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* Reality and dreams are blurred in ''[[The Science of Sleep]]''.
* ''Stay (1996)''
* Throughout ''[[Pan's Labyrinth|Pans Labyrinth]]'', there are strong suggestions that certain aspects of the plot may be All Just a Dream. [[Word of God]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228234339/http://twitchfilm.net/archives/008507.html debunks that possibility], though that same god also explicitly tells you not to listen to him so in the end it looks like nobody's happy.
* In ''[[The Shining]]'', it sometimes got difficult to tell what was real and what were projections of the family's minds. [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060618/REVIEWS08/606180302 Roger Ebert's review] talks at length on the subject.
* Subverted in ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]''. At one point near the end of the film it looks like the story is gonna go out with a [[Twist Ending]]. As Evan's doctor explains that there are no journals, he asserts that everything that we've apparantly seen so far is a delusion that Evan created to cope with the guilt of killing Kayleigh, describing alternate universes with colleges, prisons, and paraplegia. Then it turns out that the mental time travel ''was'' real when Evan goes back one last time.
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* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' season 6 episode "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S6/E17 Normal Again|Normal Again]]," it is suggested that the entire series is a [[Cuckoo Nest|hallucination of the main character]], who is living in a mental institution and has power fantasies of saving the world with her imaginary friends. The episode's end leaves room for interpretation as to which existence (Buffy's life as a vampire slayer, or her life as a mental patient) is really All Just a Dream. [[Word of God|Joss Whedon]] [[Mind Screw|has outright stated that either one is a definite possibility]].
* The first episode of ''[[Terminator]]: [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' starts out this way. Just so you know. Also, in the second season episode "Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep", Sarah is taken captive and interrogated by a man she had killed in an earlier episode. It is then revealed that this was in fact a dream, and that Sarah was admitted to a sleep clinic, because of her insomnia. She keeps having this dream, while she suspects something bad is going on at the sleep clinic. {{spoiler|Eventually, we find out the sleep clinic was in fact the dream, induced by the drugs given to her by the man who abducted her, for real - him having survived the earlier episode against the odds.}}
* In the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103034017/http://cycling.finial.com/stuff/mpcyclingtour.php "Cycling Tour" sketch], a bicyclist (Mr. Pither) ends up in a Soviet prison cell about to be executed. He is suddenly woken up by his mother and says "So, it was all a dream!" His mother says "No dear, this is the dream, you're still in the cell." He then wakes up for real, still in the cell.
* Likewise at the end of ''[[The Young Ones]]'' episode "Interesting" where Neil experiences something similar as he is about to be kicked in the head by skinheads.
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''
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* As does [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=29025#110861 this] ''[[Narbonic]]'' strip.
* The brief [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030707 "Magic Flap"] arc from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' ends like this.
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* Grace of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', [http://egscomics.com/?date=2007-05-23 goes through her first day of highschool] then wakes up disappointed that it was a dream but still hopeful the experience would be close.
* This happens twice in ''[[My Milk Toof]]'' with the episode of "villainous ickle" who goes around breaking everything and when they go fishing they fall asleep and dream of catching a fish.
* [[Evil Diva (webcomic)|Evil Diva]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20111117131934/http://www.evildivacomics.com/?p=282 Victorious and popular, as she isn't]. Apparently you should [[Be Careful What You Wish For]].
* Happens every year in [[Rhapsodies]] with [[Cloudcuckoolander|Kevin]] getting shanghaied into helping with Santa's Christmas rush. This always ends with him waking up... Though occasionally there's a few details lying around to make the audience wonder.
* In ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120527073040/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00519.html hoping things turned out well.]
* In ''[[Minion Comics]]'', there's a [http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=921 short dream sequence] involving Dingus's fantasies about predators, aliens, and the holy grail.
* In [[Greg (webcomic)|Greg]], Greg dreams he's a swashbuckling slayer of beasts and a suave ladies man, too bad the reality is so different, [http://gregcomic.com/2012/02/23/world-of-gregcraft-page-14/ here].
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