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* ''Zoku [[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' uses this trope while playing with [[All Just a Dream]]: the characters realise it's a dream and if Sensei wakes up, they'll all die. [[Murder Is the Best Solution|So they try to kill him instead]]. [[Fridge Logic|Don't think too hard about what happens if they succeed]].

** [[Hamlet|To die, to sleep-- / To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub! / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause. There's the respect / That makes calamity of so long life.]]

* Fate's [[Lotus Eater Machine]] experience in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]'' had her realizing that everything's a dream and that she needed to escape to help Nanoha stop [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. It ended with her tearfully hugging the [[Cloning Blues|dream-Alicia]] while repeatedly asking for forgiveness as the latter slowly disappeared, mentioning how she wished that she had been her older sister in reality too.

* Fate's [[Lotus Eater Machine]] experience in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]'' had her realizing that everything's a dream and that she needed to escape to help Nanoha stop [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. It ended with her tearfully hugging the [[Cloning Blues|dream-Alicia]] while repeatedly asking for forgiveness as the latter slowly disappeared, mentioning how she wished that she had been her older sister in reality too.

* Inverted in ''The Melancholy of [[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' when {{spoiler|[[Reality Warper|Haruhi's dream starts replacing reality]]. Kyon has to convince her that their original world is better than her new dream world ([[Nightmare Fetishist|even though her dream world has such cool giant monsters terrorizing the city]]).}}

** Also, [[Fridge Logic]] plays this straight in the movie, {{spoiler|where Kyon implicitly (but necessarily) deletes all of the people in the alternate reality by choosing to revert to the original one}}.

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* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', when Donna is caught in a [[Lotus Eater Machine]] in "Forest of the Dead," she starts panicking when she realizes that her two children don't actually exist. Then they start saying, "When you're not looking, we disappear." And then the entire world goes white and she's shown desperately trying to hold onto her husband, who might not be real either. {{spoiler|Turns out, he is real, but she just doesn't know}}.

* This shows up repeatedly in ''[[Star Trek]]'' in various ways.

** In the ''[[Star Trek: The ~~Next Generation|Star Trek the~~ Next Generation]]'' episode "The Big Goodbye", one of the holodeck characters who has learned the nature of his existence asks Dixon Hill (Captain Picard) if his world will still exist when Hill/Picard leaves. He can only answer, "I honestly don't know." ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20470_5-horrifying-implications-star-trek-universe.html 5 Horrifying Implications of the 'Star Trek' Universe] explains further.

** In the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "The Big Goodbye", one of the holodeck characters who has learned the nature of his existence asks Dixon Hill (Captain Picard) if his world will still exist when Hill/Picard leaves. He can only answer, "I honestly don't know." ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20470_5-horrifying-implications-star-trek-universe.html 5 Horrifying Implications of the 'Star Trek' Universe] explains further.

*** This served as a motivation for the Hologram of Professor Moriarty who, upon learning what he was, took the ship hostage and demanded that the crew find a way to make him permanently real. They eventually do, [[~~Schrodinger~~'s Butterfly|for a certain definition of real]].

*** This served as a motivation for the Hologram of Professor Moriarty who, upon learning what he was, took the ship hostage and demanded that the crew find a way to make him permanently real. They eventually do, [[Schrödinger's Butterfly|for a certain definition of real]].

*** And they there are people from Barclay's simulation...

** ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Shadowplay" featured a lone village on a planet with no other humanoids. And people were disappearing one by one. {{spoiler|Turns out they were all holograms and the holoprojector was malfunctioning. When they learn the truth, they agree that the machine will be switched off temporarily for repair... and then we get another twist: one of them is real!}}

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** The manga version develops this angle a bit more, with Link fully realizing what will happen and actually abandoning his quest when he learns about the dream world, only for Marin (who doesn't know the truth but had her own issues with dreams) and the [[Exposition Fairy|Ninja Butterflies]] (who do know) to encourage him to get back on track.

* Subverted in ''[[Eternal Sonata]]''. Chopin is dying, and enters the game world on his deathbed. Throughout the game, he insists that the entire world is his dream. At the end, in order to prove it's his dream and not reality, he {{spoiler|decides to kill the entire party}}. It doesn't work.

** The [[~~PlayStation~~ 3]] version makes it possible for this to be played straight- if you lose the final fight, Chopin wakes up, then is hinted to [[Tear Jerker|die with all his dreams killed.]]

** The [[Play Station 3]] version makes it possible for this to be played straight- if you lose the final fight, Chopin wakes up, then is hinted to [[Tear Jerker|die with all his dreams killed.]]

* Possibly the case (subverted by the ending) in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' too, according to [http://squallsdead.com/ one online theory].

** By the same logic, the entirety of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' is at least largely hinted at. There are at least three plausible places where reality (at least for the character, and possibly for everyone) might have ceased and where everything beyond this point was a dream, where Sora turned into a Heartless (Sora only), when darkness took over Sora's world (yes, everything beyond that, meaning all the weird Disney subplots, different worlds, in fact everyone he met but his friends who got lost to the darkness, and by extension even everyone from Birth by Sleep), or even the entire story ("I've been having these weird dreams lately. Like, is any of this real or not?" combined with symbolic imagery in any of the opening lends to this theory)

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