Every Sandra Bullock Outfit in While You Were Sleeping Is Pajamas

Sandra Bullock plays Lucy, a Chicago transit worker who is deeply lonely and even more deeply committed to filling her wardrobe with drapey, chunky, cozy garments. It's important to define exactly the kind of drape we're talking about here. This is the '90s so Sandra is giving less Stevie Nicks witchy drape and more Phoebe Buffay structured drape. There's a lot of Big Sweaters with Doc Martens. It's practical. It's also pajamas.

We know that Lucy is a heroine we're going to love because she wears sweaters big enough to lose her arm in. What an adorably kooky, highly relatable person! This will come in handy in a few minutes when she, like most romcom characters, becomes a little bit of a stalker.

It's important to note that Lucy is the only person in the movie who is dressed like they took a sick day from work and are on the couch, catching up on Law & Order. Everyone else's costumes are of a normal size and largely not cashmere. Which is their loss.

They do seem to be aware, however, that Lucy is living her best, most hygge life. This is her landlord and his creeper son. As you can see their clothes are tailored to the fit of their bodies. They are sleeping on sleepwear as outerwear. 'Tis a pity.

While You Were Sleeping takes place during the Christmas season in Chicago so it's a big plot point that it's basically negative 20 degrees. Other characters react to this with trenches, overcoats, and other winter wear. Lucy does them all one better by dressing like someone who is camping out for concert tickets to a Pearl Jam show. She layers obsessively for maximum snuggliness, including a super long wool coat that reaches past her ankles. She's like a sleep sorceress.

Even at work she's hoping bae catches her slippin'. Yes, she has a "job" which helps her to dreamily pine after Peter Gallagher's character, also named Peter, a businessman who comes through her gate between 8:01 and 8:15 every morning, but it's clear from her attire that even when she's working she's always ready for bed.

Peter falls on to the subway tracks and is immediately knocked unconscious. It important to note that this is the only scene in the movie in which you see Lucy wearing jeans, arguably not sleepwear. This is the moment that the sleep universe is turned upside-down. Lucy is supposed to be sleeping; that's why she wears pajamas all the time. Peter is now sleeping. Lucy must spend the film trying to get back to bed. This is like a sex farce but instead of sex the characters just want to nap.

There are moments that Lucy has on so many layers it is actually impossible to tell where she begins and ends. Everything is so chunky and voluminous. Her natural state is "in a Snuggie."

Even in an out-of-focus childhood picture on her nightstand, Lucy is wearing cuddly prêt-à-dormir wear. Her destiny is bed time...

...and yet she does not sleep. Honestly, Jon Turtletaub's direction is masterful. This belongs up there with Christopher Nolan's Insomnia as one of the best films to address the question of why we're not in bed right now.

Here's a glimpse of the coat in all its glory. While Lucy goes out to the hospital in the middle of the night to hang out with Peter (and steal his sleep powers?! Pet theory; I'm working on it) she is dressed as if she could easily nod off at any moment, anywhere.

Which is what she does! Peter's family comes in in the morning to find Lucy sleeping by Peter's bedside. Peter's grandmother, played by the wonderful Glynis Johns, makes an off-handed remark that is also the thesis of the movie.

Lucy is invited over to a belated Christmas dinner with Peter's family. By this point she has had at least three opportunities to clarify that she is not actually engaged to him but she doesn't because she, like most romcom characters, is a little insane. And also she is trying to steal his sleep powers. At dinner she wears a crocheted top which wouldn't be great for sleeping except...

...she totally sleeps in it! Even when she's not wearing pajamas, she is wearing pajamas!

Lucy in her natural state—in bed, wearing extremely comfortable clothes, rooting through a stranger's personal belongings. HYGGE AF!

Ah, but who comes in to wake her up? (Or put her to sleep? I'm not sure how the metaphor extends here. More research needed. I'll sleep on it.) Anyway, Jack, Peter's brother shows up and immediately falls for Lucy. Another terrible decision by a person in this film full of people making terrible decisions and one woman who just wants to get some rest.

Jack, wearing a straight-up jacket in Chicago in the winter, has the audacity to tell Lucy she needs a better coat which, ugh men. Lucy replies that the coat is her dad's. The movie let's us know that Lucy's dad has passed away after a long illness. They don't specify what the illness was, only that it needed extensive research. So, probably a mysterious sleep illness. Something to give this Soporific Superheroine an origin story.

Jack and Lucy fall for each other, literally and figuratively, as the movie re-introduces the metaphor of falling—asleep, in love, off the side of a train track.

Lucy, an actual lunatic, tells her boss that she is now into Jack, having spent all of two days with him. She does this while dressed as Jacob Marley's ghost.

But wait! Peter wakes up! Has Lucy successfully stolen his sleep powers? Will the family discover the truth? Could you totally see yourself sleeping in this cozy cashmere top?