Birth by Sleep My first theory on what "Birth By Sleep" means

I first like to say I am new here so i am sorry if this has been done before. Also thank you for reading. I was trying to figure out what the phrase Birth By Sleep meant and how it would apply to the game. The word sleep has a few definitions. Many of these apply to the game Kingdom Hearts.
1. To take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
2. Botany. To assume, esp. at night, a state similar to the sleep of animals, marked by closing of petals, leaves, etc.
3. To be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties.
4. To be careless or unalert; allow one's alertness, vigilance, or attentiveness to lie dormant: While England slept, Germany prepared for war.
5. To lie in death: They are sleeping in their tombs.

I thought of 5 examples where they use different forms of the word sleep and being born from sleep. I arranged them from #1 being the most important and #5 being the least important. 1 and 2 could be swapped around because #1 is more of the literal meaning and #2 is more of the practical meaning for the game.

1) The biggest example o being born from sleep in the game is where Sora was sleeping at the end of COM. At the end of his slumber Roxas went back inside of Sora. Sora then became a brand new person and he was reborn from his sleep.
This could apply to Birth By Sleep by having Ven sleeping or being in a coma and Aqua becoming one with him because he dies. ( I don’t think that will happen but i am just using it for a comparison)

2) Riku was also reborn by sleep. Riku was not the one sleeping but the thing inside of him was. The Darkness inside of his heart was sleeping but it slowly woke up and took control of Riku. By having the darkness wake up it consumed him and Riku was reborn into a different person. This also applies in the second game where Riku turns into "Ansem" and he lets the darkness take over.
This could very well be what the game Birth By Sleep is all about. Either Terra, Aqua or even Xehanort could be reborn from the darkness inside of them. That would explain how Xehanort became evil and wanted to bring Kingdom Hearts. I think this is the most possable and pracical use of the phrase birth by sleep.

3) The room of awakening may play a huge role in the next game. In order to reborn you need to wake up from you sleep. The room of awakening may be the room where Xehanort first started to study the heart and heartless and then things progressed from there.

4) The princesses of Heart were all sleeping in order to open the Keyhole in Hollow Bastion. In Birth By Sleep they may have people sleeping in order to open up the first keyhole in a world and Ven, Aqua and Terra want to stop that. That would also be a interesting plot to the game.

5) Just on a side note Kingdom Hearts 1 and Kingdom Hearts 2 began with people sleeping and their adventures came after they woke up. Sora thought he was dreaming and later woke up to find riku heading for the darkness. Roxas has a few dreams about sora. So I believe the theme of heart and sleep weave though all games of Kingdom Hearts.

So in conclusion being " Born by Sleep" could mean many things in the realm of Kingdom Hearts. What are your thoughts on the subject? Is there something I am missing or are my facts straight? Hope you enjoyed it.

 

Heartless*: Thanks, I was just thinking about this for a while and I finally decided to create an account and I posted it.

dj rvr: Thank you, and I rewatched some of the cut scenes. Then I realized that I was thinking about the room of sleep because that is where Aqua's armor is. But, I was just thinking that BBS could be about the room of awakening and why Ansem then sealed off the room of sleep and may have hid the room of awakening because something horrible went on. Lastly, I think that is a possible theory about Ven's heart and that would still go with my theory because that may be why Ansem sealed off those rooms.

 

Nicely laid out and nicely structured.There are somethings i'd like to point out to you.Characters rarely die so i doubt the thing about ven and Aqua.I don't think that Xeahnort started studying in the room of Awakening because it is that which he seeks because i think that is how how he is awakened from his ingnorant sleep in which he has no knowledge of his past.
The Princesses of hearts thing you mentioned i'm surprised a new member would find that straight away.I realised it awhile back and i'm surprised a new member spotted it.I feel that KH1 is where history repeats the events of BBS.That would mean that one of them does turn to darkness towards the end(Possibly Terra) and the others try and save him(Aqua and Ven).

 

Yeah I need to change that to the room of sleep. A while after I posted it, I watched one of the clips and remembered it was the room of sleep. So I made a new theory that makes more sense. I just posted another theory on how Terra went to the dark side to save his friends. Just like how Riku went to save Kairi. So I do believe that BBS is almost a mirror to the first Kingdom Hearts.

 

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Yes, it seems to be true that this "Birth by Sleep" may have many things to do with Kingdom Hearts, and I honestly have to say, I can't find many holes in this theory. These meanings are actually quite possible. I applaud this. Good job.