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The main character dreams that a giant cantaloupe is out to get him, then wakes up with a start. After a moment of sitting up and panting, he realizes it was All Just a Dream, then gets up and goes to the bathroom for a glass of water -- only to find the giant cantaloupe there waiting for him. He wakes 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. Examples of Dream Within a Dream include:

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rdfs:comment	The main character dreams that a giant cantaloupe is out to get him, then wakes up with a start. After a moment of sitting up and panting, he realizes it was All Just a Dream, then gets up and goes to the bathroom for a glass of water -- only to find the giant cantaloupe there waiting for him. He wakes 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. Examples of Dream Within a Dream include:
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abstract	The main character dreams that a giant cantaloupe is out to get him, then wakes up with a start. After a moment of sitting up and panting, he realizes it was All Just a Dream, then gets up and goes to the bathroom for a glass of water -- only to find the giant cantaloupe there waiting for him. He wakes 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. If taken out 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, Schrodinger's Butterfly, and Recursive Reality. Not to be confused with marriage. May require an Orphean Rescue to finally wake up. This trope is largely Truth in Television and is a fairly common phenomenon. Examples of Dream Within a Dream include:

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