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{{quote|''In the terminal she sleeps on my shoulder

 

A [[Ship Tease]] shot of two characters—the [[Official Couple]], [[Just Friends|the official not-a-couple]], or just two of the [[Shipping|shippers]]' [[One True Pairing|favorites]]—sleeping together. They're fully clothed, probably in a public place in broad daylight, one's head pillowed on the other's shoulder, chest, or possibly [[Lap Pillow]]. They were just very tired, or sitting through something that was really, ''really'' boring. Perhaps their group was attacked or some magic backfired, and they were knocked unconscious and landed in just the right position.

 

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* Judai and Asuka of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'' wake up like this after the group is teleported back to Earth in a first season episode. ''cough''*[[Ship Tease]]*''cough''

* ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' makes use of this trope at the end of Fuko's arc, where Tomoya and Nagisa end up sleeping side by side as you see in the page image. Of course, they're the [[Official Couple]].

** Non-romantic example in the ''[[Pokémon 4Ever|Pokémon 4 Ever]]'' movie, Pikachu and Celebi [http://media.photobucket.com/image/pikachu%20celebi/MistyKasumi/pikachu-celebi.jpg do this]. (Awwwwwwwwwww).

** Another Mons example, [http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/orange/106ps8.shtml Pikachu falls asleep on Meowth] while he's [[The Philosopher|waxing philosophical]]. Awwwwww~!

* This happens to [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] Kei and Yuri from ''[[Dirty Pair Flash]]'' in the beach volleyball episode, when they're exhausted from another day of [[Training from Hell]].

* ''[[My-HiME]]''

* Aya and Tooya of ''[[Ayashi no Ceres]]'' fall into this trope as they ride a train back home. Cue the news that {{spoiler|Aya is pregnant}}, and fangirls go "[[Squee]]eeeee!"

* Happens in [http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa248/taelor_mcclurg/page053.png this] ''[[Houkago Play]]'' 4koma.

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''

** Lithuania, exhausted from being overworked by his boss Russia, unintentionally falls asleep on a couch only to wake up to find himself beside Russia, who ''for once'' is in a genuinely good mood and gently asks him about what he's been dreaming of.

** Still in ''[[Hetalia Bloodbath 2011]]'', Italy sleeping with his head on [[Lap Pillow|Germany's lap]]. Aww.

** Also in ''[[Hetaween 2011]]'', where [[Little Miss Snarker|Wy]] falls asleep and [[Boisterous Bruiser|Australia]] carries her home on his back.

* ''[[K-On!]]''

* The final episode of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]] Kai'' has a very cute scene of Rika and {{spoiler|[[Not-So-Imaginary Friend|Hanyuu]]}} sleeping together. Combined with what they do upon waking up (namely {{spoiler|[[It Makes Sense in Context|turning the calendar to July 1]]}}), this becomes a major [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].

* An episode of ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' had the main five falling asleep in a heap in the locker room after a particularly tiring game. Yes, the [[Ho Yay]] fangirl [[squee]]s could be heard across the globe.

* The [[Beach Episode]] of ''[[Yotsuba&!]]'' ends with a panel showing the entire group slumped into each other, asleep, on the train back home. There's an extra "The End" panel showing that Koiwai has slid onto the floor...

* In the 2nd ED of ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'', Yoite and Miharu. They may not actually be an [[Official Couple]], but... hey, fun with [[Ho Yay]]!

* In episode 5 of ''[[Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru]]'', Yuki wakes up to find Luka sleeping on his shoulder.

* Subverted in the ''[[Akira]]'' manga. Yes, {{spoiler|Kaori}} looks sweet and peaceful when she sleeps with her head on {{spoiler|Tetsuo}}'s lap, but then we see that {{spoiler|Tetsuo is in extreme pain and his arm is mutating again.}}

** Miki throughout the first quarter of the show

** All the girls (except the ones that are part of the Ryuugu Komachi unit) after the end of their first live.

 

* In a non-romantic example, [[Spider-Man]] and [[Spider-Girl]] get a father-daughter version of this. It's even sweeter in context, having come after an issue where they spent most of their time bickering at each other before reuniting an Ex-Villain and his daughter.

* More literal version with Hardball seeing Komodo reverts to human form when she's asleep, and consequently is cute when she sleeps. Though she also [[No Ontological Inertia|doesn't have legs]].

* This happens, of all places, in a ''[[Sin City]]'' story. Miho, the resident [[Dark Action Girl]], falls asleep on the lap of Dwight McCarthy In the story ''Family Values''. This is sandwiched between scenes in which Miho carves up an entire mob family.

 

* ''[[Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past]]'': The [[True Companions|Gryffindor Six]] each get one in Chapter 22.

* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1793757/5/SWKOTOR_Destinys_Pawn_Book_4_Kashyyyk Destiny's Pawn]'' has it in the Kashyyyk chapter. The entire party is holed up in Jolee's cabin for the night. Bastila notices the sleeping arrangements of Kairi (Revan), Mission, and Carth with dismay.

{{quote|Bastila struggled for sleep, but found it would not come. Across the fire pit, she saw Kairi sleeping between Mission and Carth. The Twi'lek girl and Kairi were face-to-face, Mission's blue hand clasping Kairi's. Poor girl. Bastila knew she was deeply hurt by the loss of her constant companion, and there was little doubt that being alone and asleep in Taris's Lower City was a gamble at best. As for Carth, he had fallen asleep on his stomach, one arm flung around Kairi's shoulders. With a muffled grumble, he shifted to his side and used one arm as a pillow. He wasn't spooning with Kairi... yet... but his hand sleepily groped around until he found Kairi's and Mission's, and topped their hands with his. As much as he claimed he trusted no one during the day, he could hold no secrets in sleep. He already had bonded to them, perhaps irrecoverably. What else could go wrong with this assignment? }}

* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in ''[[Total Drama Battlegrounds]]'' when Joel and Daisy cuddle together in their sleep. The others tease them in the morning about it, while they say it has nothing to do with romance. Sure enough, they both wind up paired with other people.

* Shinji and Asuka at the end of ''[[Evangelion]] [[RE-TAKE]]''. It's a very minimalistic example, since their fingers are only barely touching the other's, but for them, it's an extremely meaningful show of affection.

 

* In ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'', Gylfie and Digger fall asleep under Soren's wings on a tree branch.

* [[Super Speed|Dash]] and Violet do this in ''[[The Incredibles]]''. Dash leaps off rather quickly when he wakes up, however, since he's at the [[Girls Have Cooties]] age and because Violet's his sister.

* In ''[[Oliver and Company]]'', Oliver (the eponymous kitten) snuggles up next to Dodger (a dog) who earlier didn't want anything to do with him. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Dodger lets him.]]

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children]]'', Cloud and Tifa sleep curled together in a bed of flowers in Aerith's church. Of course, this is because {{spoiler|Tifa has been knocked unconscious by Loz and Cloud has terminal geostigma}}, but it's still sweet to the point of hyperglycemia.

* In the ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'' [[The Movie|movie]], Lizzie and Gordo fall asleep this way on the way to Rome early on. Gordo eventually awoke and realized the situation, but realised he didn't mind and went back to sleep.

* Early in ''[[It Happened One Night]]'', Ellie sleeps on Peter's shoulder during a bus trip. Later, he says to her: "Remember me? I'm the fellow you slept on last night."

* Holmes falls asleep against Watson in the [[Guy Ritchie]] ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' movie, after spending the night in a prison yard. [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Make of that]] [[Ho Yay|what you will...]]

* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' does it [[Ho Yay|adorably]] with Danny Butterman and Nicholas Angel.

** Ron and Hermione are sleeping next to each other, with their hands lying so they appear to be reaching out for each other.

** Tonks and Lupin are posed like this as they're {{spoiler|lying dead}} in what's left of the hospital wing.

* Happens twice in ''[[Leap Year]]''. First when Anna spends the night on a bench with Declan as they wait for the bus (him sitting upright, she with her head in his lap and his coat serving as the [[Comforting Comforter]]). When they finally catch said bus, it happens yet again with her head resting on his shoulder.

* Used in ''This Gun For Hire'', gaining plot-relevance when the sleepers are seen and mistakenly linked together by a third character.

 

* This shows up in ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]'' of all places, between Jonathan and Mina. D'aww.

* In ''[[The Plucker]]'', the two protagonist dolls (living dolls; some are creepy, some are not; the book is illustrated) are shown at the end asleep leaning on one another.

* Occurs in ''[[Mary Russell|The Beekeeper's Apprentice]]'', during the [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]] stage of Sherlock Holmes's friendship with Mary Russell, and Watson makes this observation when the two fall asleep in a carriage, leaning against each other.

* Conway Costigan and Clio Marsden in [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Lensman|Triplanetary]]''. They later marry.

* From Book 4 of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'':

{{quote|We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back...}}

 

* In the American version of ''[[The Office]]'', Pam falls asleep in this exact pose on Jim's shoulder during one of the interminable conference room meetings. Even though he's had a rotten morning and lost his main sale of the year, this little gesture from Pam is enough to let him decide that he's had a pretty good day.

* Happened entirely by accident in private to Ross and Joey in ''[[Friends]]''. After concluding that it was the best nap both had ever had, and that [[Not That There's Anything Wrong with That|it didn't mean anything]], they voluntarily do it again... and woke up after the rest of the group had been staring at them for several minutes.

* Mike and Amanda in the ''[[Supah Ninjas]]'' episode "Detention". Turns out she's a drooler.

 

* The Everly Brothers song "Wake Up Little Susie".

* The album art of "Brain Thrust Mastery" from We Are Scientists.

* As evidenced by the page quote, [[Vienna Teng]]'s ''Recessional''.

 

 

* Engelbert Humperdinck's opera ''Hänsel und Gretel'' has this when the children go to sleep in the woods for the night.

 

* ''[[Resident Evil]]''

** [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/ResEvil1/Update%2058/67-gameover25.jpg Chris and Jill] at the end of the first one.

** Claire and Steve when their plane goes to Antarctica in ''[[Resident Evil Code: Veronica]]''.

* It is possible to invoke one of these in ''[[Persona 4]]''. When Rise (who, along with Yukiko, may or may not be drunk at the time) drags everyone into a party game. Choosing the right option will result in Rise sleeping with her head in the main characters lap.

* The end of ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' with Yuri and Alice. {{spoiler|It's cute in the happy ending; they wake up and smile at each other. In the [[Canon]] ending, he wakes up and realizes she's dead.}}

* In ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]]'', 9-year-old Haruka falls asleep with her head in [[Badass|Kazuma]]'s lap while riding in the back seat of a car. That in itself is cute enough, but in ''Yakuza 2'', there is a [[Shout-Out|similar scene]] where Kazuma falls asleep with his head in Haruka's lap.

* Lynch and his fiancée Xiu at the start of ''[[Kane and Lynch|Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days]]''. This serves to make it more poignant when she's {{spoiler|killed by [[Complete Monster|Hsing]]}}.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: [[Crisis Core]]'': At the inn in Nibelheim, right before the big event and {{spoiler|Sephiroth's big ''[[Face Heel Turn]]''}}, Cloud and Zack stay up late talking and then fall asleep in adjacent beds. Shippers, start your engines.

 

* ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'': In the Visual Novel (unlike the anime example above), Fuuko and Tomoya. And then Tomoya wakes up alone. The nicest bit is when Tomoya's {{spoiler|made to remember Fuuko afterward}}, and finds she's been {{spoiler|invisibly following him around since then.}}

* ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' has [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Rin and protagonist Hisao fall asleep next to each other on the day of the festival, at the end of Act 1, if you manage to get her route. This is especially amusing considering [[Foreshadowing|she had earlier asked Hisao]] if he enjoyed [[Beautiful Dreamer|watching girls sleep]].

 

* [[Scandinavia and The World]]: [http://satwcomic.com/bed-buddies Happens] [http://satwcomic.com/bedtime-drama twice] with Norway and Denmark. But it comes naturally with all the [[Ho Yay]].

* ''[[Megatokyo]]''

** The comic has this go [http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=185 very wrong, very quickly]. [[Groin Attack|There. Is. No. God.]]

** And again more recently: [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1536 Awwww].

* ''[[Terinu]]'' plays with this, with Leeza and Rufus asleep in a ship's brig, Rufus sitting up and Leeza using his lap as a pillow and his tail for a blanket. ''Awww...''

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''. For nearly everyone, but particularly Grace.

* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'': The Light Warriors look so adorable while sleeping together that their would-be assassins [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/02/12/episode-1093-night-of-murder/ can't go through with killing them.] But it's not gay, [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/02/07/episode-1092-the-rule-of-three/ because there's three of them.]

* For Kat and Art of ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'', it ends up as an [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=214 awkward position].

* ''[[Sinfest]]'''s [[Cute Bookworm|Criminy]] and [[High Heel Face Turn|Fuchsia]] do this plenty of times under the tree they read and stargaze together under. Including almost the entirety of [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209164252/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4191 this Sunday strip].

 

* Ulrich and Yumi of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' fall asleep together during an all-night programming session at the Supercomputer.

* Kim and Ron of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' fall asleep together during a boring field trip lecture during the [[All Just a Dream]] episode and share said dream.

* In the ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' episode "[[The Legend of Korra/Recap/B1/E03 The Revelation|The Revelation]]", Mako and Korra fall asleep this way while staking out Republic City Park, and wake up with hasty awkwardness when they realize the position they're in.

 

* Mated pairs of otters do this on purpose. Because they sleep floating on their backs in the water, they'll anchor themselves to any convenient seaweed with one front paw and hook the other around their mate's so they won't drift apart while they're sleeping.

* In [[Real Life]] close friends may sometimes use each others shoulders as a pillow. Don't assume they're a couple though; it might turn out that they actually ''are'' [[Just Friends]] and would find it a bit weird to think otherwise. However, couples also do this.

 

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[[Category:Romance Arc]]

[[Category:Love Tropes]]

[[Category:Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes]]

[[Category:Turn-On Tropes]]