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A scene or series of scenes that takes place in the past or future, real or imagined, using the same actors as the existing show but as different characters. To properly count for this trope, the relationships of the characters in the vision must reflect on the relationships of the existing characters, often with a plot-relevant [[Aesop]] for the characters to learn from it.
Occasionally '''Visions of Another Self''' occur by having a character actually travel to a place, whether it's in the actual past, an [[Alternate Universe]] or a [[Mirror Universe]]. Just as, if not more often though, it will be a constructed fantasy, [[
Sort-of-but-not-really related to [[Flash Back]]. Sometimes may approach [[Flash Sideways]]. Superficially resembles an ad hoc [[Commedia Dell Arte Troupe|Commedia dell'Arte Troupe]]. If the character having these dreams starts to think that they are the true reality and the rest of the show is the dream, it's a [[Cuckoo Nest]]. See also [[But You Were There and You and You]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* [[Ancient Egypt]] in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!''; the characters there are said to be reincarnations or parallels to modern-day characters, which is another plot point in itself.
* The final episode of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has a short section in which Shinji dreams about how his life could have been if the show he was in ''wasn't'' a [[Deconstruction]]. It almost reaches [[Uncanny Valley]] levels.
== Comic
* Used again and again in ''[[Donald Duck]]'' and ''[[Mickey Mouse]]'' comics to provide "fresh" story ideas, because of their overall premise being basically "invent stories about these popular characters" and little else. Sometimes [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] by invoking [[Identical Grandson]], but more often the whole story just is like this without explanation.
* Several DC Comics [[Elseworlds]] play with the idea of the DC heroes and villains existing in a different era: [[Batman]] as a privateer, Old Western [[Justice League of America]], [[Steel]] in times of slavery, [[Superman]] in the Middle Ages, etc.
▲== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* At one point in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140801051138/http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/Z/ Sailor Moon Z]'', the main Senshi do a [[Freaky Friday|body-switch]] with their Silver Millenium counterparts. After they're returned to the present, they have more frequent [[Flash Back|Flashbacks]] of their past lives, usualy overlaping with similar moments in the present.
** The original also has flashbacks to this time though only when key to the plot.
* In ''[[Stars Above]]'', [[Puella Magi Oriko Magica|Oriko]] has these. {{spoiler|She reveals that she dreams of the other timelines, and that she knows [[Break the Cutie|all the hell that]] [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Homura]] [[Break the Cutie|has gone through.]]}}
* In the ''[[Azula Trilogy]]'', at one point during Azula's trip to the Spirit World, she's shown visions of herself in other worlds, including one where she was banished instead of Zuko, and one where she was apparently born a peasant.
== Film ==
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* The third book in [[Legends of Laconia]] has this as its main story. [[Reincarnation]] is involved.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Happens practically [[Once an Episode]] on ''[[Scrubs]]''; JD's daydreams put his coworkers into a number of absurd situations (and costumes.) This includes characters from ''[[Grease]]'', ''[[West Side Story]]'', and ''[[Star Wars]]'', as well as occasional scenes that [[Parody]] a traditional [[Dom Com]].
* ''[[Charmed]]'' has shown the Halliwell Sisters' past lives on several occasions. These previous incarnations of the Charmed Sisters have always looked the same as the present-day incarnations.
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* ''[[Leverage]]'', "The Van Gogh Job"
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' Tedd dreams about one of his alternate universe counterpart's life.
** So does Ellen, who is given memories of a world where she was born normally. Or Eliot was a girl, which [[Opposite Gender Clone|amounts to the same thing]]. {{spoiler|But then it turns out to be deliberately induced by a magic-user and may or may not be [[Flash Sideways|an actual vision of another world]] too - we don't know how she produced it in the first place. }}
== Western Animation ==
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