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* Simba does this in ''Disney/TheLionKing 2'' after he dreams of Scar turning into Kovu and pushing him into the wildebeest herd that trampled his father to death. But instead of sitting up, he simply raises his head up.

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* Simba does this in ''Disney/TheLionKing 2'' ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' after he dreams of Scar turning into Kovu and pushing him into the wildebeest herd that trampled his father to death. But instead of sitting up, he simply raises his head up.
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* Certain people will react this way, most notably too dreams that feel real(dreams where you are in you're bed for instance).
**Will often wake up kicking, punching, or screaming.
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* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', Luigi has a dream of Antasma attacking the Zeepelin that scares him so much that when he wakes up, he actually dashes across the Zeepelin in panic and falls onto the Pi'illo Blimport tarmac, where he conks out again.

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* WesternAnimation/TheTransformers: Daniel has one in the season 3 episode aptly named ''The Nightmare Planet''.
* WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron: Takes this to the extreme in one episode when it happens multiple times in a row. With the result being several DreamWithinADream moments. It gets even better when it turns out the whole episode was the [[VillainsOutShopping the bad guy in bed with his wife]].

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* WesternAnimation/TheTransformers: ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers''. Daniel has one in the season 3 episode aptly named ''The Nightmare Planet''.
* WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron: Takes ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' takes this to the extreme in one episode when it happens multiple times in a row. With the result being several DreamWithinADream moments. It gets even better when it turns out the whole episode was the [[VillainsOutShopping the bad guy in bed with his wife]].wife]].
* ''LooneyTunes'' BugsBunny short "Water Watrer Every Hare". At the end Bugs Bunny bolts upright in his bed and panics, yelling "Who? Where? What? When?"
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* Sansa Stark experiences one in the second season of GameOfThrones. She's dreaming of her experience of nearly being raped in the previous episode. She wakes up, to find out she has started her first menstruation. In any other world, this might be a good thing, except in [[CrapsackWorld Westeros]], Sansa now knows that [[TheCaligula King Joffrey]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil will now rape her]] [[FromBadtoWorse in the hopes of producing an heir.]]
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* In ''LeScorpion'', Armando experiences one at the start of the album ''The Stone Cross''.

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* In ''LeScorpion'', ''ComicBook/LeScorpion'', Armando experiences one at the start of the album ''The Stone Cross''.
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** However, it's more of an aversion, as Shepard doesn't catapult so much as simply gasp and jerk awake.
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* Scottie in Hitchcock's ''Film/Vertigo'' does this after the haunting dream sequence.

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* Scottie in Hitchcock's ''Film/Vertigo'' ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' does this after the haunting dream sequence.
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* Hitchcock's ''Vertigo''.

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* Scottie in Hitchcock's ''Vertigo''.''Film/Vertigo'' does this after the haunting dream sequence.
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* It's happened twice so far in ''Webcomics/{{Crankrats}}''.
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* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' episode 9 opens with Mahiro having one...except that, what he considers a nightmare (saying "I love you" to [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Nyarko]] and kissing her full on the lips) probably wouldn't qualify in most other peoples' books.
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* Averted in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''
** Averted in two : [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-26 Tedd has a dream]] that startles him but is unable to sit up because Grace is sleeping on him (although it's possible that he wouldn't have sat up anyway), and [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2005-04-23 Justin has a dream]] that wakes him up but doesn't make him sit up immediately.

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* Averted in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''
** Averted in two : strips. [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-26 Tedd has a dream]] that startles him but is unable to sit up because Grace is sleeping on him (although it's possible that he wouldn't have sat up anyway), and [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2005-04-23 Justin has a dream]] that wakes him up but doesn't make him sit up immediately.

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* Averted in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-26 Tedd has a dream]] that startles him but is unable to sit up because Grace is sleeping on him (although it's possible that he wouldn't have sat up anyway), and [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2005-04-23 Justin has a dream]] that wakes him up but doesn't make him sit up immediately.

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* Averted in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''
** Averted in two :
[[http://egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-26 Tedd has a dream]] that startles him but is unable to sit up because Grace is sleeping on him (although it's possible that he wouldn't have sat up anyway), and [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2005-04-23 Justin has a dream]] that wakes him up but doesn't make him sit up immediately.immediately.
** Played straight in [[http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/comics/2003/03/20030302_C6ig.jpg this Sketchbook entry for March 2nd, 2003]]. Dan's squirrel boy avatar wakes up from a nightmare about a sleazy guy hitting on him while he's in his female squirrel girl avatar form.
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* In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'', the player has these starting from [[spoiler: after the day Victini first appears]] and ending at [[spoiler: the part before the Forest of Shadows.]]
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** In anime episode 304 Captain Komamura wakes up like this after a dream in which the main characters are monsters.
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* Josh in ''Film/RoadTrip'' has one when staying at the Manilows'.
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* Played with in the fifth season premiere of ''{{Castle}}'', "After the Storm". The show starts with a PreviouslyOn segment that ends with a clip of the man who nearly killed Beckett in the fourth season finale, "Always", promising to finish the job. This cuts immediately to Castle bolting up from a nightmare. The editing makes it look like he dreamed of Beckett's assailant threatening to kill her. He then notices that he's alone in bed, which has him worried. Enter Beckett, [[SexyShirtSwitch wearing his shirt]], a cup of coffee in each hand, assuring him that [[RelationshipUpgrade last night was not a dream.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Helen has one in a deleted scene where she has a nightmare about losing her husband to a bunch of hot cheerleaders.

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* This is what happens to Tina in the original ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' after her first nightmare with Freddy.

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This is what happens to Tina in the original ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' after her first nightmare with Freddy.Freddy.
** In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge'', Jesse wakes up like this after Freddy invades his dreams the second time around.
** Hilariously, with ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', this happens to ''Freddy himself'' in the "Dream Warriors" music video when he has a nightmare in which he's defeated by the band Music/{{Dokken}}.


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* The hero of ''Film/TakeShelter'' is having bad dreams and wakes twice this way.
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* ''Webcomic/ComplicatedNess''
** Happens to Ness when he is told he can never fly and tries to fly off a building in his dream.

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* After a [[http://xkcd.com/806/ tech support call gone right]] in ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''.

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* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' does this not only to bad dreams.
** [[http://xkcd.com/430/ This guy]] wakes up from a simply strange dream this way.
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After a [[http://xkcd.com/806/ tech support call gone right]] in ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''.right]].
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* Averted in IronMan3. It takes [[spoiler: Pepper's screams of terror at being (apparently) threatened by one of the armors]] for Tony to wake up from his [[YourWorstNightmare dreams]].
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Mutts}}''. In the [[http://muttscomics.com/strip.aspx?m=05&d=19&y=13 strip for May 19th, 2013]] Mooch wakes up from a multilevel dream (having a dream about having a dream, which is about having a dream, etc.) in shock. He says to his owner "Now I've dreamed everything!"
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* Happens several times to Leonardo [=DiCaprio's=] character in ''ShutterIsland''. On one occasion, however, it is part of a DreamWithinADream, from which the character later awakens (for real) by simply opening his eyes whilst still lying down.

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* Happens several times to Leonardo [=DiCaprio's=] character in ''ShutterIsland''.''Film/ShutterIsland''. On one occasion, however, it is part of a DreamWithinADream, from which the character later awakens (for real) by simply opening his eyes whilst still lying down.
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* Eve, from the ''InDeath'' series. Certain things will make her lapse into flashback when awake. Often dragged out of them by Roarke.
* OlderThanRadio: At the end of ''TreasureIsland'', Jim Hawkins describes his experience with Catapult Nightmares of Skeleton Island:

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* Eve, from the ''InDeath'' Literature/InDeath series. Certain things will make her lapse into flashback when awake. Often dragged out of them by Roarke.
* OlderThanRadio: At the end of ''TreasureIsland'', ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', Jim Hawkins describes his experience with Catapult Nightmares of Skeleton Island:
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* Firefly experiences one at the beginning of chapter 18 of ''Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar'', where the final attack on Gryphus ended up being a failure and Black Star choked her to death after crippling her. Thankfully, it's AllJustADream.

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* Firefly experiences one at the beginning of chapter 18 of ''Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar'', ''[[{{Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles}} Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'', where the final attack on Gryphus ended up being a failure and Black Star choked her to death after crippling her. Thankfully, it's AllJustADream.
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**In ''Beast'', Chloe woke up like this after having a nightmare of [[spoiler:[[NightmareFuel Clark ripped in half.]]]]
**And she also gets it in ''Lazarus'' although that is more like a coma.
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** Also done by Robin at the beginning of "Apprentice - Part 1".

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