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11	After the events of the first episode that upended everything the main character knew, the second starts with them waking up out of bed, muttering something about a [[AllJustADream strange dream]] or nightmare. The character then realizes the first episode [[ThatWasNotADream actually happened yesterday or gets reminded it did]]; usually by the relevant characters actually appearing ''in'' their home or being otherwise close by. In some works, the protagonist may get to remain blissfully unaware for a bit longer, only realizing the truth upon seeing that NewTransferStudent when they get to school later. And for works heavy on FanService, our hero may not even get the chance to vocalize their thoughts on the "dream" at all, as they look over to see that the magical girl they met yesterday is [[BedmateReveal sleeping next to them in bed, naked]].
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13	Since this is technically not the [[MultiPartEpisode second-half of a two-parter]], being more in line with the ImmediateSequel trope, it can be expected that someone will provide a [[AsYouKnow monologue]] of the first episode's important bits for the [[ViewersAreGoldfish especially absent-minded audience]]. This may be helpful for the character in-universe as well, since they obviously haven't digested the extent of their situation before the end of the previous episode. Because of this, some viewers may decide to ''skip the first episode entirely'' in favor of starting here, as you get an explanation of the premise and a showcase of how the "usual" episodes are going to be structured.
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21	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' features this as well. After Ichigo becomes a Shinigami, and defeats Fishbone D he wakes up apparently thinking it's a dream, until he notices his house has a huge hole in it, and Rukia shows up at his school as a NewTransferStudent.
22	* Similarly, the main character of ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' has trouble waking up in the second episode, after a 'weird dream' about flying and a talking stuffed toy called 'Kero-chan'... until said sidekick [[FairyCompanion flies over]] to say good morning, both startling her and jogging her memory of the previous evening's events.
23	* Part 2 of ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' begins with Asa [[GrandTheftMe giving up her body]] to the War Devil to save her life, bringing her back to life with extensive facial scarring under its control. The next day, Asa wakes up in control of her unscarred body and wonders if that was a dream, only for the War Devil to manifest a mental projection to let her know it's in charge.
24	-->''This is no dream, girl.''
25	* ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle''. Episode 2 opens with Akari having a nightmare of the events in the first episode and she wakes up thinking that all that happened was a dream. She sulks until she spots Ruby on her table and realizes it was real after all, [[IJustWantToBeSpecial which makes her perk up]].
26	* Hideki wakes up in the second episode of ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'' to find Chii asleep in bed with him. TheScream ensues.
27	* Hazumu (re)discovers in the second episode of ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' that A) [[GenderBender yes, she really did get turned into a girl]], and B) aliens have moved in to her house.
28	* In the second episode of ''Anime/KurauPhantomMemory '' Kurau wakes up to find her Rynax-pair sleeping next to her, making her realize happily that she is not alone anymore.
29	* The cold open of the first episode of the anime adaptation of ''Anime/LoveLive'' sees the main characters learning from reading a typed poster on a bulletin board that the high school they're in, Otonokizaka Academy, is scheduled to close down. Honoka Kōsaka is most shocked by this, and collapses into her friends' arms in despair but not ''quite'' [[FaintInShock passing out]]… and ''cue the opening title sequence''. When the opening's done playing, we see Honoka waking up on a bed in the school infirmary, not quite recalling what happened, and assuming that the notice she read was [[AllADream a dream]]—until she sees the same posters on the bulletin boards once again.
30	* In ''Manga/MamotteShugogetten'', after a destruction-filled first night with Shaorin, the hero wakes up thinking it was all a dream, only to have Shaorin cheerfully greet him. (Never mind the obvious problem of him wondering how he woke up to hot coffee being right next to him.) This actually all happened in the first episode, but it was the same idea.
31	* ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' episode 1 starts with Kyon waking up, going to school, introducing himself to his new classmates and meeting Haruhi, the girl who would make him do that [[StylisticSuck god-awful]] movie shown in Episode 00.
32	** In the last part of the Melancholy arc, he wakes up and assumes that last night's events in the closed space were a dream, only to find Haruhi wearing the ponytail that he mentioned to her earlier.
33	* ''Anime/MyOtomeZwei'', being an {{OAV}} series, has a second ''scene'' morning, that otherwise exactly duplicates the trope.
34	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
35	** Happens in episode two in a hospital bed instead of his own, and it's more of a Second Episode Hangover from the events of episode 1.
36	** Played with in the ''final'' episode: [[spoiler:Shinji briefly imagines an alternate reality where it's still the SecondEpisodeMorning, and the ''entire series'' has been a bad dream he was having.]] Most of the audience only wishes the final episode in turn was [[GainaxEnding a bad dream]]. And eventually that sequence in the final episode went on to become its own AU series, providing us with a slightly happier version of ''Eva''. Due to the nature of the ending, it's not even necessarily imagination, it might for all intents and purposes be real, considering the state of things at that point.
37	* ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'': First day, Himari shows up at the way to school. At school, Yuuto is attacked, Himari comes out of nowhere and defends him. At night, she sneaks into his house (and bed). Then, the second chapter starts with both getting woken up by Rinko...
38	* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' does this in episode 02. Madoka awakens to discover the creature known as Kyubey she found yesterday is very real.
39	* Kamina Ayato from ''Anime/RahXephon'' gets one of these. After a...hectic day where several inexplicable events happen to him he wakes up in a hospital with no memory of what occurred. He gets his memory back later in the episode.
40	* The first episode of ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Rockman.EXE Axess]]'', the second season, has Netto performing Cross Fusion, defeating the [[TheDragon Dragon to the Dragon]] Beastman, and then passing out from the exertion. The episode ends with Rockman frantically calling for him after he's out on the ground. He wakes up in the second episode, spaces out for a bit, then goes into a panic when he remembers the events of the previous day and can't find his partner. (In the English "dub" [''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior''], Lan [[{{Macekre}} wakes up immediately and banters with Mega Man at the end of the first episode]].)
41	* Usagi has a SecondEpisodeMorning in ''Anime/SailorMoon'' and is shocked to find that Luna can, in fact, talk to her, and that the previous episode's battle wasn't a dream.
42	%%* ''Seikon No Qwaser'' has this.
43	* ''Anime/SpacePirateMito'' plays with this by having Mito, caught climbing out of her [[PoweredArmor Mom suit]] by her son, Aoi, at the very end of the first episode, climbing back in at the beginning of the second and assuring her son that what he saw was just a dream. The two of them laugh it off until she realizes that her non-human crewmates are still hanging around. With no other choice, she shows him her true self (an alien that looks like a 3rd grader), causing Aoi to faint. The very next scene shows Aoi [[CatapultNightmare waking up screaming]] and deciding that he must have dreamt the previous scene. Until his house is destroyed by a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant version of his mom that suddenly takes to the air]]. Aoi flees, then is hit by a car, and then [[DreamWithinADream wakes up screaming again]], this time for real. He hears his mom's voice from the other room, but when he sees her in her true form again, he leaps back into bed, hoping that this, too, is AllJustADream.
44	* The second chapter of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann -- [[HighSchoolAU Guren Gakuenhen]]''.
45	* A particularly strange example[[note]]Which, nevertheless, is also another {{Macekre}}-based example.[[/note]] of this trope occurred with the American broadcast of ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'', in which the Fox network executives made good on that whole "the viewer can skip the first episode entirely" thing by actually skipping most of the first episode, which details how Hitomi got from Earth to Gaia. Instead, the show starts off with her "new life" already underway. The subsequent episodes were chopped up in a similar way, [[ExecutiveMeddling combining halves of episodes together and moving things around]], until they just dropped it altogether.
46	* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' has Rito waking to find his naked [[AccidentalMarriage alien fiance]] in his bed.
47	* In the second chapter of ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'', the title character wakes up in a strange house and panics, before remembering they just spent yesterday moving.
48	* After initially encountering Mone in a dream during the first episode of ''Anime/{{Yumeria}}'', Tomokazu Mikuri wakes up to find her laying in his bed next to him.
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52	* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'':
53	** All three movies have a sequence where Marty awakens and tells (who he thinks to be) his mother he dreamed he traveled back in time, only to be told "you're safe here in good old 1955/the 27th floor/the [=McFly=] farm".
54	** The end of the first film has Marty wake up the morning after returning to 1985 and assume his whole time travel escapade was a nightmare. That is until he sees how his home and family have changed as a result of his actions in 1955.
55	** As well, ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' ends on a cliffhanger, with Marty announcing to Doc that he came back from the future, just after Doc sends him back ''to'' the future in a sequence first shown in the first movie. This causes Doc to faint, and after waking up at home in the beginning of ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII Part III]]'', he dismisses the encounter as a hallucination... until he bumps into Marty, who's right there with him in the room and who continues to claim that he came back from the future.
56	** Also, at the end of the trilogy, Jennifer believes that her time in the future was a dream -- until she finds the fax paper in her pocket.
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60	* After escaping from the construction site in the first ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book, Jake wakes up the next morning feeling like none of it was real except for the way [[AlmostDeadGuy Elfangor]] smiled with his eyes. Then Tobias shows up and turns into a cat.
61	* After meeting [[GentleGiant Hagrid]] for the first time, Literature/HarryPotter thinks, right before he wakes up the next morning, that the whole experience will have turned out to be a dream. Of course, once he opens his eyes he discovers that it wasn't.
62	* In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo wakes the day after the unexpected party to find the dwarves gone. He believes they were real, especially because they didn't bother to clean up after their breakfast, but assumes they've gone off on their adventure without him until Gandalf shows up to check on him.
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66	* The second episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' starts this way, with the main character waking up to find Martin and Daphne in his apartment. He is not pleased.
67	* ''Series/NextOfKin'': The second episode begins the morning after the first (which featured couple Maggie and Andrew forced to adopt their grandchildren after their only son and his wife die in a car crash) and features Maggie and Andrew waking up to one of these grandchildren and wondering if they were dreaming him. Unfortunately, they're not, and he's there because his brother Phillip had injured himself.
68	* Not done for a character, but the town of Storybrooke in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' wakes up in the morning of the second episode.
69	* In the second episode of ''Series/{{Spaced}}'', Tim wakes up to find the flat clean and pristine, and his ex-girlfriend Sarah is there to assure him that she would never, ever break up with him. [[CatapultNightmare Then his alien costume comes to life and drags him under the door, screaming.]]
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73	* ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': The prologue ends with Chiaki hitting her head on the school gate and being knocked unconscious. Chapter 1 starts with Chiaki waking up from her head to injury to find herself transported to another world.
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77	* The first episode of ''Series/WarpZoneProject'' shows how thing work in a world where the fact that ComicBooksAreReal is hidden via WeirdnessCensor. Two average humans see a super-hero and super-villain fighting right in front of them, but they go about their business as if nothing has happend the second they vanish. Their conversation, however, turns to discussing the comic depicting the two supers and remebering it to include a fight much like the one they just witnessed. The second episode has the protagonist waking up after dreaming of the real fight, then getting a visit from the super-villain.
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81	* The [[ThreeShorts second segment/ half-episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' actually starts with a dream sequence explaining the details of how Anne got [[TrappedInAnotherWorld transported to the titular world]], which causes her to wake up and excitably tell her friends about the weird dream where she met a bunch of weird frog people (the events of the first episode). Only to look over and see not them, but said [[RightBehindMe "weird" frog people]].
82	* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': The first segment of the second episode, "Cricket Versus", begins with Cricket waking up on the day he is to take on the [[RiteOfPassage Green family rite of passage]].
83	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The second episode "Daytrip of Doom!" begins with Scrooge waking up and embracing the money bin next door.
84	* The second episode segment of the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' begins with the titular boys waking up on the day of their class picture day.
85	* The second episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' begins with Luz waking up on her first day as a witch in training in the Boiling Isles, after dreaming of her adventures of the first episode.
86	* This actually happens as a result of dub editing for the Italian ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''. The first episode originally opened with Bloom waking up in the morning, before eventually finding Stella, who's fighting an ogre and various creatures. In the Creator/FourKidsEntertainment English dub, [[{{Macekre}} these moments are reversed]] to have Bloom stumbling upon the fight and waking up the next morning to learn she didn't just dream all that up. All prior and future English dubs keep the original chronology, however.
87	* The second ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' episode, "Pet Project", begins with Leonard Helperman waking up and assuming that he only dreamed that his dog Spot was able to talk and attended his school disguised as a human. Spot informs his owner that this wasn't a dream, but the events of last week. When Leonard then asks about the part where he had no pants on and was chased by a man in a gorilla costume, Spot replies that ''that'' incident was a dream.
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