History Main / FellAsleepStandingUp

* This is mentioned in ''Discworld/NightWatch'' as a skill Vimes has developed over thirty years of being a watchman, though he notes that it's a fairly poor replacement for an actual proper sleep and you shouldn't try to do it for more than a few nights in a row.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Control}}'', Yukari causes a scandal during her first year of high school when she splashed the vice principal with water. What actually occured was she was made to hold water in the hallway, but she fell asleep standing up. The vice principal noticed her and accidentally spooked her awake. Yukari accidentally splashed him with water when she awoke.

** In the N64 title and its Gamecube ports, villagers can often be found asleep outside their houses late at night or early in the morning. To make it more embarrassing, they fall asleep standing up.
** In ''New Leaf'', sometimes villagers are sleeping when you enter their house. That's all fine and dandy, except for the fact they fell asleep while standing.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': {{Ojou}} Erika is [[SleepyHead constantly falling asleep]] for no clear reason. This dates back to ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. where she falls asleep mid-sentence while sitting down. It's most pronounced in the remake ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', where upon challenging Erika she'll doze off mid-sentence, still standing up at that. A semi-popular fan theory is that spending a lot of time time around Grass-type Pokémon who know [[StandardStatusEffects Sleep Powder]] is to blame.

* Many animal, especially prey animals, can do this. It's advantageous to survival to be quick on your feet, even during rest. Horses are the most famous example but, contrary to popular belief, horses only ''nap'' standing up; they can't enter REM sleep unless they're laying down.

* On ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', [[TheDitz Psyduck]] falls asleep both standing up and with his eyes open after listening to the lullaby sung by Jigglypuff.

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* Hannelore manages this in [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=887 strip 887]] of ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'' after pulling an all night drum practice session.

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A frequent sign of a {{Sleepyhead}} or HeavySleeper is their ability to remain asleep standing up even while standing. This character has been known to fall asleep while standing up, usually on multiple occasions. This is usually PlayedForLaughs. But, a character that is so exhausted they don't have time to lay down is more likely to be PlayedForDrama (though it's still often played for comedy).

* Very much a true trope in the military, due to sometimes erratic and/or inadequate sleep schedules where someone standing watch can pass out on their feet. It also tends to elicit more empathy in others if noticed, leading to a wake up rather then being written up.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': {{Ojou}} Erika is [[SleepyHead constantly falling asleep]] for no clear reason. This dates back to ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. where she falls asleep mid-sentence while sitting down. It's most pronounced in the remake ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', where upon challenging Erika she'll doze off mid-sentence, still standing up at that.

* Various military authors, both factual and in embellished fiction, have said that if exhausted enough, it is possible for a soldier to fall asleep ''while marching''. this might be an {{Urban Legend|s}} but these tales have been related at least since the Napoleonic Wars, and [=WW2=]-based fiction by people like Sven Hassel, or Embellished Autbiography by Guy Sajer, contend this is true. in one of Hassel's novels, the theory is that it is a sort of enhanced self-hypnosis in action.

* Very much a true trope in the military, due to sometimes erratic and/or inadequate sleep schedules where someone standing watch can pass out on their feet. It also tends to elict more empathy in others if noticed, leading to a wake up rather then being written up.

* Very much a true trope in the military, due to sometimes erratic and/or inadequate sleep schedules where someone standing watch can pass out on their feet.

* This trope sometimes led to gruesome accidents in the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Industrial Revolution]], long before any sort of workplace safety protocols were established. Men and women often worked fourteen- or sixteen-hour shifts standing up manning heavy machinery, and would topple into them as they fell asleep.

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