History Main / MarshmallowDream

* ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' manages to combine this with MarshmallowHell in one comic, although we only hear about it afterwards. Slightly [[http://www.sandraontherocks.com/strips-sotr/Eating_steamed_buns_all_night NSFW]].

Simply put: a character thinks they are eating a giant marshmallow (Sometimes something else) when in fact they are still in bed, sound asleep and dreaming while chewing on their pillow. This is a staple dream type found in comics and animation. It does not always require marshmallows in the dream sequence, but does require a pillow in the dreamer's bed. Upon awakening from a marshmallow dream, said dreamer will find the pillow to be missing or shredded. The dreamer's mouth is usually infested with feathers that were once stuffed in the pillow.

* In ''LightNovel/RokujyoumaNoShinryakusha'', Satomi grabs Ruth in his sleep, dreaming about climbing a tree to catch a beetle. Ruth gets so upset (about [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe him dreaming her as a tree]] rather than any inappropriate contact), that she develops an [[BerserkButton unreasoning hatred]] of Rhinoceros Beetles, despite not knowing what one looks like until later.

* A somewhat [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]] fanfic which has been ([[http://www.mediafire.com/?w6jaiiy97ziejf9 almost]]) lost to time titled "Mr. Fuzzywumpus" gives us a variant. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Through a chain of events]] a girl thinks that [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic, Shadow and Silver]] are her pets, and she ends up "letting them" sleep in her bed. Shadow wakes up to find Sonic (with EasyAmnesia) cuddling up to him, and Silver ends up in a compromising position trying to separate them.

Not to be confused with MarshmallowHell. Though now that it's been mentioned, it's only a matter of time before somebody [[RuleThirtyFour figures out how to combine them]] [[note]]Which has since happened in the anime version of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'', see Anime & Manga, below.[[/note]]. Compare CrashingDreams. Also compare ActingOutADaydream.

* SandraOnTheRocks manages to combine this with MarshmallowHell in one comic, although we only hear about it afterwards. Slightly [[http://www.sandraontherocks.com/strips-sotr/Eating_steamed_buns_all_night NSFW]].

Not to be confused with MarshmallowHell. Though now that it's been mentioned, it's only a matter of time before somebody [[RuleThirtyFour figures out how to combine them]]. Compare CrashingDreams. Also compare ActingOutADaydream.

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--> '''Colbert:''' I dreamt I was eating a giant marshmallow, and when I woke up, my giant marshmallow was gone.
* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''.
-->'''Carol:''' Last night, I dreamt I was eating a giant marshmallow, and when I woke up my boyfriend was gone.\\

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* ''Comicstrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' had this as a minor RunningGag. Hobbes would be having a dream about being in a vicious fight with a ferocious weasel...only to awaken and discover that he had really been ripping his pillow to shreds. Or, occasionally, Calvin.
* One ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip had Wally dreaming about taking the PointyHairedBoss's "Work smarter, not harder" slogan literally and making himself smarter simply by concentrating, which also makes [[MyBrainIsBig his head swell]]. In the last panel Wally is at work, his head still swollen, telling Dilbert "And when I woke up my pillow was gone", to which Dilbert responds "[[OrphanedPunchline Oh wow, you woke up in the wrong punchline.]]"
* Naturally, this has happened to ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}''.
** He dreams of being in the land of giant breakfasts, eats a pancake, and wakes up wondering where his blanket went.
** Another time, he thought he got up in the middle of the night and ate some jawbreakers, only to find that his marbles were missing.
* In ''The Better Half'', Stanley tells Harriet that he dreamed about eating a very large piece of lasagna; when he woke up, their red comforter was gone.
* A wolf tries CountingSheep, with [[http://ruthe.de/cartoon/3082/datum/asc/ predictable results.]]
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--> "If you dream that you're eating a giant marshmallow, you'll probably wake up and find this gone, [[SubvertedTrope provided you're in a place where people steal your pillow while you're asleep.]]" (This also serves as a {{justifi|ed}}cation as to why the item is consumed upon using it.)

--> "If you have a dream that you're eating a pillow, you'll probably wake up and find that this is gone."

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* Creator/StuartAshen: "Once, I had a dream I was eating a giant marshmallow. When I woke up, ''my wife was missing and everything was covered in blood!''"

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* One of the [[OlderThanYouThink earliest animated examples]] of this trope was in a ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' theatrical cartoon from 1939 called "Wotta Nitemare." As the title suggests, Popeye is having an absolutely hellish nightmare involving a demonic Bluto making a complete fool out of the sailor man in front of Olive. Popeye finally finds a can of spinach in his dream and commences guzzling the contents of said can. We then back out of the dream to see the sleeping Popeye on his bed, having punched a hole in his mattress and currently in the process of pulling out the stuffing and eating it, handful by handful.
** It's even worse when you notice that the mattress appears to have been [[NauseaFuel stuffed with horsehair]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'':

-->There once was an old man from Peru\\

To find that his dream had come true.

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Not to be confused with MarshmallowHell. Though now that it's been mentioned, it's only a matter of time before somebody [[RuleThirtyFour figures out how to combine them]]. Compare CrashingDreams.

* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' gives us a textbook, same-page, same-panel, non-marshmallow [[http://www.sdamned.com/2011/02/02052011/ example]]. It's currently the page image.

Not to be confused with MarshmallowHell. Though now that it's been mentioned, it's only a matter of time before somebody [[RuleThirtyFour figures out how to combine them]].

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* A wolf tries CountingSheep, with [[http://ruthe.de/cartoon/3082/datum/asc/ predictable results.]]
* In one early {{Garfield}} strip, is dreaming that he's eating a giant pancake. When he wakes up he says that's the best dream he's had in some time. He then asks whatever happened to his blanket.
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* A wolf tries CountingSheep, with [[[[http://ruthe.de/cartoon/3082/datum/asc/ predictable results.]]

* [[http://ruthe.de/cartoon/3082/datum/asc/ Wolf counts sheep. Resultate expectable.]]

* Some of the extra scenes in the anime of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' have Shouta, who shares a bed with [[GagBoobs Lucoa]], dream about giant balls crushing him and fighting a losing battle against a sumo wrestler. In one instance he dreams that he's a boxer, which naturally translates to him pawing at her chest, which she thinks is flirting.

-->--'''Tiger Arbelt''', ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}''

* One ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip had Wally dreaming about taking the PointyHairedBoss's "Work smarter, not harder" slogan literally and making himself smarter simply by concentrating, which also makes [[MyBrainIsBig his head swell]]. In the last panel Wally is at work, his head still swollen, telling Dilbert "And when I woke up my pillow was gone", to which Dilbert responds "[[OrphanedPunchline Oh wow, you woke up in the wrong punchline.]]"

* ''Comicstrip/{{Dilbert}}'' once referenced this. Wally had a strange dream about getting smarter by willing it so, with [[MyBrainIsBig his forehead expanding to match]], but still woke up with his pillow missing. As Dilbert comments,
--> Wow, you woke up in the wrong joke!

* Some of the extra scenes in the anime of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' have Shouta dream about giant balls crushing him and fighting a losing battle against a sumo wrestler. Because he sleeps next to [[GagBoobs Lucoa]] every night, this usually takes the form of either smothering him in MarshmallowHell or lightly hitting her breasts.

* Some of the extra scenes in the anime of ''Anime/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' have Shouta dream about giant balls crushing him and fighting a losing battle against a sumo wrestler. Because he sleeps next to [[GagBoobs Lucoa]] every night, this usually takes the form of either smothering him in MarshmallowHell or lightly hitting her breasts.

* A somewhat [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]] fanfic which has been ([[http://www.mediafire.com/?w6jaiiy97ziejf9 almost]]) [[LostForever lost to time]] titled "Mr. Fuzzywumpus" gives us a variant. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Through a chain of events]] a girl thinks that [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic, Shadow and Silver]] are her pets, and she ends up "letting them" sleep in her bed. Shadow wakes up to find Sonic (with EasyAmnesia) cuddling up to him, and Silver ends up in a compromising position trying to separate them.

* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' has a variation. When Mikan crawls into Rito's bed to catch one of the other girls in the act of crawling into his bed while he's sleeping, he grabs her in his sleep and his mumblings hint that he is acting like he's grabbed the 'marshmallow'. When she pinches his cheek to have him release her, his response is to claim that the 'marshmallow bit him'. Neither the pillow or Mikan is harmed when they wake (although Mikan is 'caught' by the one she was trying to catch).