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''There's someone in my head but it's not me''|''[[Pink Floyd]]'', "[[The Dark Side of the Moon|Brain Damage]]"}}
A relative to [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]], except instead of traveling into another character's physical body via [[Applied Phlebotinum]], they [[Mental World|enter their mind]]. The problem this is supposed to solve can range from recurring nightmares to [[Easy Amnesia|memory loss]] to [[Single Issue Psychology|psychological disorders]], and even the odd [[Convenient Coma]]. Expect to see some psychological aspects of the character [[Anthropomorphic Personification|manifested as physical beings]], a la ''[[
Often the justification for a [[Mind Screw]] episode.
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Compare the malicious version, [[Mind Probe]], or a single person variant, the [[Vision Quest]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* Interesting variation on the trope: Instead of one character doing this to another, the ''audience'' takes a [[Journey to The Center of The Mind]] into the protagonist's head in the final episode(s) of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'': Shadi goes into Yugi's mind to investigate why he has a Millennium Item. He's understandably surprised to find not one but ''[[Split Personality|two]]'' minds there!
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* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'': During Jim's duel with Judai while he's possessed by Haou, Jim uses his magic replacement eye to take a trip into Judai's mind to figure out what's going on with him. He finds the former [[The Ace|Ace]] surrounded by images of his dead friends and listening to to a repetitive loop of [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]] from that season's villains, sinking deeper into despair and [[I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight|farther out of reach]].
* In episode 12 of ''[[Pani Poni Dash]]'', alien technology causes Rebecca's class to get stuck in Himeko's dreamscape, where they encounter all matter of weirdness, including [[Idiot Hair]] on everything, a restaurant that serves nothing but crabs, and a fat thug who claims to be the Archangel Michael guarding the door to Himeko's heart.
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* With the help of a stray Unown, the ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime's heroes go into a Larvitar's mind to find out what exactly went wrong to make him so untrusting of humans: an incident involving poachers that left its Tyranitar mother injured and the two separated when it was still in its egg!
* Utilized for psychotherapy via [[Dream Land]] in ''[[Paprika]]''.
* There is a machine that allows people to do this in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. They call it ''Diving'', and the user undergoes an [[Out
* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' movie, Noa, who has a talent for reading minds, takes the liberty of looking into Edward's past while he's asleep. In doing this she learns about his home and his brother.
* Happens throughout ''[[Kaiba]]'' with the help of a small machine. People's minds are all libraries of various kinds, with their memories as books.
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* If Road from ''[[D Gray Man]]'' is not [[Eye Scream|stabbing your eyes out]] for the hell of it, she enters your mind so that she can start [[Mind Rape|raping it]]. {{spoiler|Lavi}} did not enjoy the little tour of his own subconscious fears and insecurities.
* At one point in the series ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' and the other senshi enter Chibiusa's mind to help her.
* Whenever it's done in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' (via magic, of course), it involves an [[Out
* In ''[[Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin]]'', the school activities include a [[Flatline Plotline]]. The [[Spirit World]] is depicted as this trope.
* An interrogation technique in ''[[Naruto]]'' takes the form of this. The interrogators project themselves into their victim's head, often needing to fight through layers of protective genjutsu, until they reach the core mind. From there they can access and view memories.
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* In the season four (two part) finale of ''[[House (TV)|House]]'', Chase attempts to use medical hypnotism to unlock House's memories of a bus-crash. We can see both the inside of the bar he visited beforehand, and the bus he rode on. Most details are obscured or not present.
{{quote| '''House:''' God, I hate Beer brand beer!}}
* In ''[[Smallville]]'', [[Superman|Clark Kent]] does one of these to get some data from Lex Luthor's head and save his [[Brought Down to Normal]] cousin Kara. It should be noted that the machine used for the trip had killed everyone who tried to use it before, but, well, it IS [[Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me|Super]][[New Powers As the Plot Demands|man]]. Inside Lex's head he found [[Anthropomorphic Personification|2 Lexes]], the adult, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|ruthless]] Lex, and a child one, referred to as [[Shout Out|Alexander]], who is good and helps Clark on the trip, while fearing the other one will attack him. Said kid coincidentally serves to revive [[Status Quo Is God|Clark's faith that Lex can be redeemed]]. For a while, [[You Can't Fight Fate|at least]].
** Then there was other one, when one of the criminals from the [[Phantom Zone]] tries to [[Body Surf|take over]] Clark's body, trapping him in a imaginary world where he is a schizophrenic patient who [[All Just a Dream|has hallucinated every bit of the series so far]] (The Phantom Zone is a book on a shelf, Jor-El is a brand of shampoo, and so on). It is the [[Martian Manhunter]] who [[Journey to The Center of The Mind|enters his mind]] to save him.
* In the ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'' episode "Boober's Dream," Boober goes on a [[Journey to The Center of The Mind]] to confront his [[Keet|fun-loving and irresponsible]] [[Gollum Made Me Do It|alter-ego Sidebottom]], who has gotten out of control. When this fails, he enlists the rest of the [[Five
* Played with in ''[[Taken (TV)|Taken]]''. Several characters enter a crashed alien spacecraft, and see visions from their minds - a soldier sees his mother and her delicious cookies; one sees cockroaches, his greatest fear; one of the main characters sees her dead grandfather that she never met, who claims to be how she views him in her mind. In the end, {{spoiler|it turns out the resident child psychic has been pulling these images out of peoples minds and making them see them - there wasn't even an alien crash.}}
* One of the episodes of Disney Channel's [[So Weird]] had this as it's plot. Fi, Jack, and Clu end up going inside a young boy's dreams to find out why he's having nightmares. The nightmare-creature (represented by a huge mass of black mist) is constantly chasing them, and will only be defeated when the child stands up and faces his fears. What's he afraid of? {{spoiler|His parents are constantly fighting and he's afraid [[Parental Abandonment|that one of them will leave.]]}}
* The episode "Numbskulls of the Beast" from ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom (TV)|The Legend of Dick and Dom]]'' sees the heroes use magic to get inside the head of the [[Big Bad]], to find where he has hidden the [[MacGuffin]]; They aren't particularly interested in why his wrath is represented as [[Surreal Humor|giant red teddy bears]], or what's with his mind having security guards (who are flying Brooklyn-accented [[
* In an episode of ''[[Fringe]]'', Peter and [[Mad Scientist|Walter]] enter Olivia's mind in order to retrieve her conciousness after she is possessed by {{spoiler|William Bell}}.
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* In [[Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete|Lunar: Eternal Blue]], Ronfar goes into Mauri's mind to free her from Zophar's influence.
* [[Final Fantasy VI]] does this. There's a side quest where you can go into Cyan's mind and help him overcome his (justified) angst.
* [[Baldurs Gate]] 2 has several dream sequences where the [[Player Character]] wanders around a recreation of their childhood home floating in a void, while [[Big Bad|Irenicus]], Imoen and their [[Super
* In [[Ar Tonelico|Ar Tonelico I and II]] the main character can 'dive' into the 'cosmosphere' of the Reyvatails in your party, which is directly similar into exploring a person's inner mind and consciousness. It is a major game play mechanic as not only does it give you an intriguing look at their inner-selves, but is a requirement to unlock more powerful [[Magic Music|song magic]] for the Reyvatail you are diving into.
* [[Silent Hill]] can be seen as this, with each game an examination of a particular character's psyche.
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* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has one episode where Danny's overshadowing ability extends to flying inside people's minds, specifically their dreams.
* An opening of ''[[Arthur (Animation)|Arthur]]'' had the titular character enter the mind of his teacher and the mind of a classmate (later revealed to have dyslexia). The first mind was a giant homework factory, the second was a giant picture slideshow.
* In the series finale of ''[[Mighty Orbots]],'' when the title robots mistakenly believe they are slated to be [[What Measure Is a Non
* This once happened to [[Beetlejuice (Animation)|Beetlejuice]] when Lydia became trapped in his mind. She ended up helping his pathetic, wimpy "will power" defeat "Prankenstein," the part of Beetlejuice's personality that goads him into playing tricks on people.
* In the ''[[Venture Brothers]]'' episode "Assisted Suicide" the Monarch uses a mind-control machine to go inside Dr. Venture's brain to try and kill him from the inside out; Dr. Orpheus goes in after him to save Doc from the "possessing spirit." However, it turns out that Dr. Venture's mind isn't such a pleasant place to be, and a combination of traumatic memories and Freuidan archetypes send the Monarch running away screaming.
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