In Chapter 56, Rentarou uses his girlfriends as Lap Pillows, inducing dreams themed around whoever he's sleeping on. Played for Laughs in The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You.This is so effective and terrifying that upon recovering Yakumo wakes up with a catapult nightmare, trashing around horrified and screaming that Kaiyanwang's going to kill him. 3×3 Eyes: after losing his status as a Wu, Yakumo is grabbed by the head by a berserk Kaiyanwang, who proceeds to threaten to kill and annihilate him once and for all, telling him how he's destinated to rot alone and forgotten with no chance for an afterlife or becoming a ghost.Yamucha's-Kung Fu Academy: Nao's episode-beginning dream in episode 4 about Jubby fighting and eating her ends with her jolting upright in bed, relieved that it's just a dream.Happy, Happy, Bang, Bang! episode 30 has Slowy having this reaction after waking up from a nightmare where Wilie betrays the goats if he lets him into the Goat School.In Joys of Seasons episode 39, Wolffy and Wolnie wake up screaming after having a nightmare.In Joys of Seasons episode 2, after having a nightmare about Wolffy attacking him, Paddi wakes up and flings himself upward on his bed into a sitting position.Lamput: In "Meet the Shrink", the docs have a dream where they're struggling to keep up with Lamput and jolt into an upright position when they wake up.being defeated at the hands of the Dark Demon (an event from the end of Season 13). does the same thing after having nightmares about Happy S. In a few early episodes of Season 14, Smart S.sits right up in bed when he wakes up from a nightmare about the death of his friend Kalo. An'an jolts upright in bed when she wakes up from the dream. Flower Angel: In Season 2 episode 34, An'an has a nightmare where her best friend Qianhan totally forgets who An'an is, followed by An'an falling through a hole forming in the ground.Clinic is a Russian Medical Horror short film in which an old man staying in a hospital has a series of nightmares that frequently cause him to wake up screaming.Boonie Bears: In Season 3 episode 30, Tiki has a nightmare where some force steals his crown, and he wakes up jolting upright.Kadabra remembering their deal about Sally telling her mother about the gloves he replaced (which she never did), Sally wakes up jolting out of her bed. About Dressy Sally: After having a dream about Mr. People who have them usually don't remember it in the morning, but witnessing such an incident as a bystander can be both physically and psychologically traumatic.īonus points if followed by dramatic Wake Up Fighting. It's just as often Played for Drama to show how a character has been traumatized by a particular incident (with their guilt manifesting as someone who hurt them, or someone they failed to help).Ī night terror can have this effect, but it doesn't involve waking up and doesn't involve a dream-just full-on activation of the fight-or-flight system in the middle of the deepest stages of sleep. Sometimes this trope is Played for Laughs, especially if the dream they were having was particularly silly or they catapult in an over-the-top or silly way. If it's a Dream Within a Dream, expect two. Nevertheless, the Catapult Nightmare happens every single time in fiction. Such sufferers often describe the feeling as being "pushed" upright. The rare times it does happen in real life involve a neurological disorder where the person is woken up from the dream by a sensation, not the other way around. This extends to shortly before falling asleep or just after waking up. Most of the time, certain chemicals secreted while falling asleep prevent the sleeper from acting out their dreams, a condition known as "sleep paralysis", which stops us from hurting ourselves in our sleep. This does happen occasionally in the real world, but usually it's because someone is startled by an outside sensation (like a loud noise), not a nightmare. However, because these actions are small and don't come across very easily on camera, works of visual mediums employ this trope. The most you'll likely get is a gasp and a full-body twitch, or some odd moaning coupled with sleep paralysis, although children may wake up screaming. But actually flinging themselves upright is laughable. Think carefully: how many times do you remember waking up from a nightmare by flinging your torso upwards? Probably never, right? Most people might pant, look confused, and take a few seconds to check their surroundings and get reoriented. Whenever a character awakes from a nightmare in fiction, they will fling themselves to a leaning or sitting position, panting and looking around frantically, and maybe even screaming, despite this being rather implausible in Real Life.
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