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Sometimes will pull a twist by having a character wake up from a dream, then something else bizarre happens, and an altogether ''different'' character will wake up from that dream.
Compare [[Droste Image]]. See also [[Nested Story]], [[
This trope is largely [[Truth in Television]] and is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_awakening a fairly common phenomenon].
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** Happened to Mayor West in "Grumpy Old Man". Upon regaining consciousness from a multi-car accident, his egg shattered on his windshield which was his high school project before realizing he's not in high school and he's dreaming. Cuts to West waking up in a desert until that's a dream and wakes up from a car accident with his egg intact and buckled.
* Happened to Mrs. Puff in ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]''. Most of the episode had her in prison after SpongeBob drove a car off an "unfinished bridge" and down into a juice truck. Near the end of the episode she woke up and was back in the car, falling and crashing again. This time Spongebob was arrested. She looked down to see she was in a prison outfit and woke up again, with one of the prisoners in the car instead. She woke up again, giving up, "Oh, forget it."
* In the ''Justice Friends'' segment of ''[[Dexters Laboratory]]'', an episode had Krunk watching a Puppet Pal marathon, and entering the land of the Puppet Pals after being guided by a zebra. After a mess occurs, he wakes up discovering it was [[All Just a Dream]]... and [[Or Was It a Dream?|the zebra appears]]. It cuts to one of the Puppet Pals waking up from the Dream Within a Dream, complaining "Remind me to never watch the Justice Friends marathon again!".
* In ''[[Shrek]] the Third'', Shrek wakes up from his baby nightmare only to see Donkey and Puss with baby ogre heads. Then he wakes up for real.
* At the end of one ''[[Taz-Mania]]'' episode, Francis wakes up from a nightmare and a tonne weight lands on his head. Then he wakes up and the weight lands on his head again...and again...and again...
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