That's because a good handful of people who wound up coming out of the ocean were originally trapped in a nightmare realm. We were called sleepers because we were essentially trapped in a dream "sleeping". That didn't apply to EVERYONE who came out of the ocean, but the term stuck.
To back up and give some context, the series of events went like this:
Astrally pulled into a Nightmare Realm created by a girl with cosmic, reality altering powers > Nightmare Realm starts to break down and fall apart > We are given the option to either fade away into nothing or walk through a door > walking through the door leads to us being reincarnated into the ocean.
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To back up and give some context, the series of events went like this:
Astrally pulled into a Nightmare Realm created by a girl with cosmic, reality altering powers > Nightmare Realm starts to break down and fall apart > We are given the option to either fade away into nothing or walk through a door > walking through the door leads to us being reincarnated into the ocean.