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== Advertising ==

* Don't forget the Pepsi Twist commercial when [[Ozzy Osbourne]] notices his kids drinking Pepsis, only for them to actually be Pepsi Twists, and that his kids are actually the ''Osmonds'' in [[Latex Perfection|full rubber bodysuits]]. Ozzy starts screaming, only to wake up and realize that it was just a nightmare, though the Pepsi Twists are still real...

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* The {{spoiler|last}} ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' {{spoiler|skit in the anime, ''High School Boys and ...'', was pretty much Tadakuni's dream which contained much of the fandom's desires.}} Interestingly enough, this has [[Wild Mass Guessing|generated a fair bit of discussion]] [http://i.imgur.com/a9vqT.jpg?1\], as the punchline to the skit as presented in the anime (incredibly similar to the start of a skit way back in episode 4) makes it seem that ''9 of the 12'' episodes of the anime ''never happened'', invalidating all of the characters introduced since then.

** In the un-animated skit ''High School Girls are Funky -- Tolerance'', {{spoiler|[[Always Second Best|Yanagin]] again dared NAGO to test how long can they stay in the sauna. While most of the skit showed Yanagin won over NAGO... it turned out Yanagin fell unconscious earlier than NAGO, Ikushima and Habara; what we saw for the previous pages were just her dream while she was unscious.}}

 

== Comic Books ==

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6515261/7/Dalton Chapter 7] of ''[[Dalton]]'' starts out like this.

* One "episode" of ''[[Calvin at Camp]]'' features Calvin falling asleep and dreaming that he is in an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Lost]]. The readers are aware the entire time that it is a dream.

 

== Film ==

* The last third of ''[[Repo Men]]'' - {{spoiler|in the last two minutes or so, it's revealed that Remy suffered brain damage from getting hit in the face by a hook, and Jake then had Remy hooked up to the M5 Neural Net to live the rest of his life in happiness - everything that happens between the hook to the face and the reveal is part of the happy illusion Remy is living because of the neural net.}}

* ''[[Robot Monster]]'' - {{spoiler|Ultimately the youngest member of the family, a boy, apparently wakes up after suffering a mild concussion, revealing that the bulk of the film had presumably been a dream.}}

 

== Literature ==

* [[Alexander Pushkin]]'s short story ''The Undertaker'' is an [[Older Than Radio]] example.

* [[The Box of Delights]] ends this way. The action supposedly takes place during Kay Harker's school holidays, but at the end he wakes up still on the train.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* The video for [[Maroon 5]]'s "Makes Me Wonder" features this. With gratuitous [[Fan Service]].

 

* Certain branches of Hindu philosophy hold that because truth is unchanging, and the world is constantly changing, then the world is not real. Hence, [[Real Life]] is just a sort of dream state.

 

* Comedian Emo Phillips {{spoiler|inverts this trope when he}} talks about a dream he had. He describes a long series of really bizarre, Emo-Phillipian events, that ends with him getting knocked unconscious. "And that's when I had my dream...."

 

* ''Hecatomb'' had a literal "It Was Only A Dream" card which can eliminate practically any card your opponent has out, essentially making them have never happened.

 

''No more yielding but a dream. }}

* Alan Ayckbourn's 1985 play {{spoiler|''Woman in Mind''. The entire play. From start to finish. Really.}}

 

== Video Games ==

* 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].

* In ''[[L's Empire|Ls Empire]]'', the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] during the April Fools Day special was actually a movie directed by [[M. Night Shyamalan]].

 

== Web Original ==

1007. That whole Expedition to the Barrier Peaks? [[Dream Sequence]]. }}

* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s "[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/why-saved-by-bell-all-dream-conspiracy-theory/ Why 'Saved by the Bell' is All a Dream: A Conspiracy Theory]" explains why ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' has to be an escapist dream of a character in ''Good Morning, Miss Bliss'' (the pilot that was retooled into ''SBTB''), using clues from the [[Expository Theme Tune]].

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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