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A story where what's going on in someone's head - be it their [[Dream World]], [[Mental World]], [[Imagine Spot|imagination]], [[Battle in
Sometimes, the focus will be on mundane events in [[Real Life]] represented as all kinds of metaphorical weirdness playing out in the characters' minds.
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* ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' is mostly about the main character's inner strife, and no decisions are reached even in the end.
* ''[[Onani Master Kurosawa]]'' is a little more plotty, but it's still mostly Kurosawa's head.
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' dips into this as the series progresses and everyone's mental stability comes crashing down. The [[Gainax Ending|original ending]] became this due to the budget running out. Finally, about 30% of [[The Movie|End Of Evangelion]] is entirely this. [[Serial Escalation|It must be seen to be believed]].
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* ''[[Fight Club]]'' is this in large part, but some interesting stuff happens in reality, too.
* ''[[Shutter Island]]''
* ''[[Brazil (
* ''[[Sucker Punch]]''
* Possibly also ''[[Source Code]]''.
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* Nearly all the events of the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode "My Life In Four Cameras" take place in JD's head. Only the [[Book Ends]] are real.
* ''[[Roseanne]]'''s final season turned out to be a book that Roseanne was writing.
* ''[[Stargate SG
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Fringe]]'' - "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"
* ''[[
** "Revenging Angel" is a [[Two Lines, No Waiting]] episode. One plot is about D'Argo, Chiana, and Jool trying to stop D'Argo's ship from self-destructing, while the other plot takes place inside Crichton's head as he's lying in a coma (and is [[Medium Shift Gag|a Looney Tunes pastiche]]).
** "John Quixote" takes place in a virtual-reality game based on Crichton's memories.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[James Thurber]]'s "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
* Arguably the philosophical book ''[[
* The [[Philip K. Dick]] novel "Eye in the Sky" takes place in a sort of shared mental world, with the current most-dominant personality warping it to their prejudices and worldview.
== Literature ==
* ''[[The
** On a similar note (due to it being essentially fan-fiction of the previous example), the short story "The Celestial Railroad" was a dream, but I can't remember whether it was only revealed at the end or not.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[The Company of Myself]]''
* ''[[Hitman|Hitman: Contracts]]'', until the final mission.
* ''[[
* ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'' and, to a slightly lesser extent, ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'' both take place largely in Wonderland - in this case, the corrupted [[Happy Place]] of a catatonic girl who blames herself for the death of her parents.
* ''[[Yume Nikki]]'' is about a ''hikikomor''i lucid dreamer, whose primary interaction with the products of her subconscious is to stab them with knives.
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