What is a modern way for Sleeping Beauty to fall into her deep sleep?

I'm not sure how to do it, but it's a modern blend of classic tales. Sleeping Beauty is Rosie. She and her friends are all trying to win the Prince Charming, Eric. Somehow, the night after the Spring Fling, she falls into a sleep and is woken by something, but it isn't Eric. It's something else. I'm tihnking she wakes up from a nightmare? About Eric being a monster or something.





But how does she fall asleep in the first place? An injury? Or some sort of surgery?What is a modern way for Sleeping Beauty to fall into her deep sleep?
Someone could lace her drink while at the Spring Fling... one of her enemies?What is a modern way for Sleeping Beauty to fall into her deep sleep?
maybe she's a closet heroin junkie?
she falls asleep when she drinks tainted punch
Pricked her finger on a cactus?


Was out exploring caves and got hit by a stalagmite (or a stalactitie)?
umm depends on how modern you want to get.


Normally I'd say something like... Date rape drug, or chloroform, but that's a bit over the top.








NyQuil is pretty good at putting people to sleep...





If you're going with surgery obviously an anesthetic would work.
maybe concussion playing some type of sport, or even just tripping and hitting head





could pass out drunk... haha





could be like super sad and cry herself to sleep, i dont know why





i don't think that surgery would be the best thing... maybe she's just tired and needs a nappy-poo :)
Roofies. Or too much drinking/recreational drugs?
maybe she goes into a coma somehow. and you could make it romantic osrt of like the guy visits her at the hospital because he feels really bad, or he feels like it was his fault. even though it wasnt. or she could have tried to save him somehow, and she got hit and went into a coma. i dont now if this is a myth or not, but people talk to patients who are in comas so they can hold on to reality and possibly come back. and he could come to the hospital everyday and talk to her and tell him all of her secrets because he thinks she cant hear him, but she really can. then one day he summons up the courage to kiss her and she MIRACULOUSLY comes out of the coma in that instant. lol, it's corny, but if you write it right, it would be cool!


idk.


and i expect a cut of your pulitzer money! lol, just kidding.


good luck!
Maybe she's in a coma from a car accident, or an accidental overdose.





Since the original Sleeping Beauty was put into a spell by a fairy godmother to counter-act the spell of the evil fairy (who wanted her to die), maybe you should have her put into an induced coma for neurosurgery that she wouldn't wake up from because too much drugs were used.





And maybe a doctor comes and gets her out of the coma.


In the real origianal version the prince's mother was an ogre. Maybe you can make him an ogre too.
She can accidentally date rape drug or hallucinogenic.





She could have too much to drink and just pass out.





She could get a bump on the head that causes her to pass out.





She could get mono.
Perhaps someone slipped something in her drink?





An interesting thing, maybe she has a certain illness. No idea what it is called, but you can probably google it.





A girl at my boyfriends job has some illness where if she does not get enough vitamin B, she collapses into a deep sleep, which is very hard to break out of. Usually she cannot wake up herself, someone will need to give her a shot of something to make her body wake up. Her nickname is also Sleeping Beauty.





That would be interesting. She is so excited for the dance that she completely forgets to watch her diet and make sure she is eating/drinking plenty of vitamin B. So, maybe on her way home she falls into that deep slumber. Whatever wakes her must have been very dramatic to do the job.





It would be an interesting twist, since this Sleeping Beauty is in danger of falling into slumber every day, and not just by some evil witch.
How about a mild electric shock, like from a slightly defective toaster, or a blow-dryer? Or maybe fumes, such as from an odd brand of a pretty nail-polish? Or a cut from a pair of nail-clippers/manicure scissors?





It can't be anything spectacular and unusual. It should be something extremely common and perfectly ordinary, if it's closely parallelling the original story.





The point of using the spindle in the original story (no pun intended -- honest!) was that by a certain age, *every* girl in the kingdom, no matter what her social status, would be taught to use one -- and *every* household in the kingdom had at least one spindle, and most households had several.





The evil fairy didn't know, at the time of the curse, anything about what this baby's life and interests would be, except that she was female, wealthy, and royal. The fairy had to pick a type of object that was SO common in society that the baby princess would be absolutely certain to come across one of it some time before she grew up.





A modern version of the tale needs to find an equivalent that is equally common and universally used by girls such as your heroine. Are you including a modern equivalent of the original king's decree that all the spindles in his kingdom be destroyed and outlawed, so as to save his daughter from the fairy's curse?
Keep it simple:


She's exhausted from Spring Fling, she is involved in a fender bender and is given a sedative and she falls into a deep sleep/coma from an improper medication/odd injury in the accident, until she's wakened by a nightmarish dream that she is falling... give her a great realistic and beautiful dream that degenerates into a terrifying falling nightmare that wakes her abruptly.She wakens frightened, disoriented,unsure of where or who she is, pulse racing....and your story proceeds from there.
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