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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': "The Murder Mystery" [[AllJustADream turns out to be a bad dream]] induced by Penny's eating jalapeno and pepperoni pizza before bedtime.

* One issue of the Mirage ''Comicbook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' comic, done by guest artist Matt Howarth, features all the Turtles and Splinter having odd dreams but only Donatello's count as an Acid Reflux Nightmare. After eating an entire bag of chocolate chip cheese cookies, he falls asleep and dreams he and his brothers and captured by the Feds and are subjected to nefarious tests and tortures. Meanwhile, a government file regarding them is stolen and sold to a Hollywood director, who exploits it for his own gain via cartoons and toys (A not so subtle {{Take That}} to the original cartoon[[note]]Which, among other things, invented their love for pizza, and their multi-colored masks.[[/note]]). Eventually, the Turtles become prisoners of their own fame and lay around watching TV all day getting lazy and fat. Don then wakes up screaming "Teenage Couch Potato Turtles!"

In media, eating food can give a character [[NightmareSequence nightmares]]. Whether it's because the food was eaten in excess or there's something special about the food in all, the character will suffer from bad dreams -- sometimes featuring the food somehow.

* Inverted in ''[[VideoGame/{{JumpStart}} JumpStart Numbers]]''. After Frankie eats too many dog biscuits, he takes a nap and has some pretty normal dreams involving being a cowboy, an astronaut and a pirate, though the biscuits are a recurring theme in his own dreams.

** [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1965/06/06 This]] strip from 1965. Snoopy has a nightmare in which Charlie Brown flies him like a kite and he breaks into pieces upon landing. When he wakes up, he thinks it's because of the pizza he ate before bed.

It's also common for characters deep in denial to {{Discuss|edTrope}} this trope in order to reject the idea that some obvious symbolism in their dream (for example, a {{Homoerotic|Dream}} or {{Recurring Dream|s}}) actually means anything, or (as with Scrooge in the page quote) that something fantastical is [[ThatWasNotADream actually happening in real life.]]

* The gag alternate ending to ''Series/BreakingBad'' (where it's revealed that it's AllJustADream in the mind of Hal from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'') has Hal waking up in a cold sweat talking about his nightmare. His wife Lois blames it on a deep-fried Twikie he ate before going to bed.

%%* If you can believe the DVD extras, all of ''Series/BreakingBad'' was this to the BumblingDad of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''.
* ''Series/MrBean'' has a nightmare after eating bad oysters at a hotel buffet, where the oysters were green and rancid and a guy he'd been competing with ''makes'' him eat them.

* ''Series/TheOddCouple1970'' crossed this over with YetAnotherChristmasCarol, with Oscar, grouchy about Christmas, gets an OpinionChangingDream after refusing to participate in Felix's version of "A Christmas Carol."

* Inverted in ''[[VideoGame/{{JumpStart}} JumpStart Numbers]]''. After Frankie eats too much dog biscuits, he takes a nap and has some pretty normal dreams involving being a cowboy, an astronaut and a pirate, though the biscuits are a recurring theme in his own dreams.

%%* ''VideoGame/HornetsNest'':%%Quotes are not context.
%%-->The world begins to blur as the smell becomes stronger, you suddenly realize that it's all been a dream and the orc attacking your village was nothing more than a result of some late-night tacos.

* Tails occasionally has problems with these in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''. It's weaponized in "Boogey-Mania"- after Robotnik gets ahold of a dreams-to-reality machine that brings his nightmarish boogeyman to the real world, Sonic gets Tails to eat loads of junk food before using the machine to create a Junk Food nightmare monster to combat it.

* [[Series/{{ALF}} Gordon Shumway's]] first reaction after the trippy intro to his AnimatedAdaptation turned out to be AllJustADream is "no more tabby pot pie before bed!"

* In ''Diary of a Worm'', when the protagonist has a nightmare about being eaten by a bird, his mother thinks it's because he ate rubbish before bed.