History Main / FeverDreamEpisode

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'': A fever causes Scrooge to have a bizarre fantasy of himself as a {{Gender Flip}}ped Literature/{{Cinderella}} with Goldie as his RebelliousPrincess.

* ''Series/{{Into the Badlands}}''! The episode where Sunny is poisoned and enters a dream reality.

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

* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E75TheMidnightSun The Midnight Sun]]" episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', classic edition, 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 fever dream because the dreamer was feverish from being sick. The world has actually slipped from orbit and is falling away from the sun, so everyone is slowly freezing to death.]]

* The second arc of ''[[http://marryme.keenspot.com/ Marry Me]]'' is about ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and entitled]]) when Parker met Guy. Parker, doing a babysitting job, is told by her temporary charges that their uncle Guy is upstairs, sicker than an entire pack of effluent dogs. Guy is clearly having a good time with this, because although he's fully awake, he's nowhere near lucid; when he inevitably manages to escape Parker's attention with the boys, he comes to the conclusion that they need hamburgers, and treats their fast food order with all the grave urgency of a black ops mission.

* A very fun episode of ''Manga/CrayonShin-Chan'' is basically a very long fever dream which constantly references heat.

* When sick with malaria in the second ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' book, Laure starts hallucinating.

* A very fun episode if Shin-Chan is basically a very long fever dream which constantly references heat.

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* An episode of ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' had Baby Dinosaur sick and hallucinating that the tender words of comfort and support his family were saying to him were evil threats to devour his feet.

* In a fourth season episode, ''{{WesternAnimation/Arthur}}'' eats too much candy, among other things including a well-cooked meal, then winds up bedridden with a stomach ache. Grandma Thora's fairy tales turn into dream sequences involving the various stores.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Arthur}}'' eats too much candy, among other things including a well-cooked meal, the winds up bedridden with a stomach ache. Grandma Thora's fairy tales turn into dream sequences involving the various stores.

* Yuno's day with a fever in ''Manga/HidamariSketch''. Most of the episode is spent in dream, but there are still scenes in the "real world" from time to time. Oddly, some of Yuno's dreams turn out to be remarkably accurate to what happens at school that day. The episode also contains a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming very sweet scene, when Miyako decides to help out Yuno]].

* The entire plot of ''VideoGame/HitmanContracts'' is one long examole. 47 is mortally wounded and hiding out in Paris. As he slips in and out of consciousness, he relives previous missions which the [[PensieveFlashback player experiences]].

* ''VideoGame/AxiomVerge'' has a sequence in Ukin-Na {{railroading}} the player into a part of the stage where the screen becomes progressively more distorted, culminating in a very bizarre HopelessBossFight.

* ''MajorDad'''s Halloween special featured this. In it, Casey is excited about going trick-or-treating. She gets a cold and falls asleep and has a fever dream, where she imagines that every main character is a horror movie monster.

* The entire plot of ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}} Contracts'' is one long examole. 47 is mortally wounded and hiding out in Paris. As he slips in and out of consciousness, he relives previous missions which the [[PensieveFlashback player experiences]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'': A fever causes Scrooge to have a bizarre fantasy of himself as a {{Gender Flip}}ped Literature/{{Cinderella}} with Goldie as his RebelliousPrincess. Hey, [[RuleThirtyFour to each his own]].

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' begins with Bloo as his SuperpoweredAlterEgo the Bloo Superdude battling his way through a ''DungeonsAndDragons''-type world. Gradually it is revealed that it's just a feverish Bloo wandering around the house and attacking his friends.

* The [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Amok_Time#Other_information German dub]] of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' changes the episode "Amok Time" into this, in an attempt to remove the references to sexuality. In this version, Spock is ill with "Space fever", and the fight between him and Kirk is a hallucination.

An entire episode as told from the perspective of someone who is very sick, their hallucinations and fever dreams [[BizarroEpisode giving everything a very warped slant]]. NightmareDreams are to be expected, whether the character is awake or not. The viewer may feel late to the party if the episode starts in the middle of such dreams without explanation, leaving the viewer to gradually piece together what's ''really'' going on.

* Yuno's day with a fever in ''HidamariSketch''. Most of the episode is spent in dream, but there are still scenes in the "real world" from time to time. Oddly, some of Yuno's dreams turn out to be remarkably accurate to what happens at school that day. The episode also contains a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming very sweet scene, when Miyako decides to help out Yuno]].
* Happens in ''{{Macross}}''. It was actually a ClipShow with clever editing and a new soundtrack, appearing as a dream after Hikaru was shot down by accidental friendly fire.

* Yurie's fever in ''{{Kamichu}}'' had the strange effect of casting her out of her body. Being new to Goddess-hood, she wasn't sure what was real and what was dream. Ironically, Kenji actually noticed her for once.

* In 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.

* The ''NewsRadio'' episode "Daydreams", where everyone has heat-induced hallucinations while they wait for the AC to be fixed.
* "The Midnight Sun" episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', classic edition, 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 fever dream because the dreamer was feverish from being sick. The world has actually slipped from orbit and is falling away from the sun, so everyone is slowly freezing to death.]]

* An episode of ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' had Baby Dinosaur sick and hallucinating that the tender words of comfort and support his family were saying to him were a evil threats to devour his feet.

** Likewise with the musical episode of ''Series/EvenStevens'', [[spoiler: Ren dreams the whole horrible day due to the fever and her disappointment over missing school.]]

* The ''[[Series/{{Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'' episode "Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead" combines this trope with NearDeathClairvoyance: Klinger sees, and talks with, the ghost of a recently-dead soldier while recovering from a high fever.

* ''TheGeorgeLopezShow'' had two episode in which George drinks tequila with the worm and hallucinates about alternate realities, the first being a WhatIf scenario where Benny was nicer to him growing up, the second depicting him and Ernie as a gay couple.
* ''TheKingOfQueens'' had an episode where Doug dreams he is in ''TheHoneymooners''.

* The entire plot of ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}} Contracts'' is one long FeverDreamEpisode. 47 is mortally wounded and hiding out in Paris. As he slips in and out of consiousness, he relives previous missions which the [[PensieveFlashback player experiences]].

* In the ''PennyAndAggie'' arc "The Lady and the Tiger" Aggie, due to an allergic reaction to medication, has one of these, doubling as a [[CharacterDevelopment character-building]] [[spoiler: NearDeathExperience]].

* Happens in ''FullFrontalNerdity'' in a sequence starting [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php?date=2010-01-13 here]].

* An episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' has Tommy get sick, leading to a sequence like this.
* The {{animesque}} ''HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' has this happen to the main characters, induced by cheap sushi.

* One episode of ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' begins with Bloo as his SuperpoweredAlterEgo the Bloo Superdude battling his way through a ''DungeonsAndDragons''-type world. Gradually it is revealed that it's just a feverish Bloo wandering around the house and attacking his friends.
* The ''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]].

* The USAcres episode [[WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore "Swine Trek"]].

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* Ray Bradbury's short story "Fever Dream" combines this with BodyHorror and CassandraTruth (oh, God, that poor kid...).