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* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': In the Mihoshi Special, all the characters in Mihoshi's dream were doubled with characters from the show itself. Notably Ayeka was a witch, and when the real Ayeka wakes her up, Mihoshi screams "Oh no! It's the old witch!"
** Also in the story she tells, all characters from the show show up in different roles, but their names are kept. Interestingly, this is the first time Sasami appears as Anime/PrettySammy.

* ''ComicBook/NiGHTSIntoDreams'' had Madame Puffilla, Claris's strict music teacher, as a counterpart to Puffy in the waking world.

* In ''Film/{{Spider}}'', the title character begins remembering flashbacks of his mother (played by Miranda Richardson.) Gradually, the actresses playing every other female character are replaced in their respective roles by Richardson to demonstrate Spider's hallucinations.

* Played literally in ''Mater's Tall Tales,'' a [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts series of Pixar shorts]] set after ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Each short begins with Mater regaling Lightning [=McQueen=] and the Radiator Springs residents with a story about an exciting career he used to hold (firefighter, bullfighter, drift racer). Halfway through, Mater would turn to [=McQueen=] and say "Don't you remember? You was there too!", then continue the story with [=McQueen=] as either a ButtMonkey participant or helping Mater while he's in a bind. Each story ends with a [[TheStinger stinger]] that suggested the story wasn't ''completely'' fabricated...

* In ''Film/HoneyBaby'', Tom's dream sequence casts him as Orpheus, Maria as Eurydice, and Karl as Hades.

** ''Film/ReturnToOz'' played this trope as well.

* The Amy Racecar issues of ''Comicbook/StrayBullets'' are done in this style, with the titular {{Anti Hero}}ine being Virginia's thinly-veiled AuthorAvatar. The plots usually parallel events in the main storyline, complete with supporting characters who are very obviously based on Virginia's friends, family and even enemies.

* In Fanfic/SeanBeanSavesWesteros, the [[RealPersonFic "real life"]] Creator/SeanBean is transported into the land of Westeros of Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire. Now living as Ned Stark, not just playing him on TV, Sean Bean notes how the ASOIAF characters look compared to the HBO series actors. Many are quite close in appearance, others not. Sean refers to the novel characters as not-Ned (himself), not-Charles (Tywin), not-Peter (Tyrion), not-Michelle (Catelyn), etc.

* In ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', we are introduced to Mr Prosser, the man trying to demolish Arthur's house to build a motorway bypass. When Vogon Jeltz, the alien trying to demolish Arthur's planet to build a hyperspace bypass, shows up, he's played by the same actor.

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* The twist ending of [[http://heartsforsale.smackjeeves.com/comics/1905831/cover/ "Hearts for Sale"]] involves this with a bit of MaybeMagicMaybeMundane. [[spoiler: Mainly the comic appears to have been written by a young girl (represented in the story by a heart seller) in the real world awaiting a heart transplant as an allegory to what she's going through. With the heart customer being her doctor and the Heartsmith presumably being her donor. However it's slightly [[AmbigiousEnding ambigious]] and it could also mean that if they receive hearts. they'll be reincarnated into our world judging by her dialogue at the end.]]

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' has "Vegas", a Series/{{CSI}}-like episode in an alternate universe set and filmed in Las Vegas, where Sheppard never joined the Stargate program and instead became a private eye.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' has "Vegas", a Series/{{CSI}}-like episode in an alternate universe filmed in Las Vegas.

* ''Series/StargateUniverse'' had the episode "Cloverdale" in which Matthew Scott, infected by an alien organism, vividly hallucinates an alternative life in which he's just returned to his hometown from a tour of duty (on Earth) to marry Chloe. Greer is his best buddy (and best man), Eli is Chloe's brother, Young has been promoted from father figure to literal father and Rush is a Justice of the Peace. Every other major character except Wray shows up in smaller roles: Brody as a restaurant owner, Volker as a pharmacist, Telford as a cop, Park as a bridesmaid, Becker as a groomsman and, appropriately enough, Johansen as a paramedic and James as Scott's ex.

* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': Played more subtly than most other examples as rather than people, it's the objects in Sarah's room that she encounters in the Goblin King's world (as well as her dog), such as the Sir Didymous doll on her bed. The only person to appear in both the realistic and fantastic setting is possibly Bowie as Jeremy (only seen in a photo), the man Sarah's mother ran off with and as Jareth, the Goblin King.

* The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Far Beyond the Stars" features Sisko as a 1950's African-American pulp-fiction writer named Benny Russell, with his crew-mates (and enemies) taking roles as his co-workers and other denizens of his neighborhood. The ending, as well as the episode "Shadows and Symbols," [[MindScrew leaves open the question]] as to which reality is actually real. The latter features a CuckooNest scene in which Benny's asylum shrink is played by Legate Damar's actor.

** In the episode "Jetrel", Neelix sees in a dream the various people who have been killed on his home planet of Talax as various members of the ''Voyager'' crew, all blaming him for their deaths.
** Episode "Memorial" has the crew affected by traumatic memories of crimes of war [[spoiler:induced by an alien artifact]] with the characters seeing themselves committing such crimes in the past.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Q makes the crew of the ''Enterprise'' into the characters of Myth/RobinHood in episode "Qpid". In any case, most episodes with Holo Deck malfunctions in the Star Trek franchise work as this trope de facto; the main characters assume different (but normally similar) roles in non sci-fi settings like Westerns, Historical Dramas, Detective Noir stories, etc., whether the characters are aware of the situation or they are in some sort of AlternateIdentityAmnesia depends on the episode.

* The film ''Film/Mayday'' tells the story of how its put-upon heroine, Ana, travels to a mysterious island where a group of female soldiers lure male soldiers onto the island in order to kill them. The principal soldiers on both sides are played by the actors and actresses who also play certain men and women who Ana either already knew or had just met at her hotel job just before traveling to the island.

* ''PhoebeinWonderland'' features occasional fantasy scenes where the title character sees the characters from ''Literature/AliceinWonderland'' appear as her [[Imaginary Friend ImaginaryFriends]], with the characters themselves being played by the same actors as the primary adults/authority figures in Phoebe's life.

* ''PhoebeinWonderland'' features occasional fantasy scenes where the title character sees the characters from ''Literature/AliceinWonderland'' appear as her ImaginaryFriends, with the characters themselves being played by the same actors as the primary adults/authority figures in Phoebe's life.

* ''PhoebeinWonderland" features occasional fantasy scenes where the title character sees the characters from ''Literature/AliceinWonderland'' appear as her ImaginaryFriends, with the characters themselves being played by the same actors as the primary adults/authority figures in Phoebe's life.

* Played with in one of the (Non-Canon) Alternate Endings to the original series of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Church wakes up to find that the last 90 or so episodes were just a dream and that he was in a coma after Caboose shot him with the tank dreaming about Caboose and Tucker but not [[RememberTheNewGuy Jenkins]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsofOzDorothysReturn'' follows the example of the live-action Oz films below by having the shady Appraiser trying to shut Dorothy's hometown and his silent assistant be the Kansas counterparts to the evil Jester and his chief flying monkey minion.

* The German animated movie ''Peter in Magicland'' has the title character and his little sister dream that they journey to the moon to help a talking beetle recover his missing leg. Among the characters that assist them in their quest is the benevolent Night Fairy. At the end of the movie when the two chidlren wake from their, it's revealed that the Night Fairy is the dream-world counterpart to their mother, who looks and sounds much like the Fairy.

* Use as a horror story in Episode "USS Callister" of ''Series/BlackMirror'': a lonely software engineer uses his highly advance VirtualReality program to make his own version of a Star Trek-expy using people he knows as counterpart characters. But things get really creepy and is not PlayedForLaughs at all.

* Whenever a ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]]'' game is set in a mysterious alternate dimension of Hyrule, expect plenty {{expy}}s of characters from the preceding game to show up, most of them with similar roles. (For example: Old and young farmer-girl Malon became the farmer-sisters Cremia and Romani.) The best example is ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', which used almost nothing but reused character-models from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]''. (In the manga, Link even notices this) ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'' also reused a few characters from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' in the alternate dimension, like boat-merchant Beedle and some other [=NPCs=].

* In Creator/RankinBassProductions ''Willy [=McBean=] and his Magic Machine'' when the KidHero and his animal sidekick return to the present day after their time traveling, they're suprised to find the famous people they met in the past have an uncanny resemblence to residents of their home town.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' classic show had several episodes like this with the Smurfs re-telling several classic works like ''Myth/RobinHood'', ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' and ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' with the Smurfs as the characters. Technically the Smurfs are making a play in a theater but the audience's imagination turn the scenarios and dresses into the real thing.