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{{quote|''"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.''
''"You must be," said the Cat, "or you would not have come [[World of Chaos|here]]."''
|'''[[Lewis Carroll]]''', ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''}}
It may be some [[Cloudcuckoolander|quirky ideas]], the meddling of a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] or other villain, having [[Only Sane Man|noticed something]] [[Invisible to Normals]], an attempt to dodge jail by getting a jury to call [[Insanity Defense]], or just a good old fashioned screw-up, but somehow a reasonably sane character undergoes severe therapy, often in an [[Bedlam House|asylum]].
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* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Frame of Mind", Riker has a role in a play as a character whom this happens to, but then it turns into a [[Cuckoo Nest]] as play and reality start mixing, and Riker has to convince himself he's not insane. Ultimately it involves aliens, of course.
* As part of a scheme JR Ewing had himself committed in ''[[Dallas]]''; it didn't work out so well.
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