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== Anime and Manga ==
* The ending of ''[[Kirby Right Back At Ya]]'' had Kirby falling asleep and {{spoiler|ending up in a nightmare realm filled with food, it's then that the baby star warrior realized that he can attack with his powers in this dream.}} Unlike before when he was awake.
* The 2006 film ''[[Paprika]]'' centers around a device that (like ''Inception'' four years later) allows people to enter others' dreams and manipulate them.
 
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Inception]]''{{'}}s "extractors" are all by definition lucid dreamers who jointly dream a dream with their target and manipulate it and them into giving up the information they want. According to [[The Other Wiki]], writer/director Christopher Nolan wrote the original proposal ''based'' on the concept of lucid dreaming.
* The Indian action/[[Thriller]] film ''[[118 (film)|118]]'' employs lucid dreaming as a key device to its complex plot.
* In the 2017 South Korean science fiction film ''[[Lucid Dream (film)|Lucid Dream]]'', an investigative journalist tries to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years before, and uses lucid dreaming to explore his memories of the event.
* In 2001's ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'', a company called "Life Extension" uses lucid dreaming to "exercise" the minds of terminally ill persons whom they are keeping [[Human Popsicle|cryogenically-suspended]] until cures for their diseases can be found.
* The various ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' films all revolve around Freddy Krueger, a malevolent entity who can enter people's dreams and manipulate them. The third film of the original series, ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'', centers on the efforts of a psychiatrist to help a group of teens learn how to use their own dreaming to fight him.
 
== Literature ==