i think this one Stargate SG:1 kinda sorta fits the bill, and it is an amazing episode calleddamn doctor who totally copied this lolThe Changeling
whereTeal'c is throughout the episode drifting between the world of Stargate and a world where is a fireman, and any time he is one, he thinks the other is the dream. in the end it turns they're both fever dreams caused by him intermittently losing his symbiote cause he's giving it to Bra'tac to keep him alive after an ambush
actually, there's a couple in Stargate now that i think about it, if you consider "someone else with great power caused it" to count
American Psychomaybe?
InAngelwhen they gave him a perfect day where everything went rightand it was actually in his head as part of the spell to release Angelus.
In the Batman TAS Batman realizes he's in a dream coma because he can't read anything. Always wondered if that was real. Pretty sure I've had dreams where I could clearly see and read text.Yeah, that's actually not true. I read in my dreams fairly often, with my most recent one just a few nights ago. A hand-written letter, addressed to me (irl name), more than a paragraph, perfectly legible.
In the Batman TAS Batman realizes he's in a dream coma because he can't read anything. Always wondered if that was real. Pretty sure I've had dreams where I could clearly see and read text.
Movie:The nightmare becomes reality...Nightmare City
In TV- The Newhart Finale is one of the best moments in both sitcoms and TV.
EasilyJacob's ladder
In TV- The Newhart Finale is one of the best moments in both sitcoms and TV.
Futurama had 2 good ones.Both amazing
The Sting:Leela gets stung by a giant bee and is in a coma thinking the whole time that Fry is the one who died but he next left her bedside in the hospital and was trying to get her to wake up out of the coma.
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Game of Tones maybe not ENTIRELY the same but I am counting it:Fry essentially has to go back to relive his days leading up to getting frozen in order to stop planet destroying aliens. He doesn't want to leave his past because he gets to reconnect with his friends and family back then. Eventually he has to but Nibbler lets him relive a moment in his mom's dream where they get to hug and say I love you to each other.
TV Show:GargoylesepisodeFuture Tense. Great episode with shocking moments that may actually be a prophecy.
There's an episode of Young Justice wherealiens attack and most of the adult heroes in the League are killed (this makes it pretty obvious to the viewer that it is a dream from the beginning). It's up to the team to stand up and fight back, but things just keep getting worse and worse no matter how hard they try. Almost all of them ultimately end up sacrificing their lives to kill the mothership only for another mothership to immediately show up.
It turns out the entire thing was a training exercise created with Martian Manhunter's telepathy. The team all knew that going in, but what they didn't know was that it was a lesson in failure, designed to escalate no matter what they did. The problems started when Artemis was "killed" near the start. Miss Martian's subconscious saw her friend die and wrested control away from J'onn, making them all forget it was a simulation and putting them in very real danger because the illusion was so convincing that their minds would just put them into a coma when they died.
What makes it work is that this isn't just a one-off, the events of the "dream" cause real, actual psychological harm to the team members and they even have therapy sessions about it in a later episode.
i dont think spoiler tags work in this context for something like thisI figured it was worth doing out of courtesy, and if someone who hadn't seen anything posted, it was totally on them for taking the risk of reading the spoilers. Just out of curiosity, I have been reading all the spoiler tags, even though I haven't seen some of the media in question. Most of them so far are things I haven't seen or planned to see, but have made me at least little interested.