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%%* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': The aptly-named Warp of Confusion in "Trail of the Missing Tails".

%%* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
%%** Wackyland in "Porky in Wackyland" and its remake "Dough for the Do-Do", as well as its appearance in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''.
%%** The Merrie Melodie ''Tin Pan Alley Cats'' has this as its centerpiece.
%%** ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': Keeweeland in "Taz in Keeweeland".

%%* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'': Several dimensions. Some of the dimensions also appear, usually briefly, during the regular episodes.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Featured as the [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E13ShanghaiedGaryTakesABath page image]], Squidward has a lot of experience with these, one of the more memorable being a spaghetti hell. The Season 12 episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E14 SpongeBob in RandomLand]]" revolves around an Acid Trip Dimension: the titular Random Land, where [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward are sent to deliver an order.

** Any episode involving Mad Mod.

%%* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': The Witch's Barriers have a tendency to be... [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sweet-dreams_3701.jpg weird]].

** On a bad day, the Phantom Zone can get like this, most notably in the 1980s ''Phantom Zone'' miniseries by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan, which revealed that [[spoiler:the whole place is actually the physical manifestation of the ''[[GeniusLoci mind]]'' of an EldritchAbomination. As long as you don't probe about too deep in the Zone, it's a perfectly safe place, albeit very barren; but heaven help you if you [[SchmuckBait deliberately attract the thing's attention]]]].

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E27TheAlternativeFactor The Alternative Factor,]]" the universe is composed of a matter universe and an anti-matter universe, separated by a "neutral universe"; the anti-matter universe is identical to the matter-universe in every way, but the neutral universe is quite bizarre.
** The wormhole in ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' appears to be actually a different dimension that touches normal space in two separate points. The inside looks like nothing even roughly similar, but thankfully space ships can travel through it without any trouble if equipped with the necessary technology.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E91LittleGirlLost "Little Girl Lost."]]

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E27TheAlternativeFactor The Alternative Factor,]]" The universe is composed of a matter universe and an anti-matter universe, separated by a "neutral universe"; the anti-matter universe is identical to the matter-universe in every way, but the neutral universe is quite bizarre.

** The universe is composed of a matter universe and an anti-matter universe, separated by a "neutral universe"; the anti-matter universe is identical to the matter-universe in every way, but the neutral universe is quite bizarre.

%%* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': During Creator/GrantMorrison's run of ''JLA'', ComicBook/MartianManhunter takes them to ComicBook/TheJoker's mind.%%And?

** ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': Most other dimensions (especially Dormammu's) visited by the good doctor are usually depicted as bizarre landscapes filled with weird shapes. Creator/SteveDitko was famous for his depictions of these, and every other artist on the book has tried his hand at it.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' have found themselves within a most trippy UnrealisticBlackHole leading Out of This Dimension in ''VideoGame/StarFox1'' and [[ComicStrip/StarFox the related comics]] as well as in [[CoolGate warp-gatey]][[BuffySpeak ...things]] in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''.

* ''VideoGame/Gobliins2'': There are two single-screen "{{dream|Land}}" levels like this. Not that the rest of the game makes much sense, mind you, but these two locations are deliberately bright and bizarre. Oh, and the way to get to them? [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Eating mushrooms. Both times.]] You can't get a more literal example of this.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' have found themselves within a most [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs trippy]] UnrealisticBlackHole leading Out of This Dimension in ''VideoGame/StarFox1'' and [[ComicStrip/StarFox the related comics]] as well as in [[CoolGate warp-gatey]][[BuffySpeak ...things]] in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''.

** The "reality" seen under the effects of the machine in "From Beyond".

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': The [[spoiler:Dark Realm]] in the story mode. When [[spoiler: [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Dracula's]] ]] castle is the most ''normal'' point of interest in said location, then you know you've [[RealityIsOutToLunch walked into a freaking weird and terrifying place]]. Special mention goes to [[spoiler:the Mysterious Dimension, which can only be described as a psychedelic tornado of what appears to be bits and pieces of the fighters' respective worlds all converging on a black hole.]]

* Many WebAnimation/{{Youtube Poop}}s, usually in the form of "acid trips/sequences" which are scenes depicting random characters, objects, and/or shapes moving, contorting, transforming, etc. in psychedelic environments.

** The most prominent examples are the recurring [[BonusStage Special Stages]], abstract landscapes where the Chaos Emeralds are usually found. The special stages change per game: sometimes they can be [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 a maze of multicolored blocks with a scrolling background of fish which morph into birds and vice-versa]] and where you're stuck in a spinning position, other times [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 they can be half-pipes floating in a colorful void]] or [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles small spheres with a squared ground on which you can only run on lines with different colored starry skies]]. ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' noticeably has different environments for its special stages and all of them feel surreal, despite being more "grounded" conceptually than most others, as you run on a Mode 7 track where you have to jump to destroy UFOs without falling in (what appears to be) water.

** The most prominent examples are the recurring [[BonusStage Special Stages]], abstract landscapes where the Chaos Emeralds are usually found. The special stages change per game: sometimes they can be [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 a maze of multicolored blocks with a scrolling background of fish which morph into birds and vice-versa]], other times [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 they can be half-pipes floating in a colorful void]]. ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' noticeably has different environments for its special stages and all of them feel surreal, despite being more "grounded" conceptually than most others.
** In addition to the Special Stages, ''VideoGame/SonicMania'' has [[spoiler: [[TrueFinalBoss Egg Reverie Zone]], a pocket dimension created when the Phantom Ruby malfunctions upon defeating Dr. Eggman's Phantom Egg armor. It has a purple hazy sky, crystals jutting from the floor and [[InterfaceScrew the timer is glitched out]].]]

* ''VideoGame/Gobliins2'': There are two single-screen "{{dream|Land}}" levels like this. Not that the rest of the game makes much sense, mind you -- this series ''is'' a [[WidgetSeries Weird Thing from France]] -- but these two locations are deliberately bright and bizarre. Oh, and the way to get to them? [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Eating mushrooms. Both times.]] You can't get a more literal example of this.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' has various examples:

* ''WesternAnimation/BigHer06'': The world between the portals is a nebulous space filled with beautiful, technicolor cloud-like structures based on fractal geometry.

** In "[[Recap/RenandStimpy1x06BlackHoleStimpysInvention Black Hole]]", Captain Hoek and Cadet Stimpy travel to one of these through the titular black hole.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': One episode has an entire skit with the yellow submarine, complete with an ArtShift as it is noticeably different from the standard dolls they typically use.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Featured as the page image, Squidward has a lot of experience with these, one of the more memorable being a spaghetti hell. The Season 12 episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E14 SpongeBob in RandomLand]]" revolves around an Acid Trip Dimension: the titular Random Land, where [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward are sent to deliver an order.

** The most prominent examples are the recurring [[BonusStage Special Stages]], abstract landscapes where the Chaos Emeralds are usually found. The special stages change per game: sometimes they can be [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 a maze of multicolored blocks with a scrolling background of fish which morph into birds and vice-versa]], other times [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 they can be half-pipes floating in a colorful void]]. ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' noticeably has different environments for its special stages and all of them feel surreal in an UncannyValley way, despite being more "grounded" conceptually than most others.

%%** In a later season, Raven meets the hero Herald in one of these.
%%** Any episode involving Mad Mod.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': [[spoiler: The Magic dimension is basically this. If someone stays in there for too long, then they enter a [[MushroomSamba drug-like trance]], and stay like that until they leave the dimension.]]

* In VideoGame/ClubPenguin there's another world called the Box Dimension. This dimension can only be accessed through cardboard box portals, and unless you put one in your igloo, it's only accessible during certain parties. The dimension is full of floating boxes, the laws of physics are different (such as causing a thrown snowball to spiral before landing), and it's all inside of a swirly purple void. Occasionally, an orange puffle will fly by in a box.

%%* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Delirium's world is like this at its most coherent.

** During Steve Gerber's run on ''ComicBook/SensationalSheHulk'', she teams up with Howard the Duck for an adventure visiting several dimensions, including one that consists of nothing but giant slices of baloney floating through an endless void, which are fed on by little flying gargoyle creatures who gleefully shout "Blo-neeeee!"

%%** ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'': Creator/JackKirby's early depictions of the Negative Zone would qualify as well.