History Main / BedtimeBrainwashing

* The villain of the first ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' movie did this to Liz, resulting in Liz burning the entire asylum.

* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'': [[http://www.mangareader.net/337-23554-11/historys-strongest-disciple-kenichi/chapter-48.html Watch it here]]. Kenichi's martial artists masters use the Command version of this in the attempt to convince Kenichi to accept the TrainingFromHell they want to give him to prepare for an opponent he was having trouble with. The actual attempt doesn't work though.

* Momoko tries this twice on Koushi in ''Manga/SumomoMoMomoMo''. The first time, she inadvertently wakes him up and dramatically creeps him out. The second time, she replaces [[SleepLearning his educational tapes]] with phrases that she wants him to say to her. The hilarity ensues when Iroha chooses that night to try to assassinate Koushi. He somehow dodges an expert ninja ''in his sleep'', restrains her, and then repeats the lines that Momoko recorded... several of which were blatant and lewd requests for sex. Iroha, not realizing ''why'' Koushi said those, instantly undergoes a HeelFaceTurn and becomes a RomanticRival to Momoko.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Micro Managing" (DC issue #68), the Micro-Puffs (three troublemaking sprite avatars of the girls brainwash Bubbles and Buttercup in their sleep into thinking she is the leader of the Powerpuffs. It doesn't work on Blossom as she's already the leader. When Bubbles' and Buttercup's Napoleon complexes don't subside, Blossom seeks [[EnemyMine help from Mojo Jojo]] in turning the tide.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Micro Managing" (DC issue #68), the Micro-Puffs (three troublemaking sprite avatars of the girls brainwash Bubbles and the Buttercup in their sleep into thinking she is the leader of the Powerpuffs. It doesn't work on Blossom as she's already the leader. When Bubbles' and Buttercup's Napoleon complexes don't subside, Blossom seeks [[EnemyMine help from Mojo Jojo]] in turning the tide.

* 'WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Micro Managing" (DC issue #68), the Micro-Puffs (three troublemaking sprite avatars of the girls brainwash Bubbles and the Buttercup in their sleep into thinking she is the leader of the Powerpuffs. It doesn't work on Blossom as she's already the leader. When Bubbles' and Buttercup's Napoleon complexes don't subside, Blossom seeks [[EnemyMine help from Mojo Jojo]] in turning the tide.

* A variation of this happens, albeit accidentally, in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''. Dexter goes to bed wearing a device on his head that plays a vinyl record, so as to teach him French lessons as he sleeps. However, the [[BrokenRecord record skips and repeats]] "Omelette du Fromage" (cheese omelet) all night, and that ends up being the only thing he's able to say for the rest of the episode.

* The ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Jukebox Jon" had Jon trying to hypnotize himself in his sleep into not biting his nails with help of a special device in order to appeal himself to a comic book executive who despises said habit. However, it backfires when Garfield accidentally breaks the record that was playing on the device, so he substitutes it with some Spanish records and old 50's records instead. {{Hilarity Ensues}}.

* Episode 6 of ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' has Ruby do this to Weiss. [[spoiler:Not only does it work, it's later revealed she did this to Yang and Blake!]]

* In ''[[Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck The Dream of a Lifetime]]'', the Beagle Boys have used one of Gyro Gearloose's inventions to invade Scrooge's dreams to acquire the combination to his vault, and Donald is sent in to stop them. The triplets weaponize this trope to help Donald and Scrooge from the outside, though all of their attempts fail: banging mugs together to sound like horses galloping makes it rain mugs in the dream instead of making horses appear, and making banging sounds to summon a gun instead summons a drumset. Then they use the smell of Scrooge's Goose Egg Nugget, which makes him start dreaming about his days as the King of the Klondike...

* Done intentionally in ''Discworld/SmallGods''; a king wants to become learned without actually taking the time to read anything, so Didactylos suggests having slaves whisper bits of knowledge in his ear while he sleeps.
-->"Did that work?"\\
"Don't know. The third slave stuck a six-inch dagger in his ear. Then after the revolution the new ruler let me out of prison and said I could leave the country if I promised not to think of anything on the way to the border. But I don't believe there was anything wrong with the idea in principle."

* In the ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'' episode "The Understudy," Clarissa tries to evoke this when she suddenly has to go on as Mabel in her school's production of ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance''. She records all her lines and lets the recording play while she sleeps, thinking she can memorize the part this way. Unfortunately, she dreams about performing not only ''Pirates'', but ''Theatre/PeterPan'', ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' and ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'', and when she tries to recite her lines the next day, she keeps randomly inserting lines from the wrong plays.

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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', "A Jorb Well Done". Coach Z keeps mispronouncing the word "job", and all Homestar's attempts to correct this fail. Eventually, Strong Sad loans Coach Z a tape of himself saying "job" hundreds of times, and tells Z to listen to it as he sleeps. The next morning, Coach Z has no trouble saying "job"... but he can no longer pronounce Homestar's name.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "The Big Cheese", Dexter tries to prepare for a French test by inventing a device that plays an instructional record while he sleeps. However, the record ends up skipping and repeating the phrase "Omelet du fromage", which limits Dexter's vocabulary to only the phrase.

* In the ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'' episode "The Understudy," Clarissa tries to evoke this when she suddenly has to go on as Mabel in her school's production of ''Theater/ThePiratesOfPenzance''. She records all her lines and lets the recording play while she sleeps, thinking she can memorize the part this way. Unfortunately, she dreams about performing not only ''Pirates'', but ''Theatre/PeterPan'', ''Theater/RomeoAndJuliet'' and ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'', and when she tries to recite her lines the next day, she keeps randomly inserting lines from the wrong plays.

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--->'''Artie's Voice''': He's a loser Marge... dump him! (''Singing'') I've travelled the world, and the seven seas... [[ParanoiaFuel I am watching you through a camera]]!

** And PlayedForLaughs at the end of "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons The Ziff Who Came To Dinner]]", where he sends Marge a gift that's supposed to help her sleep through Homer's snoring.

** In the episode "Bart's Friend Falls in Love", a side plot has Marge buying Homer subliminal sleep-learning tapes on weight loss. However, they're all out of them, so the company sends him a vocabulary-building tape instead, and Homer becomes superlatively verbose. When he gets on the scale one day and realizes he's gained weight, he throws the tape out, and before long, he can't even remember basic words like 'spoon'.

* ''The War With Mr. Wizzle'', the children's novel by Creator/GordonKorman. The girl students try to change the behaviour of teacher Gloria Peabody by playing tapes telling her to be nice while she sleeps. Unfortunately they just make Peabody even crankier because she's not sleeping properly.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "The Big Cheese", Dexter tries to prepare for a French test by inventing a device that plays a record that can teach him. However, the record ends up skipping and repeating the phrase "Omelet du fromage", which limits Dexter's vocabulary to only the phrase.