This troper used to have a friend who honestly believed that the four main characters of ''YuYuHakusho'' existed -- and, not only that, but they existed to protect her from demons and were invisible to normal humans. Granted, she was thirteen at the time...

''Thirteen?'' Um, what.

This troper has clearly been watching/reading too many anime and movies and wishes at least half of those movies were real, or if I wish or think hard enough my own characters would become real (like in the theory of Tulpa). Thanks to reading Animorphs, when young I had some ParanoiaFuel about the Yeerks coming to invade us- and now I hope Pandora (the Avatar movie!) exists in some AlternateUniverse... Being a Therian doesn't help at all. I think that my own life is a really badly acted unfortunate RealityTv show!

This troper spent her entire childhood expecting to become a Sailor Scout when she turned 13. She was also very disappointed about not getting a Hogwarts acceptance letter. Oh, the wasted years...

This troper was a DoubleSubversion. Of ''course'' there's no chance of getting accepted to Hogwarts... Hogwarts operates in and for Great Britain, so there would have to be a separate system for the U.S. On top of that, I had been rather fatalistic about meeting Harry Potter in any sort of system transfer/inter-school activity, since although the films' Harry Potter was to be less than a year older than I was, the book Potter would have been in a different age class altogether (and, as evidenced by later clues and eventually WordOfGod, graduated by the time the first book came out in the U.S.). Yes, I did the calculations. I was quite strange. This of course ended long before the fourth book came out, which actually introduced the idea of schools from other countries.

This troper and his aunt have thought about the idea that in an alternate universe, their lives are a manga. Fairly odd, but not compared to some of the above...

This troper thinks her life is a computer game/reality show and the goal is...

This one wants to comment on how he's increasingly sure he's a character in a sitcom, complete with frequent silences after something silly happens because of course he can't hear his own LaughTrack, but can't because he's supposed to take such comments to this trope's nonexistent Troper Tales page.

This troper semi-seriously entertained similar beliefs when she was young, but reflected on what a plotless show it was. Now she knows better... she is living in a postmodern novel about politics and the internet.

Maybe it's a show about nothing?

Yours truly used to suspect that his life was a sitcom when he was in high school. Now that he's in college, he's starting to wonder if it's a {{seinen}} anime...

This troper sometimes thinks his life in high school took place in a sitcom, but he wasn't the star of the show.

Just be glad it wasn't a teen drama.

You too? Just looking over this wiki has me convinced that my life is... well... just check my Contributor page.

This is all, of course, incorrect. This reality is, in fact, the setting to a video game, and, while most people believe themselves to be the main character, This Troper is quite aware that he is nothing more than a boss. Possibly a RecurringBoss, possibly an optional super-boss or maybe just a really, really hard one. Whatever the case, one day, I will have a massive battle with someone in my own personal arena, and, though I'll ultimately defeated by him, ''it's really gonna be FUN!''... This Troper has issues with this trope.

This troper's high school years were ''definitely'' a sitcom of some kind set in an all boys school. He was most likely the main character, a BrilliantButLazy CoolLoser and fluctuated between "generally kinda popular" and "loner" depending on the episode, with plots varying from everyday life to the... really, ''really'' stupid antics that he pulled on a semi-regular basis which always sorted themselves out somehow.

This troper has invented a (semi...) complete fictional history of the Middle Earth auto industry. Ties in with an old legend in car circles that the 1957 Chevy stayed in production ''somewhere'' well into TheSixties, along with the usual branch-plant suspects.

This troper occasionally worries, late at night, in bed but before he can go to sleep, that some day he's going to run into a character he wrote early in his writing career. They are not likely to be happy with or forgive him.

I do this same thing, but with characters I have now. It would be both awesome and horrible to meet one of my characters.

If any of the characters this troper ever wrote about were to meet him, he would have a whole lot of explaining to do.

This Troper has a friend who honestly believes SherlockHolmes existed and will tear you a new one if you say otherwise.

This troper (who shamelessly identifies himself as a DaydreamBeliever on his contributor's page) often entertains the possibility that the characters in many (if not all) works of fiction can actually think and may even be aware of their lot as fictional characters, a la ''ThursdayNext''. He also considers the possibility that they ''don't'' know they're fictional, a la RealLife.

In her formative years, this troper steadfastly believed that she and her friends were Digidestined, and were going to be swept up into the Digital World any day to help save the universe. She even could have sworn that one of her friends was "possessed" for a little while by [=DeviTyrannimon=], the BigBad in the Digital World at that time. Unless they were given VictoryGuidedAmnesia by a kindly Mega-level Digimon, this hasn't happened yet. ...Damn, now I'm wondering.

When somebody says that animated films are nothing but kiddy trash and have no real artistic merit, this troper can't help but feel that the person is more than a little racist against the toons...

This troper, at 11 years old and having rented ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time'' a couple times, was a Zelda fanboy who thought Hyrule was real and existed in a parallel universe.

I still (and always will) believe that my favorite "fictional" universes exist somewhere...they're just waiting to be discovered. I do ''not'', however, fit into any of the sub-categories in the main page; it's just a general thing.

Are you me?

Or me, though they exist in the multiverse, and it goes for any sort of work, be it books, movies, TV shows, or video games. How they remain existing with plot holes (see: Data using contractions in early episodes of StarTrekTheNextGeneration), I don't have a clue.

Maybe the screenwriters/authors whatever are people who can "see" into alternate universes without realizing it, but they don't always see things properly or they get it wrong while writing it down, or change it because they think it makes a better story, thus introducing plot holes. Yes, I've entertained the "alternate universes" viewpoint too. Also it's 1 am.

This troper is of a similar mindset. He believes that every piece of fiction ever invented resides in its own little alternate universe somewhere, of which the creator of the universe is its personal god. It helps with empathizing with his characters when he does some horrible new torture to them. He also believes that this universe is a similar fictional universe.

This troper is relieved that she is not the only one who believes this. She also firmly believes that StarTrek is set in a universe that appears to be nearly identical to our own, except that the laws of physics are less important than those of NarrativeCausality.

It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who believes this. Just imagine: somewhere out there, there's a king of all that is fictional, watching both over that which doesn't exist and that which does. Somewhere, there's a witch clad in gold, held in the eternal embrace of her loved one. Somewhere, sometime, a brash, fearless man is chosen to be part of a force that protects the entire universe, and another with a reputation of being late to everything becomes the fastest man alive. Somewhere out there, many worlds exist, connected by beliefs and thoughts. I believe in this sort of thing because it ''can't'' be true. Does that make any sense?

This troper maintains that fictional characters are "real" in a memetic sense. That is, they exist inside the mind of anyone who reads/watches them. Therefore, theoretically, someone who manages to get into the mindset of the character and walks, talks, and acts like them has effectively made the character "real", albeit in the body of someone who's a little too obsessed with said character. So, if you tried to act, talk, and think ''just like'', say, Jack Bauer, you have effectively "become" him and brought the character into the real world. Soulbonding doesn't sound ''quite'' so crazy now, does it?

So a character actor is pretty much a professional soulbonder?

And every time they stop acting, the character goes back to their world?

Well, only someone who was truly a lunatic could perfectly emulate a fictional character, and there's no "world" for the character to go back to. They're just that: an idea. It's really more of a thought experiment.

Its impossible to emulate anyone real or fictional perfectly, regardless of sanity.

I suppose even with AlternateCharacterInterpretation, probably.

I suppose that as long as someone remember the character, it technically exist.

This troper can attest to that. She is a former fangirl of Spandam from ''OnePiece''. At some point during her one and a half years of Spangirlism, the character almost became "real" to her: that is, she started thinking of, and nicknamed, her own evil side as "Spandam." However, she is (and was) fully aware that the character isn't real: this mental "Spandam" is just symbolic (and exaggeratedly so) of how she tends to treat others when angry, annoyed, or otherwise under a lot of stress.

This troper, despite her other eccentricities, usually doesn't do this sort of thing. And yet every time she sees a headline about a supposed UFO spotting, she frantically clicks the article wondering "Was it shaped like an egg? Did anyone come out of it? Did he look like a young RobinWilliams?".

@/{{Griffin}}, when she was younger, used to make imaginary friends/adopted children out of fictional characters. Her little sister joined in the fun. even had this sort of weird imaginary alternate shapeshifting thing where they were two eagles who were mates, except when they transformed back to humans. Naturally, now they look back at that and go o_0. (Censored for {{Squick}})

To this day, this troper (''even though she's sixteen'') finds herself believing in the NightsIntoDreams Nightmaren (Reala, Jackle, etc.) and that they actually cause you to have good or bad dreams. That's why she leaves several pennies under her pillow for Jackle so he won't give her any more bad dreams...(It works! Seriously!)

Well, of course. Since dreams are mentally generated, it stands to reason that if you believe something works, it will.

For some reason, I believe that there exists an alternate universe where ''we'' are fiction, complete with normal everyday lives, and DieForOurShip movements, I even think that in another universe, I'm paired up with a relatively insane girl while another friend is turned into an ass, but when he's paired up with the insane girl, I turn into an evil mastermind conspiring to rape her, and don't get me started on the frickin' yaoi.

This troper spent much of her childhood earnestly believing one could turn into a Furby. Later, earnestly wanting to believe the events of the ArtemisFowl books were nothing but sober truth. (It helped that I had just been put through all the confusing and upsetting stuff that goes with being labeled a "gifted child", and my only real role model for what the optimal intelligent child would be like happened to be a twelve-year-old evil genius.) At the moment, I'm perfectly happy to call upon Faust VIII when getting shots, or Franz D'Epinay when called upon to make a dramatic sacrifice, but I don't actually ''believe'' in them.

When I was a child, I did not create imaginary friends...I ''stole'' them from movies and books! I distinctly remember playing "catch" in the backyard with Shenzi, and really believing that toys came to life and...I can only imagine what the neighbors thought. More recently, I read a fanfic proposing that centuries later, the descendants of benders still exist, and I have kind of adopted this theory simply because it fascinates me.

Now this sounds familiar!... though for me it wasn't TheLionKing but rather the characters from Disney's Robin Hood.

I worry sometimes that being a DaydreamBeliever as a kid (and still a daydream believer at heart) is why I'm so cynical these days.

This Troper DaydreamBelieves too. Believes in the tenth dimension-version of it. That is: if infinite possibilities exist, then everything must exist somewhere. Actually, going by that I believe in the ''eleventh dimension'' which, I will be the first to admit, is pure bullshit I made up when bored. When the tenth dimension is every possibility ever, the only logical step to go further is to imagine '''im'''possibilities. Which is, of course, impossible. Told you it was bullshit. :D

This troper (Ettina), from around 7-10 years old, insisted that the {{Animorphs}} series was true and we were really being secretly invaded by mind-controlling aliens. I even accused some of the nastier people I knew of being Controllers.

This troper is still waiting for a letter from Hogwarts. They're... They're just a little late, s'all...

You watch, this troper will be sailing the stars in a TARDIS in no time! Still waiting for her Hogwarts letter, and to be taken away to Neverland to fight pirates with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. Sixteen is not too old. Sixteen is not too old. Sixteen is not too old.

As a child this troper wanted to become a KnightInShiningArmour, Then a SuperHero, Thena journalist because that's what superheroes were in their secret [=IDs=]. It took me quite a while to realize I might need to settle for writing about these kinds of people. Still wonder whether I'd make a good espionage agent though.

This troper considers works of fiction as their own little universes with various departures from our reality. He like to abuse this hypothesis by attempting to combine different works into their own universe.

For example, Highlander proves that Sean Connery movies are a single continuity. This means that Ramirez has been, variously, a British secret agent, a Russian sub captain, Robin Hood, and various other roles while trying to disguise his true identity as an immortal.

Somewhere between 10 and 11 years old this troper believed the dragons from {{Dragonology}} were real and that every single fucking thing in that book was real science. Then came DragonsAFantasyMadeReal, only to make things worse.

Until he was 10, troper Charlie Brown thought that COLOR was a human invention or discovery between the 40's and 50's, and that it integrated into society in a Pleasantville-like fashion. For perspective, he was 22 when Pleasantville was in theaters.

This troper likes to believe that the worlds from books, movies, and anime are real in alternate worlds. Authors and writers are simply gifted at seeing into these other worlds subconsciously and drawing inspiration from them to write stories for our own world.

This troper, when he was a kid, would hold up a toy digivice to his computer daily.

I did the same, but mine wasn't a toy. It just...came in the same packaging as the toys...yeah.

This troper recalls seeing someone like this on the Neoboards (that reviled spawning ground for nooblets), where someone was spamming Kingdom Hearts roleplaying threads. Either he was a troll, or he honestly believed that he was in a sexual relationship with Roxas. Probably a troll, though.

I still look up at the sky almost every day expecting to see Laputa.

For years, this troper believed that her {{Neopets}} would just jump out of the computer and live in the real world with her. Still hasn't happened yet...

This troper believed in the existence of a AlternateUniverse his sister came up with at a slumber party with their oldest cousin ages ago. In this alternate universe, everyone is gender-swapped and is also a form of royalty (Therefore, this male troper was a princess in that alternate universe). I still would like to fall through a crack in time & space while traveling in the TARDIS, meet the female version of myself, and do her.

Seconded! When I run into the alternate-universe guy version of myself, no one's going to see either of us for days. (And then we're going to do TwelfthNight.)

I believe in the theory of a multiverse where every reality you can think of exists somewhere, in a parallel universe. I'm a DaydreamBeliever by default in that case. Also it's extremely comforting on really bad days to think that somewhere you are fighting dinosaurs with Luke Skywalker and Link.

I used to believe in fairies, mermaids and ghosts...then, I became a b**ch and life got slightly different...

Ever since I played TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask, I just can't trust that moon anymore. And I keep thinking that One of the Belmonts is hiding in my college.

This troper became convinced, in her freshman year of college, that she and her friends were living in a DianaWynneJones novel. Since then, she's never been sure if she's in a harem manga, a P.G. Wodehouse story, a D&D campaign, or some kind of weird softcore hentai. Her current theory is that she lives in a fanfiction of her own life, which keeps changing authors, genres, [=AUs=], and shipping preferences. (Also, her brother's car is totally a TARDIS. It's blue and can fit implausible amounts of stuff inside and bad plans happen in it. What?)

At the age of ten, this troper was halfway convinced that she would wake up on her sixteenth birthday floating above her bed (a la ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'')...and was mildly disappointed when it didn't happen (six years later). She also gathered her favorite toys in front of the TV to watch Toy Story 2 because she still believed there was a possibility that the toys were alive. She was in high school at the time.

This troper's still not ''entirely'' convinced she'll never be able to go back in time to attend certain events and meet certain people. It's just... unfair, otherwise.

This troper likes to ponder the possibilities shown in TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya; namely that there could be a person out there, that you might even know, who has power over the entire universe... and they don't even know it. Heck, it might even be ''you!''

This troper has maintained that there is something called the "Tree of Reality", wherein every reality "B" there exists a parent node to a higher reality "A" where reality "B" is a work of fiction. Within reality "A", every work of fiction branches into a child node on sibling level of reality "B", but unknown by the citizens of reality "B". They can be crossed over, but in so far as the author of "B" wills his work to merge with a sibling node. Further more, anyone in reality "B" can create a child node reality "C" where C is a work of fiction within the work of fiction of "B". This tree expands in a child direction ad infinitum and in a parent direction until either ad infinitum OR "God" is achieved.

So, a Directed Acyclic Graph, Wick version?

This Troper collected all the rings from the BlackestNight books and still likes to pretend that one day, aliens will induct him into the GreenLantern corps. I used to think that my toys were alive ala ToyStory, and would talk about me while I was gone. I also once dreamed that I was reading a forum discussion about my own life, and people were shipping me with my friends. Oh, and apparently, my then-girlfriend at the time was TheScrappy of the show. I really need to stop browsing TV tropes before I go to bed...

In this troper's Senior year of high school she had to do a project where she planned out and budgeted her life 14 years in advance (ten years from finnishing undergrad) When it got to the part where we described our husband and kids, we were encoraged to marry whoever we wanted,including celebrity crushes, as we had to support our kids by ourselves anyway. My husband ended up being an alternate universe version of DavidTennant who was fifteen years younger, (so the age difference wasn't as squicky) and was a scientist instead of an actor. After finding out that a friend of mine married a character from her favorite TV show, I spent the rest of the period daydreaming about what it would be like to marry the Doctor

If infinite alternate realities exist, then there is a reality where Doctor Who is real. And that show has already shown that travel between dimensions is possible. Which means that if the {{Whoniverse}} exists, it's completely possible for Cybermen to invade our dimension. And remember, Count the Shadows

And don't forget not to blink...

look behind you. (Damn you Moffat!)

Are you me?

Thanks for that, guys. I'm never sleeping again! O_O

As a young Pre-Troper, I believed I was the omnipotent supporting character in a story I wrote. (I got better.)

This troper has semi-genuine fear of a robot apocalypse a la {{Terminator}}.. but that's because she attends a school with a prominent robotics program, in which many of the students have expressed their delight in creating robots that may one day kill us all. Adding insult to possible injury, it's a prominent university for research, and has good ties with other colleges quite capable of adding fuel to the fire, meaning that if anyone is going to get it done, it's going to be these students and their future colleagues. Seriously, if it ever happens, guys, this troper will know exactly who to blame.

I think I'm a daydream believer, because reading a few discussion threads in various fandoms has convinced me that Sheldon Cooper is real and ''very'' active on the Internet.

I believe that:

I was indeed invited to Hogwarts. The owl drowned in the ocean on its way over

I am a Chameleon Arched Time Lord. Who may or may not be the Master.

I opened a rift in time and space by dividing by zero on my calculator one day and that soon I'll see the TARDIS materialize outside my school so the Doctor can fix it...

That when I write, I'm either drawing from another universe (and when I hit Writers' Block, it's because I've caught up in real time to the events of the universe) or that I'm creating a new universe from the story

This troper took part in a philosophy group last year. She was introduced to the dream argument. Ever since then, a little part of her has been thinking that she is dreaming, and fictional worlds are simply glimpses into her REAL life. This is the first time she has mentioned this. Mostly because nobody here can take me to a psychiatric ward... I hope...

I know most of my friends so well that I can hold lengthy conversations with them in my head during class. This leads to confusion when I tell them what I'm thinking in my head, then later say "Hey, remember when I told you about X?" much to their bemusement.

This troper's dad always sets off the metal detectors at airports. I am sort-of convinced that he is a {{Terminator}}.

I can give a little benefit of the doubt to some of these things. When it comes to having the soul of an animal or some such... consider that you leave observable, provable reality behind the moment you say “soul,” even though people who believe in those are not considered mad. Consider that many mainstream religions believe in reincarnation, and even some of the ones that don’t don’t prohibit the idea. I don’t see how, if the real you is this invisible floaty thing that lit on your body when it became available and something of its past incarnations sticks around, it having once been in a non-human body and leaving something behind is *that much crazier* than what I’m already having to just take on faith.

And then, soulbonds. To a point. I don’t believe SpiderMan is real - even if we go with the LiteraryAgentHypothesis, anyone who goes to *this* site knows there are many outside factors that result in the author’s original vision and what finally makes it to screen or page differ. BUT... consider people with multiple personalities. (I won’t go into details that will make who I’m talking about obvious. I’ll just say that I have more than one friend who is real enough for me to respect and care for, even if the DSM calls them a symptom of someone else’s disease.) It’s been demonstrated that each personality has a different brain wave pattern, and many of them will tell you that the popular perception of such - childhood sexual abuse = “shattering” = chunks of broken person each with a different “job” based around coping - isn’t the only way it works. (Yes, I’m getting at something!) Now... how many writers talk about their characters “talking” to them? Starting small, but the more you work with them, the more realistic, more automatic, the more able to deal with the reality around you? Could such a person become self-aware in its own right? Again, if you believe in anything like a soul, most of what makes *you* a real person is taken on faith. Most religions don’t state outright that two can’t be in one body. If you don’t, the question becomes “Is the human brain {{Badass}} enough to develop *another* of whatever makes you ‘you?’” In other words, a functional person who seems as real as any of us to both themselves and an observer who didn’t know, who started as one’s idea of a character but grew (because the brain can do that and you don’t know souls can’t) into someone who remembers being Captain Kirk but realizes this world calls his world a movie, and can drive and play DDR and do taxes and everything a normal person can... it can happen and nothing says they’d have to be less “real” a person as you or me. But I put "soulbond" in quotes because I don't necessarily believe the most common idea of how it works (the soul of Peter Parker came from the MarvelUniverse and bonded with you).

TL;DR: The gods don’t say you definitely weren’t a spotted owl in your past life or couldn’t possibly have *some* connection to them that causes what you perceive, whatever its nature may be. It’s no weirder than things *many* of us believe in but can’t demonstrate. And though multiple humans with multiple motivations made your favorite character’s history, nothing we know makes it clear a “soulbond” of him can’t be a real person. I have no solid reason not to accept that much, once given reason to really ponder it.

This troper swings between this and LongingForFictionLand. He also believes that TvTropes could be, if used right, a portal into a universe where every kind of media in the world, from novels to cartoons to television shows are all real and exist together. After all, life is just one big story, right?

This troper, when on vacation to the UK, saw a police box. Just one (from the bus, unfortunately). Since then, she's been on the lookout in case the Doctor happens to drop by.

This Troper may not be an actual Daydream Believer, but she is a therian (see the Otherkin part of the main page). She doesn't attribute it to multiple worlds or reincarnation; rather, it's psychological/an identity thing, rather akin to being transgendered.

Tropers/{{Mort08}} wants to go to Berk. ''Really'' wants to. She ''knows'' there is a way.

This troper has caught himself seriously speculating if Gensokyo was real and that all we need to do is to pass through a dimension to get there. He has also caught himself speculating if he could go to Gensokyo as his personal afterlife.

There is a girl at this troper's school who is like this. I try to be nice to her, because it seems like everyone thinks she's crazy. Which probably isn't far off, but she really is a sweet person.

I firmly believe the Doctor is real. And I will be his companion someday. So what if I'm American? So was Canton, and Captain Jack at least sounded American!

I fancy the thought of being reincarnated into my own fictional universe in my next life. Also, a couple of my characters have become imaginary friends. I'm convinced that they are real and separate from my consciousness. One is a wise counselor, who successfully helped me on more than a few occasions.

This troper's actually an otakukin hirself. If there's any others here from the worlds of Kenshin, Zelda, or HisDarkMaterials, I'd love to meet you!

This troper is a dragon otherkin, and the weirdest part is, she can actually feel wings!

To this Troper, there are Stargates currently in use, and SGC is just keeping it secret. Soon the public will find out about the Stargates and adopt them itno everyday life. The we will segue into the Firefly 'verse in the future!

This troper once encountered an ''{{Animorphs}}'' fansite seemingly occupied entirely by Daydream Believers. It was a long time ago, but this troper does recall one thread where a person claimed that they wanted to give themselves up to the Yeerks, and a number of people responded with heartfelt "don't do it!" posts.

It's either the same one, or there's more of these, this Troper also remembered a few people who are convinced it was all real, and were seriously planning various anti-Yeerk devices and means to communicate with Andalites.

I'm not a straight example (though I was when I was younger, heh), but I've found that through meditation and concentration, I can create various sensations that allow me to experience things like flying, having wings, having a fifth arm, et cetera. (And before you ask, yes, there's some PowerPerversionPotential there. And that's all I've got to say about that.)

I'm very logical, not at all superstitious, and stick to my religious convictions. However, I always cringe a little when I hear a little kid say they don't believe in fairies. A Tinker Bell-loving friend and me once beat up a third friend for saying that he didn't believe in fairies, because ''"You just killed a fairy!"''

This troper spent the entire fifth grade believing that his mother was a Yeerk and that the events in the Animorphs series were actually unfolding. Feels good to finally admit that.