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Don't Go to Sleep!

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Don't Go to Sleep!	comment	The Goosebumps book where sleeping in the wrong bed has consequences.Matt Amsterdam hates his life. His older brother and sister constantly bully him, his mom isn't there for him due to having two jobs, and his room's the size of a closet. He'd love to sleep in the guest bedroom instead, but his parents won't let him. One night though, he does. And the next morning, he awakens in a different reality. And then another. And another. Now, Matt's desperate to get back to his original life, and to escape the strange people who've started following him in each of these new worlds, trying to stop him from altering reality.It was adapted into the fourth episode of the third season of the 1995 TV series.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: While as a squirrel in one reality, Matt comes to his house and is kept as a pet by Pam. She takes him to a cage in her bedroom, and leaves the room with the door wide open. Matt is too busy feasting on nuts to notice it until a few minutes go by.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_25d0fdb8	type	Cuckoo Finger Twirl
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_25d0fdb8	comment	Cuckoo Finger Twirl: After returning to his normal reality, Matt is happy with having breakfast with his normal siblings, and he even ignores when Greg shoots a paper wad at him. Pam reacts to this new behavior of his by doing this trope, which Matt recognizes as "the international sign for 'He's nuts.'"
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: At the end of the book, Matt's mother is home to tell him that today is his birthday, and as a gift to him, she turns his old bedroom into a storage closet and the guest bedroom (the one that warps reality of someone who sleeps in it) his new bedroom. Matt is horrified by this revelation.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_373283c9	type	This Cannot Be!
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_373283c9	comment	This Cannot Be!: When waking up one reality-warping morning, Matt is shocked to find out that he transformed into an old man. He immediately goes back to sleep in the guest bedroom to avoid going through a whole day this way.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Greg and Pam, who treat their little brother Matt poorly for no good reason.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When he is informed that he has to be put to sleep forever, Matt tries to beat the Reality Police up. But as he lampshades later on, even though he was in the body of a muscular boy, he is still wimpy in skill, and they easily defeat him.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Matt, while in monster form, starts eating the inside of a car. When an angry mob comes near, someone in the crowd announces that it's eating a car.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Appreciate what you have, yet this moral falls apart, because what Matt had made him miserable (a small bedroom, older siblings who pick on him for fun, the family dog who hates only his guts). Really, Matt had NOTHING to appreciate in his regular life.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Greg and Pam to Matt. Inverted in one alternate reality when they switch from older to younger and become Annoying Younger Siblings, while Matt is Greg's original age. He even describes them as "little kids", despite them being around the same age he was in real life.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Matt, who is always being bullied by his older siblings and mom is not around enough to deal with it. It gets worse when the adventure starts, as every reality is unhappy in some way.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_4aa3c552	type	Animorphism
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_4aa3c552	comment	Animorphism: The story deals with it in passing; one of the worlds Matt wakes up in has him as a squirrel.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_58075ef2	type	Stumbling in the New Form
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_58075ef2	comment	Stumbling in the New Form: Matt has quite a bit of trouble handling his first body, a teenaged version of himself, ranging from tripping down the stairs to bonking heads with Lacie.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_5e859ba	type	Cassette Craze
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_5e859ba	comment	Cassette Craze: On the day that Matt decides to sleep in the guest bedroom, Greg is doing recordings on a tape recorder as part of a project for school to document his home life. This gets on his mother's nerves when he does this during dinner.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_625031f0	type	Never Sleep Again
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_625031f0	comment	Never Sleep Again: Matt is shunted to a different alternate universe whenever he falls asleep after using the guest bedroom.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_6b05b601	comment	Also, when Greg makes an excuse to his mother about making dinner, he claims that he has homework. Matt protests that he has homework as well, but Greg counters that high school homework is harder than middle school homework, which Matt disagrees with. However, the next day he actually wakes up as a high schooler, and learns that Greg was actually right as he experiences high school homework himself and finds it more tough.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The cover shows the hand of a monster emerging from under the bed about to reach a sleeping boy, implying that the story is about a monster that lurks under the main character's bed and will attack/kill him if he falls asleep. Again, no such monster appears, and the story is about the main character waking up in different versions of reality whenever he goes to sleep.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: Matt admits in his narration that his plan to return to his normal reality by sleeping in his own bedroom was stupid, but it was worth a try.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_954c2537	type	"Getting My Own Room" Plot
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_954c2537	comment	"Getting My Own Room" Plot: Matt wanted a new room since the one he lived in is small and crowded. He used the guest bedroom as his new room, unaware that if he sleeps in it he'll alter his reality. The TV episode features Matt using the attic as his new bedroom. Although the attic never altered Matt's reality when he sleeps in it. He mentions that he hates reality and gets in trouble with the Reality Police for it.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In one reality, Matt's fake father says "What did you think- we were going to the circus?". The very next reality Matt wakes up in has him in a circus family. Also, when Greg makes an excuse to his mother about making dinner, he claims that he has homework. Matt protests that he has homework as well, but Greg counters that high school homework is harder than middle school homework, which Matt disagrees with. However, the next day he actually wakes up as a high schooler, and learns that Greg was actually right as he experiences high school homework himself and finds it more tough.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_a4b32bef	type	Would Rather Suffer
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_a4b32bef	comment	Would Rather Suffer: While reading a comic book, Matt thinks to himself that he would rather be living on Pluto with acid-slurping ants than in his own house.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The morning after his first new reality as a high schooler, Matt wakes and sees in the mirror that he is back as a preteen, much to his joy. But when he comes downstairs expecting to see his family, he finds none of his siblings nor his mother, but two strangers as his guardians.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Matt's mother. When Matt complains about his siblings to her during dinner, she claims that he has a wonderful brother and sister, despite how obnoxious they are. When Matt continues complaining, she orders him to go upstairs to his room.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Two members of the reality police are named Bruce and Wayne.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_d6f544aa	type	Struggling Single Mother
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_d6f544aa	comment	Struggling Single Mother: Matt's mom has to work two jobs after the passing of his father. As a result, she doesn't have much time to look after him, and leaves him in the hands of his abusive older siblings.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_dec69d04	type	Trauma Button Ending
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_dec69d04	comment	Trauma Button Ending: Played for Horror when Matt's mom turns the guest bedroom into his new room for his birthday. He begins to panic at the news he was giving since the room can warp reality if he sleeps in it.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: While in high school in his first strange reality, one of Matt's teachers refers to her students by their last names. Matt finds this odd, as his teacher in his normal reality doesn't do that with her students. When the new teacher congratulates a student this way for a good grade, Matt tries to praise her this way as well. The girl looks offended by this, presumably believing that the teacher is only allowed to call her by her last name.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_e7ecdeb0	type	Weight Woe
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_e7ecdeb0	comment	Weight Woe: In one of the alternate universes that Matt wakes up in, he's morbidly obese. He's apparently so fat his mother doesn't recognize him and refuses to let him in the house.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he finally returns to his normal reality, Matt becomes much happier, and he goes downstairs to hug his siblings and ignore their pranks. This leaves them stunned and confused.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_f17457f6	type	Matter of Life and Death
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_f17457f6	comment	Matter of Life and Death: Matt says this to his mother when trying to get in the house as a fat boy. She does not take him seriously.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: After his adventures with the reality warping, Matt goes to school and sees what he thinks is Lacie. He is freaked out, thinking that he has to deal with her and the Reality Police once again. But it turns out that she's a student who looks a lot like her. This relieves Matt.
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Don't Go to Sleep! / int_f51c5f3c	type	Never Say "Die"
Don't Go to Sleep! / int_f51c5f3c	comment	Never Say "Die": When the Reality Police finally get a hold of Matt, they inform him that in order to keep reality stable, they need to put him to sleep forever, much to his horror. And when he overhears them in a nearby room, they are discussing about giving him a sleeping potion, sounding akin to an execution method, and he is further freaked out.
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