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Dream Within a Dream

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Dream Within a Dream	comment	The main character dreams that a giant cantaloupe is out to get them, then wakes up with a start. After a moment of sitting up and panting, they realize it was All Just a Dream, then gets up and goes to the bathroom for a glass of water â€” only to find the giant cantaloupe there waiting for them. They wake up with a start again, because of course the first waking-up bit was part of the dream. Also available in "Dream Within a Dream Within a Dream", "Dream Within a Dream Within a Dream Within a Dream", and so on, although some discretion is preferred. There are two different variations of this. One is where a dream plays out and a character falls asleep in the dream world and has another dream (usually something incredibly abstract and trippy, this may be from deep in the subconscious) before eventually "waking" back up into the "real" dream world where the original dream continues (other stuff may have happened in the original dream while they were "asleep"). The other, more common variant is what's known as a "false awakening" which really isn't so much a dream within a dream as it is dreaming about waking up while still asleep in reality. In Real Life, along with the "dream within a dream" and "false awakening" occurrences is a final variation where someone falls asleep in a dream and as a result wakes up in reality. If taken far enough, and if all the many-layered dreams are substantially the same, what you can get is a "Groundhog Day" Loop. Sometimes will pull a twist by having a character wake up from a dream, then something else bizarre happens, and an altogether different character will wake up from that dream. Compare Droste Image. See also Nested Story, SchrÃ¶dinger's Butterfly, and Recursive Reality. May require an Orphean Rescue to finally wake up. This trope is largely Truth in Television and is a fairly common phenomenon. A "dream within a dream" in this context may also be known as a double dream.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_13bb94c0	comment	In The Wicker Man (2006), Edward Malus dreams of himself swimming towards the lifeless body of his daughter floating in the water. He then wakes up, only to find himself holding her soaked, lifeless body in his arms. He wakes up for real the third time around and curses.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_16580340	comment	Jewelpet: Magical Change: The "Jewelpet: Currently on the Run" segment at the end of Episode 28 has Labra catching Ruby... only for it to be a dream. And then it turns out to be Ruby's dream, and then Labra's again, then Ruby's, then Labra's, and so on and so forth. At the end of the segment, Labra wonders whose dream it is.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_17d4d1a5	comment	In episode 30a of Tamagotchi, Mametchi and Chamametchi have a nightmare where everyone except them and Hapihapitchi are turned into Mamametchi, and they have to find the real Mamametchi among them. When they wake up, they have another nightmare where Mamametchi serves them corn before finally waking up for real.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_18acb3a5	comment	An episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has Will being hexed by a psychic. The end of the episode has him waking up from the events as if they were a dream to the morning before in which the dialogue from the beginning of the episode is heard.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_1b5eec6e	comment	The Sheep in the Big City episode "To Sheep, Perchance to Dream", much to the narrator's annoyance, revolved around bizarre events being explained away as actually being dreams the characters were having. At one point, Lady Richington wakes up from a nightmare about her poodle Swanky marrying Sheep and finds to her horror that Swanky has a wedding ring on her paw. After that, she wakes up again to see that discovering the wedding ring was also a dream.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_1bee24cd	comment	In Sleepy Hollow High, Shannon has a dream where she goes on the work detail to Sleepy Hollow Park and is attacked by the Horseman. Just as she grabbed, she wakes up screaming in Mr. Breezo's class. After school, she goes to the park where the rest of the detail are murdered by the Horseman. Just as she is about to be killed, she wakes up screaming in Mr. Breezo's class.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_2268b84d	comment	Shrek the Third: Shrek experiences a dream within a dream during the boat ride to Arthur's school.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_2275c659	comment	House's season 2 finale used this device when House gets shot; the episode is both predictable and compelling.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_23465101	comment	The Wings episode "The Big Sleep" features a dream within a dream within another dream.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_2419c9bc	comment	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: The bizarre scene where the group goes to dinner at the colonel's house, only to find that they are in a stage play, is eventually revealed to be a dream of Henri's. Then they go to the colonel's for real, except it's not for real, as that scene is revealed to be a dream of Francois's.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_24a62796	comment	An episode of Dallas saw Sue Ellen awake from a surreal nightmare in which she was chased by a shadowy JR in his car. Several episodes later Pam wakes up, revealing the entire season to have been a dream — including Sue Ellen's nightmare. A whole skit was made around it in this Saturday Night Live Digital Short.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The first episode after the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" Cliffhanger made it look like the shooting incident was a dream (an obvious spoof of the infamous All Just a Dream moment that retconned away an entire season on Dallas, the same show whose "Who Shot J.R.?" storyline was what the Simpsons storyline was spoofing). Turns out that waking up was a dream (Smithers's dream, to be precise), and the shooting did happen. An earlier episode of The Simpsons played with the trope: The second "Treehouse of Horror" episode had a Framing Device in which each mini-story is a nightmare being had by one of the Simpsons. At the end, Homer wakes from a nightmare in which Mr Burns's head was grafted onto his shoulder — to find that Burns's head is still grafted onto his shoulder. He reassures himself that he must have only dreamed that he woke up... and the episode ends, with an On the Next suggesting that he's stuck with the head for real. Another "Treehouse of Horror" episode shows Lisa and Bart parodying Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to be part of a Dream within a Dream of Ralphie Wiggum. One of the Christmas episodes shows Groundskeeper Willie enjoying a Christmas dinner surrounded by loved ones, which turns out to be a dream he is having while passed out drunk in his shack, which turns out to be a dream he is having while passed out drunk outside in the snow. Not strictly a dream within a dream, this trope is parodied when Lisa loses a tryout for the school band's first chair saxophone to the new kid Alison. She loses consciousness twice in succession, the second time out of exasperation at losing, and experiences a dÃ©jÃ -vu moment after the second time regaining consciousness. In the episode "How I Wet Your Mother", the Simpsons, with the help of Professor Fink's device, invoke a dream to enter Homer's subconscious in order to find out why he keeps wetting the bed. When the family are falling to their doom, they think they will just wake up and be perfectly fine. Fink informs them if they die in the dream, they die for real. This causes them to pull out the device within the dream and fall asleep to have a dream within a dream. This repeats 4 more times, making it a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream. Also played with in "Homie the Clown", where Homer daydreams about sleeping, where he subsequently dreams; first about eating a sandwich, then about the advertisement for Krusty's clown college, moments after claiming it had no effect on him.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_2a9edae	comment	Happens repeatedly in a The Kids in the Hall sketch. "I had the pear dream again..."
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Dream Within a Dream / int_2b02b3c0	comment	One episode of Back at the Barnyard ends with the "dream within someone else's dream" aspect, ending with the animals sleeping together. With Abraham Lincoln. Cue screaming from the animals.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_2b06665c	comment	Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad: An episode puts Sam Collins through a series of nightmares, each beginning with him having just woken up from the previous nightmare. Eventually he wakes up for real and beats up the monster that was causing it.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_2bbcacd9	comment	In the Looney Tunes cartoon "A Waggily Tale", after a boy torments his dog, he ends up having a dream that he was a dog himself and saw what it was like to be on the other side. After waking up he tells his dog that from now on he'll treat him good, only for the dog to tell the audience, "That's okay with me cause I'm not a dog neither. I'm really another little boy having a dream."
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Dream Within a Dream / int_2be70437	comment	In The Devil's Gift, David walks into his kitchen and notices a bloodied arm. He is then attacked by some kind of furry monster (which has nothing to do with the rest of the film). David wakes up from this nightmare in his bedroom, and is again attacked by the monster, waking him a second time, this time from his couch. When The Devil's Gift was edited into the family-friendly anthology Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, this graphic scene was omitted, for obvious reasons.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_3188db6e	comment	In The Wolfman (2010), during one of Lawrence's hallucinations while in the Asylum and while healing.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "The Sentence", Dr. Jack Henson believed that he exited the Virtual Reality prison that he created, was convicted of reckless endangerment in causing the death of Cory Izacks and served a 20 year prison sentence. However, he later learns that he had been in the virtual world for the entire time (which amounted to only a few hours in the real world). His guilt at risking Cory Izacks' life created the scenario.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_34f30f2e	comment	Nightwish: Most of the film is revealed to be one long nightmare experienced by Kim as she's undergoing sensory deprivation in a laboratory. During the dream, while trapped in an alien cave, she falls asleep at least once. And at the end it turns out that she's still not awake even after she wakes up in the lab room.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_35d98631	comment	At the end of one Taz-Mania episode, Francis wakes up from a nightmare and a ton weight (from a trap he set for Taz) lands on his head. Then he wakes up and the weight lands on his head again...and again...and again... He wakes up more bruised each time.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_370a322b	comment	In the Loonatics Unleashed episode "Time After Time", Ace Bunny suffers from this due to a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_3a076627	comment	In the Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters, Su-Mi is dreaming of a strange, confusing and creepy encounter in the forest with her dead mother, in which she reaches out and grabs her mother's arm, which suddenly starts to bleed profusely, staining her dress. She is startled awake. A few seconds later, however, she hears a faint scratching sound at the foot of her bed. As she slowly sits up and looks, she sees a ghostly woman with long black hair and deathly pale skin crawling along her floor (who also seems to bear a close resemblance to the girls' late mother), who suddenly rears up and begins to slowly make her way towards Su-Mi, who is paralyzed with fear. When the ghost is standing directly above her, her leg starts to bleed as a hand suddenly emerges from between her legs. Su-Mi then wakes up for real.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_3e5de40b	comment	An episode of Scrubs opens with JD going through a short chain of daydreams, each one being an almost-kiss that "ends right before the really sexy part." First it's Molly and Carla, then Molly and JD, then Turk and JD, and at that point he breaks the daydream chain, insisting he "doesn't have gay jungle fever."
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Dream Within a Dream / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: In Skin Game Harry gets knocked out and get berated by his subconsciousness and then seems to wake to find Murphy flirting with him and then joining him in bed, just as it seems they finally Will she pulls out a gun and shoots him in the face which jolts him properly awake.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_42c519f9	comment	Italian comedic band Elio e le Storie Tese are masters of this trope in their videos: just see the ending of the clip for "Ignudi tra i nudisti" (multiple dreams within other people's dreams, ending with two airline pilots having fallen asleep!). Also, one of their song, "Abate cruento esaminatore" (litterally, "Bloody abbot examiner" - the guys declared they picked up three random words out from a dictionary and wrote a song about them) is a perfect example of this trope. The protagonist dreams of being examinated by an abbot (for some unknown reasons), just to wake up and crash into another dream, and so on. Eventually, he even dreams of being a woman and sodomize his husband.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_441d6bac	comment	Silent Hill: Revelation 3D starts out with one of these. After a gruesome dream that ends with Heather being burned alive, she wakes screaming to be comforted by her father. Just when she's starting to relax, he's stabbed through the chest and she wakes again rattled.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_45bf5ee3	comment	Leprechaun in the Hood: Postmaster P. awakes from a dream about the Leprechaun maiming his grandmother. He then gets up to answer the door and finds his dead friend covered in blood, waking him up the second time.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_4617a9f2	comment	An episode of Married... with Children had Marcy repeatedly dreaming that her husband Steve had been replaced with Al Bundy. After waking up and thinking everything was fine, Steve would turn into Al and the cycle would repeat.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_47ba573b	comment	In the Mouth of Madness: The protagonist dreams of witnessing a cop beating a graffiti artist in a dark alley, an event he witnessed earlier that night, but now the cop is a deformed monster. He wakes up... and sees the monster-cop sitting next to him, and wakes up again. Another example has Trent falling asleep on a coach and dreaming Sutter Cane (the author of the book he is investigating) is sitting next to him. Cane says, "did you know my favourite colour is blue?" at which point Trent wakes up to find the whole world bathed in a blue tint. After an ALMIGHTY freakout, he wakes up again.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: In "The Nerdvana Annihilation", the guys get a replica time machine from an online auction. Sheldon dreams that it actually worked, taking him to the year 802701, where he is promptly attacked by Morlocks. Waking up, he finds himself back in the present...where he is again attacked by Morlocks, who Leonard hired to move the time machine out of the apartment. Then he wakes up again...
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Dream Within a Dream / int_50749345	comment	Galaxy Angel A: Milfuelle appears to go through a series of dream-within-a-dream alternate universes, where her fellow Angels are everything from pirates to robots to giant lizard creatures. Only then is it revealed that a Lost Technology she was using as a pillow really was transporting her to the various universes - and the other versions of her are appearing back in the show's original one.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_51ef8ae4	comment	In an episode of The Garfield Show, Odie has a dream, of where he has flying abilities much like Superman. He is waken twice by Garfield. After Garfield and Odie talk the second time around, we see Garfield walk downtown, walking unintentionally into cement, a girl poodle tries to help him, but they both get stuck. Odie comes to the rescue with his flying abilities. After a while, we see Garfield wake up frantically. He talks to Odie who is trying to sleep, and as he goes back to sleep, Odie does too once again dreaming of being a super dog.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_53a10f26	comment	The Twilight Zone (2002): "The Pool Boy": Throughout the episode, the main character keeps waking up screaming each time that a mysterious man kills him. He gradually goes insane when he can't figure out if he's really awake or not every time the loop resets. In fact, everything he experiences is a dream; he was sentenced for murder and placed in a virtual prison. The man who kills him over and over again is the man he had originally murdered. "Another Life": Marvin Gardens, a successful rapper, keeps having horrible nightmares where police interrogators are beating him and calling him 'Dwayne Grant', accusing him of being a murderer. He eventually manages to put the nightmares behind him - along with the guilt over his shady past - and they stop. In the interrogation room, Dwayne Grant is finally beaten into a coma which he'll never wake from... right before they find out that the real killer has been caught.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_56edb129	comment	The A Nightmare on Elm Street series: This is a common staple of the movies, where the villain Freddy Krueger killed people in their dreams. He's chasing someone, and they wake up! They're safe! Oops, no, they aren't, waking up was a dream too!
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Dream Within a Dream / int_57e3ab58	comment	A The Dick Van Dyke Show episode had Rob obsessing over some hair loss to the point that he went to bed with a towel wrapped around his head. He dreams that his hair is all gone the next morning and wakes up freaking out. Laura comforts him, and then faints in horror when she sees he has lost all his hair - then she wakes up from her nightmare.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_586699ec	comment	In the Shivers (M. D. Spenser) novella, "The Curse of the New Kid". Lucas discovers he had powers to secretly cause all kinds of chaos and disasters among the bullies and teachers who picked on him, deliberately allowing an accident for his gym partner to fall on his sadistic gym coach. The next chapter has Lucas attending their funeral before his school goes Torches and Pitchforks to kill him over the accident... and is followed by Lucas waking from his Catapult Nightmare. And then the story goes on before the final chapter reveals everything from the second chapter onwards is another long, long dream.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_6415595c	comment	The Deaths of Ian Stone begins with the hockey player Ian Stone having a bad night due to a biased referee. On the way home, he gets run over by a train, and wakes up and realizes he's the office worker Ian Stone. He lasts a day before getting stabbed by his girlfriend, and wakes up just in time to avoid crashing the taxi he's driving. And it only continues from there...
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Dream Within a Dream / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: "Field Trip" has Mulder and Scully trapped and devoured alive by a man-eating fungal colony whose digestive fluids induce realistic hallucinations. Every time they realize this and wake up, they just end up in a dream even more realistic than the previous one. In "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati", Mulder dreams of a little boy on a deserted beach building a UFO out of sand while dreaming/hallucinating a world in which he is married to Diana Fowley, his sister is alive with children, the Smoking Man is good, and there is no Truth, no X-Files, and no Scully. It has been speculated that the little boy in the dream is either Mulder's inner child or that it was a prophetic dream foretelling the birth of Baby William, his and Scully's son. William is not yet conceived in this episode, but is by the end of the season.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_76580c92	comment	MÃ©nage Ã 3 combines this trope with Catapult Nightmare after Peggy messes with Zii's head a little too deftly. (February 06, 2014, strip #847, NSFW.)
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Dream Within a Dream / int_86ee2f15	comment	Sonic Shorts: Sonic's Nightmare. It starts with a Sonic X-esque sequence of him and Chris, then he keeps waking up, finds characters sleeping next to him and screams at them.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_8cf9e301	comment	In an episode of The King of Queens Doug has a nightmare about losing his delivery driver job and being placed at a boring desk job. He wakes up scared and tells his wife that he just had a dream about his job, to find his coworker and best friend Deacon in bed with him instead. However this turned out to also be a dream.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_8f36f969	comment	In an episode of The Loud House where Lincoln wonders what it would be like if he had ten brothers instead of ten sisters, but later gets sick of it after seeing what it would apparently be like. However, when trying to get back to his original world, he ends up in a dimension where, while more or less exactly the same as his original world, the sexes of Lincoln and his sisters are the exact opposites—meaning that Linka Loud (Lincoln's female counterpart) is the middle child and only daughter of the eleven Loud children. Oh, and then it turns out that the events of the episode were just some really weird nightmare that Lincoln was having.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_8fa72155	comment	In She Creature, Lily falls asleep next to Angus and wakes up to find the mermaid ripping his throat out. Then she wakes up from the nightmare, and finds that the mermaid has eaten her hands. Then she wakes up for real.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_8fc868f5	comment	The series finale of The Brittas Empire has at one point Gordon being knocked unconscious by an angry goose. He initially wakes up in Noah's Ark, with several of the female cast of the show stating that they've got to repopulate the world. After this, he then wakes up on his way to the interview for the centre, revealing that the entirety of the series was All Just a Dream. As a result of this revelation, this retroactively makes any reference to Gordon and the rest of the cast having dreams earlier on in the series, (such as Gordonâ€™s Anxiety Dreams in â€œStuff Of Dreamsâ€�) an example of this as well.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_934199c4	comment	In Sonic Zombie, after Sonic had a nightmare related to Sonic Forces, he continually wakes up to more nightmares related to his zombie dreams.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_969c8b05	comment	In Battle Fantasia Project, this is the method by which the Nightmare Factory trick Signum into revealing everything she knows about the Lyrical Nanoha crew.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_97abe183	comment	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: The episode "Sleepless in Retroville" ends with a chain of "dream within someone else's dream"s, ending with a monster pizza and his wife. No, really.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_9e85ba50	comment	In Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker, Poet's teleportation power is a "dream within a dream transport", albeit one he can't control until later. For example, Jonas' attempt to escape the Center for Sleep Science leads to him being confronted on a subway car by his Night Terror, which leads to him using his glowy eye power to teleport into a dirty, disheveled bathroom as Poet. The film cuts to Sam looking over him, showing that within that entire chain of events, he was sleeping the entire time.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_9ee53af7	comment	Father Nolan in the third film keeps seeing nightmares about the children, and at one point wakes up into another nightmare of being confronted by Eli before waking up for real.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In the episode "The Sting", Leela goes into a coma after being stung by a space bee, although at this point both she and the audience are unaware of this. She keeps having many Dreams Within A Dream, which convince her she's going insane, before awakening at the end of the episode. Bender has a similar experience in "Obsoletely Fabulous".
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Dream Within a Dream / int_ac4b6a62	comment	This Questionable Content comic provides a particularly disturbing example.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: In the episode "The Night", Larry is incredibly tired after being burnt out from constantly working, so when heâ€™s trying to work, he doesnâ€™t even realize that he fell asleep and is â€œworkingâ€� in his dream. He snaps out of it, but still sees things and wakes up again. The cycle continues until Larry ends up in the apocalypse, where his future self tells him that heâ€™s wasted his life. When the cycle finally breaks, he ends up in a jail cell. Still thinking that heâ€™s dreaming, Larry tries to wake himself up, but to no avail.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Amy's Choice": The Doctor, Amy and Rory are trapped in two separate and equally dangerous scenarios (one on board a powerless and freezing TARDIS and one in a small English village overrun by alien-possessed people) by the Dream Lord, who declares that one is real and the other a dream, and if they die in the dream they'll awaken in reality, but if they die in reality... well, as he says, "That's why it's called reality!" After they "die" in the village scenario and awaken in the TARDIS, the Doctor sets the TARDIS to self-destruct, having realized that the Dream Lord is his Enemy Within and can only affect dreams, so both scenarios are dreams. He's right, of course. "Last Christmas": The dream crabs are able to layer dream upon dream to keep their victims from waking up before their brains can be digested. They are able to escape by looking for discrepancies that prove the situation is a dream and avatars of their subconscious, such as Santa, resisting the crab. The result is the Doctor and the other victims fighting their way through multiple layers of dreams including the fact that none of them are actually in the same place or even time.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_cc3b8836	comment	Alice in Wonderland (1985) uses this device to combine Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with Through the Looking-Glass. Alice wakes up on the riverbank at the end of the Wonderland portion and runs back into her house, only to find that she's in Looking-Glass House instead, with the real world and her family on the other side of the mirror. After her Looking-Glass adventures, she wakes up again, this time in the real world.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_d4563edc	comment	Astral Dawn. The dream realms attached to the spirits of the astral plane could be considered dreams within dreams. This is especially true when considering the astral plane is thought of as one gigantic super dream.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_d46cc708	comment	The "dream within someone else's dream" version happened in the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Rock-A-Bye Ed", where Ed has a nightmare about his mom punishing (who looked like Jonny), causing Ed to get an extreme phobia for the said boy... then it turns out it was Jonny's nightmare.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989): Dream punishes the son of his captor by condemning him to "eternal waking", basically a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream... ad infinitum, with each dream quickly turning into a nightmare.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_d9c602eb	comment	After the bizarre events of South Park's Season 2 episode "City on the Edge of Forever", Cartman wakes up from the dream only to have his mother feed him insects for breakfast. This is instantaneously followed by Stan waking up and telling Kyle about both this and everything that happened prior.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_da861da1	comment	In one episode of Veronica Mars, Veronica keeps having dreams in which her unconsciousness is processing clues about students killed in a bus crash, by talking to those students - often, in the middle of class. During one class, she drifts off, processes a clue about the meaning of the phrase "I AM GOD", wakes up and discovers that she's written "I AM GOD" all over a blackboard she was supposed to be solving a math problem on, and everyone is laughing at her. (Then she wakes up for real.)
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Dream Within a Dream / int_dc5fec31	comment	In Life on Thedas, the narrator lands in one after getting pulled into the Fade. The recurring dream of his station of awakening is implied to be the third dream level, or limbo.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_dd0a4790	comment	Done on The Facts of Life when there's a murderer on the loose. The whole thing turns out to be Beverly Ann's dream...except that it was actually Tootie dreaming that Beverly Ann was dreaming.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_e1390576	comment	In the Stickin' Around episode 'Photo Oops" Stacey has several of these the night before Picture Day. When she wakes up she thinks she's still in a dream, and Main.Hilarity Ensues.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_e293455a	comment	At the conclusion of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Restless" â€” which is almost entirely dream sequences â€” Buffy defeats the spirit of the First Slayer in her dream of the desert, and wakes up in her living room, only to be immediately attacked by the First Slayer again. Surviving, and thus proving that the First Slayer has no power over her, she abruptly awakens again (in mid-quip), in the same chair, this time for real.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis In "The Gift", Teyla has a nightmare of a Wraith standing over her bed as she sleeps. She wakes with a start and rushes over to John's rooms, only to find that he's been life-sucked in his sleep. She wakes again, for real this time and lies stunned for a while. In Season Four episode "Doppelganger", Sheppard willingly shares McKay's nightmare induced by an alien entity that's trying to kill him. The nightmare ends badly and Sheppard wakes up to learn McKay's dead. It turns out later on in the scene that the alien entity went into Sheppard's brain and the sequence about McKay's death was his nightmare.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_e6ef8ea2	comment	The Nutcracker is largely devoted to an extended dream sequence for heroine Clara once the Christmas party is over, sometimes with an Or Was It a Dream? epilogue. The 1979 Japanese stop-motion animated feature of the same title, known as Nutcracker Fantasy in the U.S., has a dream within a dream sequence during the third act (in which the restored Nutcracker takes Clara to the surreal Palace of Happiness) which like the rest of Clara's dream turns out to be Real After All at the end.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_e97ce964	comment	The dreams in Builder are composed of 3 layers, each one wider than the other.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy once did an intro in the episode "Brian in Love", which involves a parody of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Mr. Rogers greets the audience and hears Trolley coming by, but it turns out that Stewie is riding Trolley holding his ray gun and he reveals to Mr. Rogers that he wreaked havoc on the Neighborhood of Make Believe. After that, Stewie makes Mr. Rogers kneel and threatens to kill him, but Mr. Rogers is pleading for Stewie not to shoot him. Stewie eventually shoots him — but then he wakes up from this looking up to Lois, who tells him that he's just talking asleep. But it turns out that Lois is actually Mr. Rogers in disguise, as he pulls his Lois mask off in a menacing manner. Stewie wakes up again, this time with a catapult scream. Happened to Mayor West in "Grumpy Old Man". Upon regaining consciousness from a multi-car accident, his egg shattered on his windshield which was his high school project before realizing he's not in high school and he's dreaming. Cuts to West waking up in a desert until that's a dream and wakes up from a car accident with his egg intact and buckled. The episode "Big Fat" begins with the Griffins visiting their new neighbours, The Smith family. All goes well until Peter reveals to Quagmire over the phone that the Smiths have been hiding an alien and Stan shoots him dead. Peter then wakes up, relieved that it was all a dream. Then Hank Hill enters the room, asking Lois "Hey, Lois, what's that fat man doing in our bed?" Then he wakes up.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_ec25a849	comment	Lampshaded in the Disney's run of Doug, when Doug thought Skeeter was vampire, dreaming of himself visiting his friend and finding the proof of Skeeter's vampire nature along with a notepad of people to bite with Patty being next. Doug rushes to her house only to find out Skeeter beat him to it what more it was Doug's turn to be bitten as vampire Patty points out. Soon his other now undead friends appear and advance on him. Doug then wakes up and relived it was a dream till Sketter and Patty bats suddenly appear. This makes Doug wake up for real moaning "I hate double dreams!"
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Dream Within a Dream / int_ef076a36	comment	In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Waking Moments", Chakotay wakes up, but later sees the full moon reflected in a control panel, a signal to him that he is still dreaming. He is able to wake himself, and the rest of the crew in the collective dream sees him disappear.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_f15f622e	comment	MacGyver (1985): One of the more unintentionally funny moments was in the brainwashing episode. Jack Dalton was having nightmares surrounding his brainwashing on a nightly basis, usually waking up in a cold sweat. One of those times he woke up, he was just having a normal morning with MacGyver. He was waving his hand around to make a point when he then noticed he was holding a gun. "Hey, where did that come from?" He then notices the symbol on MacGyver's pitcher is the same as his trigger, shoots it (with the show suggesting that MacGyver also got shot even though he was holding it away from his body), and then wakes up.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_f2438694	comment	In Revenge (2017), Jen has an absolutely vicious one with so many layers that Dom Cobb would turn green with envy, courtesy of a really bad peyote trip.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_f3e1a2a5	comment	In the Merlin (1998) series, the eponymous character describes his journey to Joyous Gard as, "A dream, of a dream."
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Dream Within a Dream / int_f4ba2731	comment	Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]: Sora is forced into this situation when put into slumber in The World That Never Was, being forced to confront all of the existences linked to his own. It also turns out that Riku, instead of merely entering the dream worlds, entered Sora's dreams of the dream worlds as a Spirit Dream Eater.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_f6c56501	comment	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 shows Katniss dreaming about a nightmare dream.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_f74b5f80	comment	In the Babylon 5 episode "Darkness Ascending", Garibaldi is having more and more trouble with his alcoholism. He has a nightmare where everyone on the station is dead and he killed them. He wakes up to find the telepath Lyta toying with him menacingly, with Glowing Eyes of Doom. He wakes again to find his future wife Lise walking into the room, and isn't sure if he's still dreaming or not.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_f9a91485	comment	Used in Lucky Day Forever to reveal that the scene where 514 escaped from the Lotus-Eater Machine and jumped into a screen to make love with a White with Sasiadka's face is all in Sasiadka and 514's minds.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_fbf33963	comment	The main focus of Inception. The protagonists are professional dream-thieves, hired to steal information from inside people's heads. For the plot of the film, they've instead been hired to alter a man's behaviour by altering his dreams; the more subtle manipulation requires multiple recursive levels of dreaming. For this job, they attempt to create a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream. Later, a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream, hitting a dangerously deep and theoretically impossible fourth layer. It's become so well known for this that a "[blank] within a [blank]" is often dubbed "[blank]-ception." note Mistakenly, since in the movie, the word "inception" only refers to using a dream to plant an idea in someone's mind.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_fc0e7530	comment	In the Justice Friends segment of Dexter's Laboratory, an episode had Krunk watching a Puppet Pal marathon, and entering the land of the Puppet Pals after being guided by a zebra. After a mess occurs, he wakes up discovering it was All Just a Dream... and the zebra appears. It cuts to one of the Puppet Pals waking up from the Dream Within a Dream, complaining "Remind me to never watch the Justice Friends marathon again!".
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Dream Within a Dream / int_fe16b92c	comment	Happy Heroes: In Season 5 episode 21, Big M. is told by the commander to hand in his plan to invade Planet Xing by tomorrow and finds that he hasn't written anything down for the plan yet. He then wakes up to find that it was just a dream and that he managed to write one up... only to then wake up from that dream and find that he really hasn't written anything yet.
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Dream Within a Dream / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Frame of Mind" takes this to an extreme. Riker shifts from the Enterprise before both his mission and role in a play to an insane asylum. This happens several times so no one, from Riker to the audience, knows what is real. At the end, it is shown that he is in a hospital room as doctors are trying to get information from his brain. The shifts were due to a defense mechanism of his mind.
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Red Dwarf / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
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Stories of Nypre / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The House of Night / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Moth Diaries / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers (Machinima) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
DreamWithinaDream	sameAs	Dream Within a Dream
TheBookOfStoriesOCT	seeAlso	Dream Within a Dream
After School Nightmare (Manga) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
B Gata H Kei (Manga) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Miyuki-chan in Wonderland (Manga) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Recently, My Sister Is Unusual (Manga) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Rojika To Rakkasei (Manga) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Aerosmith (Music) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Antichrist Superstar (Music) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Demon Days (Album) (Music) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Get a Grip (Music) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Roger Waters (Music) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Their Satanic Majesties Request (Music) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Podcast About List (Podcast) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Archive 81 / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Cheers / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Evil (2019) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Faking It / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Full House / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
General Hospital / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Just Shoot Me! / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Kaamelott / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
MacGyver (1985) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Medium / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Newhart / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Psych / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Smart Guy / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Star Trek: Voyager / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Brittas Empire / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Dick Van Dyke Show / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Last Man on Earth / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Twilight Zone (2002) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Wonder Showzen / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Xena: Warrior Princess / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Theatre) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Sera Myu (Theatre) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Nutcracker (Theatre) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
A Plague Tale: Innocence (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Bloodborne (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Crush Crush (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
DARQ (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
.flow (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Hypnagogia (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Little Nightmares (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Lunarosse (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Nekomew's Nightmares (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Neverending Nightmares (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Nexomon (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Nightmare Doors (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Remember Me (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Silent Hill 4 (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Superliminal (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Yume Nikki (Video Game) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Everlasting Summer (Visual Novel) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Tsukihime (Visual Novel) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
An Akatsuki's Life (Web Animation) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Dick Figures (Web Animation) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Lucky Day Forever (Web Animation) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
NiN10Doh! (Web Animation) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Sonic Zombie (Web Animation) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers (Web Animation) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Underpants (Web Animation) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Zsdav Adventures (Web Animation) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Yumi's Cells (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Con Man (Web Video) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Epic Rap Battles of History (Web Video) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Hitler Rants (Web Video) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Lucids (Web Video) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Nintendo Direct (Web Video) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
StacheBros (Web Video) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Ultra Fast Pony (Web Video) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Alice (1999) (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Alice (Webcomic) (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Builder (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Go Get a Roomie! (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Last Place Comics (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Mario Adventures (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Multiplex (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Square Root of Minus Garfield (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Think Before You Think (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Unwinder's Tall Comics (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
YU+ME: dream (Webcomic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Chaotic / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Sheep in the Big City / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Shrek the Third / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Sitting Ducks / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Stickin' Around / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Street Fighter / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Tales from the Cryptkeeper / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Garfield Show / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Painting / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Weekenders / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Waking Life / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Life on Thedas (Fanfic) / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami / Fan Fic / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
dreamwithinadream	sameAs	Dream Within a Dream
The Kids in the Hall / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream

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