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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': Kakyoin finds himself at an AmusementParkOfDoom in the midst of his sleep before getting attacked by Death XIII prior to waking up with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no recollection]] of the dream. After getting sent back alongside Polnareff, he realizes the dreamworld is the result of a Stand ability.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': After witnessing Yoshikage Kira's Bites The Dust kill [[spoiler:Rohan]], Hayato wakes up in bed and assumes the ordeal was a CatapultNightmare. Then, he later discovers Kira has inflicted a GroundhogDayLoop and finds out the event did actually occur and will repeat again.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': Upon accidentally setting fire to the money he got during his PlagueOfGoodFortune, Joshu becomes enveloped by flaming money until he suddenly wakes up back home and presumes the incident was a dream, until he [[ExplodingCloset opens up his room and barraged]] by a large pile of money.



* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
** ''Anime/SoaringSkyPrecure'': Sora and Mashiro try to mutually calm themselves down in the first episode, after seeing earth technology she is not used to (Sora) and seeing a girl fall from the sky and clearly be caught by magic from a baby (Mashiro). This works... until Kabaton crashes near them too and goes on the attack, after which, and some self-pinching from Mashiro, make it clear it is not a dream.
** ''Anime/WonderfulPrettyCure'': When Komugi ends up asleep due to the large amount of food she ate, she initially thinks that her being a student was a dream. Only for Iroha to certify that it wasn't.



* In one ''{{ComicBook/Donjon}}'' story, Alcibiade wakes up to find his room is flooded and his boss Hyacinthe is yelling at him. As his room is at the top of a WizardTower, he figures he's still dreaming, and kicks Hyacinthe in th rear. He's then seen desperately telling Hyacinthe he thought it was a dream (the flood comes from a malfunctioning artifact in Alcibiade's room).

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* In one ''{{ComicBook/Donjon}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Donjon}}'' story, Alcibiade wakes up to find his room is flooded and his boss Hyacinthe is yelling at him. As his room is at the top of a WizardTower, he figures he's still dreaming, and kicks Hyacinthe in th rear. He's then seen desperately telling Hyacinthe he thought it was a dream (the flood comes from a malfunctioning artifact in Alcibiade's room).



* ''ComicBook/NewMutants:'' Early on, Dani dreams she's attacked by the Demon Bear that took her parents, and tries fighting it off with a knife, to no avail. She then wakes up, and Professor Xavier assures her it was just a dream... except when Dani checks her knife, it's still got blood on it.

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* ''ComicBook/NewMutants:'' ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': Early on, Dani dreams she's attacked by the Demon Bear that took her parents, and tries fighting it off with a knife, to no avail. She then wakes up, and Professor Xavier assures her it was just a dream... except when Dani checks her knife, it's still got blood on it.



* One of the Pi'illos you rescue in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'' says they had a horrible dream that Antasma had turned them all into stone pillows.



* One of the Pi'illos you rescue in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'' says they had a horrible dream that Antasma had turned them all into stone pillows.

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* One of In ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'', the Pi'illos you rescue in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'' says they had a horrible dream first time Okabe [[MentalTimeTravel time leaps]], he convinces himself that Antasma had turned them all into stone pillows.everything that happened after the point in time he leapt to was a dream, only to watch in horror as everything unfolds in exactly the same way.



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* In ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'', the first time Okabe [[MentalTimeTravel time leaps]], he convinces himself that everything that happened after the point in time he leapt to was a dream, only to watch in horror as everything unfolds in exactly the same way.
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* In ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'', the first time Okabe [[MentalTimeTravel time leaps]], he convinces himself that everything that happened after the point in time he leapt to was a dream, only to watch in horror as everything unfolds in exactly the same way.
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* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince:''

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* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince:''''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince''.



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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate", when Jerry awakes in his hospital bed at the end, he assumes everything that happened was a dream but Beth assures him that getting shot 57 times really happened.



* Done three times in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s "[[Recap/SouthParkImaginationland Imaginationland]]" arc -- once with Kyle, and twice with Butters. The first one with Butters was an exceptionally ludicrous SecondEpisodeMorning; he wakes up in bed at home and tells his parents what happened, only for his father to respond, "You ''are'' in Imaginationland. ''This'' is a dream." The Mayor of Imaginationland suddenly runs in, screaming, "Wake up, stupid!" Cue reality, in which imagination is running wild...

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* Done three times in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s "[[Recap/SouthParkImaginationland Imaginationland]]" arc -- once with Kyle, and twice with Butters. The first one with Butters was an exceptionally ludicrous SecondEpisodeMorning; he wakes up in bed at home and tells his parents what happened, only for his father to respond, "You ''are'' in Imaginationland. ''This'' is a dream." The Mayor of Imaginationland suddenly runs in, screaming, "Wake up, stupid!" Cue reality, in which imagination is running wild...wild.


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* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In "Sweet Dreams", Star wakes up from a dream of eating flying Goblin Dogs, only to realize she had actually eaten dozens of Goblin Dogs in her sleep somehow.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "Sadie Killer", during a band session together, misplacing the directions to the music gig rather randomly makes Buck think everything is a dream. Judging by Jenny's exasperated reaction, this isn't the first time he's thought this.

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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5860547/2/Back-to-Avalon Back to Avalon]]'':
-->'''Hermione:''' Harry, I just had the strangest dream. We were in a remote place somewhere in America when a pack of wolves came to check if I was alright. They took me to see a shaman. Then one wolf told me that he was my teacher. Suddenly, I woke up because I heard wolves howling. Can you believe that Harry?\\
'''Harry:''' Strangely enough Hermione, I believe every word of it.



* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12099945/2/Bye-Bye Bye-Bye]]'' a drowsy Harry, thinking he's dreaming, insults [=McGonagall=] and Dumbledore and then snaps [=McGonagall=]'s wand.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12099945/2/Bye-Bye Bye-Bye]]'' a drowsy Harry, thinking he's dreaming, insults [=McGonagall=] and Dumbledore and then snaps [=McGonagall=]'s wand.
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* ''Film/LateNightWithTheDevil'' ends with the main protagonist desperately trying to convince himself that the events of the film were all just a hypnosis-induced hallucination. [[spoiler:Given that he is currently standing amongst the slaughtered corpses of his coworkers and guests, covered in gore and about to be arrested on live television, it is quite obviously for real.]]
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* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'': "Hope Patrol" begins with Jane assuming the events of the previous episode "Youth Patrol" (where most of the team was [[FountainOfYouth de-aged into teenagers]] and subsequently regressed to infancy) was just a dream. Cliff informs her that she wasn't dreaming and that the events described really happened.
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-->'''Soos:''' That was no dream, dude.
-->'''Dipper:''' ''(screams)''
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'''Mr. Krabs:''' You mean... I'M AWAKE?!

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'''Mr. Krabs:''' You mean... I'M AWAKE?! ''[Screams]''
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* ''Literature/IHeardThatSomgBefore'': Upon realising the extent of his sleepwalking problem (which he didn't realise was happening again until after he and Kay start living together), Peter confesses to Kay that he's had troubling experiences in the past he assumed were dreams, but he now wonders if they really happened while he was in an altered state. Everyone wonders if this extends to killing people (due to Peter being linked to unsolved homicides and suspicious deaths). [[spoiler:Peter didn't kill anyone, though it's revealed he sleep-walked onto the scene of Susan's murder and touched her body, thus explaining why her blood was on his shirt. He vaguely recalls this but believed it was just a nightmare]].

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* ''Literature/IHeardThatSomgBefore'': ''Literature/IHeardThatSongBefore'': Upon realising the extent of his sleepwalking problem (which he didn't realise was happening again until after he and Kay start living together), Peter confesses to Kay that he's had troubling experiences in the past he assumed were dreams, but he now wonders if they really happened while he was in an altered state. Everyone wonders if this extends to killing people (due to Peter being linked to unsolved homicides and suspicious deaths). [[spoiler:Peter didn't kill anyone, though it's revealed he sleep-walked onto the scene of Susan's murder and touched her body, thus explaining why her blood was on his shirt. He vaguely recalls this but believed it was just a nightmare]].

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