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I want to catalogue and collect every Pokemon card featuring a sleeping Pokemon.

1. The art on the card must feature a Pokemon that is sleeping.
2. The sleeping Pokemon in the art does not have to be Pokemon whose card the art is on. e.g., if a sleeping Bulbasaur is in the background of a Pikachu card, that still counts.
3. Sleeping human characters or non-Pokemon animals do not count

Cards

	Pokemon	Set	Card Number	Owned?
	Snorlax	Wizards Black Star Promos	49	❌
	Slowpoke	Team Rocket	67/82	✅
	Snorlax	Team Rocket	79/82	✅
	Snorlax	Gym Heroes	33/132	❌
	Clefairy	Gym Challenge	40/132	❌
	Abra	Gym Challenge	94/132	❌
	Phanpy	Neo Destiny	76/105	❌
	Swinub	Neo Destiny	84/105	❌
	Vulpix	Neo Destiny	91/105	❌
	Corsola	Expedition Base Set	102/165	❌
	Gloom	Aquapolis	49/147	❌
	Drowzee	Aquapolis	74a/147	❌
	Drowzee	Aquapolis	74b/147	❌
	Aron	EX Power Keepers	42/108	❌
	Skitty	EX Power Keepers	62/108	❌
	Chansey	EX Fire Red & Leaf Green	19/112	❌
	Bellsprout	EX FireRed & LeafGreen	53/112	❌
	Cubone	EX FireRed & LeafGreen	60/112	❌
	Relicanth	EX Hidden Legends	24/101	❌
	Phanpy	EX Holon Phantoms	75/110	❌
	Torchic	Poké Card Creator Pack	3/5	❌
	Gloom	Undaunted	27/90	❌
	Wigglytuff	Fates Collide	19/112	✅
	Gloom	Unbroken Bonds	7/214	❌
	Slakoth	Unified Minds	168/236	❌
	Snorlax	Hidden Fates	50/68	❌
	Gloom	Cosmic Eclipse	3/236	❌
	Dedenne	Vivid Voltage	77/185	✅
	Numel	Pokemon Go	13/78	✅
	Chansey	Pokemon Go	51/78	✅
	Feebas	Silver Tempest	39/195	✅
	Stonjourner	Silver Tempest	101/195	✅
	Pachirisu	Crown Zenith	GG42/GG70	✅
	Pelipper	Scarlet & Violet Promos	022	✅
	Snorlax	Scarlet & Violet Promos	051	✅
	Smoliv	Obsidian Flames	19/197	✅
	Abra	151	63/165	✅
	Snorlax	151	143/165	✅
	Yamper	Paradox Rift	196/182	✅
	Raichu	Temporal Forces	052/162	✅

Excluded Cards

	Pokemon	Set	Card Number	Notes
	Abra	Gym Challenge	93/132	No back support, head position might indicate it’s looking at something

How do you know if a Pokemon is sleeping?

Well, that’s a good question. If a Pokemon has its eyes closed, is in a position where it could reasonably fall asleep, and appears to be motionless, then it’ll usually be safe to assume it’s sleeping. There are definitely going to be some ambigious cases, though, and I’ll just have to make a judgement on those as I find them.

Take for example, Snorlax. Snorlax is always depicted with its eyes closed; in fact, I’m not sure if Snorlax canonically even has eyes. It’s also usually (but not always) lying down. In this first card, Snorlax is clearly sleeping, and this card qualifies for the list.

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In this card, Snorlax is lying down with its eyes closed, but is clearly not asleep.

But in this card, things get tricky. Snorlax is lying against a tree with its eyes closed, but it’s also smiling, blushing, and the Pokemon around it are clearly awake. I don’t think I can definitively say either way that Snorlax is or isn’t sleeping here.

And in case you noticed the “Sleeping Pokemon” text on the card, this doesn’t actually mean that Snorlax is sleeping. “Sleeping Pokemon” is just its category, this same text shows on cards where Snorlax is clearly not sleeping.