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[[Image:janedream.gif|right|frame|Jane appears in a poster on Daria's bedroom wall, during Daria's dream in ''[[Daria's Inferno]]'']]
A '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_world_%28plot_device%29 dream world]''' is a convention of [[fantasy]] writing: an implausible, unpredictable, dreamlike setting that defies the physical laws of reality. The dream world is usually but not necessarily a character's dream. It might be a drug- or illness-induced hallucination, a virtual-reality environment, or even an actual place, such as a quirky pocket universe, alternate dimension, etc., reached by magical or technological means.
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Famous literary dream worlds include Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (which might not be a dream) and Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass'' (see [[Alice stories]]). Movies like ''The Wizard of Oz'', ''The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. Terwilliger'', ''Invaders from Mars'' (1953 version), and the laughably bad ''Robot Monster'' are all excellent examples of dream worlds featuring varying levels of conflict, danger, adventure, and paranoia.
[[Image:dariadream.gif|right|frame|Daria appears in the role of (from ''Murder, she Wrote''), in her dream in "[[Murder, She Snored]]."]]
==Dream Worlds in Canon ''Daria''==
''Daria'' includes numerous examples of dream worlds, most of them short-lived and incidental. Brief, anxiety-provoking dreams appear in several ''Daria'' episodes, such as "[[Monster]]," "[[Ill]]," and "[[Of Human Bonding]]"; they resolve nothing except to reflect a character's inner worries.
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