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* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': While JD usually manages to hold still during his many {{Imagine Spot}}s, he occasionally fails and confuses the people around him even more than usual. Once, he daydreamed floating out of his body when a girlfriend asked to move in with him and ended up as a disembodied spirit next to Turk, who offered him some Bugles. Being a spirit, JD couldn't touch them. Back in reality, JD is repeatedly grasping at thin air, much to his girlfriend's confusion. Another time, he imagined fondling a Turk/Elliot hybrid in front of the actual Elliot, who noticed him squeezing thin air and offered herself up... and it turns out that was a fantasy too, and he's actually fondling Turk.
** In a non-JD example, Elliot imagined Dr. Clock telling her to treat a convicted criminal. [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys As Dr. Clock has a thing for dangerous men]], the fantasy quickly turned into Elliot getting it on with the man in front of the security officers, then snapping out of it and realizing she's licking thin air in front of Dr. Clock and her convicted felon of a boyfriend.
** In a non-JD example, Elliot imagined Dr. Clock telling her to treat a convicted criminal. [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys As Dr. Clock has a thing for dangerous men]], the fantasy quickly turned into Elliot getting it on with the man in front of the security officers, then snapping out of it and realizing she's licking thin air in front of Dr. Clock and her convicted felon of a boyfriend.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'' begins as the curtain rises on a violin-accompanied PurpleProse poem by [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub speakeasy]] violinist Rocky, who recites an ode to the Mississippi River on a golden ArtDeco bridge with a treble staff for a deck, while his violin emits [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles sparkles]], and glowing daisies fill the sky. As he finishes, these filigrees fade away, and fellow [[VenturousSmuggler booze runner]] Ivy waves a flashlight in his startled face and mockingly imitates him, to scold him for being off in his own head, rather than acting as team lookout.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', Ted imagines himself kissing his crush Audrey and his mother points out that he's kissing the cereal box, [[OhNoNotAgain again]].
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Bitzi's Breakup", Bitzi has the titular breakup with her boyfriend and wants to start dating again. Her son Buster is worried that her next boyfriend will be boring and imagines her dating a boring guy named Martin Spivack. Buster yells, "I hate Martin Spivack!", which confuses Arthur.
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** In "No Acting, Please", Fern imagines being famous and repeats "thank you, thank you." Muffy's response is, "Would you quit thanking the ketchup and pass it, please?"
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** In "No Acting, Please", Fern imagines being famous and repeats "thank you, thank you." Muffy's response is, "Would you quit thanking the ketchup and pass it, please?"
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* In the first ''Film/MajorLeague'' film, aging baseball player Jake Taylor, who knows that he's probably playing his last season in the majors, goes to the stadium when it's empty before the first game of the year and imagines himself [[CallingYourShots calling a game winning home run]] the way Babe Ruth did. After imagining hitting the home run, Taylor jogs around the bases, getting into his daydream, including giving out high fives to imaginary teammates and such. Unknown to Taylor, a couple of his actual rookie teammates also came out to the stadium and proceed to tease Taylor about the whole thing when he meets them at home plate.
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* In the first ''Film/MajorLeague'' film, aging baseball player Jake Taylor, who knows that he's probably playing his last season in the majors, goes to the stadium when it's empty before the first game of the year and imagines himself [[CallingYourShots calling a game winning home run]] the way Babe Ruth did. After imagining hitting the home run, Taylor jogs around the bases, getting into his daydream, including giving out high fives to imaginary teammates and such. Unknown to Taylor, a couple of his actual rookie teammates also came out to the stadium and proceed to tease Taylor about the whole thing when he meets them at home plate.
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* Rupert from ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' does this in the first episode. When he imagines he's a juggler in a circus, he's actually juggling the candles he's supposed to be sorting. Then he daydreams about being a musketeer and accidently bumps into his boss while swinging his wooden sword about. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome This gets him fired.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace got so into imagining Justin and Mr. Tensaided's card game as a real wizard duel that she [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-09-24 cried out]] when Justin took a bad hit which [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-10-03 didn't go unnoticed]].
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace got so into imagining Justin and Mr. Tensaided's card game as a real wizard duel that she [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-09-24 cried out]] when Justin took a bad hit which [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-10-03 didn't go unnoticed]].
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* In the climax of the ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' episode "Mages & Mazes", Cricket, Tilly and Kiki decide to have a lifelike M&M adventure to reach Remy's room and apologize for shooing him off; once they enter Remy's room, they are seen as illusions of the characters they played (Bufflegs, Shmalfo and Diamondbow, respectively) as they convince Remy to come back to the game.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Cuddle E. Hugs", a rotten krabby patty causes [=SpongeBob=] to hallucinate the titular hamster; at one point, he gives Cuddle a hug, then Patrick arrives and he only sees [=SpongeBob=] hugging on air.
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Usually, this will go one of two ways: we, the audience, see the daydream, then the scene shifts back to reality and shows the character acting out the daydream (often being forced to stop daydreaming by someone pointing out their odd behavior, getting hurt by accident, or accidentally [[DeliciousDaydream eating]]/kissing/drinking something that tastes bad), or the person gets asked why they're acting peculiar and they'll reply that they've been imagining something.
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* Muttley tends to do this in his ''[[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Magnificent Muttley]]'' segment when it transitions from daydream to reality, only for Dick Dastardly to abruptly awaken him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "The Devil Wears Nada", Mr. Burns announces that a new power plant supervisor will be needed to replace the one that retired, and Homer asks if the employees can supervise themselves. He, Lenny and Carl collectively imagine a scenario where they race each other in cars through the plant, ending with Homer and Carl crashing and blowing up in a mushroom cloud, prompting Lenny in reality to shout "I win!", which annoys Burns.
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* [[PlayedForLaughs Played for laughs]] in the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. Morty has a dream about fondling his crush, Jessica's, breasts. When we return to the real world, we see Morty, fondling his math teacher, Mr. Goldenfold's, nipples. Mr Goldenfold, subtlety hints at enjoying it by showing little interest in having Morty stop.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "Nightmares and Daydreams", the sleep-deprived Aang imagines himself confessing his love to Katara and them making out. The ''real'' Katara is thoroughly confused by his behavior, which he excuses as having imagined himself [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "living underwater"]].
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May overlap with ImagineSpot if the daydream is short and DaydreamSurprise if we don't know going in that it's a daydream. Compare MarshmallowDream, TalkingInYourSleep, WakingNonSequitur, IWasHavingSuchANiceDream, and {{Sleepwalking}} for nighttime versions. Contrast CrashingDreams (which can apply to sleeping dreams too) which is when reality starts to affect the fantasy rather than the other way round.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', Ted imagines himself kissing his crush Audrey and his mother points out that he's kissing the cereal box. She also uses the word "again", implying that he's done it before.
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Most people, if not everyone, imagines things. However, sometimes somebody gets so caught up in a daydream that they start acting it out and doing things that only make sense in the context of what they're imagining, and that's what this trope is about.
Usually, this will go one of two ways: we, the audience, see the daydream, then the scene shifts back to reality and shows the character acting out the daydream (often being forced to stop daydreaming by someone pointing out their odd behavior, getting hurt by accident, or accidentally eating/kissing/drinking something that tastes bad), or the person gets asked why they're acting peculiar and they'll reply that they've been imagining something.
If the daydream involves them singing, it's a good bet that the singing will be a behavior they'll do in real life, and if it involves romance, they'll likely end up kissing or dancing with an inanimate object. They might also end up saying something related to the daydream out loud (for example, saying, "You're under arrest" out loud when imagining being a police officer).
Anyone can have this trope happen to them, but it's less likely if they're serious and more likely if they're young, [[MrImagination imaginative]], [[CloudCuckooLander goofy]], [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny easily-distracted]], or have a LoveInterest or an aspiration.
This does not include dreaming while asleep. The reason for this is that they're less likely to ''actually'' think what's happening is real and they're still in control of their actions, so they're kind of forgetting it's not real, as opposed to being asleep, whereupon they're unconscious and they (usually) were always unaware that it wasn't real.
May overlap with ImagineSpot if the daydream is short and DaydreamSurprise if we don't know going in that it's a daydream. Compare MarshmallowDream, TalkingInYourSleep, WakingNonSequitur, IWasHavingSuchANiceDream, and {{Sleepwalking}} for nighttime versions. Contrast CrashingDreams (which can apply to sleeping dreams too) which is when reality starts to affect the fantasy rather than the other way round.
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* In the ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' book "Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn", Captain Haddock is telling the story of his ancestor battling a pirate named Red Rackham and gets so caught up with the mental image that he starts acting out the fight, which greatly shocks Tintin and Snowy.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'', Horton imagines himself as an {{anime}} action hero and does action poses in real life. He decides to stop when he accidentally kicks over a flower.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', Ted imagines himself kissing his crush Audrey and his mother points out that he's kissing the cereal box. She also uses the word "again", implying that he's done it before.
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* In a ''Literature/MrsPepperpot'' story, Mrs. Pepperpot is imagining herself as a detective and says, "Hands up!" to her husband.
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* In the ''Series/BigTimeRush'' episode "Big Time Christmas", Bitters watches ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' with Katie and her mother and wonders what the Palm Woods would be like without him. Katie starts to imagine an attractive hotel manager who throws dance parties in the lobbies, which makes her start dancing on the table. Bitters realizes what Katie's thinking about and walks away offended.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Bitzi's Breakup", Bitzi has the titular breakup with her boyfriend and wants to start dating again. Her son Buster is worried that her next boyfriend will be boring and imagines her dating a boring guy named Martin Spivack. Buster yells, "I hate Martin Spivack!", which confuses Arthur.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': The title character often gets lost in his daydreams and acts them out.
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** In "Alice Twinkle Toes", [[TheKlutz Alice]] [[LovableJock Boxwood]] wants to do ballet and starts imagining herself doing it. Then, she actually starts dancing, which confuses her friends.
** In "Martha's Adverb Adventure", the villain Otis Weaselgraft imagines himself being friends with Martha, then imagines himself eating a peach but snaps back into reality when he realizes he's eating a snowball.
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-->'''Otis Weaselgraft''', ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'', "Martha's Adverb Adventure"
Most people, if not everyone, imagines things. However, sometimes somebody gets so caught up in a daydream that they start acting it out and doing things that only make sense in the context of what they're imagining, and that's what this trope is about.
Usually, this will go one of two ways: we, the audience, see the daydream, then the scene shifts back to reality and shows the character acting out the daydream (often being forced to stop daydreaming by someone pointing out their odd behavior, getting hurt by accident, or accidentally eating/kissing/drinking something that tastes bad), or the person gets asked why they're acting peculiar and they'll reply that they've been imagining something.
If the daydream involves them singing, it's a good bet that the singing will be a behavior they'll do in real life, and if it involves romance, they'll likely end up kissing or dancing with an inanimate object. They might also end up saying something related to the daydream out loud (for example, saying, "You're under arrest" out loud when imagining being a police officer).
Anyone can have this trope happen to them, but it's less likely if they're serious and more likely if they're young, [[MrImagination imaginative]], [[CloudCuckooLander goofy]], [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny easily-distracted]], or have a LoveInterest or an aspiration.
This does not include dreaming while asleep. The reason for this is that they're less likely to ''actually'' think what's happening is real and they're still in control of their actions, so they're kind of forgetting it's not real, as opposed to being asleep, whereupon they're unconscious and they (usually) were always unaware that it wasn't real.
May overlap with ImagineSpot if the daydream is short and DaydreamSurprise if we don't know going in that it's a daydream. Compare MarshmallowDream, TalkingInYourSleep, WakingNonSequitur, IWasHavingSuchANiceDream, and {{Sleepwalking}} for nighttime versions. Contrast CrashingDreams (which can apply to sleeping dreams too) which is when reality starts to affect the fantasy rather than the other way round.
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* In the ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' book "Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn", Captain Haddock is telling the story of his ancestor battling a pirate named Red Rackham and gets so caught up with the mental image that he starts acting out the fight, which greatly shocks Tintin and Snowy.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'', Horton imagines himself as an {{anime}} action hero and does action poses in real life. He decides to stop when he accidentally kicks over a flower.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', Ted imagines himself kissing his crush Audrey and his mother points out that he's kissing the cereal box. She also uses the word "again", implying that he's done it before.
* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh'' movies, Pooh is very hungry and imagines a world where everything is made of honey. He then ends up eating mud because he'd been imagining eating honey.
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* In a ''Literature/MrsPepperpot'' story, Mrs. Pepperpot is imagining herself as a detective and says, "Hands up!" to her husband.
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* In the ''Series/BigTimeRush'' episode "Big Time Christmas", Bitters watches ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' with Katie and her mother and wonders what the Palm Woods would be like without him. Katie starts to imagine an attractive hotel manager who throws dance parties in the lobbies, which makes her start dancing on the table. Bitters realizes what Katie's thinking about and walks away offended.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Bitzi's Breakup", Bitzi has the titular breakup with her boyfriend and wants to start dating again. Her son Buster is worried that her next boyfriend will be boring and imagines her dating a boring guy named Martin Spivack. Buster yells, "I hate Martin Spivack!", which confuses Arthur.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': The title character often gets lost in his daydreams and acts them out.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'':
** In "Alice Twinkle Toes", [[TheKlutz Alice]] [[LovableJock Boxwood]] wants to do ballet and starts imagining herself doing it. Then, she actually starts dancing, which confuses her friends.
** In "Martha's Adverb Adventure", the villain Otis Weaselgraft imagines himself being friends with Martha, then imagines himself eating a peach but snaps back into reality when he realizes he's eating a snowball.
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