History Main / BedtimeBrainwashing

[[folder: Mythology]]
* Mares are supposed to be supernatural creatures that sit on a sleeping person's chest and cause her or him to have nightmares.

* ''Anime/OruchubanEbichu'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaAfGm6FHJk&feature=related (3:15 to 4:15. NSFW)]] Ebichu does both Pleasant and Troubling. He does Pleasant to her beloved master (normally depressed and desperate "Christmas Cake") who ends up waking up the next morning feeling completely refreshed and in good spirit. Soon after, she tries to do Troubling to said's master undesirable boyfriend by pretending to be the boyfriend's boss at work and calling him useless and all that. This attempt is subverted by the fact that the target was actually awake the entire time and hiliariously beats Ebichu bloody.

* In ''LightNovel/TheSlayers Perfect'' (Slayers the Motion Picture), it's played for laughs as Lina awakens and sees the King and the Queen chanting too loudly at her. The laughs are made even more potent by the fact that Lina already has mysterious dreams, but this one turns to be a fake.

* In ''[[Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck The Dream of a Lifetime]]'', the Beagle Boys have used one of Gyro Gearloose's inventions to invade Scrooge's dreams to acquire the combination to his vault, and Donald is sent in to stop them. The triplets weaponize this trope to help Donald and Scrooge from the outside, though all of their attempts fail: banging mugs together to sound like horses galloping makes it rain mugs in the dream instead of making horses appear, and making banging sounds to summon a gun instead summons a drumset. They finally succeed when they use the smell of Scrooge's Goose Egg Nugget, which makes him start dreaming about his days as the King of the Klondike...

* In ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', Blofeld is using this to brainwash the women at his clinic, so he can use them as couriers for the deadly virus he's developing.

* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' takes this to its logical end: literally invading someone's dream to plant an idea deep in his subconscious. In theory this shouldn't work, but the protagonist knows otherwise because he's seen it happen in practise.

* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' takes this to its logical end: literally invading someone's dream to plant an idea deep in his subconscious.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Driving Miss Hazy", Lori tries to sabotage Leni's driving test by planting headphones playing a tape with bad driving instructions on her head while she's asleep.

* Wilma and Betty tried this on Fred and Barney on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''.

* On ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'', Timothy whispers in the ringmaster's ear while he's sleeping to plant the idea of using Dumbo on the elephant pyramid routine.

* ''Series/JonathanCreek: The solution to "The Eyes of Tiresias" hinges on this, with an old woman [[spoiler: hearing details of a planned murder that had been recorded on to a CD that played while she slept]], causing her to have what she believed was a prophetic dream about the coming murder.

-->-- King Dedede in episode 50 of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa''

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':

* In the ''Series/{{Jonas}}'' episode "Double Date", Kevin does this to Nick to get him to bake more of the cupcakes he likes.

** And PlayedForLaughs at the end of "[[Film/IndecentProposal Half-Decent Proposal]]", where Artie sends Marge a gift that's supposed to help her sleep through Homer's snoring.

--->'''Artie's Voice''': He's a loser Marge... dump him! (''Singing'') [[{{Music/Eurythmics}} I've travelled the world, and the seven seas]]... [[ParanoiaFuel I am watching you through a camera]]!

** In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", Spongebob needs therapy after hallucinating of Krabby Patties. The psychiatrist hypnotized Spongebob to sleep and goes on to do this. Being Plankton in disguise, he subliminally tries to tell Spongebob to explain the recipe of Krabby Patty. But it fails, since Spongebob instead gets a dream where he regains his resolve to make patties again.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", Spongebob needs therapy after hallucinating of Krabby Patties. The psychiatrist hypnotized Spongebob to sleep and goes on to do this. Being Plankton in disguise, he subliminally tries to tell Spongebob to explain the recipe of Krabby Patty. But it fails, since Spongebob instead gets a dream where he regains his resolve to make patties again.

* Calvin from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' does this to Hobbes [[http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/774a71b8250d102d94d7001438c0f03b with the use of a cookie]].

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* ''Radio/{{Earthsearch}}''. The [[AIIsACrapshoot Angel computers]] brainwash the crew as they are being revived from [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]], but are still in REM sleep.