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{{trope}}
It was [[Real After All]], you had conclusive evidence. [[Or Was It a Dream?]]
Except that you [[Fever Dream Episode|were feverish]] or had a [[Tap on the Head|hit to the head]] and everyone else thinks you're unreliable. And you don't have any physical evidence. Hence the [[Stock Phrase]]
They may even be right. This can cover the entire range from [[All Just a Dream]] through [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]] to [[The Masquerade]].
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{{examples}}
== Comic Books ==
* Somebody suggests this to Brad at the end of ''[[The Sandman]]: Worlds' End''.
== [[Film]] ==
* Justified in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939).
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'''Dorothy:''' But I did leave you, Uncle Henry, that's just the trouble, and I tried to get back for days and days.
'''Auntie Em:''' There, there, lie quiet now, you just had a bad dream. ''[...]''
'''Dorothy:''' But it wasn't a dream. It was a place.
'''Auntie Em:''' We dream lots of silly things when we... }}
* At the end of ''[[Contact (film)|Contact]]'', Ellie is led to believe this -- but she's not told there's evidence that she
== Literature ==
* Susan, Peter, and Edmund disbelieve Lucy thoroughly early in [[C. S.
* [[Discworld]]:
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'''Granny''': No point in imagining anything, Things are bad enough as they are. }}
* The supernatural is not believed in by many people of [[Robert E. Howard]]'s tales, so [[Conan the Barbarian]] and Howard's other heroes will usually hear this a lot when they encounter supernatural things, like in ''[[The Phoenix on the Sword]]'' and ''[[The Frost-Giant's
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Space: 1999]]'' episode "The Bringers of Wonder". Commander Keonig suddenly becomes irrational and is hooked up to an experimental machine. When a group of people from Earth arrive, Koenig sees them as monstrous aliens but the rest of the Alphans assume he's still hallucinating. Actually, the machine prevented the aliens from controlling his mind the way they did the rest of Moonbase Alpha.
* The ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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