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{{quote|''The sleep is still in my eyes, the dream is still in my head''
''I breathe a sigh, and sadly smile, and lie awhile in bed''
''I wish that it might come to pass, not fade like all my dreams''
''Just think of what my life might be in a world like I have seen!''|'''[[Rush]]''', ''2112''}}
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== Music ==
* The Leslie Fish [[Filk Song]] "Valhalla" is about a Viking who died in battle, but couldn't reach Valhalla because Christianity had his Gods under siege. Odin reincarnated him as a "bookish, lonely lad" who immersed himself in Scandanavian lore. "Sigurd" then stumbles into the Society for Creative Anachronism, and while it's not perfect, it fits a ''lot'' of the bill - including drinking, boasting, wenching, and fighting!
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What hope you make other dreamers feel
For if too many hear it
they will struggle to draw near it
And in the search they just might make it real!\\'' }}
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Erfworld]]'', moments after Parson declares he would gladly trade his current life a life in a game world, he is summoned into a [[RPG Mechanics Verse|turn-based strategy wargame universe]]. This turns out to be [[Be Careful What You Wish For|less desirable than he'd thought]] when he finds himself on the badly outnumbered side of a war, under threat of [[Bad Boss|having his existence ended]] if he doesn't follow orders.
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"Dibs on his dice" }}
** Later, when he complains that "this isn't what [he] wished for", it's pointed out that in this case it was Erfworld that wished for ''[[The Chosen One|him]]''.
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** In another episode, he wishes his life were like an action movie, and the next day it is.
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' episode "Wishbones" a boy named Pud'n wishes his toy bunny were real. An extra-dimensional skull grants his wish, but being a case of [[Be Careful What You Wish For]], the newly animated bunny turns out to be a complete psychopath who does everything in his power to kill Pud'n.
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