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* A [[Haunted House]] turns out to be the one a character always sees in their dreams... because ''they'' are the one haunting it.
* A [[Haunted House]] turns out to be the one a character always sees in their dreams... because ''they'' are the one haunting it.


A [[Sub Trope]] of [[The Reveal]] and an [[Inverted Trope]] of sorts to [[Dead All Along]]. As this is a revelatory trope, '''spoilers will be found ahead'''.
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[The Reveal]] and an [[Inverted Trope]] of sorts to [[Dead All Along]]. As this is a revelatory trope, '''spoilers will be found ahead'''.
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== Live Action TV ==
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Soap]]'' ended with [[Cut Short|many plot threads hanging]], including Jessica about to be shot by a firing squad in Central America. Next season, she shows up on spinoff ''[[Benson]]'' as a ghost which only Benson can see. But then she finds out she's not really dead, she's just in a coma in a Central American hospital.
* ''[[Soap]]'' ended with [[Cut Short|many plot threads hanging]], including Jessica about to be shot by a firing squad in Central America. Next season, she shows up on spinoff ''[[Benson]]'' as a ghost which only Benson can see. But then she finds out she's not really dead, she's just in a coma in a Central American hospital.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' serial "Day of the Daleks", the ghosts the Doctor is asked to investigate turn out to be projections of time travellers from the future. In "Army of Ghosts," the ghosts appearing all over the world are actually an [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|army]] of Cybermen trying to come to Earth from their home dimension.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "Day of the Daleks", the ghosts the Doctor is asked to investigate turn out to be projections of time travellers from the future. In "Army of Ghosts," the ghosts appearing all over the world are actually an [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|army]] of Cybermen trying to come to Earth from their home dimension.
* In a sketch on ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'' Benny plays a man who literally dreams of going out partying at night, getting away from his harridan of a wife. Then one day he's out in the daytime he happens by the very same place he goes in his dreams. Amazed, he knocks on the door. A bunch of women answer.
* In a sketch on ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'' Benny plays a man who literally dreams of going out partying at night, getting away from his harridan of a wife. Then one day he's out in the daytime he happens by the very same place he goes in his dreams. Amazed, he knocks on the door. A bunch of women answer.
{{quote| Lead woman: You can't come in here!<br />
{{quote| Lead woman: You can't come in here!<br />
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