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* Roger Zelazny's ''Nine Princes In Amber'' (which spawned two entire five-novel series) begins this way. The first-person narrator doesn't even know his own name when he wakes up in, well, a hospital room.
* In ''[[A Snowball in Hell]]'' by [[Christopher Brookmyre]], Darren [[Asshole Victim|"The Daddy"]] McDade wakes up in a hotel room he doesn't recognize. Things... don't end well for him.
* ''The Tightrope Men'' was written by [[Spy Fiction]] writer Desmond Bagley as a deliberate evocation of this
* Eri of ''[[After Dark]]'' wakes up in a bed on the TV side. She has no idea how she got there, and neither does the viewer.
* ''[[Animorphs]]'' In 'The Familiar', Jake wakes up in a room, his bedroom, only it's a futuristic bedroom, and he's ten years older, with no idea what happened in between.
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