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8	[[caption-width-right:190:Apparently this girl breathes helium rather than oxygen.]]
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10	->'''Greaper:''' He's sleeping.\
11	'''Dry Bones:''' Boy, he sure is.\
12	'''The Big Boo:''' Check those bubbles coming out of his nose!
13	-->-- '''The 3 Musty Fears''', ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]''
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15	A trope particularly common in Japanese media and works that imitate it directly. When sleeping, a character, whose primary thrust is comedic, develops a bubble of snot from one nostril that inflates and deflates in sync with their breathing or their snoring, especially if the character chooses to fall asleep during a very inappropriate time (usually during class or while studying). Basically the anime equivalent of the '[[CatchingSomeZs Zzz]]' used in Western cartoons and comics. While usually considered a [[{{Squick}} pretty gross concept]] in the West, Japanese media tends to portray it as cute. Sometimes multiple, smaller snot bubbles come out in succession while the character is sleeping, reminiscent of CatchingSomeZs.
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17	The bubble bursts upon awakening. In some cases, it is shown that you can awaken the character by popping it.
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19	See also CatchingSomeZs for the more western version of sleep representation.
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21	!!Examples:
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25	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
26	* ''Manga/AnimalCrossingNewHorizonsDesertedIslandDiary'': One of the main human quartet, Guchan, is a {{Sleepyhead}} who has a large snot bubble. He's able to form words and objects with the bubble, and use it to balance himself when he surfs.
27	%%* ''Manga/BlackCat'': One scene features [[StalkerWithACrush Creed]] using Shiki's insects as spy cameras to watch Train as he sleeps. As he's sleeping Train does this. %%Example is missing what Train does asleep.
28	* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': In episode eleven, Gomamon says that a snot bubble means that the digimon is easy to fool. He proceeds to throw a rock at it to pop it, rather than at the Digimon itself...
29	* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': A common occurrence with Nobita. There's even a gun-type gadget that can suck out "sleepiness" bubbles and transfer all the sleepiness to someone else.
30	%%* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': Mepple has one while he has a nap on the mountain trip. %%Example is missing what Mepple has while napping.
31	%%* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Sloth drops off to sleep for a few seconds and instantly develops one. %%Example is missing what Sloth develops while sleeping.
32	* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': In the {{Omake}} ''Tachicomatic Days'', the Tachikomas often get snot bubbles, despite being completely mechanical and not having anything resembling a nose.
33	%%* ''Anime/{{Gigantor}}'': Happens in at least one episode.
34	* ''VideoGame/HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe'': Kotengu gets a snot bubble in the OAV "Omoi no Arika". He wakes up when the bubble bursts.
35	%%* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': France does this when he falls asleep during an Allies meeting.
36	%%* ''Anime/LovelyComplex'': Koizumi does this in episode 1 during the entrance ceremony.
37	%%* ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'': Ginga did this when he was shown sleeping in the earlier episodes.
38	* ''Anime/MiracleWanda'': Yumemin, a Promin with the power to manipulate people's dreams, has a fitting {{sleepyhead}}-looking character design that features a snot bubble constantly coming out of his nose.
39	%%* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': Nano, sometimes, despite the fact that [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot she's a robot]].
40	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
41	** In the Enies Lobby arc, when Usopp as Sniper King is trying to get the key from Jabra without waking him up, Jabra gets a Snot Bubble, and even when it pops, he still doesn't wake up.
42	** On the other end of things, popping Gekko Moriah's is ''required'' to wake him up.
43	%%* ''Anime/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Mori in episode 13.
44	%%* ''Anime/OxTales'' has the starring lazy Ox do this every time he falls asleep.%%Do what?
45	%%* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': Panty and Chuck are seen with these the most often, especially in "Pulp Addiction" when they're bored out of their minds. %%Example is missing what Panty and Chuck are often seen with.
46	%%* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Throughout the series, some of the characters have this. In one episode, Ash's Pikachu gets this after falling asleep due to it being hit by a Hypnosis attack, and a Snorlax also gets one in a Pikachu Short.
47	%%** In one episode of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'', when Ash battles Alder, Alder gets this when Alder falls asleep in the middle of the battle, which angers his Bouffalant, resulting in Bouffalant to knock out Alder instead of Ash's Pikachu.
48	%%** Also, in one episode of ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite Pokémon Best Wishes Decolora Adventure!]]'', a Metapod also gets one several times before evolution. [[http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/bestwishes/791ps7.shtml Just look at this.]]
49	%%* ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'': Mojo Jojo has one of these in the second act of the second episode. Momoko/Blossom pops it with a pin, causing him to wake up. %%Example is missing what Mojo Jojo gets.
50	%%* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Fuutarou sometimes [[SleepsWithBothEyesOpen falls asleep with his eyes wide open]], giving out one of these to reveal it. %%Example is missing what Fuutarou gives out when sleeping.
51	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Tatewaki Kuno, his father Principal Kuno, and Genma Saotome are all shown asleep with snot bubbles during the fourth season of the AnimatedAdaptation.
52	%%* ''Manga/Reborn2004'': The titular character does this often, along with his pet chameleon Leon. He also falls asleep at the most inappropriate times. Colonnello also does this (it helps that he and Reborn knew each other when they were kids, well... before they became kids) and Tsuna does this occasionally.
53	%%* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Chu-Chu, the comic-relief mascot critter, frequently has these while sleeping--it is played for cuteness and occasionally grossness. Besides being the TeamPet, Chu-Chu is the series' number 1 source of ToiletHumor. %%Example is missing what Chu-Chu has while sleeping.
54	%%* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'': Louie in several episodes.
55	* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': Oro, one of the most powerful martial artists in the world, taunts by temporarily falling asleep with a snot bubble.
56	* ''Anime/OhSuddenlyEgyptianGod'': Seen in the {{Eye Catch}}es for Episode 4 and 6, with Bastet, Thoth, Medjed and Anubis. The second time around, Medjed is shown floating up into the air with his own bubble. Also seen with Wenet as he sleeps off, popping as he wakes up.
57	* ''Literature/WashioSumiIsAHero'': Sonoko has a bubble while sleeping near the start of the second episode.%%She does this other times as well.
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61	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 9 episode 1, Big M. fakes sleepwalking to avoid catching Doctor H.'s suspicion. He produces a snot bubble from his nose to make it convincing.
62	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': It's not uncommon for characters (particularly Paddi) to have snot bubbles when they're asleep.
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66	%%* ''ComicBook/KokoTheBlue'': Koko and Jodo both do this.
67	%%* ''ComicBook/MrBeaver'': Mr. Beaver gains one when sleeping in the second issue.
68	%%* ''ComicBook/SuperMarioAdventures'' has Luigi make use of this phenomenon.
69	%%* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'': Apple Bloom does this in one of the comics.
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73	* ''Webcomic/BrunswickArcTheAdelAkaRewrite'': Jaune has a bubble when he wakes up drowsily.
74	* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'':
75	** Tayuya wakes up, only to find Mina sleeping right next to her and having a snot bubble.
76	%%** Naruto does this [[{{Sleepwalking}} when he's eating ramen while sleeping]]. Later on, he does it again when he's waiting at the hospital for the results regarding some thieves that are seemingly [[spoiler:Jiraiya and Asuma]].
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80	* ''Series/UltramanTaiga'' has an episode featuring Takkong, a benevolent guardian kaiju who's introduced crawling from the sea and immediately taking a nap near an oil refinery. Complete with a giant snot bubble (larger than trucks!) coming out his nostrils.
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84	* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
85	** ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': The Boat Shop Caretaker [[spoiler:Yanni Yogi]] in the fourth case falls asleep ''on the witness stand'' with a snot bubble every single time someone stops talking to him.
86	%%** ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'': Cammy Meele does this, when she falls asleep with her hair covering her face. It's shown later that [[spoiler:it's actually caused by a {{bubble pipe}}.]] %%Example is missing Cammy Meele does when falling asleep.
87	* ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'': The LoadingScreen depicts Bomberman with a snot bubble which bursts when the loading's over.
88	* Chapter 1 of ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}'' ends with a picture of Madeline sleeping by a campfire, with a bubble coming out from her nose (and a crow sitting on her head).
89	* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': The old man at the End of Time is always asleep with a snot bubble when the party visits him.
90	* ''VideoGame/{{Cubivore}}'': All the player-controlled critters develop a snot bubble when they sleep, even retaining it for a few seconds after they wake up.
91	%%* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': Chiaki Nanami is seen with one of these whenever she is sleeping... [[{{Sleepyhead}} which is often]]. %%Example is missing what Chiaki is seen with when sleeping.
92	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Deadpool}}'': Happens to Deadpool whenever he takes a nap on his apartment's couch, or in the middle of two [[BlahBlahBlah really chatty]] party girls. %%Example is missing what Deadpool does when napping.
93	* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': In Chapter 2, Lancer joins you as a LiveItem, and viewing your key items where he is without doing anything for a while will have him eventually fall asleep with a snot bubble. At the end of the chapter, Susie also has one when she falls asleep.
94	%%* ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife'': Almost all scenes with a character sleeping include this. %%Example is missing what scenes with sleeping characters include.
95	%%* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'': The Sleep {{Standard Status Effect\|s}} is shown like this in the SNES games, in addition to the character being stuck in the "crouched" pose like with most status ailments. %%Partial context.
96	* ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'' has a cutscene where you're inevitably caught in a RunawayTrain -- thanks to an incompetent mook falling asleep at the controls -- complete with a ''huge'' bubble coming from his nose, and his hands accidentally pressed on the accelerator.
97	%%* ''VideoGame/JustDance2'': One of your avatar character's idle animations has them sleeping complete with this, before waking up in surprise. %%Example is missing what sleeping animation includes.
98	* ''Kill Time in Your Office'': One of the minigames in this Flash game has the player press the arrow keys in rapid succession to pop a snot bubble from the napping protagonist. When the bubble pops, she will wake up.
99	%%* ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' features this as a secondary move for the Sleep ability, not only it wakes Kirby up pretty quickly, but it also destroys nearby enemies who came across it. It also became a secondary move for Sleep in future ''Kirby'' titles. %%Example is missing what the Sleep's secondary move is.
100	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
101	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfSeasons'': The Maku Tree spends most of the game sleeping in this manner; to talk to him, you have to pop the bubble and wake him up.
102	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Sleeping Bokoblins, Moblins and Hinox produce transparent bubbles from their piglike snouts, which blow away and pop in a steady stream.
103	* ''VideoGame/LittleNemoTheDreamMaster'': The animals that can be bribed with candies fall asleep with snot bubbles, even those that have ''no nose'', like a bee or a hermit crab.
104	%%* ''VideoGame/LocoRoco'': Sleeping characters have this kind of bubble.
105	* ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'': Overlord Babylon, a huge dragon who once had enough power to rule the universe, often falls asleep with a snot bubble.
106	* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'': From the second game onwards, if your character is left idle for a while, they'll doze off (while standing!) with a bubble coming out of their noses.
107	* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' has snot bubble enemies. They spawn from harmless, sleepy puppies and bear Mii facial features. They burst when defeated, waking the doggie up.
108	%%* ''VideoGame/Mother3'': Duster sleeps with one when he is first introduced. %%Example is missing what Duster sleeps with.
109	* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': Sleepy sleeps while showing a snot bubble. The most surprising detail is that he's sleeping while standing onto a ''ball'', and never falls down.
110	%%* ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'': Blastoise's sleeping sprite has this. %%Example is missing what Blastoise's sleeping sprite has.
111	* ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': Sometimes, upon launching Pokémon Amie, instead of the CatchingSomeZs trope, you will find your Pokémon in a different sleeping position. With Froakie, though, the left bubble on its nose is treated like a snot bubble.
112	%%* ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance2'': Tails will get this if you press Up. %%Example is missing what Tails gets when pressing up.
113	%%* ''VideoGame/ShiningSoulII'' : Tyroth sleeps like this in the character select screen. He'll wake up if you select him.
114	* ''VideoGame/Stinkoman20X6'': 1-up's IdleAnimation has him fall asleep standing with a bubble in his nose.
115	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
116	** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'':
117	*** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'': One of the enemies, the Naplock, can actually attack you with its snot bubbles.
118	*** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'': The Japanese and Korean box arts have Luigi with a snot bubble, while the international equivalents simply have a "Zzz" instead.
119	** ''VideoGame/PaperMario'':
120	*** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'': The Clubba enemies in Tubba Blubba's Castle produce large snot bubbles while napping, which serves as a tell for whether or not they've detected you.
121	%%*** The first three games have a RunningGag of showing Mario with one when falling asleep listening to the overly long stories told by Merlon and his family. %%Example is missing what Mario has when falling asleep.
122	** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'':
123	*** The Piranha Plants are usually asleep with a snot bubble, until you wake them up.
124	*** Yoshi is seen sleeping on the roof of Peach's Castle with a snot bubble in the opening cutscene for ''[[UpdatedRerelease Super Mario 64 DS]]''. The camera Lakitu wakes up Yoshi by popping the bubble, after somehow managing to move him from the roof of the castle to the ground without waking him. Leaving his {{Idle Animation}} on for too long has him fall asleep with one as well.
125	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'': Some Goombas are sleeping with a snot bubble.
126	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPGLegendOfTheSevenStars'': Seen whenever one of your characters (except Princess Peach) was affected with the "sleep" status. This was {{Lampshaded}} in a scene where three ghosts visit Mario while he's asleep. They argue over whether he's truly asleep, until one of them points out the bubble coming from his nose.
127	%%** ''VideoGame/MarioGolf'': This is Yoshi's animation on the mode select screen. %%Example is missing what Yoshi's animation is.
128	%%** ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': In the minigame "Sneak 'n Snore", the Chain Chomp has this while he is asleep and it pops just before he wakes up. %%Example is missing what Chain Chomp has while asleep.
129	* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': While not present in-game, King K. Rool is asleep at the start of Banjo and Kazooie's reveal trailer. He is woken up by Diddy Kong popping his snot bubble after a Jiggy bounces on screen.
130	%%* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': All of the Predator mooks have one of these while they're asleep in the overworld. A snot bubble like this is also a wearable pixel item for the player's avatar. %%Example is missing what Predator mooks have while asleep.
131	* ''VideoGame/WarioWareTwisted'': One of the minigames involves timing a button press to pop a snot bubble. In the international versions, it is changed to popping a blown bubble from chewing gum.
132	* ''VideoGame/ZeroRanger'': In Stage 1-4, the Old Monk boss is sleeping when you get to him and won't start the fight until you attack him and wake him up. But if you just shoot down his snot bubble without damaging him, he'll instead give you some exposition and let you skip his boss fight.
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136	* ''Webcomic/{{Tailsteak}}'': [[http://www.tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=274 One strip]] has a person asking if, since sleeping characters get a snot bubble and amorous ones get a {{nosebleed}}, what happens if someone has a [[EroticDream sexy dream]] -- do they blow a bloody bubble or produce a bubble from one nostril and the nosebleed from the other?
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140	* ''Website/HardDrive'': Parodied in "[[https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/sleep-study-finds-40-of-people-produce-giant-inflating-snot-bubble-during-rem-cycle/ Sleep Study Finds 40% of People Produce Giant Inflating Snot Bubble During REM Cycle]]". The article asserts that this anime trope occurs in real life, and is illustrated with a side-by-side photo of a sleeping man, compared to a still from ''Manga/OnePiece''.
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143	[[folder:Western Animation]]
144	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': In a non-sleeping example, Jimmy, Carl and Sheen have Carl blow a gigantic snot bubble for a school talent show and actually fly on it. Until it pops, that is.
145	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': King Koopa does this in an episode when he's trying to take a nap. %%Example is missing what King Koopa does when trying to take a nap.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': On one occasion, a sleeping Ed produces a bubble so big that he floats away.
147	%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In [[BeachEpisode Episode 80]], Mr. Cat is seen sleeping like this for a few minutes before he is woken up. %%Example is missing how Mr. Cat is sleeping.
148	%%* ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'': In "Mikey Impossible", Lily falls asleep and does this during Ozu's LongList of restrictions. %%Example is missing what Lily does while asleep.
149	%%* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'': Rikochet gets one when he falls asleep in "Woulda Coulda Hasbeena". %%Example is missing what Rikochet gets when falling asleep.
150	%%* ''WesternAnimation/PaperPort'': In "Everyday Matilda", Matilda's grandfather Curlybeard sleeps with a green-colored one in a CutawayGag after her dad mentions that he is "really fun". Later in the series he and other characters occasionally get this as well. %%Example is missing what Curlybeard sleeps with.
151	%%* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' gets one with a NightmareFace in "[=WhoBob=] [=WhatPants=]?". %%Example is missing what Spongebob gets with a nightmare face.
152	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy can constantly be found snoozing in this manner. %%Example is missing the manner in which Beast Boy sleeps.
153	* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'':
154	** In "S.P.I", Clover briefly sleeps with a bubble coming out of her nose when Jerry lists off the regular gadgets they've used before on missions, which to her is nothing more than NapInducingSpeak; it pops when he mentions the new spy gadget for the episode.
155	** The opening theme for Season 7 has Clover briefly sleeping in the library with a bubble coming out of her nose, which immediately bursts when Sam startles her awake (and unintentionally attracts unwanted attention from the nearby students).
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