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knitsybitsy's avatar
7 years ago

My sim won't sleep!

I had a sim that was a toddler, she would be exhausted and I couldn't get her to go to sleep. I had no noise on or something that should wake her. I had her partents trying to read her to sleep or put her to sleep or tuck her in. I was tired of it as a toddler so I aged her up, thinking it would help. She just doesn't sleep. She will yawn and act tired. I get her in the bed and she does the sleeping zzz for about a min and is right back up again, yawning wanting to go back to sleep.

4 Replies

  • Hello
    If you have pets in your household they may be keeping her awake. The pets don’t need to be in the room to keep Sims awake. Try lecturing any pets to not keep Sims awake and see if that helps.
    If there are windchimes in the bedroom, remove them as they can cause Sims not to sleep.
    Try selling the bed and buying a new one, then test to see if that helps.
  • I reset the sim using the cheat code and it doesn't help. I aged her up from Toddler to Child and that doesn't Help. She can not sleep in any bed and goes into a tent then leaves it a few seconds later, yawning.
  • Hello
    Did doing what I suggested help?
    If you have cc/mods in your game, move your whole mods folder to the desktop. Then start the game and see if the issues are still there

    If what I suggested didn’t help, and if you have tested without cc/mods in your game, you may like to post feedback on this AHQ EA thread
    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Sims-won-t-stay-in-bed/td-p/6422023
  • That happened to a couple of adult Sims in a household in my game once. I put in a whole string of sleep commands and keep re-adding them until they got enough sleep. A 'nightmare'. I was afraid they would die of exhaustion if I just left the game without them getting some sleep first the were so exhausted! In my case the glitch went away when I re-entered the game. I also had a different household with an astronaut dad that went on a space mission while the teen and child were asleep and had a crash landing that blew up the ship in the backyard. They were freaked out and then their sleep and social went bonkers in the same type of way. You can also try...

    • I'm sure you did this already, but sometimes just leaving the game (especially if you haven't already saved it with the glitch running), shutting down the game then re-starting it will have fixed a glitch when you re-enter the lot.
    • Go to 'Manage Households' and move the sim to a new household of their own. If it is a child you may need to move an adult with them. Save and exit the whole game, then go back in and open the household and save. Next go to Manage households and re-add them into the original household and save. Now go in and see if the glitch is gone.
    • You can save the household into your library, and save the lot into the library, and repair the game. See if that fixes it.
    • You can try moving the family to a new lot or home. A new household move is a kick in the pants that can do wonders to 'reset' some things.

    If all of these things don't help, you can reset your game, as @rosemow suggested (see thread on link below for extensive detail on the process, if you want more info on it). Or you can just do it rather than trying the other things, for that matter. In the case of the Sims in my household that I mentioned I did not reset the game and I'm still playing them successfully. They did move past it - with some help. : https://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2014/09/resetting-the-game-to-factory-settings-without-reinstalling/

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