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* Yet another ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' parody occurs in the final ''TheFarSide'' strip, when cartoonist Gary Larson wakes up surrounded by his relatives: "All the cows looked just like you [to a relative with a bovine face]...All the scientists looked just like you...All the nerdy kids looked just like you..."

* In ''Film/Jumanji}}'', Sam Parrish and the hunter Van Pelt share a striking resemblance.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E45DeadDuck Dead Duck]]", Darkwing begins to explain his dream to Launchpad and Gosalyn, even using something like the trope-making phrase.

* Hilariously parodied in the "A Fistful of Yen" segment of KentuckyFriedMovie, complete with the (male) chop-socky action hero "waking up" in a blue gingham dress for the "And you were there" scene. Also, the character representing the "dream's" BigBad (who had a flamethrower hand) is shown to ''still have the flamethrower hand'', which he suddenly realizes is in shot and tries to hide.

* ''{{Inception}}'': this must have been at least one of Fischer's reactions when he woke up immediately after the inception.
* Inverted in ''Paperhouse'': Anna dreams of Mark, a boy who does exist in reality but also whom she has never met.

* In the 1999 version of Alice in Wonderland, many of the people Alice meets in Wonderland make an appearance at her parents' garden party.
* In Jumanji, Sam Parrish and the hunter Van Pelt share a striking resemblance.
* In the 2003 version of Peter Pan, Hook and Mr. Darling also share a striking resemblance.

* ''Series/ArabianNights'' (2000 mini-series): When Scheherazade tells Shahryar the tale of the Sultan and the Beggar, Shahryar pictures himself as the tormented and possibly mad Beggar, his brother as the cruel Sultan, and his principled but loyal Grand Vizier Ja'Far as the cruel Sultan's principled but loyal Grand Vizier.

* In the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode "The Van Gogh Job", the World War II-era backstory of the van Gogh the team is trying to retrieve gets told to Parker by its current owner; she fantasy-casts members of the Leverage team in all the appropriate roles of the story.

* The NoirEpisode of ''{{Smallville}}'', where Jimmy dreams the entire cast into a world of thirties cynicism. Notably, his casting suggests his subconscious knows more about them than he realises; for instance, he casts Clark as an undercover cop, and on awakening thinks the idea of Clark secretly being a crimefighter came out of nowhere.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' inverts this trope by having several real world characters (Malon, Talon, Kaepora Gaebora) that are based on characters that originally appeared in a dream in ''LinksAwakening'' (Marin, Tarin, Owl).
** Then in its own sequel, ''MajorasMask'', 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.

* In ''{{Fite}}'', [[spoiler:Lucco turns out to have been in a coma. Cub and Skerry from his dream turned out to be another patient at the hospital and a doctor, respectively.]]

* One of the alternate endings of RedVsBlue partially subverts this.
-->'''Church:''' Man, I had the weirdest dream. There was an evil computer program, and a bomb, and my ex-girlfriend was there.
-->'''Tucker:''' Boring.
-->'''Church:''' Yeah, and you were there Tucker, and you were there too, rookie. And the tank was there.
-->'''Jacobs:''' (only appearance in the entire series so far) Was I there, Church?
-->'''Church:''' No, Jacobs, you weren't there. I dunno why. I guess I just forgot about you. Sorry.

* ''JAG'' has three examples - "Mutiny" (re-telling the attempted mutiny aboard the ''USS Somers''), "Ghosts of Christmas Past" (the day Harm's father was shot down) and "Each of Us Angels" (a WWII period piece about hospital ships), where the cast fills various roles after a framing story is established in the present.

* When ''{{Hustle}}'' based a con on "The Emperor's New Clothes", they did a quick fairy-tale-theater reenactment of the story with the regular cast members.

* ''{{SCTV}}'' ended a FantasyIsland parody where a couple of hippie musicians play Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in a 'Road To" picture, overlapping others' fantasies of ''{{Casablanca}}'' and a Fred Astaire musical, which gets taken over by a ''WizardOfOz'' sequence when they wake up this way.

** Then in its own sequel, ''MajorasMask'', 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 ([[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory maybe]]), but an alternate reality.

* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' example is parodied in ''{{Futurama}}''.

* ''SherlockJr.'' plays this straight, with all of the characters in the framing story playing similar roles in the dream sequence that constitutes the bulk of the film.

* In the {{Yogscast}} 2000th video animation, Simon falls asleep [[MetaFiction whilst coming up for ideas for the video itself]] and dreams that many of the hostile mobs were benevolent, and the neutral mobs were hostile. When Lewis wakes him and he invokes this trope, he appears to be delirious, addressing Lewis (who was not present), several appliances, and the camera itself.

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

* From the song "Last Night I Had a Dream" by Randy Newman:

* In ''[[LordOfTheRings Fellowship]]! TheMusical'', The Balrog sings a lounge act entitled ''The Balrog Blues'', about how he was woken up from a "delightful little dream". His description of the dream parodies this - while [[NoFourthWall pointing at members of the audience]], he says: "well you know, you were there, and you were there..." Astoundingly, they took it to the next level by having him say this exact line ''on the CD,'' and then calling out the person listening to the CD by adding, "And you were there, and y... who the hell are ''you''? Why don't you get out of your mom's basement and get a ''[[TakeThatAudience job]]''? Sheesh."

* ''SuckerPunch'': They're hallucinations, not dreams, but still.

** And again in "The D.B. Cooper Job", where Nate is shown as the detective hunting the eponymous bad guy.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' inverts this trope by having several real world characters (Malon, Talon, Kaepora Gaebora) that are based on characters that originally appeared in a dream in ''TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' (Marin, Tarin, Owl).

* ''{{MirrorMask}}'': The Prime Minister is Helena's dad, and the Queens of Light and Shadow are both her mother. Oh, and [[spoiler: the Princess of Shadow is Helena herself]]. At the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Helena meets the real-world version of Valentine.]]

* In the {{Yogscast}} 2000th video animation, Simon falls asleep "[[MetaFiction whilst coming up for ideas for the video itself]]" and dreams that many of the hostile mobs were benevolent, and the neutral mobs were hostile. When Lewis wakes him and he invokes this trope, he appears to be delirious, addressing Lewis (who was not present), several appliances, and the camera itself.

* In the {{Yogscast}} 2000th video animation, Simon falls asleep {{MetaFiction whilst coming up for ideas for the video itself}} and dreams that many of the hostile mobs were benevolent, and the neutral mobs were hostile. When Lewis wakes him and he invokes this trope, he appears to be delirious, addressing Lewis (who was not present), several appliances, and the camera itself.

* In "The Blue Butterfly", ''{{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.

Subtrope of AndYouWereThere. See also VisionsOfAnotherSelf and HerCodeNameWasMarySue. Frequently overlaps WholePlotReference.

* The 1986 version of ''BabesInToyland''. Most even have the same names.