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Note that stories don't count if we know all along that the character is dead/dying, or if the dying dream bit only comes in at the end.
Compare [[Dead All Along]] and [[Dead to Begin With]]. May overlap with [[
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* Lucille Fletcher's short story, "The Hitch-Hiker". Adapted into three different radio plays for three different shows, each written and starring Orson Welles. ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' adaptation changed the protagonist's gender to a woman.
** The fact the character was originally a man goes a long way in explaining why no one in ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode would help a [[Damsel in Distress]].
* This trope's lightly touched on in the last chapter of ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'', as the narrator finds himself haunted by the idea that the Martian defeat and humanity's recovery is his own hallucination, and that the city around him is really still in ruins. That most of the happy ending only started after the narrator had gone [[Heroic BSOD|temporarily insane]] makes this [[Downer Ending]] interpretation eerily plausible.
* In [[Connie Willis]]'s ''[[Passage]]'' large portions consist of a Dying Dream.
* Some interpreted ''[[Hans Christian Andersen|The Little Match Girl]]'''s vision of her Grandmother as this instead of a Ghostly Visitor.
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* ''[[An Elegy for the Still-living]]'' explodes into full dream state by the end of the first chapter, but it isn't until later on that the second half of the trope gets fulfilled.
* A variation appears in the short story ''The Black Coat'' by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. A girl wakes up in the wilderness, [[Amnesia Danger|not knowing who she is]]. A scary trucker gives her a lift to a dank apartment where a woman drops ominous hints about where they are. She eventually pieces together that it's an in-between state caused by her committing suicide. As it happens she's still in the process, and manages to save herself.
* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars Adventure Journal 11]]''<ref>later reprinted in the anthology ''Tales from the New Republic''</ref> featured a short story called "The Longest Fall" that imitated [[Ambrose Bierce|"An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge"]] in a [[Broad Strokes]] fashion. It opens with an Imperial captain who expects to be on the receiving end of a [[You Have Failed Me...]] by [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Antinnis_Tremayne High Inquisitor Tremayne]. At first it looks like Tremayne had Force-choked him nonfatally, then let him go. He makes it all the way back to the bridge of his Star Destroyer ... before collapsing on the floor of Tremayne's office with his neck broken.
* Essentially the entire plot of [[James Patterson]]'s novel ''You Have Been Warned'', crossed with [[Out of Body Experience]] and heavy doses of [[How We Got Here]] and [[Mind Screw]].
* [[John Ringo]] said that at one point he was tempted to make the entirety of the ''[[Paladin of Shadows]]'' series be the dying dream of the protagonist as he died of hypothermia and anoxia while hidden in the nose wheel well of the airplane he snuck aboard in ''Ghost''. He joked that what made him not take that route was that many of his readers (especially of this series) tend to be well armed.
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