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* In the pilot for ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'', the main character Pomni, after initially freaking out over not being able to leave the titular Amazing Digital Circus, where she ended up after putting on a strange headset, she comes to the conclusion that it's AllJustADream, and that she just needs to play along until she wakes up.

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* In the pilot for ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'', the main character Pomni, after initially freaking out over not being able to leave the titular Amazing Digital Circus, where she ended up after putting on a strange headset, she Pomni comes to the conclusion that it's AllJustADream, she's dreaming after putting on a strange VR headset that's gotten her stuck in the titular circus, and that she just needs to play along with everyone until she wakes up.up. Her fellow prisoners don't have the heart to say it's NotADream, with [[{{Jerkass}} Jax]] humoring Pomni just to mess with her. It takes a [[AllForNothing futile, traumatic attempt to escape]] for it to finally sink in for Pomni that she's really not leaving.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', when Mei turns into a giant red panda for the first time she initially thinks that she is just having a bad dream. Ironically, she had just woken up from a bad dream during which her panda form was bestowed.
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* ''Series/TheCurse'': [[spoiler: Asher]] attempts to rationalize [[spoiler his gravity being reversed and him falling upward into the atmosphere]] as a dream. Unfortunately, it's not, and he [[spoiler: ends up dead after a few more minutes.]]

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* ''Series/TheCurse'': [[spoiler: Asher]] attempts to rationalize [[spoiler [[spoiler: his gravity being reversed and him falling upward into the atmosphere]] as a dream. Unfortunately, it's not, and he [[spoiler: ends up dead after a few more minutes.]]
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* ''Series/TheCurse'': [[spoiler: Asher]] attempts to rationalize [[spoiler his gravity being reversed and him falling upward into the atmosphere]] as a dream. Unfortunately, it's not, and he [[spoiler: ends up dead after a few more minutes.]]
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* In the pilot for ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'', the main character Pomni, after initially freaking out over not being able to leave the titular Amazing Digital Circus, where she ended up after putting on a strange headset, she comes to the conclusion that it's AllJustADream, and that she just needs to play along until she wakes up.

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-->'''Mario:''' [angrily] "''YEEES!''"
-->'''Toad:''' "Definitely not a dream."

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-->'''Mario:''' [angrily] "''YEEES!''"
-->'''Toad:''' "Definitely
''[angrily]'' YEEES!\\
'''Toad:''' Definitely
not a dream."



-->'''Mrs. Fox''': I'm dreaming.
-->'''Small Fox''': You're not dreaming, Mummy! They're real chickens! We're saved! We're not going to starve!

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-->'''Mrs. Fox''': I'm dreaming.
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* ''Literature/OldKingdom'': When Lirael and the Disreputable Dog rescue Nick, Lirael [[{{Animorphism}} transforms into an owl]] and the Dog [[PartialTransformation grows wings]], so Nick -- who's feverish and [[{{Masquerade}} doesn't know magic is real]] -- assumes he's dreaming. Consequently, they have to remind him to [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn get dressed]] before he goes with them, which mortifies him when he realizes who his rescuers were.

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* In ''The Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' the protagonist is magically transported to a strange land, and believes he is dreaming, in part because his leprosy is gone and he can feel again. Unfortunately, this leads to him raping a woman, thinking she is just a figment of his imagination.



* In ''The Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' the protagonist is magically transported to a strange land, and believe he is dreaming, in part because his leprosy is gone and he can feel again. Unfortunately, this leads to him raping a woman, thinking she is just a figment of his imagination.

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* In ''The Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' the protagonist is magically transported to a strange land, and believe he is dreaming, in part because his leprosy is gone and he can feel again. Unfortunately, this leads to him raping a woman, thinking she is just a figment of his imagination.

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* In ''The Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' the protagonist is magically transported to a strange land, and believe he is dreaming, in part because his leprosy is gone and he can feel again. Unfortunately, this leads to him raping a woman, thinking she is just a figment of his imagination.
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* Invoked by Tom in ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog'' when he tries to kick Sonic out of the car after their first fight with Dr. Robotnik, trying to dismiss the strange experience with a blue alien hedgehog as a dream.

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* Invoked by Tom in ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog'' ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' when he tries to kick Sonic out of the car after their first fight with Dr. Robotnik, trying to dismiss the strange experience with a blue alien hedgehog as a dream.

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* In ''[[VideoGame/DotsHome Dot's Home]]'', Dot time travels back to key points in her family's past to learn about the housing discrimination they suffered as Black people. As entering the past involved using a magic key to enter a trippy hallway, Dot swears that she's dreaming all of this. [[spoiler:Except that she wasn't because all the advice she gave her relatives in the past ended up influencing the present.]]

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* ''VideoGame/AlterEgo2018'': In ''[[VideoGame/DotsHome Dot's Home]]'', the ID ending, [[spoiler:Es]] concludes that both the player and Ego Rex are figments of her imagination, only there to serve as a GoodAngelBadAngel duo that fuels her conformity/impulse conflict.
* ''VideoGame/DotsHome'':
Dot time travels time-travels back to key points in her family's past to learn about the housing discrimination they suffered as Black people. As entering the past involved using a magic key to enter a trippy hallway, Dot swears that she's dreaming all of this. [[spoiler:Except that she wasn't because all the advice she gave her relatives in the past ended up influencing the present.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'': When Barry talks to Vanessa for the first time, she brushes it off as her dreaming, even though she doesn't remember going to bed. After stabbing her own hand with a fork, she realizes that a bee really is talking to her.

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* In ''[[VideoGame/DotsHome Dot's Home]]'', Dot time travels back to key points in her family's past to learn about the housing discrimination they suffered as Black people. As entering the past involved using a magic key to enter a trippy hallway, Dot swears that she's dreaming all of this. [[spoiler:Except that she wasn't because all the advice she gave her relatives in the past ended up influencing the present.]]
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'': When Sora first leaves Destiny Islands and ends up sleeping in an alley in Traverse Town, Pluto the dog finds him. Sora, still groggy, initially assumes it's a dream before Pluto pushes into him, bringing him to his senses.



* ''VideoGame/SilentHill4TheRoom'': When Henry first meets Cynthia, she states her belief that the Otherworld they're currently trapped in is a particularly bad dream. [[spoiler:Tragically, she sticks to this belief even as she's dying, [[LetThemDieHappy and Henry goes along with it.]]]]



* ''VideoGame/SilentHill4TheRoom'': When Henry first meets Cynthia, she states her belief that the Otherworld they're currently trapped in is a particularly bad dream. [[spoiler:Tragically, she sticks to this belief even as she's dying, [[LetThemDieHappy and Henry goes along with it.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'': When Sora first leaves Destiny Islands and ends up sleeping in an alley in Traverse Town, Pluto the dog finds him. Sora, still groggy, initially assumes it's a dream before Pluto pushes into him, bringing him to his senses.
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-->'''Toad:''' "Definatly not a dream."

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-->'''Toad:''' "Definatly "Definitely not a dream."
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* ''Series/LostGirl''. In the first episode a rapist tries to drug and rape Kenzi, only for Bo to intervene and kill him with her KissOfDeath. Kenzi is relieved when she wakes up and is told by Bo that what she witnessed was a drug-induced hallucination. That is, until she plays the video she took of the incident on her cellphone, whereupon she freaks out.
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': Marty [=McFly=] tells himself that it's all just a "very intense dream" when he travels back in time to 1955.

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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': Marty [=McFly=] tells himself that it's all just a "very intense dream" when he travels back in time to 1955.
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* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': April O'Neil is absolutely horrified when she wakes up and sees the Turtles, instantly assuming she's dead. She briefly calms herself down by rationalizing that she's dreaming. She explains away Splinter as being representative of the rat she saw earlier in the parking lot before she got jumped by the muggers from the beginning of the movie.

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* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'': April O'Neil is absolutely horrified when she wakes up and sees the Turtles, instantly assuming she's dead. She briefly calms herself down by rationalizing that she's dreaming. She explains away Splinter as being representative of the rat she saw earlier in the parking lot before she got jumped by the muggers from the beginning of the movie.

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