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"...and when I woke up, my pillow was gone!"
A staple dream type found in comics and animation. It does not always require marshmallows in the dream sequence, but does require a pillow in the dreamer's bed. Upon awakening from a marshmallow dream, said dreamer will find the pillow to be missing or shredded. The dreamer's mouth is usually infested with feathers that were once stuffed in the pillow.
The lower the dreamer's intelligence, the more likely this is to happen, and the less need for there to be an actual marshmallow in the dream.
Always [[Played for Laughs]], it exists solely due to [[Rule of Funny]]. It's likely [[Older Than You Think]].
Not to be confused with [[Marshmallow Hell]].
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=== Works featuring marshmallow dreams ===
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Motto to Love Ru]]'' has a variation. When Mikan crawls into Rito's bed to catch one of the other girls in the act of crawling into his bed while he's sleeping, he grabs her in his sleep and his mumblings hint that he is acting like he's grabbed the 'marshmallow'. When she pinches his cheek to have him release her, his response is to claim that the 'marshmallow bit him'. Neither the pillow or Mikan is harmed when they wake (although Mikan is 'caught' by the one she was trying to catch).
* In an [[Eyecatch]] for ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
== Fan Fic ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' had this as a minor [[Running Gag]]. Hobbes would be having a dream about being in a vicious fight with a ferocious weasel...only to awaken and discover that he had really been ripping his pillow to shreds. Or, occasionally, Calvin.
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' once refrenced this. Wally had a strange dream about getting smarter by willing it so, with [[My Brain Is Big|his forehead expanding to match]], but still woke up with his pillow missing. As Dilbert comments,
{{quote|Wow, you woke up in the wrong joke! }}
* Naturally, this has happened to [[Garfield]]. He dreams of being in the land of giant breakfasts, eats a pancake, and wakes up wondering where his blanket went.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[DMFA]]'' recently gave us an excellent [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1191.php example] followed by [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1196.php waking up].
* ''[[Slightly Damned]]'' gives us a textbook, same-page, same-panel, non-marshmallow [http://www.sdamned.com/2011/02/02052011/ example].
* ''[[Skin Horse]]'' combines this with [[Real Dreams Are Weirder]] [http://skin-horse.com/comics/10142011/ here]; Unity responds to the Abbess's description of her prophetic dream with an inversion of the trope ("...and when I woke up, all the marshmallows were gone!")
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Played with in ''[[Family Guy]]''; Peter initially can't find his pillow, but he was just lying on it. We then see a half-eaten sheep in his room trying to crawl to safety.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'':
** SpongeBob dreams of eating Krabby Patties and wakes up chewing on his pillow.
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In the middle of the night
To find that his dream had come true. }}
* In ''[[The Fairly
* In an ''[[Animaniacs]]'' short, that one kid comes out of his house and says "One time, OK, see, one time Randy Beaman's mom had a dream that she ate a big marshmallow and it was really good, and she, and when she woke up...her pillow was gone. 'Cause she ate it. 'K, bye."
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