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* In ''[[Literature/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."

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When a character tells a story or has a dream of a completely unrelated event in which people he already knows fill in for the roles of the story.

* An episode of ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' uses this: Osaka, Tomo, Sakaki and Kaorin have dreams in the New Year's morning involving their friends. In all of them, Chiyo-chan made an appearance - not to mention Chiyo-dad's formal debut in Sakaki's dream.

* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' - The Trope Namer, in which after waking up, Dorothy realizes that the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow bear more than a passing resemblance to the ranch hands.
** She also notices that the travelling mystic looks an awful lot like a certain wizard and sees Miss Gulch turn into the wicked witch, though she does not mention the latter upon returning home/regaining consciousness.
* Hilariously parodied in the "A Fistful of Yen" segment of ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', 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.
* ''Film/{{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 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/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.
* Inverted in ''Film/PaperHouse'': Anna dreams of Mark, a boy who does exist in reality but also whom she has never met.

* ''Film/SuckerPunch'': They're hallucinations, not dreams, but still.
* ''Film/TheWomanInTheWindow'': After waking up, the hero recognizes two acquaintances as the victim and the blackmailer.
* In the 1999 version of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', many of the people Alice meets in Wonderland make an appearance at her parents' garden party.

* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'' Jean Valjean has a very strange dream where he meets up with his brother.

* Gilligan's dreams on ''Series/GilligansIsland'' are always like this.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - comatose child Billy is causing everyone's nightmares to come true - when Buffy and friends finally wake him at the hospital he says "I had the strangest dream! You were there, and you...who are you people?"
* The ''Series/MacGyver1985'' Old West dream episodes: "Serenity" and "[=MacGyver=]'s Women", and the King Arthur episode "Good Knight, [=MacGyver=]".

* ''Series/{{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.
* This was used during the Wizard of Oz inspired episode (The Wizard of Song) of ''Series/TheFreshBeatBand''
* When ''Series/{{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.
* 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.
* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' ended a ''Series/FantasyIsland'' parody where a couple of hippie musicians play Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in a ''Film/RoadTo'' picture, overlapping others' fantasies of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and a Creator/FredAstaire musical, which gets taken over by a ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' sequence when they wake up this way.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', the foes of Calvin's [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue imaginary alter egos]] are patterned on people he doesn't get along with in his own life: his parents, his teacher Miss Wormwood, his classmate Susie Derkins, his babysitter Rosalyn, etc.

* The prelude to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland Jr.'' takes place in the park where Alice' sister Mathilda instructs Alice on history. There's a boy in a white vest for the White Rabbit, a child blowing bubbles for the Caterpillar, and kids playing Ring-Around-the-Rosie for the Caucus Race.

* ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1954}}'', the musical, continues the tradition.

* ''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 - Sir Percival, Silver - Sir Gallahad, Jet - Sir Lamorak, Amy - Lady of the Lake, and apparently [[spoiler:Sonic - King Arthur]].

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' newspaper storyline "Magic Comic Shop", there's a brief glimpse into the fantasy novel Nanase is reading, which is a love scene between two characters named Nancy and Elaine. Nanase is, [[TransparentCloset of course]], visualising them as herself and Ellen.

* One of the alternate endings of ''Machinima/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.
* In the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} 2000th video animation, LetsPlay/SimonLane 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 LetsPlay/LewisBrindley wakes him and he invokes this trope, he appears to be delirious, addressing Lewis (who was not present), several appliances, and the camera itself.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has done a few episodes like this. The original "Treehouse of Horror" featured a sequence based on Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "The Raven", with Homer as the narrator and Bart as the titular bird. This was later done in "Simpsons Bible Stories", "Simpsons Tall Tales", "Tales from the Public Domain" and "Simpsons Christmas Stories".
** In "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", the end of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' is parodied when Bart regains consciousness. He points out everyone standing around the hospital bed like Dorothy until he spots someone he doesn't remember from his dream of the afterlife: ambulance-chasing lawyer Lionel Hutz.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' example is parodied in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''.
--> '''Leela:''' I was having the most wonderful dream. (beat) Except you were there, and you were there, and you...
** Bender is talking in his sleep, droning "Destroy all humans...". Fry frantically wakes him, and he says "Why'd you wake me? I was having the most wonderful dream - and you were in it!"
* Used on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' in "D.W.'s Name Game" with an OrWasItADream twist when a character that was original to the dream appeared outside D.W.'s window.
* The MusicalEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' ended with Pepper Ann waking up from her musical dream, and telling each of the people surrounding her that they were in it. [[{{Buttmonkey}} Pink-Eyed Pete]] asks if he were in the dream, and she answers, "no," causing him to go off and sing sadly about his lack of respect.

Subtrope of AndYouWereThere. See also VisionsOfAnotherSelf and HerCodeNameWasMarySue. Frequently overlaps with WholePlotReference, especially OffToSeeTheWizard, which is one of the most famous examples (and the source of this page’s name, of course.)

Subtrope of AndYouWereThere. See also VisionsOfAnotherSelf and HerCodeNameWasMarySue. Frequently overlaps with WholePlotReferenc, especially OffToSeeTheWizard, which is one of the most famous examples (and the source of this page’s name, of course.)

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

This is something of a TruthInTelevision because people do tend to have people they know in their dreams (in fact, there's a theory that all the people in the dreams are these - it's just that we don't remember them all because some of them are just some unknown people we've seen at some time in our life, even just as a stranger seen on a bus ride).

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

* ''Theatre/PeterPan'': It's a tradition on stage and in various media that Captain Hook and Mr. Darling are played by the same actor.

* The ''Series/MacGyver'' Old West dream episodes: "Serenity" and "[=MacGyver=]'s Women".

* This was used during the Wizard of Oz inspired episode (The Wizard of Song) of ''TheFreshBeatBand''

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' , the foes of Calvin's [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue imaginary alter egos]] are patterned on people he doesn't get along with in his own life: his parents, his teacher Miss Wormwood, his classmate Susie Derkins, his babysitter Rosalyn, etc.

* ''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.

* ''Film/{{Inception}}'': this must have been at least one of Fischer's reactions when he woke up immediately after the inception.

This is something of a TruthInTelevision because people do tend to have people they know in their dreams (in fact, there's a theory that all the people in the dreams are these - it's just that we don't remember them all because some of them are just some unknown people we've seen at some time in our life - e.g., strangers on a bus ride).

* ''Series/{{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 ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and a Fred Astaire musical, which gets taken over by a ''WizardOfOz'' sequence when they wake up this way.

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

This is something of a TruthInTelevision because people do tend to have people they know in their dreams.

* ''Series/{{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.

* Theatre/PeterPan'': It's a tradition on stage and in various media that Captain Hook and Mr. Darling are played by the same actor.

* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', Sam Parrish and the hunter Van Pelt share a striking resemblance.
* In the 2003 version of ''Film/PeterPan'', Hook and Mr. Darling also share a striking resemblance.

* Implied in the 2010 ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' that Alice used this reaction to dismiss her first visit to Wonderland as a dream. There's an old woman who has traits of the Red Queen, and twins that behave like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Subverted on her return to Wonderland when she decides it wasn't all a dream.

* Gilligan's dreams on ''GilligansIsland'' are always like this.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has done a few episodes like this. The original "Treehouse of Horror" featured a sequence based on EdgarAllanPoe's "The Raven", with Homer as the narrator and Bart as the titular bird. This was later done in "Simpsons Bible Stories", "Simpsons Tall Tales", "Tales from the Public Domain" and "Simpsons Christmas Stories".

* ''TenchiMuyo'': ''Mihoshi Special'', Mihoshi tells the Masaki Household a story of her greatest Galaxy Police adventure, casting the various characters of the show in the roles of various players in her story. She doesn't even bother to change their names to those of the characters in her story, to much ongoing annoyance of her audience.

* The MusicalEpisode of ''PepperAnn'' ended with Pepper Ann waking up from her musical dream, and telling each of the people surrounding her that they were in it. [[{{Buttmonkey}} Pink-Eyed Pete]] asks if he were in the dream, and she answers, "no," causing him to go off and sing sadly about his lack of respect.

* In the {{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.