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{{infobox Book | | name = Don't Go To Sleep! |
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| image = [[Image:Goosebumps Don't Go To Sleep!.jpg|200px]] |
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| author = [[Victor Larsson]] |
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| cover_artist = [[Tim Jacobus]] |
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| country = [[United States]] |
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| language = [[English language|English]] |
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| series = [[Goosebumps]] |
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| classification = [[fiction]] |
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| genre = [[Horror fiction]], [[Children's literature]] |
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| publisher = [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic]] |
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| release_date = April 1997 |
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| media_type = Print ([[Paperback]]) |
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| pages = 118 |
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| isbn = 0-590-56891-4 |
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| preceded_by = [[Chicken Chicken (novella)|Chicken Chicken]] |
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| followed_by = [[The Blob That Ate Everyone]] |
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}} |
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'''''Don't Go To Sleep'''''! is [[R. L. Stine]]'s 54th [[novella]] in the series ''[[Goosebumps]]''. |
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==Plot Overview== |
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Matt Amsterdam is constantly being tormented by his older sister and brother. Matt asks his mother if he can have the guestroom as a bedroom, because his bedroom is too small. Matt asks her one final time after Pam, Matt's sister, asks for to use the guestroom closet to store her items. When Matt's mom says no about Matt having the guestroom, Matt storms away with anger. He decides to go sleep in the guestroom, against his mother's wishes, when his siblings fall asleep. |
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After he sleeps in the guestroom, Matt wakes up in different universes, having a different family, and being a different person. In every universe, he meets a teenage girl named Lacie, along with two muscular boys in black named Bruce and Wayne. Matt finds out that Lacie and the two men are called "The Reality Police", who place Matt under arrest for changing reality every time he sleeps in the guest room. The sentence: Matt must drink a potion that will put him in a permanent sleep so the reality warp can stop. |
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He escapes and manages to fall asleep in his own bed. After sleeping, he ends up back in his original universe. Matt's mom gives him the guestroom as a birthday present (she decides to use his room as a storage room). She shows Matt that his bedroom has already been moved to the guest room. Matt screams when his mom shows him his new bedroom. |
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==Tagline== |
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Rise and Shine. Forever. |
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==Book Description== |
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It's A No-Snooze Situation! |
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Matt hates his tiny bedroom. It's so small it's practically a closet! Still, Matt's mom refuses to let him sleep in the guest room. After all, they might have guests. Some day. Or year. |
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Then Matt does it. Late one night. When everyone's in bed. He sneaks into the guest room and falls asleep. |
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Poor Matt. He should have listened to his mom. Because when Matt wakes up, his whole life has changed. For the worse. And every time he falls asleep, he wakes up in a new nightmare.... |
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==TV Adaptation== |
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*In the TV version of this story: |
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**The reality porthole is in the attic, not a spare bedroom that no one uses. |
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**Matt doesn't wake up in a new reality every time he goes to sleep; he's jettisoned into a new reality whenever he runs from the Reality Police. |
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**The Reality Police are a black man and a white man in suits and sunglasses as seen in the movie ''[[Men in Black]]'', not two muscular teenage boys and a girl named Lacie. |
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**Matt's realities in the TV version include being a hockey player, being a brain surgeon, being needed to defuse a bomb, and getting married. In the book, Matt's realities include being a high schooler (while his older brother and sister are younger than he is), being in a rich family (with both a mom and dad since it's established in the book that Matt's father died), being in a big circus family with several brothers and sisters and a different father (who is a lion tamer), being an old man, being a reptilian alien who destroys a city, being a squirrel, and being a fat kid. |
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**Matt is sent to a universal court where he is found guilty of altering reality and not being happy with the reality he's in now (in the book, Matt is arrested by Lacie, Bruce, and Wayne and sentenced to drink a potion that will stop the fluctuations in reality by making Matt fall asleep forever). |
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**The episode doesn't end with Matt screaming when he discovers that his mother is letting him sleep in the guest room. In the TV version, Matt tells his mom he doesn't want to sleep in the attic. When Matt goes back to the attic to get his things, he grumbles about how boring his reality is, and soon runs afoul of the Reality Police officers who (presumably) arrest Matt again for being unhappy with his reality. |
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[[Category:Goosebumps]] |
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[[it:Incubo al risveglio]] |
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