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Sometimes it's not a non sequitur and makes sense in both the dream and the real world. Or the two things are distinctly connected but not the same exact thing. Common examples include the person's name being repeated over and over again (a person in the real world calling them); a phone call in dream (which turns out to be an alarm clock); and a passionate kiss, (which turns out to be either an animal licking their face or an unappealing friend giving them the [[Kiss of Life]]).

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', Kaorin imagines being rescued by Sakaki and telling her to call her by her real name. Sakaki beings to say "Kaori... Kaori..."—but then Kaorin wakes up and realizes that it's her mother is calling her. Frustrated, Kaorin [[I Was Having Such a Nice Dream|throws the sheet over her head]] and yells "Bring it back!"

*** Of course, it might be accurate to say that Neo WAS dreaming (at least in the sense that his entire life is a dream), though it's not really an example of this trope.

*** When watching the movie, the transition appears to be a way to suggest the [[All Just a Dream]] possibility to the audience, setting up a somewhat mysterious atmosphere.

* The opening sequence in [[Kung Fu Panda]] is revealed as a dream when Monkey and Tigress of the Furious Five start telling Po that he'll be late for work in his father's voice.

* Happened at the beginning of the first ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' movie.

* ''[[Inception]]'' has a wild variation of this; in any dream level above the one any of the characters are currently in, things that happen to their body affect various things in the dream level below. It goes all out, too; areas flood/experience severe rainstorms when characters get wet, the rules of gravity start changing, {{spoiler|and one character even starts dying of a punctured lung from a gunshot wound he endured one dream level up.}} They even use specially tailored sedatives to a allow specific sensations to penetrate between levels of the dreams.

* In the first act of ''[[Girl, Interrupted]]'', the main character has just checked into a psychiatric hospital. Her flashback daydreams are routinely interrupted by a nurse's "checks".

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Village of the Vampire Cat]]'', Matsuzo dreams about cats because {{spoiler|he was hearing the villain speak through mutilated vocal chords}}.

 

 

* In ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', Earl goes into a coma after being hit by a car and his subconscious takes him into a '50s [[Sitcom]]-like [[Happy Place]]. Events that happen to the unconscious Earl affect the world inside Earl's mind: for example, Catalina reading gossip magazines to Earl results in random appearances by Paris Hilton.

* ''[[Lost]]'' has used the "someone saying the character's name" trick to pull characters out of both dreams and flashbacks. Once Hurley appeared dressed as John the Baptist in Charlie's religious dream, because Hurley was actually speaking to Charlie outside the dream.

* In "Lekker Lekker (Ga Maar Met Me Mee)"—Ome Henk's Dutch parody of "Dragostea Din Tei"—Henk's character's dream of a gorgeous woman <s>whispering</s> ''screaming'' in his ear turns out to be his cellmate yelling at him.

 

 

== Video Games ==

 

 

* ''[[Angel Moxie]]'' [http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/0/1/011.html here].

* [http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20080404 This] ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' strip, which actually appeared during this tropes formulation time on the YKTTW page.

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', bROKEN: [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090302 "Fried chicken?"] And then, at the end of the story, {{spoiler|it turns out that, in a rather horrible way, that [[Dreaming of Things to Come|may not have been a non sequitur at all]].}}

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-05-23 here].

 

 

 

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