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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'' episode "I Dream of Jimmy," Jimmy travels into Carl's highly-illogical dreamscape to deal with his friend's recurring nightmare.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Dream a Lily Dream", Lisa, Lincoln, Lynn, Lola and Leni go into Lily's mind to fight the monsters that are giving her nightmares while the others keep her asleep.

* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'', [[spoiler:Henry's recovery from his HarmlessFreezing involves fighting a little girl with HumongousMecha arms (AKA Travis' fetish) in his mind]]. It's a relative BigLippedAlligatorMoment in the game, and coming from [[MindScrew this]] game, that's saying a lot. However, it's implied that [[spoiler:it's influenced by the show that Travis was "[[ADateWithRosiePalms watching]]" while Henry was out cold]].

* In ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'', like the film it's based on, two characters can share a mental connection in "The Drift". One character, Shane, is particularly adept at navigating the minds of others.

* In a ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode, Counselor Troi enlists the aid of a powerful alien telepath to enter the mind of her comatose mother.
** In another, Picard and company attach Data's brain to the holodeck to enter his dreams so they can learn what he doesn't know that he knows.
** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E22Emergence Emergence]]", the Enterprise starts to gain an intelligence and the holodeck becomes the imagination of the ship. The crew enters the holodeck in order to figure out what the aims of the Enterprise are.
** In ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', O'Brien and Bashir interrogate a special agent this way. He turns the tables on them by [[spoiler: creating a part of his mind that looks like the room they started from and trying to trap them there]].

** In the 6th season's finale, [[spoiler:Castiel breaks down Sam's wall and he has to find his way back to Dean and Bobby by finding and killing Robo!Sam and Hell!Sam, which the wall was making sure he never remembered]].

* Played with in ''Series/{{Taken}}''. Several characters enter a crashed alien spacecraft, and see visions from their minds -- a soldier sees his mother and her delicious cookies; one sees cockroaches, his greatest fear; one of the main characters sees her dead grandfather that she never met, who claims to be how she views him in her mind. In the end, [[spoiler: it turns out the resident child psychic has been pulling these images out of peoples minds and making them see them -- there wasn't even an alien crash]].

-->It beats me as to how you manage to live in anything that small.

* In the ''Series/FraggleRock'' episode "[[Recap/FraggleRockS2E6BoobersDream Boober's Dream]]", Boober goes on a Journey to the Center of the Mind to confront his [[{{Keet}} fun-loving and irresponsible alter-ego Sidebottom]], who has gotten out of control. When this fails, he enlists the rest of the FiveManBand to [[DreamLand journey with him]] and put a stop to Sidebottom's antics.

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* In one episode of ''Radio/AndSometimesY'', the hosts travel into the mind of a CBC Radio listener.
* Arthur Dent in ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' is taken aback to realise Marvin the Paranoid Android can read his mind.
-->It beats me as to how you manage to live in anything that small.
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* With the help of a stray Unown, the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime's heroes go into the mind of the very shy Larvitar that Ash has been taking care of, to find out ''what'' exactly went wrong to make him so untrusting of humans... an incident involving poachers that left its Tyranitar mother injured and the two separated when it was still in its egg.

* The episode "Numbskulls of the Beast" from ''Series/TheLegendOfDickAndDom'' sees the heroes use magic to get inside the head of the BigBad, to find where he has hidden the MacGuffin; They aren't particularly interested in why his wrath is represented as [[SurrealHumor giant red teddy bears]], or what's with his mind having security guards (who are flying Brooklyn-accented [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]]) and cable cars.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyKingdoms'': In the second ''Figment'' series, Figment, Capri, and Spark travel into Dreamfinder's mind to free him from the control of the Doubtfinder.

** "Hollow Mind" does the same, but plays it for ''significantly'' more horror, as Luz and Hunter end up in ''Belos's'' mind. Unlike Willow's mindscape, Belos's mindscape starts in a giant hallway of abstract paintings, made of all the lies he tells, and the true mindscape underneath is a dark, dead forest covered in cobwebs underneath a pitch black sky. [[spoiler:Luz and Hunter are attacked by the amalgamated Palisman souls Belos has been consuming over the years, and the Inner Belos leads them through the memories that spell out who Belos really is, and what he's done to the [[ExpendableClone previous Golden Guards]]. When Hunter brokenly begs the Inner Belos for answers, he writes the boy off as a lost cause, and tries to get rid of him by ''dragging him down into his subconscious'', illustrated by Hunter sinking into the ground like it's quicksand while Luz desperately tries to pull him out. Luz herself is horrified and devastated to discover that Belos is Philip Wittebane and that she was a would-be genocidal tyrant's UnwittingPawn. By the time Eda manages to get them out, [[HeroicBSOD the poor kids are quite simply traumatized]]; Luz is almost nonverbal, and Hunter, already suffering from an IdentityBreakdown, has a panic attack upon realizing that Belos will know they were in there and that it's not safe to return to the castle.]]

** In one episode Lyta, the resident telepath, enters a SerialKiller's mind... and it's not pretty.
** In "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari", Londo is in critical condition after suffering a heart attack. In his mind, he has visions of the rest of the cast, who convince him that [[TheAtoner he has to confront his guilty conscience if he wants to live]].

* Spoofed in the Hartnell-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Chase", in which the crew land in a HauntedHouse containing screaming, bats, ghosts, Count Dracula, etcetera. The Doctor and Ian remark that everything is [[ClicheStorm too familiar]], causing the Doctor to postulate that the TARDIS has taken them into 'the darkest depths of the human mind'. Ian, quietly applying OccamsRazor, seems to realise they're actually in a theme park attraction, but keeps quiet so as not to upset the Doctor.
* In the ''Series/FraggleRock'' episode "Boober's Dream," Boober goes on a Journey to the Center of the Mind to confront his [[{{Keet}} fun-loving and irresponsible]] [[GollumMadeMeDoIt alter-ego Sidebottom]], who has gotten out of control. When this fails, he enlists the rest of the FiveManBand to [[DreamLand journey with him]] and put a stop to Sidebottom's antics.
* In the ''Series/ANTFarm'' episode "[=IdANTity=] Crisis", the A.N.T.s are forced to share in Chyna's mind when Skidmore steals their personalities. Violet rather enjoys herself messing with the controls, but Fletcher is rather disappointed to discover that he's not one of Chyna's crushes.
-->'''Fletcher:''' Why is the drawer so full?\\
[Rifles through cabinet]
-->'''Fletcher:''' OH, COME ON! I GOTTA BE IN HERE SOMEWHERE!
* The series finale of ''Series/HermansHead'' has the eponymous Herman visiting the characters in his mind.
* In the ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' episode "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide", Peter and [[MadScientist Walter]] enter Olivia's mind in order to retrieve her consciousness after she is possessed by [[spoiler:William Bell]].

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Mindreacher", Dr. Candace Maguire and her lover Dr. Kenneth Vaughn have developed a technique known as Psionically Synchronized Reality (PSR) or "mindreaching" which allows someone to enter the mind of a mentally ill person and help them fight their demons. It is their hope that it will revolutionize the treatment of mental health disorders.

** [[Franchise/{{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 finds [[AnthropomorphicPersonification two Lexes]], the adult, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive ruthless]] Lex, and a child Lex, 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]].

* There's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumegari light novel]] written by Creator/{{CLAMP}} named ''LightNovel/YumeGari'' (''Dream Hunter''), where the main character Tatsumi Honjou is a ''yumegari'' warrior who investigates the dreams of others and, if needed, dives into them. Every ''yumegari'' must be partnered with a ''yumemori'' who has to watch over the ''yumegari'' and their own dreams; Tatsumi's ''yumemori'' is a man named Kyousuke Kaga, and after [[BattleCouple her parents and predecessors]] die in the line of duty, Tatsumi goes to live with Kyousuke...

* Happens on a semi-regular basis to Caboose in WebAnimation/RedVsBlue. It seems like about every other week, an AI is jumping into his head for some reason. Probably this is part of the reason he's so... well, {{Cloudcuckoolander}} sums it up pretty well.

* Happens on a semi-regular basis to Caboose in Machinima/RedVsBlue. It seems like about every other week, an AI is jumping into his head for some reason. Probably this is part of the reason he's so... well, {{Cloudcuckoolander}} sums it up pretty well.

** Several times in the story Lance has nightmares about an incident on a farm. In the chapter "A Trip Into The Mind", Twilight and Lance go inside his mindscape to relive the memory with the intent of finding the source of the trauma. The incident in question happened on Lance's grandad's farm. Lance's [[ClashingCousins cousins]] locked him in the barn and had a horse [[RapeAsBackstory forced]] upon him. Lance never trully overcomes his trauma, but talking about it with Twilight lessened its hold on him.

* Done in Paul Jenkins' run on ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk''. Bruce Banner travels into his own mind to try and strike a deal with his Hulk personalities, each of which represents a different aspect of Bruce. Due to the psychology-themed nature of the character, this trope has cropped up repeatedly over the years, but Jenkins's use of it stands out as the most notable. Other examples include the time the Hulk made physical contact with the Watcher's "Ultimate Machine," which sent him on a sort of vision quest to come to terms with ComicBook/{{Betty|Ross}}'s death; the depiction of his psychiatric session with Doc Samson that resulted in his personalities being merged; the appearance of his three childhood imaginary friends during the Crossroads Saga, who helped Banner find his way back from psychic oblivion; and various dream sequences over the years in which he has come into physical conflict with one or more of his Hulk personae.

A relative to FantasticVoyagePlot, except instead of traveling into another character's physical body via AppliedPhlebotinum, they [[MentalWorld enter their mind]]. The problem this is supposed to solve can range from recurring nightmares to [[EasyAmnesia memory loss]] to [[SingleIssuePsychology psychological disorders]], and even the odd ConvenientComa. Expect to see some psychological aspects of the character [[AnthropomorphicPersonification manifested as physical beings]], a la ''[[Series/HermansHead Herman's Head]]'' (See GhostInTheMachine and EnemyWithout). Since it lays bare all the innermost thoughts and feelings of a character, it can be used as an extreme case of the BigEgoHiddenDepths or InAnotherMansShoes.

* Franchise/SilentHill can be seen as this, with each game an examination of a particular character's psyche. ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' being the most obvious.

** "Hollow Mind" does the same, but plays it for ''significantly'' more horror, as Luz and Hunter end up in ''Belos's'' mind. Unlike Willow's mindscape, Belos's mindscape starts in a giant hallway of abstract paintings, made of all the lies he tells, and the true mindscape underneath is a dark, dead forest covered in cobwebs underneath a pitch black sky. [[spoiler:Luz and Hunter are attacked by the amalgamated Palisman souls Belos has been consuming over the years, and the Inner Belos leads them through the memories that spell out who Belos really is, and what he's done to the [[ExpendableClone previous Golden Guards]]. When Hunter brokenly begs the Inner Belos for answers, he writes the boy off as a lost cause, and tries to get rid of him by ''dragging him down into his subconscious'', illustrated by Hunter sinking into the ground like it's quicksand while Luz desperately tries to pull him out.]]

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' story arc about a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent trapped in Wade's mind, there are several scenes presenting this from her point of view, as well as Comicbook/DoctorStrange visiting to work on getting her out.

** ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen'': "Jean Grey and Emma Frost" is an InternalHomage to ''New X-Men #121'' above, where Jean and Emma travel into the mind of an injured Storm. The issue features many similar panels.

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* In Simon Spurrier's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/NightLords novel ''Lord of the Night'', the Eldar trap Sahaal in his own mind. The psyker Mita is caught with him and at first thinks it's a daemon world. She explains the situation, he persuades her, and she frees him.

** Ness goes on such a journey in his own version of Magicant in ''VideoGame/EarthBound''.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft'', the [[EldritchAbomination Old God]] Yogg-Saron will forcibly bring the players into his mind. There, they will bear witness of some acts that took place in the lore (or are currently taking place) in the form of illusions that they must shatter to access the brain, which must be damaged enough to remove Yogg-Saron's invulnerability. However, if they remain inside the Mind's Eye for too long, their ''SanityMeter'' will instantly drop to zero, thus falling into the Old God's control

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Cyborg and Beast Boy accidentally go into the depths of Raven's mind, where they meet embodiments of all the facets of her personality, including some she generally hides.

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

* Nightmask of ComicBook/TheNewUniverse had the ability to enter anyone's dreams, which he used to assist in psychotherapy.