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A [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|fourth wall-breaking]] gag in which one character is inexplicably able to see another character's [[Imagine Spot]], taking the perspective of the audience and reacting to specific details that they shouldn't be able to guess. [[Mind Reading|Mind-readers]] don't count, as that's cheating. [[Medium Awareness]] helps.

 

See also [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]], [[Strange Minds Think Alike]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Elsee spots Keima's grandiose imaginings in ''[[The World Only God Knows]]'' all the time.

** The Japanese dub was something along the lines of "You've got so much more to live for, like love- oh wait, you've already done that. Never mind." after he notices the flashback.

* In the ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' manga, Haru wonders aloud what Yuki would look like dressed in a girl's uniform. We see Haru's [[Imagine Spot]] and Yuki tells him to stop picturing it.

** Although it could be justified as a lucky guess.

** Happens again when Yue and Nodoka request instruction in magic. The image is of [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v07/c062/5.html how they would look as mages], with an [[Magical Girl|alternative possibility]] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v07/c062/6.html supplied on the next page].

* In an early chapter of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Fuyuki realizes that their mother, who doesn't like animals, is probably going to be angry about Keroro's presence, and imagines her as [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|EVA-01]]. The next panel has Natsumi [[Medium Awareness|glancing back at the last panel]] and saying "That visual might have been a bit exaggerated, but..."

* Done a number of times on ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. "Why am I always the one throwing confetti?"

* Occasionally occurs in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', usually with characters commenting on Tamaki's day-dreams about Haruhi.

* "[[Star Driver|Wako!]] [http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/wakosfantasy.jpg That fantasy] was ''tres bien!''"

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Jhonen Vasquez|I Feel Sick]]'': Tenna takes exception to Devi's imaginary portrayal of herself. "That's BULLSHIT! And why the fuck am I wearing a bear suit?!!"

 

== Film ==

 

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eB_EAz5WAQ Such as this.]

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'', Ryotaro states outright that he likes [[All Your Powers Combined|Climax Form]] even though it's strenuous for his body, and for some reason [[Imagine Spot|imagines]] it as a ''dancing sensation''. [[Beat|The Taros all stare at him in disbelief]], before saying these lines:

'''Kintaros''': ''...it makes me cry!'' }}

 

== Theater ==

* [[Tom Stoppard]]'s play ''Travesties'' is presented to the audience through the recollections of an [[Unreliable Narrator]], Henry Carr. In one scene, as his [[Hot Librarian]] love interest gives a long lecture on politics, she accuses him of tuning out and imagining her naked. He denies this, but as she continues lecturing the lighting changes, music plays, and she starts performing a striptease. A minute later, Carr sheepishly [[No Fourth Wall|asks the audience]] if they "noticed anything" in that last scene...

 

== Web Comics ==

** Later, Haley [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0395.html forgets how to use thought bubbles], producing a similar effect.

 

== Web Original ==

* In [[Homestar Runner|SBemail]] [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail169.html 169], Strong Bad is unable to have an [[Imagine Spot]] because "the suits" firewalled his imagination. Homestar walks in, however, and has an [[Imagine Spot]] just fine. When Strong Bad complains, Homestar explains that he has 'admin privileges'.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Taken to extremes in the ''US Acres'' shorts on ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'': Orson's literature-inspired fantasies feature himself [[And You Were There|and the other cast members]] as characters... except that everyone is experiencing it as vividly as he is. It [[Mind Screw|may or may not]] be [[Your Mind Makes It Real|really happening]].

* In the episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' where Homer was tells the kids about when Maggie was born, at one point Bart takes over and claims that Homer got so scared his head exploded. After Homer gets back to telling the story himself, Marge notices that he was imagining himself without a head and that he should have weighed a few more pounds.

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