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It was [[Real After All]], you had conclusive evidence. [[Or Was It a Dream?]] No -- it wasn't!
 
Except that you [[Fever Dream Episode|were feverish]] or had a [[Tap Onon 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]] -- often gently delivered, because you are, after all, ill.
 
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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== [[Film]] ==
* Justified in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939).
{{quote| '''Uncle Henry:''' She got quite a bump on the head. We thought for a minute she'd [[Never Say "Die"|leave us]].<br />
'''Dorothy:''' But I did leave you, Uncle Henry, that's just the trouble, and I tried to get back for days and days.<br />
'''Auntie Em:''' There, there, lie quiet now, you just had a bad dream. ''[...]''<br />
'''Dorothy:''' But it wasn't a dream. It was a place.<br />
'''Auntie Em:''' We dream lots of silly things when we... }}
* [[Contact (Filmfilm)|Contact]] ending.
 
== Literature ==
* Susan, Peter, and Edmund disbelieve Lucy thoroughly in [[CSC. LewisS. (Creator)Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'', but Susan and Peter are afraid that she is mentally disturbed, not lying.
* [[Discworld]]:
{{quote| '''Nanny''': Then I thought maybe I was imagining things.<br />
'''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 (Literature)|The Phoenix Onon the Sword]]'' and ''[[The Frost Giants-Giant's Daughter (Literature)|The Frost Giants Daughter]]''. Usually the protagonist does have some physical evidence that proves him right, like the title mark on his broken sword or a scrap of cloth from the title character's clothing.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]:'' [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=47 What happened to the creature? You had a knock to the head. . .]
 
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