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* Happens to ''{{Tintin}}'' in "Cigars of the Pharaoh" and "Black Gold", and to the Thompson twins in "The Crab with the Golden Claws".

A RealLife mirage is simply an optical illusion wherein it appears that there is refracted sky which looks like water a distance ahead of you; this can happen in several climates (including tempered ones where one sometimes sees puddles of water on a warm blacktop road), but seeing water in the desert has a greater appeal. However, the term is also used for when someone has a hallucination, leading to this confusion.

A RealLife mirage is simply an optical illusion wherein it appears that there is refracted sky (which looks like water, but sadly lacks any palm trees) a distance ahead of you; this can happen in several climates (including tempered ones where one sometimes sees puddles of water on a warm blacktop road), but seeing water in the desert has a greater appeal. However, the term is also used for when someone has a hallucination, leading to this confusion.

A RealLife mirage is simply an optical illusion wherein it appears that there is refracted sky (which looks like water) a distance ahead of you; this can happen in several climates, but seeing water in the desert has a greater appeal. However, the term is also used for when someone has a hallucination, leading to this confusion.

* In an episode of ''InspectorGadget'' the titular character travels into a dessert and sees a lemonade stand. After realizing that it isn't real he then proceeds to assume EVERYTHING HE SEES from that point forward is "just a mirage." This includes the M.A.D. agents out to kill him, the sacred golden scimitar he is supposed to be protecting, a tree he bodily crashes into, Chief Quimby, a pit full of cobras...

* In ''VideoGame/Uncharted'', when Nathan Drake is stranded in the desert after a plane crash, he sees an actual oasis complete with lush palm trees and other foliage that fades away into nothing when he approaches it. He also hallucinates proper about his long time mentor and friend Sully.

A RealLife mirage is simply an optical illusion wherein it appears that there is refracted sky (which looks like water) a distance ahead of you: this can happen in several climates, but seeing water in desert has a greater appeal. However, the term is also used for when someone has a hallucination, leading to this confusion.

* Happens in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 3'', somehow. In the desert board map, there's a 'mirage' form of the Millennium Star, which only vanishes when someone tries to buy a star from it (and beforehand, makes it appear like there's two of the character on the map). It'd probably be better called an 'hallucination'.
* In ''VideoGame/Uncharted'' when Nathan Drake is stranded in the desert after plane crash he sees an actual oasis complete with lush palm trees and other foliage that fades away into nothing when he approaches it. He also hallucinates proper about his long time mentor and friend Sully.

* In the TheThreeStooges short "We Want Our Mummy", Curly is convinced he sees the ocean in the middle of the desert and even goes "swimming" in it (in reality just flopping around like a beached fish); when he convinces Moe and Larry that the water is real, they dive into it and open a trap door into an underground tunnel.

* A variant occurs in ''AnAmericanTail II: Fievel Goes West'', where Fievel saw his family while stumbling in the desert, but they turned out to be (apparently very small) cactuses. Tiger is going through the same desert and confuses an owl with his old girlfriend. The two then pass and ignore each other, because each thinks the other is another mirage.

* In VideoGame/Uncharted when Nathan Drake is stranded in the desert after plane crash he sees an actual oasis complete with lush palm trees and other foliage that fades away into nothing when he approaches it. He also hallucinates proper about his long time mentor and friend Sully.

* When [[Uncharted Nathan Drake]] is stranded in the desert after plane crash he sees an actual oasis complete with lush palm trees and other foliage that fades away into nothing when he approaches it.. He also hallucinating proper about his long time mentor and friend Sully.

A {{real life}} mirage is simply an optical illusion wherein it appears that there is refracted sky (which looks like water) a distance ahead of you: this can happen in several climates, but seeing water in desert has a greater appeal. However, the term is also used for when someone has a hallucination, leading to this confusion.

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* A ''LooneyTunes'' short shows Daffy Duck in the Sahara desert seeing things including an oasis and an old car.

* In RobertEHoward's "Literature/TheSlitheringShadow", ConanTheBarbarian is at first worried that what he sees, while dying in the desert, is just a mirage.

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* In RobertEHoward's "The Slithering Shadow", ConanTheBarbarian is at first worried that what he sees, while dying in the desert, is just a mirage.

* In one episode of ''SpeedRacer'', this happens to Spritle and Chim Chim. It was quite a long sequence too.

* [[FamilyGuy Stewie and Brian]] think they see a ''Pepsi machine'' in the desert, but...nope, it's RC Cola.

* Happens in ''MarioParty 3'', somehow. In the desert board map, there's a 'mirage' form of the Millennium Star, which only vanishes when someone tries to buy a star from it (and beforehand, makes it appear like there's two of the character on the map). It'd probably be better called an 'hallucination'.

* ''{{Road to}} Morocco'' has a singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour. She disappears only when touched.

A {{real life}} mirage is simply an optical illusion wherein it appears that there is refracted sky (which looks like water) a distance ahead of you: this can happen in several climates, but seeing water in desert has a greater appeal. However, the term is also used for when someone has n hallucination, leading to this confusion.

* ''Road to Morocco'' has a singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour. She disappears only when touched.

A RealLife mirage is simply an optical illusion wherein it appears that there is refracted sky (which looks like water) a distance ahead of you: this can happen in several climates, but seeing water in desert has a greater appeal. However, the term is also used for when someone has an hallucination, leading to this confusion.

* Subverted in ''LooneyTunesBackInAction'' -- Bugs, Daffy, and their human companions see a mirage in the desert. Which turns out to be a conveniently placed Wal*Mart. "Convenient, or product placement?" Bugs wonders aloud.

* Happens in MarioParty 3, somehow. In the desert board map, there's a 'mirage' form of the Millennium Star, which only vanishes when someone tries to buy a star from it (and beforehand, makes it appear like there's two of the character on the map). It'd probably be better called an 'hallucination'.

* In an episode of [[InspectorGadget Inspector Gadget]] the titular character travels into a dessert and sees a lemonade stand. After realising that it isn't real he then proceeds to assume EVERYTHING HE SEES from that point foward is "just a mirage." This includes the M.A.D. agents out to kill him, the sacred golden schimitar he is supposed to be protecting, a tree he bodily crashes into, Chief Quimby, a pit full of cobras...