History AllJustADream / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/{{Awake}}'' mixes this with OrWasItADream, and [[AlternateUniverse dual realities]] as its main premise.

** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E9PerchanceToDream Perchance to Dream]]"; it's about a man visiting a psychiatrist about nightmares, afraid the next one will kill him because of his weak heart, ultimately jumping out the window, then the reveal at the end... the whole thing from the point where he laid down on the shrink's couch was actually a dream, the conversation never actually happened, and it was ''that'' dream that killed him.
** Played with in the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E37KingNineWillNotReturn King Nine Will Never Return]]", about a pilot who visits his wrecked plane, one he was supposed to be in command of but for some last-minute reason wasn't, revealed to be just a dream, and he was at a nursing home the whole time... [[OrWasItADream except that his boots are found to have sand in them]].
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay Shadow Play]]", a man on Death Row tells everyone they are all figments of his dream based on people from his life, and that when he's killed, he'll dream the same dream again, with everyone in different roles. As it turns out, he's right.
** An even more sadistic episode -- "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E75TheMidnightSun The Midnight Sun]]" -- turns out to be just a dream in the end. However, reality does not turn out to be much better than the dream. The protagonist dreams about a world in which the Earth is burning up as it's falling into the sun, and wakes up in a world that's freezing to death as the Earth is falling away from the sun.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E92PersonOrPersonsUnknown Person or Persons Unknown]]", the protagonist wakes up at the end to discover that his experience the previous day, in which all record and memory of his existence had apparently vanished, was a dream -- except that the wife he woke up next to is someone he's never seen before, so clearly there's ''something'' strange going on.
** Hinted at in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E105ValleyOfTheShadow Valley of the Shadow]]", where the events of the episode are undone in the end -- or, with the help of time travel, maybe they never happened?
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E108DeathShip Death Ship]]", an astronaut stranded on another planet dreams that he has returned to Earth and everything's all right. His commanding officer bodily enters his dream and drags him back to wakefulness. The KarmicTwistEnding? He and his commander are actually dead, and his dream was actually the afterlife he should have gone to.

* The alternate ending to ''Series/BreakingBad'' (as seen on DVD) played this completely for laughs. In it, Walter White's death plays out the same as it does in the actual finale, but then Hal from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' wakes up, having dreamed the whole series. He then tells Lois about his terrifying dream where he was a world-class meth cook with a shaved head (to which Lois laughs at the idea of him cooking ''anything''), he was married to a [[Series/{{Newhart}} beautiful blonde]] (which causes Lois to laugh even harder), there was this guy who "was my brother or something. He looked like the guy from ''Series/TheShield''", and there was this kid who said "[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch the b-word]]" a lot.

* Creator/CraigFerguson ended his final episode as host of ''Series/TheLateLateShow'' with this. His entire time hosting the show was all just a dream... of [[Series/TheDrewCareyShow Nigel Wick]], who wakes up in bed next to a still-fat Drew Carey and tells him all about his horrible dream where he had to host a late night talk show with a fake horse and a robot skeleton for 10 years, Drew [[Series/ThePriceIsRight became a game show host]], and most frightening of all... ''[[FauxHorrific Drew got skinny]]''. Drew calms Wick down and they both go back to sleep. Then the camera pans over to the end table on Wick's side of the bed, showing [[Series/StElsewhere a snow globe containing the talk show's set with said robot skeleton and fake horse]] while [[Music/JourneyBand "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey]] [[Series/TheSopranos plays in the background]] before [[SmashToBlack the scene cuts to black abruptly, ending the show]]. Also, since no All Just A Dream ending would be complete without a ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' reference, the dream first started to unravel when Craig decided to ask who was actually in the horse costume, only to discover that it was Bob Newhart himself.

* Creator/CraigFerguson ended his final episode as host of ''Series/TheLateLateShow'' with this. His entire time hosting the show was all just a dream... of [[Series/TheDrewCareyShow Nigel Wick]], who wakes up in bed next to a still-fat Drew Carey and tells him all about his horrible dream where he had to host a late night talk show with a fake horse and a robot skeleton for 10 years, Drew [[Series/ThePriceIsRight became a game show host]], and most frightening of all... ''[[FauxHorrific Drew got skinny]]''. Drew calms Wick down and they both go back to sleep. Then the camera pans over to the end table on Wick's side of the bed, showing [[Series/StElsewhere a snow globe containing the talk show's set with said robot skeleton and fake horse]] while [[Music/Journey Journey's ""Don't Stop Believing"]] [[Series/TheSopranos plays in the background before]] [[SmashToBlack it cuts to black abruptly]]. Also, since no All Just A Dream ending would be complete without a ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' reference, the dream first started to unravel when Craig decided to ask who was actually in the horse costume, only to discover that it was Bob Newhart himself.

* Creator/CraigFerguson ended his final episode as host of ''Series/TheLateLateShow'' with this. His entire time hosting the show was all just a dream... of [[Series/TheDrewCareyShow Nigel Wick]], who wakes up in bed next to a still-fat Drew Carey and tells him all about his horrible dream where he had to host a late night talk show with a fake horse and a robot skeleton for 10 years, Drew [[Series/ThePriceIsRight became a game show host]], and most frightening of all... ''[[FauxHorrific Drew got skinny]]''. Drew calms Wick down and they both go back to sleep. Then the camera pans over to the end table on Wick's side of the bed, showing [[Series/StElsewhere a snow globe containing the talk show's set with said robot skeleton and fake horse]] while [[Series/TheSopranos Journey's ''"Don't Stop Believing"'' plays in the background before it cuts to black abruptly]]. Also, since no All Just A Dream ending would be complete without a ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' reference, the dream first started to unravel when Craig decided to ask who was actually in the horse costume, only to discover that it was Bob Newhart himself.