History Main / ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou

* In the Creator/{{Abbott and Costello}} film ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', Costello's character dreams that he is Jack, and all the other characters in the story are people he knows in real life.

* ''Film/TheWomanInTheWindow'': After waking up, the hero recognizes two acquaintances as the victim and the blackmailer.

* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In the ''[[Franchise/GreenLantern Guy Gardner: Warrior]]'' Annual #2 story "See My Finger. See My Thumb. See My Fist? You Better Run!", Guy connects to the cybertronic inducer and finds himself in the body of his descendant Gunner Gardner. After his mind returns to its proper time and place, he believes that it was "a real brain ride" and says to Bucky Wargo, Arisia Rrab and Tiger-Man II, "You were all there. As kids. You and you and you." Tiger-Man II replies, "Yeah, and if ya call me Auntie Em, I'm gonna bust ya."
* ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes'' Annual #5, part of the 1994 {{Elseworld}}s annual theme, is an OffToSeeTheWizard story with Lightning Lass as Dorothy, Brainy as the Scarecrow, Wildfire as the Tin Woodsman and Timber Wolf as the Cowardly Lion. Unlike most Elseworlds, it had a regular-continuity framing story, which presented it as a story Vi was reading to Ayla after she was de-aged by Glorith.

* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay Shadow Play]]", Adam Grant has a recurring nightmare about being sentenced to death and executed. The roles of the people Grant knows or knew in his waking life are reassigned to different characters on a nightly basis.

* In "The Blue Butterfly", ''Series/{{Castle}}'' had Rick reading a diary about a decades-old murder and imagining himself as the private detective, Beckett as the FemmeFatale, and the rest of the major characters in various supporting roles.

** In the 1999 version of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', many of the people Alice meets in Wonderland make an appearance at her parents' garden party.

* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', Sam Parrish and the hunter Van Pelt share a striking resemblance. According to WordOfGod, it's a nod to the ''Peter Pan'' tradition mentioned below.

* ''VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries'' - Sonic is transported into the book ''1001 Arabian Nights'' and finds that Ali Baba, Sinbad and the emperor/sultan take after the appearance of Tails, Knuckles and Eggman, respectively. Happens again in ''Sonic and the Black Knight'': Knuckles - Sir Gawain, Shadow - Sir Lancelot, Blaze - [[SheIsTheKing Sir]] Percival, Silver - Sir Gallahad, Jet - Sir Lamorak, Amy - Lady of the Lake, and apparently [[spoiler:Sonic - King Arthur]].

--> '''Rocko:''' ...I've never seen you before.
--> '''Joe Murray:''' You're OffModel, kangaroo boy.

--> '''Leela:''' I was having the most wonderful dream. (beat) ''Except'' you were there, and you were there, and you were there.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E03Triangle Triangle]]", Mulder discovers the luxury liner Queen Anne in the Devil's Triangle, only it's back in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and his friends and enemies are spies, sailors or Nazi soldiers fighting over the vessel. Various aspects of their 'contemporary' selves are reflected: Skinner is apparently a Nazi but turns out to be on Mulder's side, Assistant Director Kersh is shown chained in the engine room, forced to steer the course set by the CSM who is naturally the Nazi BigBad. Scully is a spy who is [[AgentScully initially skeptical]] of Mulder's claims to be one of the good guys, yet comes through for him in the end. Scully also reflects Mulder's unrequited feelings for her -- she wears a [[LadyInRed red cocktail dress]] but punches Mulder in the jaw when he gives her a NowOrNeverKiss. In the end Mulder [[AllJustADream wakes up in a hospital bed]] surrounded by his friends, including A.D. Skinner who responds "Yeah, and my little dog Toto" when Mulder says gives the trope line.

** There's also the moment where Scheherezade has been telling the story of Ali Baba, including the slave girl Morgiana. Though in this case Scheherezade says "oh, no, she wasn't like me at all," and the face of Morgiana actually changes from being the same actress as Scheherezade to being someone else.

** Then in its own sequel, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', Link finds himself in a world populated by people who look like those he knows, but have different names and personalities. In this case, it's not a dream but an alternate reality.

* ''VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries'' - Sonic is transported into the book ''1001 Arabian Nights'' and finds that Ali Baba, Sinbad and the emperor/sultan take after the appearance of Tails, Knuckles and Eggman, respectively.
** Happens again in ''Sonic and the Black Knight'': Knuckles - Sir Gawain, Shadow - Sir Lancelot, Blaze - [[SheIsTheKing Sir]] Percival, Silver - Sir Gallahad, Jet - Sir Lamorak, Amy - Lady of the Lake, and apparently [[spoiler:Sonic - King Arthur]].

->'''Garak''': What I find most fascinating about this entire incident is how your unconscious mind chose people you know to represent the various parts of your personality.
->'''Doctor Bashir''': Well, it did make things interesting.
->'''Garak''': And what I find interesting, is how your mind ended up casting me in the role of the villain.
->'''Doctor Bashir''': Oh, I wouldn't read too much into that, Garak.

* In the [[PunBasedTitle Dice-Killing Chapter]] of Anime/HigurashiWhenTheyCry, Rika [[spoiler:gets hit by a truck,]] and one of the driving mysteries of the arc is whether [[spoiler:she entered another Fragment]] or the whole story is AdventuresInComaland. After she wakes up, Hanyuu tells her to treat it as AdventuresInComaland (though [[spoiler:it's implied she's lying for Rika's benefit]]), and Rika delivers one of these to her friends in doing so.

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** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E18DistantVoices Distant Voices]]", Dr Bashir is subjected to a psychic attack by the VillainOfTheWeek. Members of [=DS9=] appear as various aspects of Bashir's personality, but Bashir eventually realises that alleged Cardassian spy Garak isn't any of them--he's actually his attacker in disguise. The real Garak's reaction to being cast as the villain by Bashir's subconscious is humorously typical of him.

** Not a dream or a story, but a hallucination in the episode "Far Beyond the Stars". Sisko sees himself as a writer named Benny in the mid-20th century and the other characters look like his acquaintances and are played by their actors. The Benny Russell reality was revisited in "Shadows and Symbols", in which Russell [[CuckooNest is in an asylum]], with Damar's counterpart as his doctor.

* ''Series/TheXFiles''. In "Triangle", Mulder discovers the luxury liner Queen Anne in the Devil's Triangle, only it's back in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and his friends and enemies are spies, sailors or Nazi soldiers fighting over the vessel. Various aspects of their 'contemporary' selves are reflected: Skinner is apparently a Nazi but turns out to be on Mulder's side, Assistant Director Kersh is shown chained in the engine room, forced to steer the course set by the CSM who is naturally the Nazi BigBad. Scully is a spy who is [[AgentScully initially skeptical]] of Mulder's claims to be one of the good guys, yet comes through for him in the end. Scully also reflects Mulder's unrequited feelings for her -- she wears a [[LadyInRed red cocktail dress]] but punches Mulder in the jaw when he gives her a NowOrNeverKiss. In the end Mulder [[AllJustADream wakes up in a hospital bed]] surrounded by his friends, including A.D. Skinner who responds "Yeah, and my little dog Toto" when Mulder says gives the trope line.

--> '''Leela:''' I was having the most wonderful dream. (beat) Except you were there, and you were there, and you...

* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': The show is revealed to be the entirety of a dream at the end of the series, with Brittas using random bystanders as characters within the dream. For instance, Colin is a ticket conductor, Carole is with Gavin, Julie is an on-board caterer and Linda is a nun (and seemingly with Tim).

* One of the alternate endings of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' partially subverts this.

* Referenced and quoted verbatim by Rory Gilmore of Series/GilmoreGirls when she and her mother return home from backpacking around Europe. She pulls outfits from her wardrobe and hugs them, claiming to have dreamed about each of them.

* ''Series/GhostsUK'': In Kitty’s retelling of her life, she imagines her fellow ghosts, Mike and Alison as people in her past. It does get {{Subverted}} however, when she starts remembering her sister’s cruelty and father’s rage, since they're played by different actors.

* ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'': In Kitty’s retelling of her life, she imagines her fellow ghosts, Mike and Alison as people in her past. It does get {{Subverted}} however, when she starts remembering her sister’s cruelty and father’s rage, since they're played by different actors.