Your Mind Makes It Real: Difference between revisions

* Parodied and possibly subverted in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Parasites Lost". When most of the Planet Express crew take a [[Fantastic Voyage]] through Fry's body, it isn't the actual chacters who go on the trip. The ship really did get hit with the shrink ray, but the people inside it are actually [[Nanomachines|nanobots]] remotely controlled by the crew interacting with a VR simulation of Fry's innards. Toward the end of the episode, Leela chops the other characters to bits with an axe while they're all still in tiny robot mode. Immediately afterwards, we see the actual characters taking off their virtual reality equipment back at the office. When someone asks if everyone is okay, they cheerfully agree that they are.

** Foreshadowed in a previous episode; the internet is fully VR and dying in the 'video game' section just causes extreme annoyance.

** Or they were trying to merge MS-DOS and Linux. Your call.

* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', this trope crosses with an inverted version of [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]] in one episode. Robin is {{spoiler|exposed to a hallucinogen that causes him to see and fight Slade}}, and received real injuries as a result. Whether or not those injuries were an example of this, or merely him beating himself up while hallucinating, is not entirely explained.