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* This happened in Episode 6 of [[Machinima/SteveAndCarlos Steve and Carlos]] where we're lead to believe Carlos stabbed Steve. But it was just Carlos daydreaming.
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* This happened in Episode 6 of [[Machinima/SteveAndCarlos Steve and Carlos]] ''WebAnimation/SteveAndCarlos'' where we're lead to believe Carlos stabbed Steve. But it was just Carlos daydreaming.
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* ''Series/{{Miranda}}'' has this occasionally, with events such as Gary suddenly walking into the room, proclaiming his undying love for her, and kissing her... only for it to snap back and reveal Miranda's just daydreaming. Subverted on one occasion in which Miranda kisses Gary, and then realises she ''wasn't'' daydreaming and ''actually did that''.
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* ''Series/{{Miranda}}'' ''Series/Miranda2009'' has this occasionally, with events such as Gary suddenly walking into the room, proclaiming his undying love for her, and kissing her... only for it to snap back and reveal Miranda's just daydreaming. Subverted on one occasion in which Miranda kisses Gary, and then realises she ''wasn't'' daydreaming and ''actually did that''.
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* ''Series/{{The Sandman|2022}}'', "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E07TheDollsHouse The Doll's House]]": On a transatlantic flight, the recently widowed Lyta strikes up a conversation with the handsome man seated across the aisle. After she mentions her recent troubles, he asks how she's holding up, and she says that clearly she's not holding up very well, considering [[TheReveal she's having an impossible conversation with her dead husband]]. Then a flight attendant wakes her up, and we see that the seat across the aisle is actually occupied by someone else entirely.
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* A RunningGag in ''Film/MajorGromPlagueDoctor'' which has the CowboyCop hero pulling some badass stunt, only for reality to ensure and he gets killed, so we SmashCut back to him saying "Think, think!" as he tries to think up a better plan.
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* A RunningGag in ''Film/MajorGromPlagueDoctor'' which has the CowboyCop hero pulling some badass stunt, only for reality to ensure ensue and he gets killed, so we SmashCut back to him saying "Think, think!" as he tries to think up a better plan. plan.
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* In ''Film/TrueLies'', the briefest daydream ever: trained spy [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Harry]] is driving along listening to the chatter of the schmuck in the passenger seat -- who he knows is messing around with his wife. Harry, without taking his eyes off the road, elbows the guy in the face and knocks him out. Then suddenly we're back to the guy rambling on and laughing.
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* In ''Film/TrueLies'', the briefest daydream ever: trained spy [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Harry]] is driving along listening to the chatter of the schmuck in the passenger seat -- who he knows is messing around with his wife. Harry, without taking his eyes off the road, elbows the guy in the face and knocks him out.kills him. Then suddenly we're back to the guy rambling on and laughing.
* A RunningGag in ''Film/MajorGromPlagueDoctor'' which has the CowboyCop hero pulling some badass stunt, only for reality to ensure and he gets killed, so we SmashCut back to him saying "Think, think!" as he tries to think up a better plan.
* A RunningGag in ''Film/MajorGromPlagueDoctor'' which has the CowboyCop hero pulling some badass stunt, only for reality to ensure and he gets killed, so we SmashCut back to him saying "Think, think!" as he tries to think up a better plan.
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* In ''Film/CampSlaughter'', Mario is attending a rehearsal for an amateur Shakespeare performance of ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' when the drama coach gets so frustrated by the poor fight choreography that he decides to show them how to do it by slaughtering the entire cast one by one. Then, Mario wakes up and sees it was all just a dream.
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** In "Isabella and the Temple of Sap", when Isabella asks Phineas "What'cha doin'?", he sudden confesses his love for Isabella. Then he turns into a centaur (for some reason - a play on AllGirlsLikePonies perhaps?), Isabella jumps on his back and they ride away together. Turns out she was just daydreaming, and she didn't even hear his real response. Apparently, she and her fellow Fireside Girls refer to this as her going to "Phineas-Land."
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** In "Isabella and the Temple of Sap", Sap" (the POVSequel to "Bubble Boys"), when Isabella asks Phineas "What'cha doin'?", he sudden confesses his love for Isabella. Then he turns into a centaur (for some reason - a play on AllGirlsLikePonies perhaps?), Isabella jumps on his back and they ride away together. Turns out she was just daydreaming, and she didn't even hear his real response. Apparently, she and her fellow Fireside Girls refer to this as her going to "Phineas-Land."
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-->'''Wally''': Hey, buddy. Haven't seen you for a bit. You've probably been staying inside to avoid this, uh, heat wave, huh?
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-->'''Wally''': Hey, buddy. Haven't seen you for a bit. You've probably been staying inside to avoid this, uh, heat wave, huh?huh? Boy, it's been hot.
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* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "Babies, Lies and a Resplendent Cannoli", Georgie telling George Sr. about Mandy and George losing his temper turns out to be just Georgie imagining what would happen if he did tell him.
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* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' uses a few in the new season.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'' episode "Electric Nightmare" opens with Wily attacking a power plant, Mega Man coming to stop him, and Wily seemingly destroying Mega. It turns out that this is just a "game" Wily and his bots are playing to prepare for the real attack.
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* ''Series/JandaKembang'': In episode 5, Salmah visits Malik's shop and he proceeds to hold her hand tenderly. Without a warning, the scene is revealed to be Malik's imagination and he is actually holding another customer's hand.
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** In episode 5, Salmah visits Malik's shop and he proceeds to hold her hand tenderly. Without a warning, the scene is revealed to be Malik's imagination and he is actually holding another customer'shand.hand.
** In episode 24, Rais wakes up in front of Neneng's shop who acts unusually nice to him and even assures him that it's not a dream. Surprise, it is a dream, as revealed when Kemal throws water at Rais who is actually sleeping in Kemal's home.
** In episode 5, Salmah visits Malik's shop and he proceeds to hold her hand tenderly. Without a warning, the scene is revealed to be Malik's imagination and he is actually holding another customer's
** In episode 24, Rais wakes up in front of Neneng's shop who acts unusually nice to him and even assures him that it's not a dream. Surprise, it is a dream, as revealed when Kemal throws water at Rais who is actually sleeping in Kemal's home.
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->''But it was just my imagination''\\
''Runnin' away with me''
-->-- '''Music/TheTemptations'''
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* Pretty much every LifetimeTimeMovieOfTheWeek centering around a {{Yandere}} VillainProtagonist will have a scene of this nature where it at first appears that the object of their obsession is declaring their love to them, only to reveal it as a fantasy.
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* Played with ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a LotusEaterMachine spell courtesy of the corridor's RunicMagic. It takes them a couple of strips to snap out of it.
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* Played with in ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a LotusEaterMachine spell courtesy of the corridor's RunicMagic. It takes them a couple of strips to snap out of it.
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* Played with ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a LotusEaterMachine spell courtesy of the corridor's RunicMagic. It takes them a couple of strips to snap out of it.
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* Played with ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a LotusEaterMachine spell courtesy of the corridor's RunicMagic. It takes them a couple of strips to snap out of it.
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* Played with ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a LotusEaterMachine spell courtesy of the corridor's RunicMagic. It takes them a couple of strips to realize what had actually happened.
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* Played with ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a LotusEaterMachine spell courtesy of the corridor's RunicMagic. It takes them a couple of strips to realize what had actually happened.snap out of it.
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* Played with ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a LotusEaterMachine spell courtesy of the corridor's RuneMagic.
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* Played with ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a LotusEaterMachine spell courtesy of the corridor's RuneMagic.RunicMagic. It takes them a couple of strips to realize what had actually happened.
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* Played with ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a LotusEaterMachine spell courtesy of the corridor's RuneMagic.
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Crosswicking.
* The short story ''Literature/AnOccurrenceAtOwlCreekBridge'' about a Confederate deserter who escapes his hanging and makes his way home. None of it was real and he was hanged.
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* The short ''Literature/PostHighSchoolRealityQuest'': In the chapter "Graduation: May 12, 2009", in the bathroom, the TextParser that Buffy uses to interact with the world, doesn't let Buffy actually do something:
--> > Wrestle Sephora to the ground\\
You wrestle the lipstick from her hands and scream “You whore!” and write mean things on the mirror. Then you stuff her head in the toilet and prevent this horrible story''Literature/AnOccurrenceAtOwlCreekBridge'' about a Confederate deserter who escapes his hanging and makes his way home. None from actually happening.\\
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--> > Wrestle Sephora to the ground\\
You wrestle the lipstick from her hands and scream “You whore!” and write mean things on the mirror. Then you stuff her head in the toilet and prevent this horrible story
And by that, you only daydream of
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* The first ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground'' game opens with you competing in (and winning) a street race [[ATasteOfPower in a fully pimped-out car]]. You're then pulled out of your fantasy by the game's MsFanservice, who invites you to buy your first ''actual'' car.
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* ''Series/JandaKembang'': In episode 5, Salmah visits Malik's shop and he proceeds to hold her hand tenderly. Without a warning, the scene is revealed to be Malik's imagination and he is actually holding another customer's hand.
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* The 45th issue of ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' has The Female retaliate to a boy taking her lollipop by tearing his face off. This turns out to be a daydream with Frenchie discouraging her from retaliating violently so as not to blow their cover.
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* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'': The Phobos Warden armor set includes lore in which Commander Zavala is visited by various missing and/or presumed dead characters, who either let him lean on them a little or who’ve come up with a miracle solution to the threat facing the Last City. The last one in the sequence reveals they were all just daydreams.
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* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'': The Phobos Warden armor set includes lore in which Commander Zavala is visited by various missing and/or presumed dead characters, who either let him lean on them a little or who’ve come up with a miracle solution to the threat facing the Last City. The last one in the sequence reveals they were all just daydreams.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. Marcus, a [[DirtyCop corrupt Enforcer]] in the pay of Silco, is given one of Jinx's grenades to present as "evidence" to frame another party for the murder of several Enforcers by Jinx. Marcus supposedly pulls the pin, [[TakingYouWithMe killing both himself and Silco]]. Immediately after, we see that it was all in Marcus's head. Silco immediately lampshades it.
-->'''Silco:''' ''(mockingly)'' Hmm? Imagining yourself the hero?
-->'''Silco:''' ''(mockingly)'' Hmm? Imagining yourself the hero?
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* ''Manga/SchoolLive'' famously has one that encompasses almost the entire [[spoiler: first]] chapter/episode.
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* The ending of ''Film/MrBrooks'' where [[spoiler: the eponymous character is killed by his daughter]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' refers to these as "counterfactual scenarios", a term the author Adam Warren borrowed from the alt-history community because he felt it was amusingly pretentious-sounding.
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* It's been mentioned elsewhere, but in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited,'' B-villain Milo's CorruptCorporateExecutive bosses screw him over once too often, so in a rage, he pulls out a massive gun and terminates them one after another until all are dead... and then we [[IndulgentFantasySegue cut back to reality.]]
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' does this regularly with [[http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2005/07/24/ "Mike's Summer Daydream."]]
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* [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/punchout/images/e/e0/Glass_Joe_comic.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20210903004242 The promotional comic strip for]] ''VideoGame/PunchOut Wii'' depicts [[{{Jobber}} Glass Joe]] as the World Champion, with [[ChickMagnet bombshell women fawning over him]] and a ''[[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys baguette]]'' inscribed on the belt. However, in the last few panels, he is literally punched in the face with reality, where he is shown as his normal, scrawny self.
--> ''...Someday it will all come true...(I wish!)''
* [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/punchout/images/e/e0/Glass_Joe_comic.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20210903004242 The promotional comic strip for]] ''VideoGame/PunchOut Wii'' depicts [[{{Jobber}} Glass Joe]] as the World Champion, with [[ChickMagnet bombshell women fawning over him]] and a ''[[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys baguette]]'' inscribed on the belt. However, in the last few panels, he is literally punched in the face with reality, where he is shown as his normal, scrawny self.
--> ''...Someday it will all come true...(I wish!)''
