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{{quote|Breathe the Fire;
Walk the Air;
Drink the Earth;
Warm your hands at the Water.
|A greeting in [[Planescape|Limbo]]}}
For the times when you enter a space-time rift and the next dimension reminds you of the last time you dropped [[Watch It Stoned|LSD]].
When characters go to [[Another Dimension]], it'll never resemble anything from our reality, but instead it will be... weird. Some can look like the inside of a lava lamp, some have landscapes that look like [[wikipedia:The Persistence of Memory|those Salvador Dali paintings]], and others are [[Deranged Animation|not so]] pleasant. What's for sure is that the dimension won't resemble anything like our own, and the rules of physics are different or nonexistent. This can be [[Played for Laughs]].
Contrast with [[Cloudcuckooland]]. What makes [[Cloudcuckooland]] weird is that the cultural norms there are very different from what we're used to.
For a more musical experience, see [[Disney Acid Sequence]]. See also [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]], [[Eldritch Location]], [[Ludicrous Speed]] and [[Reality Is Out to Lunch]].
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* The Witch's Barriers in ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* The Witch's Barriers in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' have a tendency to be... [[media:sweet-dreams_3701.jpg|weird]].
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* The Special Zone was portrayed this way in ''[[Sonic the Comic]]''. Referenced when a character claimed the part where most of the action took place was the weird part.
** There are, however, parts of the Special Zone which are "normal". It's a [[Cloudcuckooland]] to Sonic, but it's pretty average in comparison to the swirling mass of colours that make up the rest of the dimension.
* ''[[Superman]]:'' The Bizarro-world, the Phantom Zone, etc.
* Delirium's world is like this in ''[[The Sandman]]''...at its most coherent.
== Fan
* The [[Bag of Holding|Hypercube]]'s interior in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes
== Film ==
* The various seas [[The Beatles (
* ''[[What Dreams May Come]]'' is this in spades, considering that their entire vision of heaven and hell is based upon paintings from over the centuries.
* The end of ''[[
* Wherever the hell that boat in ''[[Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory]]'' goes might count. The whole factory counts. It's one really strange factory.
== Literature ==
* The dimension outside "angled space" (the 3-dimensional universe) in [[H.P.
* The "Unseen world" (or "wraith-world") in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' which the Nazgul inhabited, and which exists along with the Seen world; in it, things in the "Seen" world are typically perceived as dim and shadowy, but other things can seem plain which are hidden to the "Seen" world. For example, on Weathertop Frodo puts on the Ring, he vanishes from the Seen world, but can see into the Wraith world (being "half in the wraith-world" himself), and he sees the Nazgul as they appear in the Wraith-world, i.e. as their normal human forms (which is also how the Nazgul appear to each other, despite being invisible in the Seen world). Likewise, Frodo is drawn gradually further into the wraith-world after being stabbed by the morgul-knife. Glorfindel, meanwhile, lives in both the Seen and Unseen worlds at the same time, since he has dwelt in the Blessed Realm; but he appears as a "shining figure" in the Wraith-world. (In the movie, however, Frodo is apparently ''entirely'' in the wraith-world whenever he puts on the Ring, while the Nazgul seem as glowing distorted figures rather than plain men; meanwhile Arwen becomes the "shining figure" despite having never
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
** So does [[Angel
* The ''[[
** The wormhole in ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' appears to be actually a different dimension that touches normal space in two separate points. The inside looks like nothing even roughly similar, but thankfully space ships can travel through it without any trouble if equiped with the neccessary technology.
* ''[[
* The time vortex from ''[[
* In the [[Disney Channel]] show ''[[
== Tabletop Games ==
* The plane of Limbo from ''[[Dungeons
** There's also the Far Realm, which exists outside the bounds of the multiverse. Nothing there even resembles the real world, and the text which actually describes the appearance of the plane (Of which there is very little) carries the note that nothing on the Far Realm can possibly be comprehended by a human being, therefore you can't even imagine what it's like. Oh, and to top it all off: The Far Realm contains more than one dimension, and you can see all the other dimensions by looking down and, in some areas, can be in several dimensions at once.
* ''[[JAGS Wonderland]]'', based on ''[[
* The Wyld in ''[[Exalted]]'' isn't a separate dimension, it's just the writhing Primal Chaos that exists past the borders of Creation, where [[The Fair Folk]] live. It otherwise fits this trope perfectly.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' the world of the living is represented by a weird collage. Manny mentions that the living creep him out.
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] Oblivion'' features at least two:
** The quest A Brush With Death features you entering a painting to {{spoiler|fight painted trolls who killed their painter}}
** The daedra quest for Vaermina features you entering a dream dimension where up becomes down over time.
* The Ethereal Void in ''[[Ultima Underworld]] 2''.
* Moonside from ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
** "The [[Milkman Conspiracy]]" is especially notable for its irregular physics and being a scarily accurate rendering of how a Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist sees the world.
* ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''. That is all.
* ''[[Heavy Metal (
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has several areas that are only accessible while your character is under the influence of hallucinogens, where you fight things like Interesting Wallpaper, or The Feeling You're Being Watched. Drinking too much virtual booze has [[Pink Elephants|predictable effects.]]
* ''[[LSD Dream Emulator]]'' is [[Exactly What It Says
* The plane of Xoriat you can visit doing the [[Dungeons and Dragons Online]] quests Delirium and Acute Delirium. Highlights include that for chasing a beholder, you need... An Airship! Made of 12 beds and 6 bookshelves.
== Web Animation ==
* [[Homestar Runner
* Many [[
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* ''[[The
* [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_799.php Quite possibly] [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_800.php the home of] [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_802.php the Fae in] ''[[DMFA]]''.
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* An obvious homage to ''Yellow Submarine'', the 3rd ''[[Futurama]]'' movie has opening titles that fit this trope, complete with a yellow Planet Express Ship.
* A more blatant parody occurs in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' where there's an entire skit with the yellow submarine. Complete with an [[Art Shift]] as it is noticeably different from the standard dolls they typically use.
* In an episode of ''[[He
* Wackyland from the [[Looney Tunes]] short ''Porky in Wackyland'' and its remake ''Dough for the Do-Do'', as well as its appearance in ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''.
* The Merrie Melodie ''Tin Pan Alley Cats'' has this as its centerpiece.
* In the ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' episode "Black Hole", Captain Hoek and Cadet Stimpy travel to one of these through the titular black hole.
** In another episode, Stimpy crawls into his own belly button and falls into an
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Homer is sent to one of these in a hallucination after consuming a nasty chilli pepper in the episode "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)".
* ''[[
* ''[[Teen Titans (
** Any episode involving Mad Mod.
* The inside of the Grinch's "paraphernalia wagon" from ''[[Halloween Is Grinch Night]]''.
* The aptly-named Warp of Confusion in the ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' episode "Trail of the Missing Tails".
* Perhaps one of the earliest appearances of an Acid Trip Dimension comes from the 1930 [[Max and Dave Fleischer|Fleischer]] short "Swing You Sinners". The short is a [[Mind Screw]] all the way through, but it completely stops making sense and loses control of itself for the last minute or so, resulting in this.
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