History Main / AsleepForDays

* This happens with a bit of frequency in ''Manhwa/CielTheLastAutumnStory'', as a result of witches overusing their magic powers. Yvienne, the main character, undergoes it at least three times over the course of the series.

* It's indicated in the first ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' book that Greg's [[LazyBum older brother]] [[BigBrotherBully Rodrick]] once slept from Sunday night until Tuesday morning- he wasn't aware until that night when he was watching TV and wondered where ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' was.

* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': In ''Tempest Rising'', Tempest sleeps for two days after the fight with Tiamat and her minions.

* In the movie version of ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon|2010}}'' Hiccup wakes up several days after the final battle with Toothless watching over him. The dragon is so excited that Hiccup is finally awake that he bounds around the room and lands on Hiccup's stomach. This is funny when a five-kilo cat does it. Toothless...[[MadeOfIron is lucky not to have]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome imploded his ribcage and killed him.]]

* ''Literature/TheVazulaChronicles'': Heath is asleep for three days at the end of ''A Kingdom Submerged'', after [[spoiler:Ileana stabs him twice with a spear, he almost drowns before Merletta drags him onto Vazula's beach, and Reka carries him back to Bexley Manor in his claws]].

* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'':
** ''Fanfic/MissingSherlockHolmes'': Even after being retrieved from a gang of kidnappers, Watson still has to deal with the injuries and fever he suffered while captive. He tries to downplay how poorly he feels to avoid further upsetting Holmes, and only realizes exactly how serious his condition became after his fever spikes, causing a two-day unconsciousness and scaring Holmes half to death.
** ''Fanfic/MistakeSherlockHolmes'': Watson ends up in a coma for six weeks thanks to a grazing shot and a fall to the pavement. He remembers the incident and is shocked when Holmes tells him it's been more than a month since then.

* ''Literature/ForbiddenSea'':
** Adrianne sleeps for three days after her and Cecily's first encounter with the mermaid.
** In the second book, Sadelyn sleeps for the same amount of time after being rescued from drowning by a merman and left on the beach at Windwaithe Island.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie'' has two examples of this trope happening in the same game. The first one is when [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Lloyd Bannings]] finds out that he slept for two days at the beginning of his [[RotatingProtagonist second chapter]] after his first chapter ends where [[spoiler:he and the SSS get curb stomped by Rufus Albarea (who turns out to not be the [[CloningBlues real one]]).]] The second time happens is at the epilogue of the game where [[spoiler:the real [[BreakoutCharacter Rufus]] [[PromotedToPlayable Albarea]] wakes up a week after the final battle as he sustained numerous amounts of injuries, including burns in his body.]]

* After finishing the fourth palace in ''VideoGame/Persona5'', [[spoiler: Futaba, the ruler of said palace, due to exhaustion winds up sleeping until the deadline, which (depending on how fast you finished the palace) could be as short as a day or as long as ''three and a half weeks.'' And according to her adopted Dad Sojiro, this is apparently a ''regular occurrence.'']]
* ''VideoGame/Portal2'' [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates]] it, with Chell apparently being asleep for many years after the events of [[VideoGame/Portal1 the first Portal]]. Well, actually the computer that tells her how long she's been snoozing for glitches out, but we can clearly see that [[spoiler: the Test Chambers have become a CrapsackWorld and some [[WordofGod Word of Gabe Newell]] says that it takes place way after Portal.]]

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series

* In the movie version of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' Hiccup wakes up several days after the final battle with Toothless watching over him. The dragon is so excited that Hiccup is finally awake that he bounds around the room and lands on Hiccup's stomach. This is funny when a five-kilo cat does it. Toothless...[[MadeOfIron is lucky not to have]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome imploded his ribcage and killed him.]]

* After finishing the fourth palace in ''VideoGame/Persona5'', [[spoiler: Futaba, the ruler of said palace, winds up sleeping until the deadline, which (depending on how fast you finished the palace) could be as short as a day or as long as ''three and a half weeks.'' And according to her adopted Dad Sojiro, this is apparently a ''regular occurrence.''

* After finishing the fourth palace in ''VideoGame/Persona5'', [[spoiler: Futaba wipes out all of Medjed in a day. She's so exhausted that she sleeps until the deadline, which could potentially be weeks.]]

* Britt Reid in ''Film/TheGreenHornet'' accidentally knocks himself out after firing a pellet filled with knockout gas into his face. He ends up passing out for 11 days, and upon regaining consciousness, realized his HyperCompetentSidekick Kato had put "diapers" on him.

* Saito sleeps for three days after his first duel with Guiche in ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.

* This is how the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Ballad of Fallen Angels" ends: after a pitched battle with an old foe, Spike awakes on the sofa in full-body bandages; Faye, who's been keeping an UnbrokenVigil next to him, informs him that he's been out for three days.

* In ''[[Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro]]'', Lupin sleeps for three days after being severely wounded in a fight with the BigBad. He's distressed to find that this is the case because it means he might be too late to save the day, and demands [[HealthFood large amounts of food]] so he can get his strength back quickly.

* In ''Film/{{In Harms Way}}'', Admiral Rockwell Torrey is badly wounded in a sea battle and wakes up in a hospital ship next to his love, Maggie Haynes, as head nurse. (Who, somehow, always seems to be assigned to where he is.)

* In ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'', Crow jokes that the departure of [[Film/ThisIslandEarth Cal Meachum]] prompts Joe to sleep off his depression: "I'm gonna curl up in his sock drawer and sleep for days."

* The hero of ''Film/{{Unknown 2011}}'' wakes up at the hospital after a four-day coma stemming from a car accident.

* ''Series/GreysAnatomy''. Lexie is asleep for almost 50 hours after her hospital shooting-induced SleepDeprivation tuns into a mental breakdown that lands her in the Psych ward.
* ''Series/PerfectStrangers''. Desperate to recover from the flu so that he can go out on a date, Larry downs all of Balki's cure (a glassful), only for Balki to reveal that he was only supposed to take a teaspoon. Larry promptly passes out. When he wakes up, he declares that he feels terrific and dashes off to get ready, only to notice the Sunday paper on the table. He's shocked to realize that he's been asleep for 24 hours, and even more shocked when Balki reveals that it's Tuesday and he's been asleep for 3 days.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", a rogue Simulant zaps the Dwarfers unconscious for three weeks whilst they upgrade Starbug to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame provide a better hunt for them]].
* Used as part of a BrickJoke in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Q-Less". At the beginning of the episode, Q makes Bashir suddenly feel sleepy in order to interrupt his date with Vash. He's then absent for the rest of the episode until the final scene when he walks in commenting about how he had such a good night's sleep that "I feel as though I've been asleep for days".
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Waking Moments", aliens put the crew asleep for about two days. [[MagicalNativeAmerican Chakotay]] is the only one able to wake himself.

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* ''Fanfic/MissingSherlockHolmes'': Even after being retrieved from a gang of kidnappers, Watson still has to deal with the injuries and fever he suffered while captive. He tries to downplay how poorly he feels to avoid further upsetting Holmes, and only realizes exactly how serious his condition became after his fever spikes, causing a two-day unconsciousness and scaring Holmes half to death.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine-Levin_syndrome Kleine-Levin Syndrome]], although in this case, the cause isn't stress or injury. Rather, it is a sleep disorder characterized by persistent episodic hypersomnia and cognitive or mood changes.
* Some centenarians, particularly those who make it to 110 and over, tend to sleep for a few days at a time as they get on towards the end.

* Methamphetamine users who finally crash after being up for days have been known to sleep for several days as well.

* After finishing the fourth palace in ''VideoGame/Persona5'', [[spoiler: Futaba wipes out all of Mejed in a day. She's so exhausted that she sleeps until the deadline, which could potentially be weeks.]]

* When Kyon [[spoiler:resets the universe]] in ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', he awakens in a hospital room, having apparently been sleeping away a bad concussion for days. [[spoiler:He finds Haruhi asleep in a sleeping bag next to his bed, [[UnbrokenVigil having insisted on staying by his side the entire time]].]]

* Saito sleeps for three days after his first duel with Guiche in ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.

* Parodied in ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'', where Satan sleeps for three days and nights after fighting the Hero and finally getting an apartment in modern Japan... and then is hospitalized because he didn't eat or drink for three days.

* In ''Literature/ForbiddenSea'', Adrianne sleeps for three days after her and Cecily's first encounter with the mermaid.