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* ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'' {{spoiler|ends with the revelation that most of what happened in the movie was [[All Just a Dream]] and the main character, David, had been cryogenically frozen and put into a permanent state of lucid dreaming. The dream turns into a nightmare and the protagonist ends up accidentally murdering his girlfriend. When he realizes it is a dream, he is given the choice to start over again with everything happy again, but chooses to wake up instead. His girlfriend appears and he realizes that though he didn't really kill her, she has long since died of old age. However, it is hinted at that they will see each other again as she says she has something to tell him "in the next life, when we are both cats."}}
** {{spoiler|When the [[Lotus Eater Machine]] was revealed, a psychologist, David's only confidante, argues vehemently that he is not a figment of David's imagination. The dream technician explained to David that he shouldn't feel bad for him, because he is just a superficial character inspired by a movie David once saw. This was proven when the psychologist was unable to recall the names of his beloved two daughters, because David had not thought of them}}.
* Implied to be the end for ''[[Total Recall]]''. The movie is deliberately ambiguous, although hints like "Blue skies on Mars?" before Quaid goes under imply that most of the movie has been a trip into a [[Lotus Eater Machine]] with some very unpleasant brain damage for
* ''[[Inception]]'' has two or three variations: To a lesser extent, the projections who attack any foreign entity in the dream when the host starts to realise he's dreaming; played much straighter, however, is {{spoiler|Cobb's projection of Mal, particularly at the end within limbo}} and inverted with
* The Hatter mentions this in [[Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)|the 2010 ''Alice in Wonderland
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