Don't Go to Sleep!

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author = R. L. Stine
cover_artist = Tim Jacobus
country = United States
language = English
series = Goosebumps
classification = fiction
genre = Horror fiction, Children's literature
publisher = Scholastic
release_date = April 1997
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 118
isbn = 0-590-56891-4
preceded_by = Chicken Chicken
followed_by = The Blob That Ate Everyone

"Don't Go To Sleep"! is R. L. Stine's 54th novella in the series "Goosebumps".

Plot Overview

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.

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 girl named Lacie, along with two men in black. Matt finds out that Lacie and the two men are called "The Reality Police". Matt is captured by the Reality Police. They tell him he is trapped in a hole in reality and is changing what is real and what isn't. They also explain that they have to put him to sleep forever in order to keep him from messing with reality any further.

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.

Tagline

Rise and shine. Forever.

TV Adaptation

*The TV version has a black man and a white man (who aren't named) as The Reality Police instead of Lacie, Bruce, and Wayne. Also, Matt doesn't fall asleep and wake up in a different reality; instead, he's jettisoned into a different reality every five minutes.