



It isn't the first time something similar happened, either.The ending of Darker than Black turns into a Neon Genesis Evangelion- esque Journey to the Center of the Mind for Hei, after Amber uses the Meteor Fragment on him to trigger the Tokyo Explosion using his quantum-manipulation abilities.However, a strange man soon begins killing his classmates and it is revealed that Nagito created a dreamworld to cope with his traumatic death in the game, and the man was an AI tasked with waking him up. It employs a bit of Mind Screw in that Nagito is shown living a mundane, though idealistic, life where he was born without his luck. The Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School OVA revolves around this trope.In Ciel ~The Last Autumn Story~, one of the main characters falls into a coma after overusing her magic powers, and her closest friend and love interest have to pull one of these in order for them all to wake up safely.They call it Diving, and the user undergoes an Out-of-Clothes Experience while visiting the patient's psyche. There is a machine that allows people to do this in Chrono Crusade.This quickly turns into a Battle in the Center of the Mind, as Casca's dreamscape is loaded with horrendous monsters, up to and including a representation of the Hawk of Darkness himself. The only means by which Casca might be cured of the trauma which led her personality and memories to be repressed, which becomes clear in the Chapter of Elf Island: Danann takes Casca, Schierke, Farnese, and Ivalera down to a bed of magic mushrooms at the base of the great tree, and leads them in a ritual to enter Casca's dreams.Many more times after that she enters Guts' mind and goes with him in spirit form to temporarily tame the Beast and make sure that Guts does not lose himself. There she sees flashes of Guts' horrifying experiences and confronts his ego subsumed within the Beast of Darkness, and puts him back in control by reminding him who he is and who he needs to protect. When Guts first wears the Berserker Armor and loses his mind to rage, Schierke has to enter his mind in her luminous body at great risk to herself.It can be very dangerous for the interloper because the rules that govern the dream world and any luminous body who enters it spring from the mind of the dreamer, and the first thing that the entrant should do is figure out what that dreamer's conceptions are. Berserk: A magic user entering someone's mind in astral form is sometimes the only way to save their individuality from being swallowed up by some powerful force or Tulpa.Lotis Master travel into the Inner Heart of people corrupted by Mala to remove its source, saving the person from their personal darkness. Alice 19th: The 'Inner Heart' is basically the psyche of a person, representing their current state of mind and problems.
