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* 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 [[ImStandingRightHere "weird" frog people]].

* 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 [[ImStandingRightHere frog people]].

** All three movies have a sequence where Marty awakens and tells 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".

* 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 frog people.

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 sleeping next to them in bed, naked.

* The second "WesternAnimation/Teacher's Pet" 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.

* 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.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** 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.
** 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.
* Hideki wakes up in the second episode of ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'' to find Chii asleep in bed with him. TheScream ensues.
* 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.
* 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.

* 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.
* ''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.
* 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.

* 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.
* The second chapter of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann -- [[HighSchoolAU Guren Gakuenhen]]''.
* ''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...
* ''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.

%%* ''Seikon No Qwaser'' has this.
* ''[[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.
** 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.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' does this in episode 02. Madoka awakens to discover the creature known as Kyubey she found yesterday is very real.
* ''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]].
* 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.
-->''This is no dream, girl.''

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* Not done for a character, but the town of Storybrooke in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' wakes up in the morning of the second episode.

* ''[[LightNovel/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.

* A particularly strange example[[note]]Which, nevertheless, is also another {{Macekre}}-based example.[[/note]] of this trope occurred with the American broadcast of ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'', 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.

-->''This is no dream, girl.'''

* Hazumu discovers in the second episode of ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' that A) yes, she's still a girl, and B) aliens have moved in to her house.

* Similarly, the main character of ''Anime/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.

* ''Anime/MaiOtomeZwei'', being an {{OAV}} series, has a second ''scene'' morning, that otherwise exactly duplicates the trope.

* In the second chapter of ''[[Manga/YotsubaTo Yotsuba&!]]'', the title character wakes up in a strange house and panics, before remembering they just spent yesterday moving.

* ''SeikonNoQwaser'' has this.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': The second episode "Daytrip of Doom!" begins with Scrooge waking up and embracing the money bin next door.

* The second episode segment of the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' begins with the boys waking up on the day of their class picture day.

* The [[TwoShorts 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 frog people.

* * The [[TwoShorts second segment/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 frog people.

* 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.
* The [[TwoShorts second segment]] 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. Only to look over and see said frog people standing over her sleeping mat, staring at her.

* Through dub editing, ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' originally opened with Bloom waking up in the morning, before eventually finding Stella (who's fighting an ogre and various creatures). In the 4Kids "dub", [[{{Macekre}} Bloom finds Stella and her fight first, and then the 2nd segment of the show opens with Bloom waking up in the morning, and finding that she didn't just dream all that up]].[[note]]It must be noted that this series, which was produced in Italian originally, already had an existing English version.[[/note]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', after the title character and Ron Stoppable [[JustFriends finally]] [[RelationshipUpgrade get together]] after three seasons, the first episode of the fourth season begins with the last of the third: the last dance, the [[SealedWithAKiss kiss]]. That is, until Kim begins to melt. Cue Ron [[CatapultNightmare waking up screaming]] and calling his new girlfriend for the assurance that indeed, they were dating. And again, at the end of the episode:
-->'''Kim:''' How many times do I have to tell you? We kissed, we're dating.\\
'''Ron:''' So you leaving me for [[NonHumanSidekick Rufus]] was...?\\
'''Kim:''' Dream.\\
'''Ron:''' Me being Middleton's [[AccidentalAthlete new running back]]? Dream?\\
'''Kim:''' No, that's actually happened.\\
'''Ron:''' Oh, I'm on a team, that's cool. OK, how about you [[Series/HappyDays water-skiing]] [[JumpTheShark over a shark]]? (''Kim hangs up'') Hello? Hello? Kim?

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. 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 sleeping next to them in bed, naked.