Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26392556-20150410163652/@comment-5106672-20150410172131

I think there are two kinds of sleeping magic: a sleeping spell, which simply purs everybody to sleep (palace guards, the whole Storybrooke) and can be cast on whomever she wants regardless of whether they are willing or not. And then the Sleeping Curse proper, which works by means of (more or less willing) sacrifice.

Side note, in S2 Aurora told Phillip not to come for her, so I guess what Maleficent cast on her in Enter The Dragon was not the actual Sleeping Curse. I think it was more of a treat.