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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]].

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

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

== Theater ==

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

== Video Games ==

** 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.

== Visual Novels ==

* ''[[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]].

== Web Comics ==