Nethercot writes that “Carmilla also undergoes ‘delightful’ sleep” (35). The sleepwalking and the image of sleep is a common trope throughout most vampire works, regardless of gender. To add, Carmilla’s attempts at seducing Laura cause her to have horrific nightmares. These nightmares started to become more and more frequent as Carmilla attempts to hypnotize Laura into succumbing to her. One nightmare she has she describes it as “the beginning of a very strange agony” (Sheridan LeFanu 39). Due to this dream, Laura begins to experience a decline in her physical and mental health. The dream describes a “sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared…about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug…”