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{{trope}}
Did you know what waking up a [[Sleepwalking|Sleepwalker]] will cause severe shock, and even
Well... no, that's not actually true - it's an old wives' tale that still persists despite scientific evidence to the contrary. However, in TV-land, no one has heard this update (and some media predate this myth being busted) and will continually dance around whatever strange or frightening behaviors the sleeper exhibits.
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To add insult to injury, the sleepwalker will often walk right into bed, and wake up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed while their companion collapsed from exhaustion.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Daisy Duck once had to race ahead of her somnambulist boyfriend [[Donald Duck|Donald]] to remove obstacles out of his way, which considering he was doing gravity-defying tricks such as climbing up walls, was quite a feat.▼
* Bluto and [[Popeye]] had to [[Enemy Mine|join forces]] to save Olive Oyl from herself in "A Dream Walking", especially once she wandered into a construction site.▼
* One ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short involved a Fox disguising itself as a Guard Dog using this trope to smuggle chickens out, counting on the real Guard Dog's fear of causing him to his advantage.▼
** Another, "The Unbearable Bear" featuring Sniffles the Mouse, involves a policeman chasing a burglar in his own home, but both parties trying to stay quiet because the policeman's wife is sleepwalking. Though it's more because they're both afraid of what she'll do to them if she wakes up.▼
* In ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'', Bernard will refuse to awake Dr. Fred because he has heard it is very bad to wake up a sleepwalker.▼
* In ''[[Girls Next Door]]'', [[The Phantom of the Opera|Erik]] advises [[Labyrinth|Sarah]] not to wake Christine when she finds her sleepwalking toward his room for some late-night music lessons. Sarah dryly informs him that modern science has disproved that notion, then makes him promise to forget the potential trauma and just [[Brick Joke|dump a bucket of cold water on her]] if he ever finds her sleepwalking toward Jareth's room.▼
* In ''[[Power Pack]]'', the children bring Franklin back to Avengers Mansion after witnessing the Morlock Massacre. When the adults find out about this, Franklin claims he was sleepwalking, and the other children say that they didn't wake him because it would be dangerous.
* One ''[[Archie Comics|Archie]]'' comic has Jughead, for some unexplained reason, sleepwalk through almost all of his entire school day. To avoid waking him up, the teachers give all of their students tests. During lunch, Jughead stays asleep but eats the food off of everyone's trays. He eventually wakes up when the school bell rings, suffering from no ill effects. The other students aren't very happy.▼
* In ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', one of the wizards says that his grandmother always claimed that if you woke a sleepwalker their legs would fall off. A more skeptical wizard asks "How many times did she see it happen?"▼
{{quote|"[[Butt Monkey|The Bursar]] sleepwalks most nights, you know."<br />▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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* One of the play modes in the old NES game ''[[Gyromite]]'' involves moving pistons up and down to protect a sleepwalking scientist.▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Averted in ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'': Susan finds Orson standing on her front lawn naked and muttering to himself. Once she figures out he's sleepwalking, she slaps him awake.
▲* One ''Archie'' comic has Jughead, for some unexplained reason, sleepwalk through almost all of his entire school day. To avoid waking him up, the teachers give all of their students tests. During lunch, Jughead stays asleep but eats the food off of everyone's trays. He eventually wakes up when the school bell rings, suffering from no ill effects. The other students aren't very happy.
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* In ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'', Bernard will refuse to awake Dr. Fred because he has heard it is very bad to wake up a sleepwalker.
▲* One of the play modes in the old NES game ''[[Gyromite]]'' involves moving pistons up and down to protect a sleepwalking scientist.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* In ''[[Girls Next Door]]'', [[The Phantom of the Opera|Erik]] advises [[Labyrinth|Sarah]] not to wake Christine when she finds her sleepwalking toward his room for some late-night music lessons. Sarah dryly informs him that modern science has disproved that notion, then makes him promise to forget the potential trauma and just [[Brick Joke|dump a bucket of cold water on her]] if he ever finds her sleepwalking toward Jareth's room.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* Daisy Duck once had to race ahead of her somnambulist boyfriend [[Donald Duck|Donald]] to remove obstacles out of his way, which considering he was doing gravity-defying tricks such as climbing up walls, was quite a feat.
▲* Bluto and [[Popeye]] had to [[Enemy Mine|join forces]] to save Olive Oyl from herself in "A Dream Walking", especially once she wandered into a construction site.
* ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'':
▲** One
▲** Another, "The Unbearable Bear" featuring Sniffles the Mouse, involves a policeman chasing a burglar in his own home, but both parties trying to stay quiet because the policeman's wife is sleepwalking. Though it's more because they're both afraid of what she'll do to them if she wakes up.
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