History Main / JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind

* In "Memory of a Memory" of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', the main duo Finn and Jake have to retrieve a spell from their friend Marceline's memory so that she can awaken from her slumber. [[spoiler:Turns out that they were tricked by [[{{Jerkass}} Ash]] (Marceliene's Ex-Boyfriend) to retrive the memory of a break up in order to rekindle his relationship with her, Or to explain it another way the "Memory" that Ash was refering to after TheReveal was not the memory of the spell at all.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'', the main hero undergoes one of these to unlock the repressed memories of his origins.

** However, it's implied that [[spoiler:it's probably influenced by the show that Travis was "[[ADateWithRosiePalms watching]]" while Henry was out cold.]]

** However, it's implied that [[spoiler:it's probably influenced by the show that Travis was watching while Henry was out cold.]]
* It's strongly implied that this is what the Dream World represents in ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'',but...[[MindScrew then again...]]

** Featured heavily in VideoGame/{{Disgaea}} 3, where it's called Mao's "heart" instead of his mind. Much of the plot revolves around Mao trying to defeat his psychological demons and "open his heart" by repeated trips inside his own psyche. In the end, [[spoiler:it's the PowerOfFriendship and not these journeys that allows him to overcome his problems]].

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' series, there is a machine called the Encephalon which does this. In the entire trilogy, there have been three of these uses - once when retrieving KOS-MOS's memory banks from a black box in Episode I ([[spoiler:shown as Miltia before and after the Gnosis incident began]]), and in Episode II, the crew has to dive into MOMO's head ([[spoiler:shown as the subconscious of the girl MOMO was based off of, combined with a little of Jr.]]'s) to figure out what the hell Albedo did to her back during the MindRape of the previous game. The third incident is in Episode III, where the crew dives into Shion's subconscious ([[spoiler:shown as Miltia before the whole thing with the Gnosis started]]) without even knowing they had done so. All three of them were pretty much MindScrews, ''especially'' the KOS-MOS one (where it doesn't even ''use'' KOS-MOS's memories, instead an amalgamation of Shion and Jr.'s).

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness'', the player and partner are sent into Azurill's nightmare to find out why he won't wake up.

* One of the Quests in ''RomancingSaGa3'' had you go into a character's mind and save her from the being conjured by the poison she drank [[spoiler: Turns out that the entity causing her nightmares was also making her unable to walk; she becomes recruitable after said mission]]

** [[NintendoHard That hurt like hell]]

* The protagonists of James Morrow's ''Blameless in Abaddon'' enter the mind of God Himself, where they converse with Biblical characters and dinosaurs playing Scrabble. They discover that God is a Platonist, and hence everything they encounter is the Idea/Essence of that thing. They also learn some counter-arguments to the best theodicies[[note]]A theodicy is an explanation/defense for why evil exists if God is good[[/note]]; they intend to use them in the prosecution of an upcoming trial against… God Himself.

* {{Ayreon}}'s 'The Human Equation': the protagonist, while comatose has a rather lengthy discussion with his emotions.

** Then there was other one, when one of the criminals from the PhantomZone tries to [[BodySurf take over]] Clark's body, trapping him in a imaginary world where he is a schizophrenic patient who [[AllJustADream has hallucinated every bit of the series so far]] (The Phantom Zone is a book on a shelf, Jor-El is a brand of shampoo, and so on). It is the MartianManhunter who enters his mind to save him.

* In ''{{Smallville}}'', [[SuperMan Clark Kent]] does one of these to get some data from Lex Luthor's head and save his BroughtDownToNormal cousin Kara. It should be noted that the machine used for the trip had killed everyone who tried to use it before, but, well, it IS [[LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe Super]][[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands man]]. Inside Lex's head he found [[AnthropomorphicPersonification 2 Lexes]], the adult, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive ruthless]] Lex, and a child one, referred to as [[ShoutOut Alexander]], who is good and helps Clark on the trip, while fearing the other one will attack him. Said kid coincidentally serves to revive [[StatusQuoIsGod Clark's faith that Lex can be redeemed]]. For a while, [[YouCantFightFate at least]].

* ''Film/{{Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}'' Snape introduces Harry to the magical ability of Legilimency, the ability to enter another's mind. We see Snape use it to peruse Harry's memories, we also learn that You-Know-Who used to use this skill to enter people's mind and implant visions so horrible they would be begging for death, and later we see a short, but trippy look inside Harry's mind as he and...well, You-Know-Who, battle for control of Harry's body.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': [[ActionGirl Tifa]] has to venture into the mind of her friend Cloud when he becomes mentally-quadriplegic and sits 'almost' silently in a wheelchair, unable to do anything, after falling into the Lifestream. She, then Cid, become the main characters until Cloud comes round thanks to her help.

* In ''ArTonelico'', this is the form that diving into a Reyvateil's cosmosphere takes. You go into different levels in order to solve embodiments of the Reyvateil's psychological issues and complexes. And somehow, they create song magic from that. Notably, you do need to (usually) get consent from the Reyvateil first. Croix's first dive into Cloche in ArTonelico2 shows what happens if you don't (And he actually did have consent. She just wasn't comfortable with it internally, even though she wanted him to help her craft song magic).

* In ''ArTonelico'', this is the form that diving into a Reyvateil's cosmosphere takes. You go into different levels in order to solve embodiments of the Reyvateil's psychological issues and complexes. And somehow, they create song magic from that.

* [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Candace, Phineas, Ferb]] and others go inside Candance's mind in "Monster from the Id" to retrieve a memory.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': During Jim's duel with Judai while he's possessed by Haou, Jim uses his magic replacement eye to take a trip into Judai's mind to figure out what's going on with him. He finds the former [[TheAce Ace]] surrounded by images of his dead friends and listening to to a repetitive loop of [[TheReasonYouTheSuckSpeech the reasons he sucks]] from that season's villains, sinking deeper into despair and [[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight farther out of reach]].

* In the surrealistic indie rpg ''Lacuna Part I. The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City'' the players are agents of an unidentified organization dedicated to curing anti-social (i.e. criminal) behavior by entering a shared subconscious space with the criminal/patient.

* This is the entire premise of ''BeingJohnMalkovich''. Even Malkovich goes into his own mind, and the resulting surrealistic horror might qualify as NightmareFuel if it weren't so goddamn funny.

* In the dating sim/RPG ''ArTonelico'', part of wooing the girls involves journeying into their minds. This also unlocks new costumes and abilities for them.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': During Jim's duel with Judai while he's possessed by Haou, Jim uses his magic replacement eye to take a trip into Judai's mind to figure out what's going on with him. He finds the former [[TheAce Ace]] surrounded by images of his dead friends and listening to to a repetitive loop of [[HannibalLecture Hannibal Lectures]] from that season's villains, sinking deeper into despair and [[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight farther out of reach]].

* One of the episodes of Disney Channel's ''SoWeird'' had this as it's plot. Fi, Jack, and Clu end up going inside a young boy's dreams to find out why he's having nightmares. The nightmare-creature (represented by a huge mass of black mist) is constantly chasing them, and will only be defeated when the child stands up and faces his fears. What's he afraid of? [[spoiler:His parents are constantly fighting and he's afraid [[ParentalAbandonment that one of them will leave.]]]]

* In a JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Fill-in issue by J.M. Dematteis, MartianManhunter decides to show TheSpectre that there is good [[RousseauWasRight in everyone]] by taking him, along with the rest of the League, into the mind of ''SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker'' of all people, showing that in the impossible maelstrom of depravity and chaos that is his mind, somewhere, there is a small house with a kindly couple, representing the tiny bit of humanity the Joker still has.

* One of the episodes of Disney Channel's SoWeird had this as it's plot. Fi, Jack, and Clu end up going inside a young boy's dreams to find out why he's having nightmares. The nightmare-creature (represented by a huge mass of black mist) is constantly chasing them, and will only be defeated when the child stands up and faces his fears. What's he afraid of? [[spoiler:His parents are constantly fighting and he's afraid [[ParentalAbandonment that one of them will leave.]]]]

* In one episode of ''And Sometimes Y'', the hosts travel into the mind of a CBC Radio listener.

* We get a glimpse inside of [[spoiler: Zombie]]'s mind in HannaIsNotABoysName when he [[spoiler: is possessed by Lee's ghost.]]

* We get a glimpse of a [[MindScrew confusing world]] [[MentalWorld inside Nenshe's head]] in the fifth arc of RumorsOfWar.
* NinthElsewhere is essentially the personification of this trope.

* In the HalloweenEpisode of InvaderZim, Zim and Dib gets trapped in a world filled with twisted amalgamations of characters from the CrapsackWorld the show takes place in, evidently inside Dib's mind. Of course, when they try to escape into the real world, they find it too horrifying to bear and return back to their own (apparently less) hellish dimension.
* The DuckDodgers episode, "A Lame Duck Mind" has the Cadet, I.Q. High and the VillainOfTheWeek going inside the tangled mess that is Dodger's brain. They're assisted by Dodger's Id, Super-Ego and Ego.

* In WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Miss Martian breaks Kaldurs mind not knowing that he's a ReverseMole. She is forced by Black Manta to heal him, so she and Artemis(disguised as Tigress) enter Kaldurs mind which is shown to be shattered by her attack.

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