History Main / SuperingInYourSleep

* ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' had a short comic based on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' called "Poof Spoof", in which the Genie keeps casting magic in his sleep, accidentally transforming Aladdin and Abu in amusing ways.

* The main premise of ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'' is that the fairy-like [[SentientPhlebotinum Lums]] have turned into evil Hoodlums thanks to the influence of the black Lum Andre. However, since Lums only turn into evil black lums if they were touched by Andre or spooked, this begs the question of what turned Andre [[MonsterProgenitor the original black lum]], evil. In a flashback, it's revealed that it was actually [[spoiler:Rayman's [[FloatingLimbs Floating Limb]] hands]], which wandered off while he was asleep and scared a Red Lum so bad that it turned into a black lum, thus explaining Andre's origins.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'' short "[=#SuperSleeper=]" revolves around Supergirl flying all over Metropolis in her sleep with Batgirl trying to keep her out of danger and is unable to wake her up.

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Thunder Breathing user Zenitsu Agatsuma is often far too afraid to fight most demons he encounters. When one [[NiceJobFixingItVillain gleefully describes]] what he's going to do to him, Zenitsu is promptly scared unconscious. [[spoiler: Then he rises and dispatches the demon quickly.]] Promptly waking up and assuming he'd been saved by a nearby civilian.
* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The reason Spider-Man got rid of his [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote]] costume, to begin with, was that it took him out to fight crime while he slept.

* ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet:'' Dr. Morbius keeps his anger and jealousy in check while awake, but when he's asleep...

* ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'': June Moone accidentally unleashes Enchantress in her sleep, allowing the latter to escape captivity and cause the whole movie's plot to set in motion.

* Creator/DeanKoontz's novel ''Literature/TheBadPlace''. Frank Pollard has a problem: he uses his power of {{Teleportation}} while he's asleep. Even worse, he suffers a TeleportationMisfire effect that causes a TeleporterAccident: he regularly merges materials into his body when he teleports.
* In ''Literature/TheCloakSociety,'' it's fairly common for telekinetic protagonist Alex to wake up to find everything in his room thrown out of place.

* ''Literature/LilithsBrood:'' Jodahs has bouts of PowerIncontinence as his {{Biomanipulation}} powers develop during his species' equivalent of {{puberty|Superpower}}. They're worst in his sleep, when he regularly mutates himself and any organic matter he's touching -- a problem, since their entire village is a single OrganicTechnology organism.

* Near the end of the Russian sci-fi novel ''Literature/MoonRainbow'', protagonist Andrey Tobolsky discovers that he is no longer a regular human after waking up in the middle of the night and finding himself floating comfortably two meters above his bed. He then proceeds to turn electronics on and off with his mind and to walk through a wall, just to test out what else he can do now.
* In ''Literature/{{Touch|2017}}'', James' TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening comes when he has a FlashbackNightmare about [[RapeAsBackstory being raped]]. The result is that he wakes up [[{{Flight}} floating]] over his bed.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime:'' {{Discussed|Trope}} when Mat learns that Rand can channel the One Power -- a dangerous ability [[GenderRestrictedAbility for any man]]. One of his fears comes from an {{urban legend|s}} of a male channeler who pulverized his surroundings in his sleep, so Perrin sarcastically suggests that they share a bed for safety. It's later revealed to be impossible to sleep-channel except for a few dream-related abilities.

* In episode one of the 90s ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', Sabrina levitates over her bed while she's asleep.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "The Alternate", an unknown gas affects the changeling Odo. When Odo is regenerating (i.e. sleeping), he unknowingly transforms into a different sort of changeling, only this "Mr. Hyde" version is mindless, reacting according to Odo's current emotional state. It takes a few attacks for everyone to figure out what's going on. Odo even investigates the attacks committed by his other self.

* TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} darklord Ivana Boritsi is cursed to take on the appearance of a venom-ravaged corpse when she sleeps, betraying her nature as a PoisonousPerson.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has the moves Snore and Sleep Talk, which can only be used while the {{mon}} is asleep. Snore inflicts direct damage to the enemy and has a 30% chance of making the enemy to flinch, while Sleep Talk attacks using one of the Pokemon's up to three other moves randomly.

* The main premise of ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'' is that the fairy-like [[SentientPhlebotinum Lums]] have turned into evil Hoodlums thanks to the influence of the black Lum Andre. However, since Lums only turn into evil black lums if they were touched by Andre or spooked, this begs the question of what turned Andre [[MonsterProgenitor the original black lum]], evil. In a flashback, it's revealed that it was actually [[spoiler: Rayman's [[FloatingLimbs Floating Limb]] hands]], which wandered off while he was asleep and scared a Red Lum so bad that it turned into a black lum, thus explaining Andre's origins.
* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': [[spoiler:Silver's]] unique magic, [[spoiler:due to its DreamWalker nature]], can only be used during sleep.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has a particularly odd episode where [[HeroicDog Jake]]'s RubberMan powers caused his tail to stretch out of the house and live a weird double life while he is sleeping.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' short "[=#SuperSleeper=]" revolves around Supergirl flying all over Metropolis in her sleep with Batgirl trying to keep her out of danger and is unable to wake her up.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' episode "Superdoo", Doofus Drake's first brush with the strange powers granted by an alien rock he found occurs while he's asleep. He flies out of the cabin while asleep and wakes up flying over the countryside.
* PlayedWith in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents:'' In one episode, guilt about [[AssholeVictim getting Vicky arrested]] for something that he did causes Timmy to "sleep wish," generally for things random or dangerous. Unfortunately, Cosmo and Wanda are required to grant them anyway.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In the season 2 episode "The Grand Surrender", Ash accidently uses her powers in her sleep while she has a nightmare in which she is fighting the Serpent God Werthrent. She ends up blasting a hole in the room of her wall, and Nightfall has to wake her up to prevent further damage.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterByMistake:'' After getting fed up with the annoying antics of school bully Billy, Tracy accidentally casts a spell in her sleep the following night that turns him into a giant blue gorilla.

** The whole episode "Sleep Spells" is dedicated to this trope. Star is constantly casting spells in her sleep with Marco trying to find out why. It turns out she is doing it to protect herself from Princess Smooshy, a fugitive from St. Olga's Reform School who is trying to steal Star's face to ([[PaperThinDisguise extremely poorly]]) disguise herself.
** In the season 3 episode "Sweet Dreams", Star discovers she's been "dipping down" in her sleep, and travelling between dimensions in her Mewberty form. When her sleep-portaling starts to prove dangerous in "Night Life", she spends the episode "Deep Dive" trying to get to the bottom of the mystery.
** As a minor gag, "Jannanigans" opens with Tom sleeping over at Marco's house and floating over the bed.
* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Kitty Pryde's phasing powers first manifest in her sleep as she has a nightmare. She falls from her bedroom to the basement. Her parents want to pass it off as sleepwalking, until they see her blankets, half in and half out of the ceiling.

** Gems [[TheSleepless don't have to sleep]], and the one time Pearl is known to have in "Chille Tid", her MentalPictureProjector powers unknowingly shows everyone her dreams.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman'' plays this for horror. Peter goes to sleep one night, then puts on the black suit to go out and fight the Sinister Six. Through the entire fight, Peter is dead silent, shows unusual abilities, and nearly kills Doc Ock before Captain Stacy orders him to stand down. Then he goes home and back to bed, wakes up, and wonders where all the bruises came from....at which point it's revealed that Peter was still asleep through the whole fight, and the Symbiote [[PeoplePuppets took his body out for a joyride]] and snapped some photos while it was at it.

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': Kyle Rayner stopped wearing his ring to bed after his dreams about his dead girlfriend began manifesting in the real world.
* The reason ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' got rid of his [[{{ComicBook/Venom}} symbiote]] costume, to begin with, was that it took him out to fight crime while he slept.

* ''Anime/CardCaptorSakura'' has an episode where after receiving a magicked New Year fortune from Eriol, she dreams that she activates her magic wand and morphs the Dream Card from a Clow Card to a Sakura Card. She then wakes up and finds that she has activated her wand and transformed the Dream Card while asleep.

* Creator/DeanKoontz's novel ''Literature/TheBadPlace''. Frank Pollard has a problem: he uses his power of {{Teleportation}} while he's asleep. Even worse, he suffers a TeleporterMisfire effect that causes a TeleporterAccident: he regularly merges materials into his body when he teleports.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', shortly after being exposed to [[ILoveNuclearPower Bang-Baby Gas]], Static goes to sleep. His body then starts magnetically attracting every metal object in his room, with some of it stuck to him when he wakes up.

** The title character has several PsychicPowers, almost all of which requite him to be asleep. Like all of his powers, he discovers them accidentally. One episode has him [[DreamWalker Dream Walk]] into Kiki's mind each night, while another has him [[GrandTheftMe possess Lars' body]] until his own is woken up.

* ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' had a short comic based on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' called "Poof Spoof", in which the Genie keeps casting magic in his sleep, accidentally transforming Aladdin and Abu in amusing ways.

* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi:'' After Ami tries to get a good night's sleep with a sleep spell, it's discovered that sleep-keeping is possible, pulling [[spoiler:General Jadeite]] to be a teddy bear, and pulling [[spoiler:him]] back, if they manage to get away.
* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum:'' ''Triptych:''
--> Dream-casting: a sign that a unicorn had pushed herself past her limits to the point where the subconscious took over and started implementing designs of its own.

* ''Film/SuicideSquad2016:'' June Moone accidentally unleashes Enchantress in her sleep, allowing the latter to escape captivity and cause the whole movie's plot to set in motion.

* In ''Literature/{{Touch2017}},'' James' TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening comes when he has a FlashbackNightmare about [[RapeAsBackstory being raped]]. The result is that he wakes up [[{{Flight}} floating]] over his bed.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Phase has phased through matter while in his sleep before.

* ''Series/RaisingDion'': Besides PowerIncontinence, this is one of the problems Dion faces when his superpowers first begin to manifest.

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* Although it doesn't happen in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', this is [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-752-mitten-rx/ one of the worries]] Sidney exposes to her therapist after she starts having post-traumatic nightmares: She reminds the doctor that she has the equivalent of a very powerful laser cannon always [[ClingyMacGuffin floating at hand]] and she doesn't want to fire it accidentally by lashing out in her sleep. Dr. Frost helpfully prescribes [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pair of mittens]].
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the first time Elliot [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2010-08-20 casts]] his SuperGenderBender spell is while he is asleep dreaming of being a superhero and wakes up transformed.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' had a particularly odd episode where [[HeroicDog Jake]]'s RubberMan powers caused his tail to stretched out of the house and live a weird double life while he was sleeping.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Superdoo", Doofus Drake's first brush with the strange powers granted by an alien rock he found occurs while he's asleep. He flies out of the cabin while asleep and wakes up flying over the countryside.
* PlayedWith in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents:'' In one episode, guilt about [[AssholeVictim getting Vicky arrested]] for something that he did causes Timmy to "sleep wish," generally for things random or dangerous. Unfortunately, Cosmo and Wanda are required to grant them anyway.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In the season 2 episode " The Grand Surrender", Ash accidently uses her powers in her sleep while she has a nightmare in which she is fighting the Serpent God Werthrent. She ends up blasting a hole in the room of her wall, and Nightfall has to wake her up to prevent further damage.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil:''
** The whole episode "Sleep Spells" is dedicated to this trope. Star is constantly casting spells in her sleep with Marco trying to find out why. It turns out she was doing it to protect herself from Princess Smooshy, a fugitive from St. Olga's Reform School who is trying to steal Star's face to ([[PaperThinDisguise extremely poorly]]) disguise herself.

** The title character has several PsychicPowers, almost all of which requite him to be asleep. Like all of his powers, he discovers them accidentally. One episode had him [[DreamWalker Dream Walk]] into Kiki's mind each night, while another had him [[GrandTheftMe possess Lars' body]] until his own was woken up.

* ''WesternAnimiation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree'': When Twilight has a nightmare about Midnight Sparkle, it causes her to start levitating her bed and everything around it, only letting go when she wakes up and Sunset points out what she's doing.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has the moves Snore and Sleep Talk, which can only be used while the {{mon}} is asleep. Snore inflicts direct damage to the enemy and has a 30% chance of making the enemy to flinch, while Sleep Talk attacks using one of the four attacks randomly.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Izuku briefly suffers from night terrors where he is explicitly shown [[spoiler:the creation of One For All by its first wielder]], waking up to find that he has accidentally wrecked his own room in his sleep.