Mental Story: Difference between revisions

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Sometimes, the focus will be on mundane events in [[Real Life]] represented as all kinds of metaphorical weirdness playing out in the characters' minds.

* ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' is mostly about the main character's inner strife, and no decisions are reached even in the end.

* ''[[Onani Master Kurosawa]]'' is a little more plotty, but it's still mostly Kurosawa's head.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' dips into this as the series progresses and everyone's mental stability comes crashing down. The [[Gainax Ending|original ending]] became this due to the budget running out. Finally, about 30% of [[The Movie|End Of Evangelion]] is entirely this. [[Serial Escalation|It must be seen to be believed]].

 

* ''[[Fight Club]]'' is this in large part, but some interesting stuff happens in reality, too.

* ''[[Shutter Island]]''

* ''[[Sucker Punch]]''

* Possibly also ''[[Source Code]]''.

* Nearly all the events of the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode "My Life In Four Cameras" take place in JD's head. Only the [[Book Ends]] are real.

* ''[[Roseanne]]'''s final season turned out to be a book that Roseanne was writing.

* ''[[Fringe]]'' - "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"

** "Revenging Angel" is a [[Two Lines, No Waiting]] episode. One plot is about D'Argo, Chiana, and Jool trying to stop D'Argo's ship from self-destructing, while the other plot takes place inside Crichton's head as he's lying in a coma (and is [[Medium Shift Gag|a Looney Tunes pastiche]]).

** "John Quixote" takes place in a virtual-reality game based on Crichton's memories.

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[James Thurber]]'s "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

 

== Literature ==

** On a similar note (due to it being essentially fan-fiction of the previous example), the short story "The Celestial Railroad" was a dream, but I can't remember whether it was only revealed at the end or not.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[The Company of Myself]]''

* ''[[Hitman|Hitman: Contracts]]'', until the final mission.

* ''[[Yume Nikki]]'' is about a ''hikikomor''i lucid dreamer, whose primary interaction with the products of her subconscious is to stab them with knives.