The revelation that the events in the story are just an induced fantasy is often used as a major plot twist. Contrast with Psychological Torment Zone.īeware of spoilers. This makes the trope Older Than Feudalism. The trope name comes from The Odyssey, where Odysseus meets a society living off narcotic plants, to the extent that anyone who eats of the lotus no longer cares about anything else, including going home. May overlap with cases of Artificial Afterlife, where the afterlife in question may take place in some digital paradise. If an entire society lives in one, it's a Terminally Dependent Society. May be used to set up an Epiphanic Prison. May be used in conjunction with the "Leave Your Quest" Test to create The Final Temptation. May be equipped with a Dream Emergency Exit. If the place isn't happy, but the hero is still made to believe it's real over his old life, it's a Cuckoo Nest. May also be an exitless Happy Place or not-so-happy Ontological Mystery or Psychological Torment Zone. In the majority of these cases, Your Mind Makes It Real. Might involve Artificial Outdoors Display. More often than not, a Dream Apocalypse occurs.
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If they're in too deep, friends (or even characters from the fantasy itself) hoping to mount an Orphean Rescue have to force the hero to Battle in the Center of the Mind in order to escape. In order to escape, the dreamer has to figure out they're dreaming, if that isn't already known to them then they have to break the masquerade and give up their life's dream.
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Sometimes the lotus-eater has no idea it's all fake. Some monsters even weaponize the ability to project Your Heart's Desire to snatch up easy prey. The truth, however, is that they're being held prisoner by another character who is using something - a machine, a Platonic Cave, or other phlebotinum - to cause very intense and very realistic hallucinations. Whatever they wanted most all their life is finally theirs. A character is knocked out, or goes to sleep, and wakes up in their own personal paradise.