History Main / FeverDreamEpisode

* One issue of ''ComicBook/TarotWitchOfTheBlackRose'' sees Raven Hex wandering through several classic fairytales, getting increasingly frustrated at the passivity of the heroines therein, and wondering how she got stuck in these stories and how to get home. The ending reveals that the whole thing is a fever dream; she is actually stuck in bed with a magical cold, and Tarot is reading her stories while she recovers.

* A poem from the ''Literature/VitaNuova'' begins with [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]] begging for death as some women wake him up from a fever-induced nightmare. The middle and end of the poem are the poet detailing his nightmare, where [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Beatrice]] died and ascended to {{Heaven}} while all the Earth was left in chaotic mourning.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E75TheMidnightSun The Midnight Sun]]" is like this. The world has slipped from orbit and is falling toward the sun. Consequently, everyone's quite literally being slowly cooked to death. TwistEnding goes: [[spoiler: it was a dream the main character had while sick with a high fever. The world has actually slipped from orbit and is falling away from the sun, so everyone is slowly freezing to death.]]

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' has Tommy get sick, leading to a sequence where he hallucinates his family members are figurines from his mobile.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' has Tommy get sick, leading to a sequence where he hallucinates his family members are figurines from his mobile.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Sting" is a notable one of these, mixed with a ''healthy'' dose of MindScrew.

->''Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know.''

Subtrope of SickEpisode. See also MushroomSamba. May be an instance of PastExperienceNightmare or DreamingOfThingsToCome. Compare YourWorstNightmare and TalkingInYourDreams, both of which may be mistaken for this, or result from it. Without the illness aspect, this is a DreamEpisode.

* In Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Mode Series'', the main character is infected by a psychic virus that makes her go into vivid dreams to destroy her already precarious sense of self-worth. Whenever she thought of anybody, she would immediately go into an indistinguishable dream where the person hated her and would attempt to kill or torture her, with each dream being worse and more savage than the last. She ultimately beats it by thinking of herself and tackling her self-doubts head on.

* When ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' comes down with a cold, he has a journey that he is going through his body to fight the germ causing his sickness.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'': The A-plot of "28 Sneezes Later" sees Lee, struck by the same illness as most of the rest of the school, go on a wild adventure chasing the Tazelwurm into tunnels under the school before waking up back in detention and dismissing the whole thing as a fever dream. However, it's later revealed that the tunnels actually exist, on top of the adventure {{foreshadowing}} some later reveals in the series; the only thing that was unambiguously a fever-induced hallucination was the Tazelwurm inexplicably talking and obtaining a top hat and monocle.

Subtrope of SickEpisode. See also MushroomSamba. May be an instance of PastExperienceNightmare or DreamingOfThingsToCome. Compare YourWorstNightmare and TalkingInYourDreams, both of which may be mistaken for this. Without the illness aspect, this is a DreamEpisode.

* In the Literature/{{Kane}} novella "Mirage", Kane is wounded and then slowly dying, and spends most of the story in delirium.

* The musical episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. A woman ends up in the hospital because she imagines that everyone around her is singing. [[spoiler: This turns out to be caused by a massive unruptured brain aneurysm, [[https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)62391-4/fulltext which has some minimal]] TruthInTelevision]] [[note:]] Such an aneurysm could cause one to hear people's speaking as if they were singing, but would not explain the rhyming or choreography the patient hallucinates in the episode.[[//note]]

* The musical episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. A woman ends up in the hospital because she imagines that everyone around her is singing. [[spoiler: This turns out to be caused by a massive unruptured brain aneurysm, [[https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)62391-4/fulltext which has some minimal]] TruthInTelevision]] [[Note:]] Such an aneurysm could cause one to hear people's speaking as if they were singing, but would not explain the rhyming or choreography the patient hallucinates in the episode.[[/note]]

* The musical episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. A woman ends up in the hospital because she imagines that everyone around her is singing. [[spoiler: This turns out to be caused by a massive unruptured brain aneurysm, [[https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)62391-4/fulltext which has some minimal]] TruthInTelevision [[Note]] Such an aneurysm could cause one to hear people's speaking as if they were singing, but would not explain the rhyming or choreography the patient hallucinates in the episode)[[/note]].]]

* The musical episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. A woman ends up in the hospital because she imagines that everyone around her is singing. [[spoiler: This turns out to be caused by a massive brain aneurysm, [[https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)62391-4/fulltext which has some]] TruthInTelevision (though minimal -- the aneurysm would not explain the rhyming or choreography she sees in the episode).]]

* The musical episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. A woman ends up in the hospital because she imagines that everyone around her is singing.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' episode "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals" has Scooby too sick to take part in the titular contest and has a dream where he and the gang are there. The dream has everyone [[ArtShift look more like their original Hanna-Barbera designs]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'', Arlo and Spot start having weird hallucinations after eating some berries that were fermented.
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** And of course the US version was entirely a variant of this trope-the whole thing was Sam's dream, though a cryo-sleep one rather than a fever one.

* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In [[AliceAllusion "Curiouser and Curiouser"]], VampireDetective Nick Knight wakes up to find that he's a human DefectiveDetective married to Janette (who's human as well because vampires don't exit) and having an affair with Natalie who's DaChief instead of the coroner, and AlwaysSecondBest to his partner Schanke instead of the other way round. The Murder of the Week is [[LargeHamRadio "The Nightcrawler"]] [=LaCroix=] who's been stabbed with an ordinary knife. Things get weirder with [=LaCroix=] quoting Creator/LewisCarroll to Nick [[TheTelevisionTalksBack from the TV set]]. Turns out it's repressed guilt over how Nick has been treating his friends on top of his [[TheAtoner vampire issues]], and he wakes up to find that it's AllJustADream. Then Schanke turns up to tell him they've got a murder; a [[TheEndOrIsIt radio station host stabbed to death.]]

* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In [[AliceAllusion "Curiouser and Curiouser"]], VampireDetective Nick Knight wakes up to find that he's a human DefectiveDetective married to Janette (who's human because vampires don't exit) and having an affair with Natalie who's DaChief instead of the coroner, and AlwaysSecondBest to his partner Schanke instead of the other way round. The Murder of the Week is [[LargeHamRadio "The Nightcrawler"]] [=LaCroix=] who's been stabbed with an ordinary knife. Things get weirder with [=LaCroix=] quoting Creator/LewisCarroll to Nick [[TheTelevisionTalksBack from the TV set]]. Turns out it's repressed guilt over how Nick has been treating his friends on top of his [[TheAtoner vampire issues]], and he wakes up to find that it's AllJustADream. Then Schanke turns up to tell him they've got a murder; a [[TheEndOrIsIt radio station host stabbed to death.]]