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* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In [[AliceAllusion "Curiouser and Curiouser"]], VampireDetecive 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.]]

* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In [[AliceAllusion "Curiouser and Curiouser"]], VampireDetecive Nick Knight wakes up to find that he's a human DefectiveDetective married to a human Janette 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 "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"]], VampireDetecive Nick Knight wakes up to find that he's a human DefectiveDetective married to a human Janette 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 "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 RepressedGuilt 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.]]

* The second arc of ''Webcomic/MarryMe'' 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.

* ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS2E13Funhouse Funhouse]]" contains multiple fever dreams after Tony gets a bad case of food poisoning. In one of them, Tony douses himself with gasoline and lights himself on fire.

* ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "Funhouse" contains multiple fever dreams after Tony gets a bad case of food poisoning. In one of them, Tony douses himself with gasoline and lights himself on fire.

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

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

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

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

* A ''possible'' case is the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Confidence and Paranoia", where a mutant disease makes Lister have solid hallucinations that everybody can see and interact with (the Cat was able to eat the hallucination fishes).

* Series/{{Angel}} spends an entire episode stuck in a fever dream thanks to a demonic parasite.

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

* One of the German series ''Erotic Tales'' had a policeman fever-dreaming he was seduced by a FemmeFataleSpy who leaves him tied to a bed so she can free the Russian spy he's guarding. He wakes up and goes to work; turns out he's guarding an ordinary criminal at the hospital. His commander sees he's still sick and offers him a day off, but he stays because the [[HelloNurse nurse]] is the [[AndYouWereThere spy from his fantasy.]]

* One of the German series ''Erotic Tales'' had a policeman fever-dreaming he was seduced by a FemmeFataleSpy who leaves him TiedToABed so she can free the Russian spy he's guarding. He wakes up and goes to work; turns out he's guarding an ordinary criminal at the hospital. His commander sees he's still sick and offers him a day off, but he stays because the [[HelloNurse nurse]] is the [[AndYouWereThere spy from his fantasy.]]

* "[[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 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.]]

Subtrope of SickEpisode. See also MushroomSamba. May be an instance of BadDreams or DreamingOfThingsToCome. Compare YourWorstNightmare and TalkingInYourDreams, both of which may be mistaken for this.

See also AdventuresInComaland, when a long-unconscious character goes on a spiritual journey inside their own head.

* Yuno's day with a fever in the anime of ''Manga/HidamariSketch''. (The manga version of events doesn't delve into Yuno's dreams.) 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]].

* 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.

* A ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' short story "The Iron Star" is written fully from the perspective of Gaunt, who's feverish and hallucinating after a deadly wound, imagining that he's fighting a battle over an anonymous bridge on an anonymous planet with the deceased Tanith soldiers as his subordinates. Sometimes, pieces of what the field medics who are trying to save his life are saying come through to him.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurger'': Season 7's premiere, "Flu-ouise" has the A plot of Louise going through a fever dream of adventuring through a forest with her toys to get to a shady castle, guided by her favorite toy broken by her family. Meanwhile, the family in the B-plot try to fix the toy they broke.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' has Tommy get sick, leading to a sequence like this.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': A fever causes Scrooge to have a bizarre fantasy of himself as a {{Gender Flip}}ped Literature/{{Cinderella}} with Goldie as his RebelliousPrincess.

* A ''GauntsGhosts'' short story "The Iron Star" is written fully from the perspective of Gaunt, who's feverish and hallucinating after a deadly wound, imagining that he's fighting a battle over an anonymous bridge on an anonymous planet with the deceased Tanith soldiers as his subordinates. Sometimes, pieces of what the field medics who are trying to save his life are saying come through to him.