲* Reportedly Douglas Spedden slept in his Nanny's lap like this while in the lifeboats of the ''[[Titanic]]''.
* [http://www.mukkamu.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/japan_lap_pillow_01-1.jpg This is an actual real life pillow in Japan.] The one meant for women is a male torso with an arm extended in a way that the woman would sleep under that arm.
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