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== Anime & Manga ==
* As pictured above, it happens to Owaki in ''[[The Enigma of Amigara Fault]]''. The dream might just disturb anyone who reads it too.
* ''[[Ranma
** A giant Kunô declaring his love for the pigtailed girl before snatching "her" up effortlessly (which the anime replaced with about a dozen naked Kunôs trapping a naked Girl-Ranma).
** Being brainwashed into Kunō's adoring, submissive wife and trapped on a tropical island with him -- and their many children...
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== Literature ==
* Lampshaded in Emma Bull's ''[[Border Town|Finder]]'' when the protagonist wakes up violently from [[Another
* [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] has done this on occasion. Violently thrashing around, actually. But considering the unusual circumstances....
* Eve, from the ''[[In Death]]'' series. Certain things will make her lapse into flashback when awake. Often dragged out of them by Roarke.
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* Done all the time on ''[[Forever Knight]]'', to the point that the poor main character can't seem to wake without it.
* Paul Slippery at the beginning of the third episode of ''Fortysomething'' in his second [[Dream Within a Dream]] awakening. He just jerks his head up and gasps the first time.
* ''[[The Goodies]]'': In the Kitten Kong episode, Tim returns home determined to wreck vengeance on Twinkles the kitten after his disastrous attempt to walk the over-active purrball. Graham and Bill caution him that it's not a very good idea, then open the door to reveal that thanks to Graham's growth formula the kitten has [[Attack of the 50
* People on TV wake up from nightmares the same way immortals on ''[[Highlander (TV series)|Highlander]]'' wake up from being dead.
* This is a frequently [[Averted Trope]] on ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. Usually, we cut to an extreme close-up of the character dreaming and see their eyes snap open, sometimes to a ''shhff'' sound-effect. Same for hallucinations, when we cut to other characters reacting to the "out of it" character. (In both cases, the character is usually House himself.)
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