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Dream Reality Check
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The intersection of All Just a Dream and the Ontological Mystery. You're trapped in a weird and inexplicable situation. Nothing you do seems to get you any closer to sorting it out. However will you escape? Simple: it's all just a dream. Once you know that, you're free. It doesn't have to be a literal dream. Maybe you've been hooked up to a Lotus-Eater Machine. Maybe you're having a hallucination thanks to your enemy spiking your drink. It could be a magical perception-altering spell. Whatever. The key thing is that as soon as you realize that it's not real, you snap out of it. There is some real life support for this: most people have found themselves suddenly woken just as they realize that they're dreaming. This may be a defensive mechanism to prevent sleep disruptions (the state of being aware that one is dreaming, called "lucid dreaming", cannot cause a breakdown of the mechanisms that normally prevent behaviors such as sleepwalking, contrary to popular belief. Many people enjoy lucid dreams and try to have as many as possible, generally with only positive side effects). But anyone who has experienced sleep paralysis knows that it's not always as simple as that (and if you've ever been able to control sleep paralysis, things get more complicated). Pinching is generally used as a method of dream detection because it is said that we don't have the sense of touch in a dream. If it's real, then you'd feel the pain from a pinch. This has been debunked by lucid dreamers, who can feel pain/touch in a dream. More recommended is to consciously attempt to read things in the environment (the parts of the brain related to language processing are less active in a dream), which often results in either garbled text, or the text changing every time it's viewed. See also You Can See That, Right? for seeking confirmation that something is real. Unrelated to Adam And Eve And Pinch Me (the novel or the childish prank). Not to be confused with the use of self-inflicted pain to free themselves from a dream or an illusion, which is Dream Emergency Exit and Slap Yourself Awake. Compare In the Dreaming Stage of Grief and Bizarre Dream Rationalization. |
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Clone High: Cleo exaggerates this trope by pinching herself, slapping herself, smashing a glass of water in her face, pouring gasoline on her head and lighting it on fire, shooting an arrow in her eye, sawing at her head, and then stepping on a bear trap when she realizes she's no longer popular at the start of the second season. She later offers the bear trap to Abe when he similarly gets rejected by the new popular kids in favor of JFK. | |
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Tamagotchi: In episode 30a, after waking up from two nightmares related to their mother in a row, Mametchi and Chamametchi pinch each other to make sure they're not dreaming a third time. In Yume Kira Dream episode 11, the fictional celebrity duo D2 visits the Kira Tamamori shop and gives Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi some D2 cards. Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi pinch each other to make sure they're not dreaming, then get excited since they actually met D2 in real life. |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: When Mario arrives in the Mushroom Kingdom and meets Toad, he questions whether or not he's dreaming. (Un)fortunately for him, Toad is glad to help by whacking him in the arm with his walking stick. | |
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In Zot!, Jenny "woke up" to find that she had dreamed Zot and his parallel world, until she realized it was a dream. | |
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In Ragged Dick, a wealthy man pays Dick to give his nephew a tour of New York City, and gives him a new suit to wear. Dick is so amazed by his generosity that he tells Frank to pinch him to make sure he isn't dreaming. | |
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Parodied in Ranma ½: When Akane goes on a date with RyÅ�ga, he's sure that it must be a dream — so he hits his head against the wall hard enough to cause structural damage to the building. It doesn't hurt, so he thinks he must be dreaming. However, the real reason it didn't hurt is because he's just that strong after training with Cologne. | |
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In The Awkward Adventures of Meghan Whimblesby, when she sees the movie characters, she tries to wake from her dream. In chapter 1, Meghan pinches herself. In chapter 2, she tries to escape danger by shouting, "WAKE UP!" Then she bleeds. Because of her blood, Meghan concludes, "I'm not dreaming." | |
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An early episode of Star Trek: Enterprise involved hallucinogenic alien pollen, but most of those affected didn't figure it out. | |
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Eureka did it with a psychological tool. | |
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Said gadget first appeared as a gag in Doraemon: The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer, when Nobita and Doraemon, on Planet Koya Koya, gain Super-Strength and superhuman abilities thanks to the planet's weak gravity. When Nobita wonders if he dreamt the whole thing, Doraemon takes out said gadget and drags Nobita around for a while. | |
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A deleted scene in Back to the Future — after Marty has realized that he's in 1955 from a newspaper — had him asking an passing-by old lady to pinch him. It comes out a bit brusque because he's panicking, resulting in him receiving a smack across the face. | |
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Justice League: In an episode where Superman is entrapped by a Lotus-Eater Machine and has to realize that his world was destroyed. In the same episode, Batman is attached to the plot device in question, and realizes it almost immediately—he knows, deep down, that his father didn't beat up the mugger, but was killed by him. A tearjerker moment for both, as Superman tells his scared son good-bye as Krypton explodes and Batman is forced to relive that terrible moment again. In "Only a Dream", Flash recognizes that he's in a dream a few minutes after Dr. Destiny shows up and believes that his alarm clock will wake him up. |
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Pinocchio: When Geppetto discovers his wooden puppet has come to life, he assumes he's dreaming in his sleep and douses himself with a pitcherful of water to wake himself up. | |
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A similar gag is used in Airplane!, where Ted sees his love interest for the first time. He asks the man next to him to pinch him, earning a disgusted look. | |
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In Hero Chat, an Akuma traps most of Paris and the majority of Team Miraculous in their sleep. Marc is given the Goat Miraculous to enter Marinette's dream and wake her up, and she realizes she's dreaming because she never gave them a Miraculous in real life... ignoring the fact that her classmates are currently puppets. | |
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In "Franklin the Fearless" from Franklin Franklin experiences Anxiety Dreams about riding down Thrill Hill with a Dream Within a Dream scenario. In the morning, when he wakes up, he hopes he's still dreaming, but a pinch confirms he's awake. | |
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In Ménage à 3 Gary finds himself handcuffed to an unconscious girl through no fault of his own (long story) and thinks he's dreaming, so he tries to supply his brain with a sensation that it can't replicate. As he's a virgin, he does that by groping her breast. Then he realizes that he's awake. | |
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The Polar Express: The Hero Boy does this to try and wake himself up on top of the titular train. It doesn't work, and he tries to wake up by throwing snow in his face, then burying his face in the snow. Both don't work. | |
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At the near end of Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers' "The Mario Parable", when Narrator sends Mario to be killed, the latter wonders he's just dreaming, and Narrator accepts with him by saying that everything is not real except him. | |
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In Supergirl (2005) issue #22, the titular heroine's dream starts to fade as soon as Lightning Lad explains that she is dreaming. | |
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In Married... with Children, Al says this to Jefferson, who responds by punching him in the jaw. Al promptly goes, "I said pinch me, not punch me!" Jefferson then grabs a big handful of Al's gut. | |
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In "First Responders to the Rescue" from Doc McStuffins, when the boy Dev is accidentally transported to the Toy Hospital, Stuffy tells him that he's still in his bedroom and he's just having a dream. Stuffy sounds less than convincing, but Dev buys it. Then Stuffy decides to take it further by saying it won't hurt if he pinches himself, then does so and shouts in pain. It's then ruined completely when he accidentally steps on Dev's foot, causing him to feel pain too and decide that what's happening must therefore be real. | |
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National Theatre's 2014 production of Treasure Island has a variant: when the castaway Ben Gunn discovers that there are new people on the island where he's been marooned alone for years, he pinches them to test whether they're really there. Jim Hawkins takes it in good part, but Captain Smollett objects violently. | |
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The Hair Bear Bunch episode "Raffle Ruckus" has Hair Bear winning the zoo in a raffle only to take on the same keeper responsibilities Peevly usually does. He's about to call it a night when the phone rings. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: When Sheldon wins a Nobel prize he wonders if he's dreaming, so Leonard administers a slap he'd clearly been waiting twelve years to give. | |
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In A Little Princess, after Sara sees the food, furniture, and fire left for her in the attic, she marvels that for a dream, everything feels real, and then puts her hands by a fire. She draws them away quickly, saying that a dream-fire wouldn't be so hot. In the next chapter she admits to pinching herself repeatedly and "just now I touched a hot coal, on purpose." | |
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In The Order of the Stick, this is how Elan helped Roy and Haley escape the phantasm at Girard's Gate. He figured out that the resolution being provided for his own familial issues in this illusion was not realistic, and held on himself for long enough to communicate this to the other two. | |
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In My Huntsman Academia, Izuku pinches himself every now and then just to make sure he isn't dreaming because he just feels so lucky and blessed to be able to come to Beacon and become a Huntsman despite being born a Broken Soul without an Aura or a Semblance. | |
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Thora: In the first book, Thora pinches herself to make sure she's not just having a wonderful dream when she learns that Dottie Greenberg is her grandmother. | |
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In Turning Red, when Mei turns into a giant red panda for the first time she initially thinks that she is just having a bad dream and slaps her cheeks in an attempt to wake up. | |
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In an episode where Superman is entrapped by a Lotus-Eater Machine and has to realize that his world was destroyed. In the same episode, Batman is attached to the plot device in question, and realizes it almost immediately—he knows, deep down, that his father didn't beat up the mugger, but was killed by him. A tearjerker moment for both, as Superman tells his scared son good-bye as Krypton explodes and Batman is forced to relive that terrible moment again. | |
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Exploited in a JLA comic. The heroes are trapped in a dream-machine by the villain The Key; however, the machine is constructed so that realizing that they're dreaming and awakening will provide the energy for the machine's true function. | |
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Subverted in the story "Where Oh Where is Flick?" of PB&J Otter. Flick enters into a dream in which Mallard Man asks him to help him and he immediately says "I must be dreaming!" Mallard Man agrees that he is and Flick is perfectly cool with this. | |
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The X-Files. Subversion: Mulder and Scully realize that they are trapped in a chemically induced hallucination, and are promptly freed. Wackiness continues to ensue, at which point it occurs to Mulder that there is absolutely no scientific reason that their having worked it out should negate all the hallucinogenic chemicals in their systems. It's the supporting cast who end up rescuing them for real. | |
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The same gadget re-appears in Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas when Nobita, against all odds, manage to track down the hidden 18th-Century pirate treasure with billions of yen on Doraemon's mapping machine... on his first try. Cue Doraemon taking out the Dream Checking Machine and using it on himself. | |
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In Fox Rain, following the events of Volpina, Lila finds the actual Fox Miraculous in her bedroom (given to her by Master Fu after she scare away some thugs that were harassing him by saying that Ladybug was nearby) with Trixx coming out to introduce himself. Lila initially thinks that Trixx is some sort of imaginary friend, which he disproves by giving her a smack to her head. | |
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Stargate SG-1: In "The Gamekeeper," SG-1 becomes trapped in a virtual reality simulation. They are then forced to relive events from their pasts. They soon realize that what they are experiencing isn't real. | |
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Doraemon has one gadget called the Dream Checking Machine, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin - a robotic hand on wheels that pinches you to make sure you aren't in a dream. Said gadget first appeared as a gag in Doraemon: The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer, when Nobita and Doraemon, on Planet Koya Koya, gain Super-Strength and superhuman abilities thanks to the planet's weak gravity. When Nobita wonders if he dreamt the whole thing, Doraemon takes out said gadget and drags Nobita around for a while. The same gadget re-appears in Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas when Nobita, against all odds, manage to track down the hidden 18th-Century pirate treasure with billions of yen on Doraemon's mapping machine... on his first try. Cue Doraemon taking out the Dream Checking Machine and using it on himself. |
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In Lucky Star, doujinshi artist Hiyori is approached at Comiket by a man who offers her an opportunity to write for Comptiq. She pinches her cheek, finds that it hurts, and thinks for a moment that it was reality... until she wakes up and discovers that she was, indeed, dreaming, and can feel pain in a dream. | |
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Love of the S*n: While Charger Block is still denying that the afterlife is real, Crown suggests that Charger Block pinch them so they can wake up. It doesn't work. | |
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The Nanny: Fran has a Dream Within a Dream about having huge feet and then waking up to Mr Sheffield making out with her after she tells him about it. When she wakes up for real, she pinches herself to make sure she isn't still dreaming. | |
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Fan fiction for The Lord of the Rings has many girls who fall into Middle-earth. If she wants out, she may deduce that she is dreaming, and try to wake herself. This never works, because it is no dream. In The Awkward Adventures of Meghan Whimblesby, when she sees the movie characters, she tries to wake from her dream. In chapter 1, Meghan pinches herself. In chapter 2, she tries to escape danger by shouting, "WAKE UP!" Then she bleeds. Because of her blood, Meghan concludes, "I'm not dreaming." I am NOT a MarySue dumps Caroline into bad fan fiction. She tries to wake herself as in The Wizard of Oz, by clicking her heels and saying "There's no place like home!", but it was not a dream. |
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Small Persons with Wings: When Mellie first sees Durindana, one of the titular Persons, she thinks she's dreaming. But then she realizes that she can smell the mildew, and she's never smelled something in a dream. | |
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In an episode of the sitcom Newhart, after suffering through yet another day's worth of insanity from the locals, Dick pinches himself hoping he's dreaming. It doesn't work, but at the end of the series it's revealed that he really was dreaming the whole thing. | |
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Superman: In Supergirl (2005) issue #22, the titular heroine's dream starts to fade as soon as Lightning Lad explains that she is dreaming. The Phantom Zone: Charlie Kweskill suddenly wakes up from a long nightmare and finds himself in a dark room full of machines. He promptly pinches his left hand to check if he is dreaming or not. |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Moist Vessel", when Mariner gets promoted, Boimler is seen slapping himself and pinching his cheeks in the background, hoping that it's all a dream. | |
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First Wave in approximately every third episode. | |
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Bee Movie: During her first conversation with Barry, Vanessa stabs the back of her own hand with a fork to wake herself before realizing she is talking to a bee. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: "Specter Of The Gun". The realization that their situation is just a psychic projection renders Kirk and company Immune to Bullets. In their defense, immunity required a certitude of belief that could only be achieved via mind-meld to a nigh-emotionless Vulcan. | |
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In The Web of The Spider-Man, Peter pinches himself and twists his own skin to make sure he isn't dreaming after waking up ripped and with superpowers. After confirming that he isn't dreaming (and that it really, really hurt), he's ready to jump for joy. | |
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In But I'm a Cat Person, Sparrow asks her friend Bianca to pinch her when she hears the stray dog that followed her home start talking to them. | |
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Dog with a Blog: Karl and Avery pinch other to detect if they are in one of Avery's kissing dreams. | |
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In the movie Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise realizes that he is dreaming at the end of the movie when he finally removes the mask he wears to hide his disfigured face to find that his face is perfectly fine underneath. This prompts him to start shouting that he wants to wake up. | |
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Bowser Jr. upon finding out he's in Chef Pee Pee's body in the SuperMarioLogan episode "Switching Bodies". He tries slapping himself and slamming into the mirror wall. | |
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Danger Mouse: DM and Penfold are confronted with sentient appliances in "Mechanised Mayhem." Penfold pinches DM. | |
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In one episode of Fawlty Towers, as yet another Zany Scheme begins to disintegrate before his eyes, Basil says "Yes! I must be having a nightmare!" and bangs his head on the front desk. "No, not a nightmare, we're stuck with it!" | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", when SpongeBob hears that the Krusty Krab is now open 24 hours, he repeatedly pinches himself in the side and yells out in pain, realizing that he's not dreaming. | |
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Unsounded: When Sette is startled by Murkoph trying to escape the khert into the physical plane through a floor she bites her arm thinking she's asleep, and is displeased to realize she's not dreaming. | |
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The episode of Blackadder where he accidentally burns the only copy of the dictionary. The writer of the dictionary bursts in on Blackadder and says something to the effect of "I'm tired of the damn thing, it's rubbish, burn it". Blackadder is overjoyed, but then "Baldrick, who gave you permission to become an Alsatian?". Which is enough of a clue for Blackadder to realise and wake up. | |
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Doctor Who: "Vengeance on Varos". Also "The Trial of a Timelord". | |
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In Love Live! Superstar!! Keke demands to get piched by Sumire, when her most beloved Idols "Sunny Passion" had entered the room. But the reality check failed, because here limbs got numb from all the ice she ate before. | |
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Waking Life: About halfway through, the main character learns he can tell if he's dreaming by flipping light switches or checking digital clocks. Unfortunately, this knowledge doesn't help him wake up. | |
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Maybe the Last Archie Story: Invoked when Reggie Mantle wonders whether he is really talking to a cat, and Salem retorts "[He's] not about to claw [Reggie's] ankle to prove [he's] not dreaming." | |
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The George Lopez Show uses this twice when George eats a peculiar worm in his drink. Both hallucinations end with his Cuban father-in-law dancing in a worm suit. | |
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In one episode of Zig & Sharko, when Zig finds Marina next to him, he pinches himself with a crab just to be sure. | |
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The Storm Swimmer: When Ginika first sees the sea people, a human subspecies that have adapted to live in the ocean, she pinches and slaps herself to make sure she's not dreaming. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door: "Operation UTOPIA": Nigel realises that he's in a hallucination the moment he sees Wally swim (the real Wally can't swim). Cut to chamber with Nigel in it, struggling to break free. "Operation WHITEHOUSE": Nigel wakes up one morning as the President of the United States and about to sign a bill to take away Children's rights. After escaping the White House, he thinks it is a nightmare and pinches himself to wake up, which fails. The episodes ends with the reveal that is was All Just a Dream, though it was really a simulation created by the same technology used in "Operation UTOPIA". |
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The Phantom Zone: Charlie Kweskill suddenly wakes up from a long nightmare and finds himself in a dark room full of machines. He promptly pinches his left hand to check if he is dreaming or not. | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Tanjiro beheads himself in order to get out of a Lotus-Eater Machine dream reality, where his family never died. | |
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In Erfworld, Parson, still not quite sure it's not all a dream, tries pinching himself to "wake up". | |
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In 2 Stupid Dogs, believing a situation too good to be true, Little Dog orders Big Dog to pinch him. After he complies, he tells him "Harder!" | |
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I am NOT a MarySue dumps Caroline into bad fan fiction. She tries to wake herself as in The Wizard of Oz, by clicking her heels and saying "There's no place like home!", but it was not a dream. | |
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Mildly subverted in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season 4 finale. Buffy realises she's dream-fighting the First Slayer and wakes up. As she's looking around the Slayer attacks again. Buffy ignores her and wakes up for real. In the first season episode, Nightmares, where everyone's nightmares are coming true, Xander tries to get out of standing in front of his entire class while wearing only his underwear, by pinching himself. |
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K-On!: In maybe the third or fourth dream she had that day, Azusa rightly guesses she's in a dream and asks dream!Mugi and dream!Ui to pinch her, and she laments that she won a trip to Finland in that dream. In the first episode, after Yui agrees to join the Light music club despite having no experience with musical instruments and after declaring Mio, Ritsu and Mugi not very good as a band, Mio and Ritsu pinch each other to check if they are dreaming. They weren't. |
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Evoked by Franziska von Karma in Ace Attorney: Justice for All, where, after hearing that the killer had flown away from the crime scene the Judge asks Phoenix for his opinion. Hilariously echoed in Trials and Tribulations after another piece of similarly dubious testimony. |
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Alice in Wonderland: When Alice is being chased by the Queen and her subjects, she begs the talking Doorknob to let her out. The Doorknob explains that she is outside, and shows her sleeping under a tree through his keyhole. With the mob closing in on her, Alice calls through the door, telling herself to hurry and wake up, which turns into the voice of her sister trying to get her attention. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "Waking Moments", Chakotay uses an embedded subconscious trigger to let him know if he's actually asleep (Earth's moon). He can then will himself awake by tapping the back of his hand three times. | |
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In the Friday Night Funkin' fanfic Two Idiots, Keith asks Cherry to slap him to make sure he's not dreaming any of the events of the story. | |
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Inception: The totems that The Team carries are supposed to be personalized ways of doing this; if the totem doesn't behave as you know it's supposed to in the real world, then you're in a dream. But Cobb points out to both Ariadne and Fischer that you can also tell you're in a dream by trying to think about how you got to where you currently are, noticing any impossible geometries and phenomenon, or other inconsistencies like rapid weather changes. The infamous ending focuses on Cobb's spinning top totem with the film cutting to black before the audience can see whether or not it stops spinning (Cobb's awake) or if it spins forever (Cobb's still in a dream). | |
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Happy Heroes: In episode 49, Doctor H., is excited over Miss Peach saying she's actually willing to date him, and asks Happy S. to punch him to see if he's dreaming it all up. Happy S. whops him with his Happy S. Punch. | |
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