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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the 8th episode of ''[[
* Discussed in ''[[Lucky Star]]'' episode 11. They rationalized why people who are unwilling to wake up specifically ask for five minutes, and not an hour.
* Parodied in the first chapter of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. Rosette is called on the phone to rush to a mission while her assistant, Chrono, is sleeping in their car. After the call she climbs into the car and tries to wake Chrono up--who protests that he needs to sleep "just a little longer". When Rosette asks ''how'' long, Chrono responds "about ten hours". Naturally, he gets punted out of the car and forced to go to work.
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== Literature ==
* Randolph's Carter's motivation for undertaking [[
* In ''The Order of the Phoenix'', [[Harry Potter|Harry Potter's]] prophetic dream is cut short by Ron's snoring, just as he was finally about to find out what was behind the mysterious door.
* Happens a couple times in ''[[
** Cats occasionally dream they were ''just'' about to catch a mouse when awakened.
** During a drought, Lionblaze is dreaming about the lake being filled with water.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Subverted beautifully in ''[[Northern Exposure]]'', "Spring Break". Joel remarks during his erotic dream of performing Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistable" surrounded by the trademarked Palmer powerclones that he always wakes up before the good bit. One of the women leans over and tells him not this time -- the screen cuts to black and we hear a zipper being opened. Cue Titles.
* One episode of ''[[Father Ted]]'' featured Ted in an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[
* ''[[Herman's Head]]''. Herman is woken up just as he does a swan dive onto a bed containing two beautiful women.
* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' Fran is having the beginnings of an erotic dream about Maxwell, and she is woken by her mother. She goes back to sleep immediately afterwords. She later had to check if she was asleep, when Maxwell quoted the dream verbatim.
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* Similarly, the story of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' came to author Robert Louis Stevenson in a dream. His wife, hearing his screams and assuming he was having a nightmare, awakened him, much to his incense. Apparently, she had awakened him at the first transformation scene.
* Norm MacDonald worked this into an old stand-up bit about his dream of standing by a pool with Christie Brinkley, and waking up just before it gets to the good part. When he tries to re-dream the scenario, he winds up ''shooting'' pool with ''David'' Brinkley.
* Composer Giuseppe Tartini had a dream where he [[Deal
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