Sleep (Final Fantasy status)

Silence
(眠り, Nemuri?)
Specifications
Effect	Incapacitated, null Evasion, Attack vulnerability
Applied by
Spells	Sleep, Sleepra
Removed by
Items	Remedy
Spells	Curaja
Other	KO, Stone, random, end of battle
Resisted by
Armor	Ribbon
Spells	NulAll, NulDeath
Related pages
Recurring appearance	Sleep (status)

Sleep is a status in Final Fantasy. It is primarily associated with the Spirit element.

Content in italics is exclusive to the Dawn of Souls and/or 20th Anniversary releases.

Mechanics

Sleep incapacitates the target, preventing them from taking any action. It additionally nullifies their Evasion and increases the Attack of entities attacking the victim by 50% (25% in NES). Targets afflicted with Sleep may awake randomly at the end of each round and automatically recover at the end of battle.

Random recovery from Sleep is determined by (R = 0...80) if R is less than the victim's max HP, rendering Sleep significantly less effective after the early game when both player characters and enemies can easily have more than 80 HP. In the NES release, Sleep is bugged such that enemies will always immediately recover, regardless of their HP.

As with other statuses, it is only possible to be immune to the Sleep condition in the Pixel Remaster release; in prior releases, the most one can do is resist the element of an attack that inflicts the status, reducing its accuracy. Even if a target is listed as resisting Sleep, this is in reference to the element, rather than effects that can inflict Sleep.

Abilities

Spells

Name	Element	Description	Users
Curaja	—	Restores 999 HP to one ally and removes Confuse, Darkness, Paralysis, Poison, Silence, and Sleep.	White Wizard Chaos, Dark Fighter, Rakshasa
Dispel	—	Attempts to remove all elemental resistances and status immunities from one target.	White Wizard Dark Fighter, Death Eye, Death Knight
NulAll	—	Grants immunity to all status effects and resistance to all elements to all allies.	White Wizard Dark Fighter
NulDeath	—	Grants immunity to all status effects and resistance to the Earth, Spirit, Poison, Time, and Instant Death elements to all allies.	Red Wizard, White Mage, White Wizard
Sleep	Spirit	Attempts to inflict Sleep on all enemies.	Ninja, Red Mage, Red Wizard, Black Mage, Black Wizard Astos, Evil Eye, Lich (#49), Ogre Mage, Rakshasa, Water Naga
Sleepra	Spirit	Attempts to inflict Sleep on one enemy.	Ninja, Red Mage, Red Wizard, Black Mage, Black Wizard Lich (#49)

Sleep-inflicting attacks

Element	Users
Spirit	Mummy
Poison	King Mummy

Equipment

Equipment	Type	Description	Equipable by
Ribbon	Helmet	Grants resistance to all elements and immunity to all status effects.	Warrior, Knight, Thief, Ninja, White Mage, White Wizard, Black Mage, Black Wizard, Red Mage, Red Wizard
Remedy	Item	Removes Confuse, Darkness, Paralysis, Poison, Silence, and Sleep from one ally.

Enemies

Immune

Air Elemental, Black Flan, Bloodbones, Chaos, Clay Golem, Death Eye, Death Knight, Dragon Zombie, Earth Elemental, Fire Elemental, Ghast, Ghost, Ghoul, Gray Ooze, Green Slime, Guardian, Iron Golem, King Mummy, Lich, Minotaur Zombie, Mummy, Nightmare, Ochre Jelly, Piscodemon, Rakshasa, Shadow, Skeleton, Soldier, Specter, Stone Golem,Vampire, Vampire Lord, Warmech, Water Elemental, Wight, Wraith, Zombie