D&D 5E (2014) Do Beholders need sleep?

[Agglomérante]

Your gut reaction please, followed by any rationale.

Yes or no?

 

[GameOgre]

Yes, but they do it with one EYE open.

 

[Paraxis]

Yes, they are aberrations and in 3e at least all aberrations needed to eat, breath, and sleep.

I am sure an ecology of the beholder is in an old issue of Dragon Magazine.

They need the sleepy time to dream of planer domination.

 

[SirAntoine]

I would say the beholder can sleep, yes. Imagine them just floating there with all their eyes closed. They would probably sleep after eating an adventurer.

 

[Paraxis]

I put together a visual aid.

 

[pukunui]

The 5e MM is pretty good about stating when monsters don't need sleep. It doesn't say beholders don't (whereas it does say that the undead death tyrant does not), so I think it's safe to assume they do. As [MENTION=6731904]SirAntoine[/MENTION] says, it's easy enough to picture them hovering in the air with their eyes all closed. Or maybe, as [MENTION=57914]GameOgre[/MENTION] says, they sleep with one eye open.

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

I'd say they need to rejuvenate or revitalize themselves from time to time.

What form that takes...I wouldn't know. Maybe after they mate or spawn?

Perhaps they indulge in a reverie like elves, but one filled with the beholder's favorite moments of inflicting terror, madness and mayhem on other, lesser beings.

I think it would be awesome to put a group of adventurers in the middle of a hive of beholders, all dreaming mad dreams, making scary noises and drooling in somnolent glee.

 

[Ahrimon]

I know they sleep. They put a beholder into an episode of futurama that was caught sleeping.

 

[Dausuul]

Your gut reaction please, followed by any rationale.

Yes or no?

Gut reaction: Yes, because most living things do.

Also, the Monster Manual specifically states on page 26 that beholders sleep. They close the central eye but leave the little eyes open.

 

[PnPgamer]

I checked 2nd edition MM for another source, no sleep patterns explained there. I'd guess they need to sleep.