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* The Ken Russell film ''AlteredStates'' has an example. Or does William Hurt flying around on a flaming cross wearing a 12-eyed goat's head count?

* Used as the climax of the movie version of PinkFloyd's ''TheWall''. The same thing, albeit obviously limited to the trope's audio portion, applies to the album.

* ''RequiemForADream'': When Mrs. Goldfarb's abuse of amphetamines catches up with her.
* ''{{Pi}}'', also by Creator/DarrenAronofsky, has several of these, illustrating Max's degenerating mental state.

* The last scene of ''TheAviator'', as Howard Hughes, finding himself unable to stop repeating the phrase "the way of the future," looks into a mirror and sees a reflection of the first scene of the movie.

* In episode 4 of ''{{FLCL}}'', Naota fears that his father is in a relationship with Haruko. When his father uses Haruko's catchphrase "mouth to mouth", he sees Haruko climbing out of his father's mouth dressed as a mouse and being mauled by a giant cat with large testes, interspersed with random clips of Haruko from earlier episodes, a voiceover of Haruko from the first episode, all over a soundtrack of indistinct whispering and a swelling distorted guitar track, eventually prompting Naota [[spoiler:to beat his father with a baseball bat. Luckily, he's actually a robot]]. Unusually, Naota remains completely still through the entire scene - not even a hint of Ax Crazy (although probably lots of HeroicBSOD).

* In the play ''TheAddingMachine'', when Zero's boss is telling him that he's been fired after twenty-five years on the job, music starts soft and grows louder and louder as the stage revolves increasingly rapidly. The boss's voice is obliterated under a deafening cacophony of sound effects, and a sudden flash of red ends the scene.

* There are a whole bunch of these in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', including all of the last two episodes, and the whole Third Impact part of the movie.

* ''{{Grendel}}'': Eppy Thatcher gets these every so often.

* ''TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'' is the UrExample. "Du mußt Caligari werden!"

* Arguably the end of ''PansLabyrinth'', if you take the AgentScully approach to the plot and see it as all just a hallucination.

* When ToddInTheShadows sees the [[LadyGaga Bad Romance]] video for the first time - bits and pieces flash on the screen until he begins screaming that she's a demon from hell.

* The climax of the "Loveland" DreamSequence from the musical ''{{Follies}}'': Ben stops singing "Live, Laugh, Love" and goes into a hysterical rant ("I don't love me!"). The orchestra continues playing and the dancers keep dancing... about a dozen musical numbers ''simultaneously''.

* UrExample: [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Du mußt Caligari werden!]]

* A wordless version of this is the track 'In The House- In a Heartbeat' from the ''[[TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]'' soundtrack. Spooky.

* Reversed: There's a montage like this in the mind of John Nash, in ''ABeautifulMind'', as he's ''proving'' his madness to himself.

* All the hallucinations poor Lawrence has in ''TheWolfman2010''.

* ''{{Pi}}'', also by DarrenAronofsky, has several of these, illustrating Max's degenerating mental state.

* All the hallucinations poor Lawrence has in ''TheWolfMan''.

* Episode ''The Time Is Now'' of ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' featured a [[BeyondTheImpossible 10 minute]] variation of this. It pretty much portrayed [[spoiler: Lara Means']] mind shattering in the face of the [[ApocalypseNot Coming Apocalypse]].

* There's a single-page version of this near the end of the ''DeathNote'' manga. Followed by an absolutely ''amazing'' [[SlasherSmile psycho grin]].

** DarrenAronofsky's previous film ''{{Pi}}'' also has several, illustrating Max's degenerating mental state.

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* An audio interpretation of this trope can be heard at the end of the [[{{Queensryche}} Queensrÿche]] album ''OperationMindcrime''.

* The Ken Russell film ''Altered States'' has an example. Or does William Hurt flying around on a flaming cross wearing a 12-eyed goat's head count?
* Reversed: There's a montage like this in the mind of John Nash, in ''ABeautifulMind'', as he's ''proving'' his madness to himself.
* Used as the climax of the movie version of PinkFloyd's ''TheWall''. The same thing, albeit obviously limited to the trope's audio portion, applies to the album.
* A wordless version of this is the track 'In The House- In a Heartbeat' from the ''[[TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]'' soundtrack. Spooky.
* The climax of the "Loveland" DreamSequence from the musical ''Follies'': Ben stops singing "Live, Laugh, Love" and goes into a hysterical rant ("I don't love me!"). The orchestra continues playing and the dancers keep dancing... about a dozen musical numbers ''simultaneously''.
* UrExample: [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Du mußt Caligari werden!]]

* ''RequiemForADream'': When Mrs. Goldfarb's abuse of amphetamines catches up with her.
** DarrenAronofsky's previous film {{Pi}} also has several, illustrating Max's degenerating mental state.

* Arguably the end of PansLabyrinth, if you take the AgentScully approach to the plot and see it as all just a hallucination.
* The last scene of The Aviator, as Howard Hughes, finding himself unable to stop repeating the phrase "the way of the future," looks into a mirror and sees a reflection of the first scene of the movie.
* An unlikely example from SpongebobSquarepants: The empty white room where Squidward is ''alone.''
* In the play ''The Adding Machine'', when Zero's boss is telling him that he's been fired after twenty-five years on the job, music starts soft and grows louder and louder as the stage revolves increasingly rapidly. The boss's voice is obliterated under a deafening cacophony of sound effects, and a sudden flash of red ends the scene.

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* UrExample: [[TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Du mußt Caligari werden!]]

* Episode ''The Time Is Now'' of {{Millennium}} featured a [[BeyondTheImpossible 10 minute]] variation of this. It pretty much portrayed [[spoiler: Lara Means']] mind shattering in the face of the [[ApocalypseNot Coming Apocalypse]].

* There's a single-page version of this near the end of the ''DeathNote'' manga. Followed by an absolutely ''amazing'' psycho grin.

* Used as the climax of the movie version of Pink Floyd's ''The Wall''.
* The same thing, albeit obviously limited to the trope's audio portion, applies to the album.

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[[TheCabinetOfDrCaligari http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/werde1.jpg]]
[[caption-width:298:Apparently, you have to become Caligari.]]

* Arguably the end of PansLabyrinth, if you take the AgentScully approach to the plot and see it as all just a hallucination.

** Darren Aronofsky's previous film {{Pi}} also has several, illustrating Max's degenerating mental state.

* [[TheWoobie Poor, ]][[TheMadHatter poor ]][[SoulEater Stein.]]