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** 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]].

* Not a dream or a story, but a hallucination in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' 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.

** And again in "The D.B. Cooper Job", where Nate is shown as the detective hunting the eponymous bad guy. This can result in [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife figuring out what's going on early]] because [[spoiler: Cooper himself is not cast as one of the Leverage team. This is because that's a deliberately misleading description of him, and the real Cooper is indeed one of the people played by the team.]]

* ''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.

* Nemo in ''Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland'' bases many of Slumberland's residents on people he saw at the parade in the beginning of the film. For example, he bases [[TheSmartGuy Professor Genius]] from the piano player, [[LoveInterest Princess Camille]] from the girl who gave him a rose, [[TokenEvilTeammate Flip]] from the clown who knocked him over, and [[BigGood King Morpheus]] from the kindly ringleader who gives him a ride.

* Nemo in ''Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland'' bases many of Slumberland's residents on people he saw at the parade in the beginning of the film. For example, he bases [[TheSmartGuy Professor Genius]] from the piano player, [[LoveInterest Princess Camille]] from the girl who gave him a rose, [[TokenEvilTeammate Flip]] from the clown who knocked him over, and [[BigGood King Morpheus]] from the ringleader.

* ''Theatre/SheKillsMonsters'': Agnes spends the show playing the Dungeons & Dragons module her late sister, Tilly, created and left behind, imagining Tilly as her alter ego, Tillius the Paladin. [[spoiler: Agnes later discovers that the characters in Tilly's game are based on her real-life friends and enemies... including Agnes's own boyfriend as a Gelatinous Cube.]]

* ''Theatre/SheKillsMonsters'': Agnes spends the show playing her late sister's Dungeons & Dragons module

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.) For when a dream is literally being shared by all the characters, it's a SharedDream.

* ''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".

* ''Piwem i Mieczem'' ("With Beer And Sword"), an episodic story published in the magazine ''Magazine/TopSecret'', involved a character hallucinating about going to a fantasy world and meeting comrades who were all based on the magazine's editors.

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.)

** ''Unity'' revisits the "Benny Russell" hallucination/vision (see below) when Elias Vaughn has an orb vison in which he's Eli Underwood, committed to the same institution as Benny Russell, with other characters introduced in the novels as staff and patients. At the end, [[spoiler: Underwood and Russell leave the asylum together, symbolising Sisko returning from the Celestial Temple]]. Later books also revisit this reality, most notably the ''Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact'' duology ''Plagues of Night'' and ''Raise the Dawn'', in which Kira had visions of being Kay Eaton.

** ''Unity'' revisits the "Benny Russell" hallucination/vision (see below) when Elias Vaughn has an orb vison in which he's Eli Underwood, committed to the same institution as Benny Russell, with other characters introduced in the novels as staff and patients. At the end, [[spoiler: Underwood and Russell leave the asylum together, symbolising Sisko returning from the Celestial Temple]]. Later books also revisit this reality, most notably the ''Plagues of Night''/''Raise the Dawn'' two parter, in which Kira had visions of being Kay Eaton.

** Kira also had an orb vision in the novel ''Warpath'' where she was an ancient Bajora general, with the rest of the [=DS9=] crew as her warband; her adjunct Jamin, Shirab the apothecary, etc. Even their [[AHorseOfAnotherColour riding beasts]] have names that are anagrams of runabouts!

* Not a dream or a story, but a hallucination in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' 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.

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

This is something of a TruthInTelevision because people do tend to have people they know in their dreams. There’s even a theory that all the people in such dreams are like this - 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.