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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the 8th episode of ''[[
* Discussed in ''[[Lucky Star]]'' episode 11. They rationalized why people who are unwilling to wake up specifically ask for five minutes, and not an hour.
* Parodied in the first chapter of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. Rosette is called on the phone to rush to a mission while her assistant, Chrono, is sleeping in their car. After the call she climbs into the car and tries to wake Chrono
** Later, ''Rosette'' refuses to wake up when Chrono shakes her repeatedly. So he ''tosses her out of an upper-story window''. Azmaria is horrified, but he tells her there's a pond right under that window. Sure enough, Rosette comes back through the window, soaking wet, furious ... and with a fish flapping between her gritted teeth.
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]''. In episode 10 Taro's three maids try to wake him up at 5:00 in the morning. He asks for 1 more minute of sleep.
* Done heartbreakingly in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', when Viral realizes that {{spoiler|his wife and daughter aren't real, but a product of a [[Lotus Eater Machine]].}}
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== Literature ==
* Randolph's Carter's motivation for undertaking [[
* In ''The Order of the Phoenix'', [[Harry Potter|Harry Potter's]] prophetic dream is cut short by Ron's snoring, just as he was finally about to find out what was behind the mysterious door.
* Happens a couple times in ''[[
** Cats occasionally dream they were ''just'' about to catch a mouse when awakened.
** During a drought, Lionblaze is dreaming about the lake being filled with water.
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** In a dream, Squirrelpaw is talking to a spirit-cat, and is about to be told how she can save her sister, when Shrewpaw wakes her up.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Subverted beautifully in ''[[Northern Exposure]]'', "Spring Break". Joel remarks during his erotic dream of performing Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistable" surrounded by the trademarked Palmer powerclones that he always wakes up before the good bit. One of the women leans over and tells him not this
* One episode of ''[[Father Ted]]'' featured Ted in an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[
* ''[[Herman's Head]]''. Herman is woken up just as he does a swan dive onto a bed containing two beautiful women.
* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' Fran is having the beginnings of an erotic dream about Maxwell, and she is woken by her mother. She goes back to sleep immediately afterwords. She later had to check if she was asleep, when Maxwell quoted the dream verbatim.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* A half-subversion can be found in an ''[[Bloom County|Outland]]'' strip. Opus is woken from a dream involving
* In a ''[[Zits]]'' Sunday strip, Jeremy is recalling a bizarre dream he had (complete with visuals), which ended with his hot 4th grade teacher calling him over for something. The next panel shows an irritated Jeremy telling Hector that he wanted five extra minutes.
* In a ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip, Snoopy is dozing inside the mailbox, and is woken up when Charlie Brown opens it. He tries to go back to sleep, muttering "Right in the middle of a good dream!"
== Western Animation ==
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== Real Life ==
* Real-life example: According to [[Urban Legends|popular legend]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s poem ''Kubla Khan'' was inspired by a dream he had. He was about halfway through writing the whole thing down when he was interrupted by a
** The other popular legend is that Coleridge wrote "Kubla Khan" in the midst of an opium high, and was interrupted by a knock at the door; having lost his train of thought, there was no getting it back. Ever.
* Similarly, the story of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' came to author Robert Louis Stevenson in a dream. His wife, hearing his screams and assuming he was having a nightmare, awakened him, much to his incense. Apparently, she had awakened him at the first transformation scene.
* Norm MacDonald worked this into an old stand-up bit about his dream of standing by a pool with Christie Brinkley, and waking up just before it gets to the good part. When he tries to re-dream the scenario, he winds up ''shooting'' pool with ''David'' Brinkley.
* Composer Giuseppe Tartini had a dream where he [[Deal
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