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* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime,'' [[KidHero Finn]] is [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind trapped in a dream]] filled with [[WackyLand numerous random visions]]. At one point, he looks into a mirror and sees himself [[TheNoseless with an actual nose]], without BlackBeadEyes and with a [[ArtificialLimbs robotic arm]]. [[spoiler:This turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} for the fourth season finale/fifth season opening, where he looks like this in [[ForWantOfANail an alternate timeline]]]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime,'' [[KidHero Finn]] is [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind trapped in a dream]] filled with [[WackyLand numerous random visions]]. At one point, he looks into a mirror and sees himself [[TheNoseless with an actual nose]], without BlackBeadEyes and with a [[ArtificialLimbs robotic arm]]. [[spoiler:This turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} for the fourth season finale/fifth season opening, where he looks like this in [[ForWantOfANail an alternate timeline]]]].AlternateTimeline]].
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* At one point in ''[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/Z/ Sailor Moon Z]]'', the main Senshi do a [[FreakyFriday body-switch]] with their Silver Millenium counterparts. After they're returned to the present, they have more frequent {{Flashback}}s of their past lives, usualy overlaping with similar moments in the present. The original also has flashbacks to this time though only when key to the plot.

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* At one point in ''[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/Z/ Sailor Moon Z]]'', the main Senshi do a [[FreakyFriday [[FreakyFridayFlip body-switch]] with their Silver Millenium counterparts. After they're returned to the present, they have more frequent {{Flashback}}s of their past lives, usualy overlaping with similar moments in the present. The original also has flashbacks to this time though only when key to the plot.
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* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla:'' Eivor has visions of her past life as Odin, albeit [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness heavily filtered]] during the hallucinogenics she takes to do so. As a result, she sees nothing unusual about how some of the people she sees in "Asgard" look like people she knows.
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* Volumes 7.5 and 8.5 of ''LightNovel/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'' take place in the time of the Princess Alalia, she and her companions bear an uncanny resemblance to the invaders of Room 106. [[spoiler: Koutarou and Clan are there as themselves]].

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* Volumes 7.5 and 8.5 of ''LightNovel/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'' ''Literature/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'' take place in the time of the Princess Alalia, she and her companions bear an uncanny resemblance to the invaders of Room 106. [[spoiler: Koutarou and Clan are there as themselves]].

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* This concept was used in an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' called "My Mirror Image", where J.D, Dr. Cox, and The Janitor each talk to a patient played by their actor. It's explained as a doctor "seeing themselves in their patients", and causes them to see possible consequences from their current behavior.

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* This concept was used in an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' called "My Mirror Image", where J.D, Dr. Cox, and The Janitor each talk to a patient played by their actor. It's explained as a doctor "seeing themselves in their patients", and causes them to see possible consequences from of their current behavior.



* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In the episode where Mulder meets his reincarnating soulmate. (Unfortunately, she's in a suicide cult. Well, that or she has multiple personality disorder.) Under hypnosis, she recalls the details of several of their past lives, which involve several of the show's characters as previous reincarnations as well. One such scenario is described as Mulder and his soulmate having lost their child (re: his sister) to a drunk driver (re: the Cigarette smoking man), Scully was there too, as Mulder's male best friend.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'' has an episode starring George Wendt in which his unsuccessful inventor begins having/living visions of his alternate self in a SteamPunk-ish parallel universe. In the end [[spoiler: the two men voluntarily trade places.]]

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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In the ''Series/TheXFiles'' has an episode where Mulder meets his reincarnating soulmate. (Unfortunately, she's in a suicide cult. Well, that or she has multiple personality disorder.) Under hypnosis, she recalls the details of several of their past lives, in which involve several of the show's characters show up as previous reincarnations as well. incarnations of themselves. One such scenario is described as involves Mulder and his soulmate having lost their child (re: (currently his sister) to a drunk driver (re: the Cigarette smoking man), driver. Scully was there too, as Mulder's male best friend.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'' has an episode starring George Wendt in which his an unsuccessful inventor begins having/living visions of his alternate self in a SteamPunk-ish parallel universe. In the end [[spoiler: the two men voluntarily trade places.]]



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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', many Solars have instinctive flashbacks to their past incarnations- sometimes while dreaming, sometimes at less opportune moments. Common reactions include anger at the Sidereals who stabbed them in the back, sadness over long-dead friends, awe at the lost glories of the First Age, and shame (there's a ''very good'' reason no one wants the Solars around anymore). Since humanity's lost so much knowledge over the centuries, a Solar's memories are often his/her best way of learning the truth about who's in charge of Creation.
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** Tedd dreams about one of his alternate universe counterpart's life.

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** Tedd dreams about one of his alternate universe counterpart's life.counterparts' lives.



* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[MessianicArchetype the Sufferer]] is the only [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] to have any memories of his alternate universe self, where [[CrapsackWorld the troll planet]] was peaceful, and starts a rebellion.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[MessianicArchetype the Sufferer]] is the only [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] to have any memories of his alternate universe self, where self- who lived on a peaceful [[CrapsackWorld the troll planet]] was peaceful, Alternia]]- and starts a rebellion.rebellion in the hopes of replicating them.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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* The final episode of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a short section in which Shinji dreams about how his life could have been if the show he was in ''wasn't'' a {{deconstruction}}. It almost reaches UncannyValley levels.

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* The final episode of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a short section in which Shinji dreams about how his life could have been if the show he was in ''wasn't'' a {{deconstruction}}. It almost reaches UncannyValley levels.
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* ''Literature/TheCosmere'': With the [[MagicAIsMagicA magic of Allomancy]], gold gives the allomancer visions of their past or present if they had made different decisions, and [[FantasyMetals malatium]] lets them see other people's. This is usually emotionally taxing and not all that useful, but in ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'', Vin's malatium vision of the Lord Ruler has vital information of [[spoiler:[[ShroudedInMyth his original identity]].]]
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* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' reveals that dreams are people witnessing the lives and deaths of their AlternateUniverse counterparts[[note]]which apprently means normal dreams do not exist in the MCU.[[/note]] Doctor Strange is involved in the plot when he dreams of a variant dying to protect a girl named America Chavez, who has the ability to cross universes. Using the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Darkhold]] allows a mystic to "dreamwalk" and possess their variants.

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* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' reveals that dreams are people witnessing the lives and deaths of their AlternateUniverse counterparts[[note]]which counterparts.[[note]]which apprently means normal dreams do not exist in the MCU.[[/note]] Doctor Strange is involved in the plot when he dreams of a variant dying to protect a girl named America Chavez, who has the ability to cross universes. Using the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Darkhold]] allows a mystic to "dreamwalk" and possess their variants.
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* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' reveals that dreams are people witnessing the lives and deaths of their AlternateUniverse counterparts. Doctor Strange is involved in the plot when he dreams of a variant dying to protect a girl named America Chavez, who has the ability to cross universes. Using the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Darkhold]] allows a mystic to "dreamwalk" and possess their variants.

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* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' reveals that dreams are people witnessing the lives and deaths of their AlternateUniverse counterparts. counterparts[[note]]which apprently means normal dreams do not exist in the MCU.[[/note]] Doctor Strange is involved in the plot when he dreams of a variant dying to protect a girl named America Chavez, who has the ability to cross universes. Using the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Darkhold]] allows a mystic to "dreamwalk" and possess their variants.

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