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* VideoGame/{{OMORI}}: Headspace is an exotic locale [[spoiler: entirely contructed out of Sunny's dreams, and everything that happens in it is connected to his trauma]], [[FauxSymbolism although there is some random nonsensical dream stuff here and there]].
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* VideoGame/{{OMORI}}: ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'': Headspace is an exotic locale [[spoiler: entirely contructed out of Sunny's dreams, and everything that happens in it is connected to his trauma]], [[FauxSymbolism although there is some random nonsensical dream stuff here and there]].
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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'': Done in-universe in ''The Pentintytär Arcade''. All of the arcade games found in Irja Pentintytär's home are loose adaptations of events from the lives of her and her late brother Viljami, starring reoccurring sibling avatars named Sisko and Veikko. By themselves, there's no in-game reason to catch wish-granting fish with Veikko, or for Sisko to collect mushrooms that eventually overwhelm her, or for a flight simulator to be followed up by Veikko walking through a void, but each adventure has a meaning that becomes clearer after matching them with their accompanying Finnish title.
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* Norton Juster's ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' has the tollbooth leading to a world of pure allegory and language come to life (often in [[HurricaneOfPuns puntastic]] form). There might be magic involved with the tollbooth itself (it's not made clear), but once Milo crosses it, he's off to places like the island of Conclusions (that you arrive at only by [[IncrediblyLamePun jumping]]) on a quest to return the princesses Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason to the kingdom of Wisdom. Yeah.
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* Norton Juster's ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' has the tollbooth leading to a world of pure allegory and language come to life (often in [[HurricaneOfPuns puntastic]] form). There might be magic involved with the tollbooth itself (it's not made clear), but once Milo crosses it, he's off to places like the island of Conclusions (that you arrive at only by [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} jumping]]) on a quest to return the princesses Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason to the kingdom of Wisdom. Yeah.
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** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' spends about two-thirds of the game hinting that it's this before jumping headfirst into trippiness.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' flirts with it. Most of the game is a straightforward-ish spy thriller, but the boss fights just throw bizarre MagicRealism at you.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' abandons it entirely in order to [[MindScrewdriver provide concrete answers to every question the series raised]].
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' flirts with it. Most of the game is a straightforward-ish spy thriller, but the boss fights just throw bizarre MagicRealism at you.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' abandons it entirely in order to [[MindScrewdriver provide concrete answers to every question the series raised]].
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** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' spends about two-thirds of the game hinting that it's this before jumping headfirst into trippiness.
**''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' flirts with it. Most of the game is a straightforward-ish spy thriller, but the boss fights just throw bizarre MagicRealism at you.
**''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' abandons it entirely in order to [[MindScrewdriver provide concrete answers to every question the series raised]].
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Such stories are often a source of incurable MindScrew, since there's really no way to make narrative sense out of them, and an EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory outlook is just about required. When most people think of TrueArt books, movies and so on, this is usually the sort of thing they're thinking of, though [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible it can all fall down]] if it's mixed up with too much gratuitous FauxSymbolism. If the fandom insists on coming up with [[EpilepticTrees a literal explanation]] for what's happening, ThroughTheEyesOfMadness or AllJustADream are common rationales.
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Such stories are often a source of incurable MindScrew, since there's really no way to make narrative sense out of them, and an EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory outlook is just about required. When most people think of TrueArt books, movies and so on, this is usually the sort of thing they're thinking of, though [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible it can all fall down]] down if it's mixed up with too much gratuitous FauxSymbolism. If the fandom insists on coming up with [[EpilepticTrees a literal explanation]] for what's happening, ThroughTheEyesOfMadness or AllJustADream are common rationales.
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%%* Any single short of the Brothers Quay. Examples: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gIb0bTWj6w This]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Mp-xyqQRo&feature=related This]] And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Uaww0yon4&feature=related This]] TrueArtIsIncomprehensible.%%
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%%* Any single short of the Brothers Quay. Examples: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gIb0bTWj6w This]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Mp-xyqQRo&feature=related This]] And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Uaww0yon4&feature=related This]] TrueArtIsIncomprehensible.This]].%%
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvOoCZyWRQ Genesis Noir]] is, on the surface, a detective story where the hero is trying to stop a woman from getting murdered. It is also a metaphor for the origin of the universe. The characters are personifications of various concepts and the shot that's supposed to kill the woman is the Big Bang.
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** ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' can also be quite surreal, especially in the case of the Child Broiler, which is treated like a real place by the characters despite how a factory where children are sent to be "broiled" is so bizarre that no sane government in real life would allow such a thing to exist. However, it can also be seen as a metaphor for how unwanted children are forgotten, or how children are crushed by society into becoming generic nobodies.
** ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi''; in this case, it can be seen as a huge allegory for Japan's view on lesbians versus how they're portrayed in works from the YuriGenre. In an interview, Ikuhara has implicitly compared lesbians to bears, in that they're portrayed as cutesy innocents in fiction but viewed with distrust in real life.
** ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi''; in this case, it can be seen as a huge allegory for Japan's view on lesbians versus how they're portrayed in works from the YuriGenre. In an interview, Ikuhara has implicitly compared lesbians to bears, in that they're portrayed as cutesy innocents in fiction but viewed with distrust in real life.
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** ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' can also be quite surreal, especially in the case of the Child Broiler, which is treated like a real place by the characters despite how a factory where children are sent to be "broiled" is so bizarre that something no sane government in real life would allow such a thing to exist. However, it can also be seen as a metaphor for how unwanted children are forgotten, or how children are crushed by society into becoming generic nobodies.
**''Anime/YuriKumaArashi''; in this case, it ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' can be seen as a huge allegory for Japan's overall view on of lesbians versus how they're portrayed in works from the YuriGenre. In an interview, Ikuhara has implicitly compared lesbians to bears, in that they're portrayed as cutesy innocents in fiction but viewed with distrust in real life.
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* Anime series directed by Creator/KunihikoIkuhara are often set in this kind of world, and keeping this trope in mind is usually the key to understanding his works. Much of the surreal imagery has a deeper meaning (if it isn't something he decided to add of a whim) and isn't meant to be taken literally.
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* Anime series directed by Creator/KunihikoIkuhara are often set in this kind of world, and keeping this trope in mind is usually the key to understanding his works. Much of the surreal imagery has a deeper meaning (if it isn't something he decided to add of on a whim) and isn't meant to be taken literally.at face value.
