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* Eve, from the ''[[In Death]]'' series. Certain things will make her lapse into flashback when awake. Often dragged out of them by Roarke.
* [[Older Than Radio]]: At the end of ''[[Treasure Island]],'' Jim Hawkins describes his experience with [[Catapult Nightmare|Catapult Nightmares]] of Skeleton Island:
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* Dink in the ''[[A to Z Mysteries]]'' book ''The Deadly Dungeon'', has a nightmare and then "bolt[s] upright in his bed."
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** Averted surprisingly often, however. Many times she'd just wake up dramatically opening her eyes with a gasp.
* Example of a [[Phlebotinum]]-assisted Catapult Nightmare: Rowsdower in the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode ''[[The Final Sacrifice]]''. Not only does he bolt up in bed, he does so while screaming his head off.
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* ''[[Northern Exposure]]'': In "All Is Vanity," Holling becomes convinced fiancée Shelly prefers, ahem, ''cleaner-looking'' men and schedules an appointment with Dr Fleischman. He soon has [[Body Horror|second thoughts]].
* In ''Pretty Little Liars'' episode "The Badass Seed", Spencer manages to wake up normally after a strangling dream: Trope averted.
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* In ''[[Sex and the City]]'' Carrie gets repeated Catapult Nightmares from... nothing... during her relationship with Aidan.
* In an episode of ''[[Spaced]]'', a slammed door awakens the four main characters, each of whom yell something in a [[Montage]] format.
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'''Mike:''' I'm hit!
'''Brian:''' ''(wearing an eyemask)'' I'm blind!
'''Tim:''' [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy!]] }}
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' does it frequently for Teyla Emmagan. Particularly in "The Gift" and "Doppelganger". Of course, [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone|most of her dreams are plot-important]] and in "Doppelganger" everyone is doing this.
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** Prince Zuko wakes up like this {{spoiler|from his [[Angst Coma]]}}.
** Aang does this a few times himself; most notably in "Nightmares and Daydreams", where he once wakes up everybody with his screams.
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* ''[[Wakfu]]''
** A variation in episode 22: Sadlygrove doesn't propel himself upward immediately after the [[Dream Sequence]]... but screams at the top of his lungs.
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* [[Gary the Rat]] begins every episode waking up from a horrible nightmare, sometimes even leaping clear out of his bed.
* The ''[[Rugrats]]'' episode "In the Dreamtime" has two. The first one happens to Chuckie early in the episode, and the second one happens to Chuckie's dad at the end of the episode.
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* Happens at one point in the [[Dream Within a Dream]] ending of the ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' episode "To Heck and Back".
* ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]''
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