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* ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'' often makes it seem like Deadland is a physical place, with water that Jasper can drink, objects he can touch, and monsters that can eat him or tear out his heart. However, it is shown at the end that Jasper's body never physically entered Deadland, even if his soul did.

* The CreepyPasta [[Fanfic/AshsComa "Ash's Coma"]] postulates that ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' never got past the first few episodes, and the whole series is Ash's hallucinations, which is why he has [[GirlOfTheWeek a new female partner every season]] and why he and Brock never age.

* ''Action Force'', the UK version of ''Franchise/GIJoe''. Lady Jaye is badly wounded by Destro and falls into a coma. She experiences a vision quest in order to regain wakefullness and mobility.

* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' has a variation: Richard is banished by magic, and endures a trial of his soul. Unfortunately for him, it's a KangarooCourt of lesser demons where he has no defence and his crimes are betraying his alignment of ChaoticEvil.

* The Magicant sequence in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' is a fantasy landscape made up mostly of Ness' memories.

* During ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27736435 Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash]]'', Callista briefly blacks out during a fight due to the severe pain she was going through. While in this state, she briefly sees and speaks to a sibling who had disappeared under unknown circumstances years before. The heart-to-heart that results leaves her in a state of contentment, the effects of which carry over when she regains consciousness.

Compare JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, VisionQuest, TalkingInYourDreams. Adventure may possibly happen [[OutOfClothesExperience naked]]. See also LotusEaterMachine, SchrodingersButterfly. For the fictional video game version, see WinToExit. See also AllJustADream, (for the [[ShaggyDogStory unwinnable]] version) DyingDream, and DreamEpisode.

* Roadkill's ending in ''[[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Twisted Metal II]]'' has him insisting that the entire tournament isn't real and his wish is to "wake up:". [[spoiler:He's absolutely right: He awakens in a hospital and a doctor (Calypso) tells him he's the only one of the 25 people involved in a massive accident to awaken from their coma, and the camera zooms out to show all the other combatants still unconscious.]]

* ''VideoGame/DriverSanFrancisco'' has the city of San Francisco itself as the Comaland, hand waving the protagonist's ability to teleport between cars.

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' : Faith and Angelus dream of Angel and Angelus' past after Faith takes Orpheus and feeds herself to Angelus. Faith has to choose to keep fighting in order to live.

** Faith spends most of one episode having semi-lucid dreams as she struggles to awaken from her coma.

* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Faith spends most of one episode having semi-lucid dreams as she struggles to awaken from her coma.

* In ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', Desmond Miles' mind has been so traumatized by the events of ''Brotherhood'''s ending and the Bleeding Effect that he went into shock, after which he was put back into an Animus - through which he'll have to "explore" his, Ezio's, and Altair's remaining memories and piece back together his fractured consciousness if he's to awaken.
** Desmond also needs to find a synch-nexus buried within those memories - a single moment that connects him and both his ancestors. This will provide the catalyst for the repartitioning and will allow Desmond to wake up.

* The Hospital Ending of ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'' [[spoiler:has Alex awaken screaming during Electroshock Therapy in an insane asylum.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}: In "Operation D.W.!", D.W. has to go under anesthesia to have tubes placed in her ears. She dreams about being Super Ear Girl while she's under, and she becomes quite popular with the magical creatures in her fantasy. Her dream lasts until she wakes up, by which time she's back in her hospital bed.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In the episode "The Sting", Leela has a strange experience when where Fry dies from being stung by an alien bee and she has strange dreams and hallucinations about him being alive. [[spoiler: Turns out it was all a dream induced by the venom, because SHE was stung as well (he was perfectly OK.)]]

** On another episode, a comatose young boy gets the entire cast into this trope as his dreams begin to infect the real world.

* Near the end of ''VideoGame/FableII'', [[spoiler: your character has one of these after Lucien shoots you in the face (again!). Your character is a child again, apparently safe at home with your sister Rose... which is a pretty good clue something isn't right, since Rose died at the start of the game and the two of you grew up as orphans in the streets of Bowerstone, not on a quaint country farm.]]

* Both ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' games have Max in the nightmare world at certain points.
* [[spoiler:The entirety of]] ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' [[spoiler:is a collective dream of both Link and the Wind Fish]].

* ''VideoGame/StoriesUntold'' involves four separate episodes, with different gameplay elements and settings to each one. As every episode goes on, however, parallels slowly emerge, and [[spoiler: the fourth episode reveals that the previous three were [[AllJustADream coma-induced dreams]] from the main character, following a car accident. The fourth episode also plays with this, with the character's therapist having him retrace those dreams again, in order to uncover what actually happened before the accident.]]

* ''VideoGame/DriverSanFrancisco'' has the city of San Francisco itself as the Comaland, hand waving the protagonist's ability to teleport between cars.
-->'''Tanner''': Next coma, [[GallowsHumor I want a yacht]]. I want deep-sea fishing and a ''goddamn yacht''.
* The Scarecrow sequences in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' probably qualify.
* In ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife'', the [[spoiler:entire Raposa world]] is all just a coma dream. [[OrWasItADream Maybe.]]
* In ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', Desmond Miles' mind has been so traumatized by the events of ''Brotherhood'''s ending and the Bleeding Effect that he went into shock, after which he was put back into an Animus - through which he'll have to "explore" his, Ezio's, and Altair's remaining memories and piece back together his fractured consciousness if he's to awaken.
** Desmond also needs to find a synch-nexus buried within those memories - a single moment that connects him and both his ancestors. This will provide the catalyst for the repartitioning and will allow Desmond to wake up.
* In the ''Slender Mansion'' map of ''VideoGame/{{Slender}}'', the main character is in a coma due to "Slender Sickness" from being stalked by the slender man. He is being chased through a house in his mind as he collects mementos. [[spoiler:If the player fails to collect the mementos in time, is caught by the slender man, or can't escape the dark house, the main character dies in the "real world."]]
* Roadkill's ending in ''[[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Twisted Metal II]]'' has him insisting that the entire tournament isn't real and his wish is to "wake up:". [[spoiler:He's absolutely right: He awakens in a hospital and a doctor (Calypso) tells him he's the only one of the 25 people involved in a massive accident to awaken from their coma, and the camera zooms out to show all the other combatants still unconscious.]]

* The entirety of ''VideoGame/LabyrinthineDreams'' occurs while the protagonist is deathly ill.
* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4'', it's heavily implied [[spoiler: you're playing as the victim of the infamous "Bite of '87", and everything that's happening is a terrible hallucination as a result of [[BrainFood his head being crushed by an animatronic's mouth]]. Sometimes when you look back at the bed, you'll see an I.V. drip bag and pills on the bedside table, implying he's in the hospital]].

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV Platinum Demo'' takes place during Noctis' childhood, during an incident in which daemons attacked him and his father. Noctis - guided by Carbuncle - must find his 'safe place' somewhere in the dreamscape in order to wake up. [[spoiler:The safe place in question is his father's car, the Regalia.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Daffy Duck punches himself out accidentally while reading a Dick Tracy comic book (''The Great Piggy Bank Robbery'') and enters a dreamscape where he's Duck Twacy trying to solve the crime in question.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}: In "Operation D.W.!", D.W. has to go under anesthesia to have tubes placed in her ears. She dreams about being Super Ear Girl while she's under, and she becomes quite popular with the magical creatures in her fantasy. Her dream lasts until she wakes up, by which time she's back in her hospital bed.

* ''Series/TheOdyssey'': The central premise of the series. An 11-year-old boy falls from a tree house, ends up in coma and dreams about a CrapsackWorld with no adults.
* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' : Faith and Angelus dream of Angel and Angelus' past after Faith takes Orpheus and feeds herself to Angelus. Faith has to choose to keep fighting in order to live.
* ''Series/CovertAffairs''
** When [[spoiler: Annie is shot]] in the middle of season three, she experiences a series of odd dreams while in a coma. She is given a polygraph test by her sister and Joan, who both question her loyalties, she has a conversation with the woman who [[spoiler: shot her,]] and she encounters a seeing Auggie, whom she slow dances with and even kisses, leaving no doubts as to how real-life Annie feels about her handler.
* Played with in ''Series/{{Life on Mars|2006}}'' and ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'', though in different ways. Alex's 1981 is not Sam's 1973.

* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Earl spends the second half of the third season in a coma, during which he dreams he's in an old sitcom like the ones he used to watch as a child.

* In ''Series/CriminalMinds''
** After Agent Elle Greenaway is shot by the SerialKiller of the week she is left unconscious and bleeding to death. Throughout the remainder of the episode while emergency workers attempt to resuscitate her, she is in a dream version of the BAU jet, where she is visited by her police officer father who died when she was a child. During their conversation Elle's father tells her that the decisions she makes in the plane will make the difference as to whether she lives or dies in real life.
** When Hotchner is critically ill after the scars George Foyet's attack cause problems. He dreams he is a a theater with his late wife Haley and Foyet, who killed Haley.Haley sends him back to raise their son Jack and gives him her blessing for his romance with Beth
* In ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow,'' Drew once had to choose his real life over his idyllic-for-him coma life (he would have died if he'd stayed.)
* In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder,'' Tommy had to do unmorphed battle with his ''past Ranger identities.'' After proving his will to live, he woke up, his powers restored and with a new SuperMode.
* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Faith spends most of one episode having semi-lucid dreams as she struggles to awaken from her coma.
** On another episode, a comatose young boy gets the entire cast into this trope as his dreams begin to infect the real world.
* In an episode of ''Series/SoWeird'', Fi is somehow able to communicate with a young woman who has been comatose for several years. In the woman's dream, she's still a little girl, and she's lost in an unpopulated version of her hometown and can't find her way home. Based on her descriptions of her surroundings and her family's corroborating details, Fi is able to put together a map of the town as it was back when the girl first fell into her coma and uses it to guide her back to her house. Finally home again, the girl walks through her front door and wakes up back in the real world.
* An episode of ''Series/MysteriousWays'' involves a woman named Paloma waking up from a 16-year coma, completely healthy, and describing an island where she and other people in comas from the same hospital lived together. It's not completely clear if their actions on the island determine whether they wake up, but Paloma is able to re-enter the coma world and bring out a little girl so there has to be some controllable mechanism of escape involved.

* Series/{{House}} is shot and enters a coma hallucination in which the man who shot him shares his hospital room during recovery. He wills himself out of his coma.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Near Death", Mac is shot in the back and left, well, near death. While he is being operated on, he journeys through a limbo that looks like the crime lab where he meets and has conversations with his friends (and his dead wife).
* ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': Quentin is put in one due to a magic spell which makes him think he's still in a mental institution.
* ''Series/{{Beyond}}'': Holden (and other coma patients) traveled into another world called the Realm during their comas. Some didn't make it back, as it's very dangerous.

* ''Series/HemlockGrove'': Roman spends more than an episode in a coma, where he faces various inner demons represented by people from his life. His good-hearted sister appears as a guardian angel of sorts.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In "G.I. Jeff", Jeff goes into a coma after taking "youth pills" and drinking scotch. He dreams that he and his friends are in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero''.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': In [[Recap/BabylonFiveS05E02TheVeryLongNightOfLondoMollari "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"]], Londo has a heart attack, and is brought face to face with his past and its consequences in a series of encounters leading to an intense confrontation with G'Kar.

* In ''Manga/HekikaiNoAion'' [[spoiler:Seine]] is put into a LotusEaterMachine by one of the mermaids. In there she revives her happy years with [[spoiler:Simon]]. Tatsuya then has to go into her dreams to wake her up, but if he suffers something that could kill him, he would die in real life.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' invoked this in the ''Aincrad'' arc, trapping thousands of players against their will with no chance to escape from the virtual world unless they beat the 100th floor.
** Played more straight in the ''Project Alicization'' arc, where Kirito awakens in a virtual world with no memories of his real self that makes him question if he is an AI or the real deal. The truth is that he was [[spoiler:fatally wounded by being injected with a deadly virus that injured his brain, putting him in a coma]], and [[spoiler:was subsequently taken under Rath to heal him through their technology by forcing him into the virtual world, while also using his unconditional help to discover why the virtual world they have created is operating on its own rules.]]

* ''ActionForce'', the UK version of ''Franchise/GIJoe''. Lady Jaye is badly wounded by Destro and falls into a coma. She experiences a vision quest in order to regain wakefullness and mobility.

* ''ComicBook/JoeTheBarbarian'' is about a diabetic boy going through a serious hypoglycaemic attack who, as he struggles through his house to get to his emergency fizzy drink before he passes out and dies, hallucinates a grand fantasy psychodrama.

* The whole plot of the movie ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}''.

* Almost all of ''Film/WristcuttersALoveStory'' takes place in hipster comaland and [[spoiler:the protagonists can only get back to the waking world via the magic wormhole in the car's footwell (Zia) and also by the People In Charge helping (Mikal)]]
* OlderThanTelevision: In ''Film/ThePoorLittleRichGirl'', said poor little rich girl (played by Mary Pickford) gets overdosed with a sleeping potion and then has a fantastical coma dream. She ends up meeting TheGrimReaper, who offers her "eternal sleep", but a sprightly fairy who seems to be the Reaper's [[EvilCounterpart Good Counterpart]] lures her back to the side of life.
* The film version ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' may have been this for Dorothy. Uncle Henry thought for a moment that she was going to leave them. There may have been an unstated choice to return to Kansas and live, or stay in Oz and die. Averted in the books, Oz was actually real.

* In ''Literature/TheAvatarsTrilogy'', Diana has to go through the underworlds of the various mythologies in order to wake up.
* The whole plot of ''Literature/IfIStay'' is about teenager Mia Hall made comatose by a car accident, wandering in Comaland, deciding whether to live or go to the great beyond.
* In the ''[[Franchise/BattleTechExpandedUniverse [=BattleTech=]]]'' novel ''Literature/GraveCovenant'', Victor Steiner-Davion has one of these after an assassination attempt on him. He finds himself having a conversation with his father and his father's fiercest rival (both deceased), ends on a note of telling them to their faces that he has his own life to tend to and destiny to make regardless of ''their'' approval or lack thereof, and not too surprisingly wakes up in the hospital for the first time right at the end of the same chapter.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}: In "Operation D.W.!", D.W. has to go under anesthesia to have tubes placed in her ears. She dreams about being Super Ear Girl while she's under, and she becomes quite popular with the magical creatures in her fantasy. Her dream lasts until she wakes up, by which time she's back in her hospital bed.

* Real life example: Artur Lundkvist wrote an entire book about his adventures in Comaland, called ''Journeys in Dream and Imagination''.