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* The second-to-last arc of Adam Warren's run on ''[[Gen 13]]'' appears to be a [[Breather Episode]] after the [[Cliff Hanger]] ending of their last storyline (which was resolved off-screen). However, as more and more examples of "[[All Just a Dream|dream logic]]" appear, heroine Caitlin Fairchild eventually realizes that she's retreated to a fantasy version of her life in the last few microseconds before the [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] from the aforementioned cliffhanger vaporizes her and her friends, [[Dying to Be Replaced|making way for]] [[Chris Claremont]]'s [[Dork Age|short-lived]] [[revamp]] of the series.
* This was the original ending for DC Comic's short-lived ''Kinetic'' series, where a hemophiliac gains superpowers after being hit by a truck. The original ending was, described by the writer in a Wizard Magazine article later as, a [[Downer Ending]] because the original idea was the boy was killed by being hit by the truck and the whole series was his Dying Dream.
* [[Neil Gaiman]]'s "[[Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader?]]?" is partly this as it is Batman's last dream as he dies from Darkseid's Omega Sanction attack in ''[[Final Crisis]]'', and part sendoff to every version of the Bruce Wayne [[Batman]] in similar vein of [[Whatever Happened to The Man of Tomorrow?]] of Superman lore.
 
 
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_death_experience:Near death experience|Near Death Experiences]] have been reported by tens of thousands of people. NDEs usually have a journey through a tunnel into light, a life review, a meeting with dead family and friends, a glimpse of Heaven, and then a painful return to the physical body. The exact details of the experience and how it effects the rest of their lives varies from person to person and by the amount of oxygen deprivation, however.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell:George Orwell|George Orwell]], in a notebook kept during his final illness, wrote about "Death Dreams": ''"Sometimes of the sea or the sea shore but more often of enormous, splendid buildings or streets or ships, in which I often lose my way, but always with a peculiar feeling of happiness and of walking in sunlight. Unquestionably all these buildings etc mean death - I am almost aware of this even in the dream..."'' He did not believe in an afterlife, and wondered why death, which he wasn't afraid to think about while awake, had to be represented as something else in a dream.
 
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