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* [[Dream Land]]

See also [[Genius Loci]], [[Garden of Evil]], [[Ominous Floating Castle]], [[World Tree]], [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]], [[Bigger On the Inside]], [[Year Inside Hour Outside]].

See also [[Genius Loci]], [[Garden of Evil]], [[Ominous Floating Castle]], [[World Tree]], [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]], [[Bigger On the Inside]], [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]].

Some common settings, such as the [[Sugar Bowl]], can fall right into this trope if you [[Fridge Horror|think about them enough]].

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** Said "sending in robots" consists of sending in a robot with a camera and having a full room of people watch the video stream and write down everything they see, because even through the video, everyone sees something different.

* The {{spoiler|entire town of Kurôzu-cho}} in ''[[Uzumaki (Manga)|Uzumaki]]''

* ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' had the Dark Ocean, a place populated by something that is either an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that can take the form of a Digimon and are suspiciously called the Digi-Deep Ones and serve a master that is suspiciously similar to Cthulhu, Digimons whose designs are heavily influenced by the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] (Named Dragomon in the card game but not in the show), or Cthulhu and his minions making a [[Lawyer Friendly Cameo]]. It was stated that The Dark Ocean is a separate Dimension from the other two established dimensions.

* ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' had the Dark Ocean, a place populated by something that is either an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that can take the form of a Digimon and are suspiciously called the Digi-Deep Ones and serve a master that is suspiciously similar to Cthulhu, Digimons whose designs are heavily influenced by the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] (Named Dragomon in the card game but not in the show), or Cthulhu and his minions making a [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]. It was stated that The Dark Ocean is a separate Dimension from the other two established dimensions.

** Wherever the Hell it was Etemon ended up in after his first defeat in ''[[Digimon Adventure (Anime)|Digimon Adventure]]''.

* ''[[Digimon Tamers (Anime)|Digimon Tamers]]'' has {{spoiler|the inside of the D-Reaper's mass bubble when it invades Earth. It goes from a giant bunch of melted buildings and electronics and a few sidewalks to a liquid-like gooey landscape of pure pink and red evil all around.}} Not only that, but the {{spoiler|digital world certainly qualifies when the D-Reaper has taken over and turned everything into a rather disturbing, apocalyptic-looking war zone.}}

* Heaven and Hell in ''[[Ah My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' both use and avert this concept. On the one hand, both are realms that exist in twelve-dimensions, far more than the normal humans of Earth can ever hope to perceive. However, due to their complete inability to perceive what they are not perceiving, the sheer alien quality of the two realms is completely lost on humans.

* Heaven and Hell in ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' both use and avert this concept. On the one hand, both are realms that exist in twelve-dimensions, far more than the normal humans of Earth can ever hope to perceive. However, due to their complete inability to perceive what they are not perceiving, the sheer alien quality of the two realms is completely lost on humans.

* ''The [[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|End of Evangelion]]'' gave us the Sea of LCL, "a place with no AT-Field, [[Assimilation Plot|where individual forms do not exist]]; an ambiguous world where you cannot tell where you end and others begin; a world where you exist everywhere and yet you exist nowhere, [[Mind Screw|all at once]]". Its freaky nature is perfectly illustrated by the scene where Rei pulls out her hands out of Shinji's chest with absolutely no signs of injury on him<ref>though most viewers will be distracted by the fact that [[Fetish Fuel|both of them are naked and she is sitting on top of him, straddling his waist during the entire dialogue]]...and their crotches appear to be physically merged with no sign of their...ehm, ''private parts''</ref>. It's not a [[Dream World]] in that the place only exists in the shared reality between Rei, Kaworu and Shinji.

** {{spoiler|The Sea of LCL is actually Primordial Earth after Rei had returned every living being in existence back to its most basic form. All Souls are now one with Rei and/or Kaworu, the Mother and Father respectively of every living being on Earth. So in said Reality of Rei, Kaworu, and Shinji it was basically the Entire World at the moment. Or maybe it was all concepts of Reality, depending on your interpretation of what the bloody hell was going on.}}

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* Some dreamscapes in ''[[Yumekui Merry (Anime)|Yumekui Merry]]''

* Tsukuyomi and the Living Corpse Reincarnation realm, also some genjutsu are capable of projecting this type of location from ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]''.

* Tokimi's realm in ''[[Tenchi Muyo (Anime)|Tenchi Muyo]]''. Its a floating temple-like thing in the middle of nowhere in the universe. outside of it, its got a twisted, planet thing with a [[Space Whale]]. Her presence fills the room, but she is not there. And that's only in the third dimension. Each dimension up is so much more complex that a being from a lower dimension cannot comprehend. and there are a lot of them.

* Tokimi's realm in ''[[Tenchi Muyo! (Anime)|Tenchi Muyo]]''. Its a floating temple-like thing in the middle of nowhere in the universe. outside of it, its got a twisted, planet thing with a [[Space Whale]]. Her presence fills the room, but she is not there. And that's only in the third dimension. Each dimension up is so much more complex that a being from a lower dimension cannot comprehend. and there are a lot of them.

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** In fact, this sort of thing is common in Warpspace, [[Another Dimension]] which spaceships use for all interstellar travel. Also, there's a few regions where Warpspace and real space overlap, the largest one being the Eye of Terror.

* The realm of the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn in [[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]] is a pocket dimension full of bizarre [[Alien Geometry]].

* The [[Faction Paradox]] series has the Eleven-Day Empire, a [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome|tract of space/time, shaped like XVIII century London]], ritualistically separated from reality by eleven days that never existed. Specifically, when the 18th century British Empire shifted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, the date changed from the 2nd to the 14th of September. [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs|Figuring that nobody was using them, the Faction took those eleven days]], cut them off from the rest of causality, [[Crazy Awesome|and turned them into a twisted shadow version of Victorian London]] under a [[Red Sky Take Warning|perpetually burning sky]]. [[Captain Obvious|It's a weird place]]. (In its introduction, it's explained that if you were to [[Lampshade Hanging|point out]] that the above [[It Runs On Nonsensoleum|doesn't really make sense]], because a shift in the calendar doesn't "create" unused days, Faction Paradox would say that [[Timey Wimey Ball|that's rather the point]].)

* The [[Faction Paradox]] series has the Eleven-Day Empire, a [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|tract of space/time, shaped like XVIII century London]], ritualistically separated from reality by eleven days that never existed. Specifically, when the 18th century British Empire shifted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, the date changed from the 2nd to the 14th of September. [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|Figuring that nobody was using them, the Faction took those eleven days]], cut them off from the rest of causality, [[Crazy Awesome|and turned them into a twisted shadow version of Victorian London]] under a [[Red Sky Take Warning|perpetually burning sky]]. [[Captain Obvious|It's a weird place]]. (In its introduction, it's explained that if you were to [[Lampshade Hanging|point out]] that the above [[It Runs On Nonsensoleum|doesn't really make sense]], because a shift in the calendar doesn't "create" unused days, Faction Paradox would say that [[Timey-Wimey Ball|that's rather the point]].)

** And then there's the City of the Saved: the result of the fusion of the ultimate sum of all human technology in all of history merged with a ''[[Living Ship|goddess]]'' from the end of time. What does that equate to? A ''galaxy-wide'' [[Genius Loci|sentient]] space station, containing all humans to ever exist in immortal, perfect bodies, including [[Half Human Hybrid|all hybrids]] and virtually all fictional characters ever, permanently anchored at the edge of the Universe in its last nanosecond before the birth of the next. Unfortunately, there was an infection of ''[[Psycho Prototype|something]]'' that came out of the other end, and now the normally very pleasant City's infected with nightmarish industrial wastelands specialized in [[Body Horror|human experimentation]]. It's as horrific as it sounds.

** And then there's the City of the Saved: the result of the fusion of the ultimate sum of all human technology in all of history merged with a ''[[Living Ship|goddess]]'' from the end of time. What does that equate to? A ''galaxy-wide'' [[Genius Loci|sentient]] space station, containing all humans to ever exist in immortal, perfect bodies, including [[Half-Human Hybrid|all hybrids]] and virtually all fictional characters ever, permanently anchored at the edge of the Universe in its last nanosecond before the birth of the next. Unfortunately, there was an infection of ''[[Psycho Prototype|something]]'' that came out of the other end, and now the normally very pleasant City's infected with nightmarish industrial wastelands specialized in [[Body Horror|human experimentation]]. It's as horrific as it sounds.

* Most [[Simon R Green]] novels feature at least one of these, if not more.

* Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows" takes place in such a setting. A {{spoiler|possibly sentient}} setting, no less.

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* The Subspace of "Subspace Emissary" in ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' is this coupled with [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]. And it only gets weirder when the parts of the regular world that were dragged into the Subspace are assembled into the [[Marathon Level|Great Maze.]]

* ''[[The Legend of Spyro Trilogy]]'' has Convexity, a gateway between the main world and the Dark Realms, occupied by the Dark Master. It's the location of the final boss battle, featuring floating platforms and strange whale-like creatures with tentacles.

* ''[[El Shaddai Ascension of the Metatron]]'' has the Tower, where the majority of the game takes place. Each floor of the tower is ruled by a fallen angel and is essentially its own pocket universe where that angel and its followers live. Locations range from a burned-out wasteland to a cutesy cartoon-like world of colorful blocks and balloons to a futuristic [[Tron]]-like cityscape (complete with cycle combat!) to an underwater world. There's also the Darkness, a location that corrupts everything that falls into it {{spoiler|and is where the souls of the angels' followers end up instead of Heaven}}.

* ''[[El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Video Game)]]'' has the Tower, where the majority of the game takes place. Each floor of the tower is ruled by a fallen angel and is essentially its own pocket universe where that angel and its followers live. Locations range from a burned-out wasteland to a cutesy cartoon-like world of colorful blocks and balloons to a futuristic [[Tron]]-like cityscape (complete with cycle combat!) to an underwater world. There's also the Darkness, a location that corrupts everything that falls into it {{spoiler|and is where the souls of the angels' followers end up instead of Heaven}}.

* [[Echo Bazaar|The Neath]]. It is very difficult to die because it's downstream of Hell. Finding one's way around it can be literally maddening.

* The '''entire''' world of ''[[Limbo (Video Game)|Limbo]]''. It's dark (as in pitch-black save for the rare spot of light), silent, and [[Everything Trying to Kill You|literally everything is after your blood]]. [[Puppeteer Parasite|Or your brains]].

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** Ragna the Bloodedge: Involuntarily dumped into the Cauldron at Kagutsuchi via Nu. {{spoiler|Becomes Bloodedge, forfeits Azure Grimoire and memories in the process, emerges 100 years in the past.}}

** Nu: Tosses self into the Cauldron at Kagutsuchi with Ragna after conjoined impalement via Legacy Edge. {{spoiler|Becomes the Black Beast by merging with Ragna's Azure Grimoire, emerges 100 years in the past to wreak havoc upon the world.}}

** Lotte Carmine: Willfully entered the Boundary [[For Science]]. Loses mind and body within moments, becomes Arakune.

** Lotte Carmine: Willfully entered the Boundary [[For Science!]]. Loses mind and body within moments, becomes Arakune.

** Hakumen{{spoiler|/Jin Kisaragi}}: {{spoiler|Jumps into the Cauldron after Ragna and Nu. Goes back 100 years in time, succumbs to injuries sustained prior to dive, but otherwise emerges unharmed - all mental damages relate to transfer to Susano'o. Also [[Heroic Sacrifice|engages Yuki Terumi in a duel]] as a diversion so Jubei and Claudius Alucard can banish Terumi to the Boundary. Emerges 90 years later at 20% power, but is physically and mentally unharmed otherwise.}}

** Yuki Terumi: {{spoiler|Banished to the Boundary during engagement with Hakumen. Effects on mental state indeterminate due to continuum shift induced insanity.}}

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* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' made regular use of these. From the Bogeyman's home dimension to a sneak peek at the end of the world to a ghostly pirate TV station, the series enjoyed dropping the Ghostbusters in places where physics didn't work right and the architect expected the residents to be capable of phasing through walls.

* Springfield in ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' could very well count at this point. One look at the [[Separate Simpsons Geography Thing]] page should tell you all you need to know.

* ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Playing With a Trope|plays with this]] via the Everfree Forest. While home to an assortment of beastly critters -- like manticores, sea serpents and cockatrices -- the ponies also regard it as horrific and unnatural because ''everything there takes care of itself''. The plants grow on their own, the animals don't need to be looked after, the weather runs without help...it's '''surreal'''!

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Playing With a Trope|plays with this]] via the Everfree Forest. While home to an assortment of beastly critters -- like manticores, sea serpents and cockatrices -- the ponies also regard it as horrific and unnatural because ''everything there takes care of itself''. The plants grow on their own, the animals don't need to be looked after, the weather runs without help...it's '''surreal'''!

** Played straight in the season 2 premiere with Discord's hedge maze which could be best described as [[MC Escher|Escherian]] shrubbery. Not really a surprise when the architect is a [[Reality Warper|Reality Warping]] spirit of chaos. In the second episode he turns all of Ponyville into this, [[World Gone Mad|and drives its inhabitants insane for good measure]].

* ''[[Superjail (Animation)|Superjail]]'' is full of these, especially within Superjail itself, but the [[Time Police|Time Court and Time Jail]] in "Time Police" take the cake. Considering it's a place where all living beings from all corners of the universe and time work or are tried and imprisoned, this is to be expected.

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