Oblivion talk:Sleeping

One thing that breaks immersion in this game is the use of sleep to level. Since leveling is so easy, I recently leveled up by clearing ONE small dungeon, and since most sane players want to avoid leveling at this pace, sleep becomes a rare occurrence. I don't know about you, but after days or weeks of travel, exploration and battle with no sleep, I almost feel a psychological need to lay down and crash somewhere (even if my character NEVER needs sleep). Not sleeping prevents you from fully enjoying those big, lavishly furnished homes you purchased for a mint. Also, frequently you must wait until the next day to interact with an NPC and it seems strange to stand around and wait for 10 hours!

So, here are two suggestions on my part to deal with this. 1) Require that your character sleep a certain amount of hours to level, say, eight hours (so you can safely sleep up to 7 hours without leveling). 2) Introduce a third option to the sleep and wait commands: Meditation. Meditation can be used for all sorts of things, for instance, it could be required to meditate after learning a new spell or after increasing a skill level for them to take effect. Maybe you could meditate to remove an affliction (such as a stat decrease). Whatever the case, the meditation command should have a list of items for which you want to meditate on.

Maybe in the next version, they will even invent a new affliction called Sleep Deprivation!

Sleeping doesn't always trigger leveling?

When I'm eligible to level, I notice that sometimes sleeping does not trigger a levelup. Sleeping in a guild bed always works, but sometimes sleeping at the waterfront shack house, or in some bedrolls doesn't always trigger a level up. Yes, I always sleep for 8 hours when I want to level. Whether or not this crosses over midnight doesn't seem to make a difference. Anyone else notice this? — Unsigned comment by 66.14.104.198 (talk)

Nope, I've never had that happen. The only times that I've not leveled upon sleeping (when the level-up icon had appeared), were when sleeping triggered some other event which therefore pre-empted the leveling: becoming a vampire, doing the quest Through A Nightmare, etc. I've also done a lot of crazy experiments involving leveling, so I've gone through the level-up dialogue at least a couple hundred times (at all times of day or night), always completely reliably. On the other hand, I very rarely sleep for 8 hours. I don't even pretend to sleep realistically: the only times I sleep are when I need to for leveling or quests, and most of the time I just sleep for 1 hour. But it seems unlikely that sleeping for 8 hours instead of 1 hour would make a difference... --Nephele^Talk 03:03, 24 August 2007 (EDT)

They have mods to make things harder like you have to eat food, or you have to sleep or else you lose personality, drain fatigue and other attributes acquitted to hunger, starvation or sleep deprivation.

can't activate a bed?

I was just in fort alessia and it told me I should sleep, so I went over to a bed, but the name didn't appear and I couldn't sleep or anything. The odd thing is, I could a while ago. I am on xbox360 goty. Also, I could wait, so there were no enemies around. I tried exiting and re-entering, but it stayed the same.

Are you sure that it is a bed that you are allowed to sleep in, eg. it is a bed that can be activated? I've just gone down into Fort Alessia, and I found the bed that you were talking about, and I could not sleep in it, either, so I have to say that it must be a bed that you cannot activate, meaning you'll have to find another bed or a bed roll to sleep in. Otherwise, you could just conntinue through the dungeon until you leave and then go to town and sleep in one of their beds. Cheers, Razorflame 01:31, 10 May 2009 (EDT)

Thanks Razorflame.

Well, I tried it with a number of beds in Fort Alessia and I eventually found one in the second area, next to another bed that couldn't be activated. The strange thing is, when there are enemies nearby, the beds can all be activated, with the message that I can't sleep with enemies nearby. So is this a glitch, or are there supposed to be beds that can't be slept in like that? I mean, with beds/bedrolls I found in other dungeons, I could sleep in them just fine.

Not sleeping

what happens if you dont sleep?I want to find out what happens if you dont sleep can some on tell me please— Unsigned comment by 64.188.152.188 (talk) at 20:48 on 31 July 2009

Nothing happens. It's not like you'll die from exhaustion. Oblivion isn't that realistic! Wolok gro-Barok 20:55, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

More specifically, you don't level. There are mods you can use to make things more realistic, but there is no penalty in the standard game for not sleeping or eating. –rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 17:18, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Enemies Nearby

I'm in my house in Skingrad after stealing the Enormous Walkyd Stone (or something) for the main questline, And because I'm a vampire I need to wait till night to go outside again, but whenever I try to sleep/wait it tells me I can't because there are enemies nearby.

How could this happen?

This is a bug mentioned on the quest page. If the King of Miscarcand or his guards are still alive they will follow you forever, preventing you from sleeping, waiting, or fast traveling. Also, I added a header for the section to organize it better. --DKong27 16:20, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

BaseID for beds/seats?

For the sake of PC users that for one reason or another aren't able to or don't want to have to use the Construction Set (like me), could anyone provide BaseIDs (not FormIDs!) for the different types of beds that can be slept in the game (bedrolls, lower-class beds, hammocks, naval cots, upper-class beds, etc.)? I mean, so that the player can use Console Commands to set a new one up without moving an already-existing bed to another area? Just one FormID of each type will do. Maybe for some for the different types of chairs you can sit in, too? Bauglir100 (talk) 00:52, 22 January 2015 (GMT)