Sleep Fighter

 My brother Joboy is a hyperactive kid who we can barely made to stand still to tie his shoelaces. He is constantly in motion, running around, tinkering with things. Some kids are so restless that watching them sleep brings a moment of bliss to their parents. Kids so hyperactive that you cherish those short moments when they're unconscious and they resemble angels.

He is not one of those kids. What Joboy is, is a sleep fighter.

Every night, as soon as he enters a state of REM, my brother gets into fights. He would twitch, kick savagely, pull at whatever he could grasp, twist. Sleeping beside him has a high risk off getting a karate chop in the neck.

I don't know what wonderfully dark labyrinths he enters when he sleeps, but I am jealous. It's like he's always on adventures, and he's always fighting one monster after another. I wonder how many damsels and villages he has saved in his subconscious.

It sounds like the premise of an awesome comedy-martial arts movie. "Sleep Fighter Kid". Where a puny kid is bullied, until he learns to unlock the ancient fighting techniques passed on to him by his forefathers. So he sleeps to unleash the fighter inside his subconscious. Only when he has lost all consciousness does his body remembers how to fight, to strike without fear, to negotiate with the laws of physics and use his body to devastating results. This would entail humorous scenes of getting into fights, and getting beaten, and then getting knocked down unconscious, only to rise back quickly as a much vicious fighter. The challenge is how to get him to sleep on time.

Which has always been the struggle with Joboy in the first place.