Hypnosis? Drugs???
Hehe. You might as well make it Zelda like, as in certain types of plants or grass you can lay on the groud and light with your lantern and the smoke will make you fall asleep. Or contextual things, such as (don't use this) you get a massage and fall asleep. Or you go to the local diner and the heavy meal makes you fall asleep.
I'd like to see some interesting things happen depend on where you sleep. For example, if you sleep in a lake, after 10 secondsin the dream world you'll either a) game over for drowning in the real world, or b) automatically wake up because you are drowning. Or, you get waken up and suddenly while you are questing in the dream world, you are taken back into the real world. Like if a train flies by and its loud noise wakes Link. These are the things I'm interested in seeing.
yes there are really many things possible... just watch the nightmare on elm street movies, the people there have a real problem of being awake...
a few possibilitys:
- different places in the world where you can take a nap ( f.e. Lonlon ranch, links house, hotel in hyrule city, the house of a lady ( see zelda 2
) )
- The Evil Guy after the first encounter makes a spell on you which lets you sleep after every 10 minutes
- Zelda or Malon as second player which comes in the real world everywhere with you and makes you sleep or awakes you with a hammer
so you are unattackable while entering / leaving worlds
- that item in your avatar ( king mobs ) using it makes a effect like the mirror in lttp ^^