what if my thoughts became reality theme
We imagine what it would be like if someone's various thoughts just became real as soon as they imagined them, whether they want it or not.
Notes
This theme is not used when a character has the ability to conjure things into existence at will, and can refrain from doing so at will.
Examples
The Enterprise crew experienced this sort of alternate reality on the Shore Leave amusement park planet in tos1x17 "Shore Leave", and again in tas1x09 "Once Upon a Planet", where their lazy day dreams were made rapid reality by an enormous machine.
27 total · 10 choice · 14 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ds91x16 | choice | space station inhabitants thoughts manifested into reality |
| movie: Forbidden Planet (1956) | choice | Ancient Krell machinery turned subconscious thoughts into reality. |
| rd1988e5x03 | choice | The crew became trapped on an artificial planet that had transformed itself to match the inner psyche and subconscious the psychologically troubled hologram Rimmer. |
| tas1x08 | choice | The landing party member's thoughts manifested in reality on the planet Megas-Tu. |
| tas1x09 | choice | just a regular day on the Shore Leave Planet |
| tftc1989e2x13 | choice | The cartoonist Jim Korman's monster sketches coming to life owing to his taking of an experimental fertility drug constitutes a main novelty of the story. |
| tos1x17 | choice | technology on planet transformed thoughts into reality |
| tz1959e1x36 | choice | Any character that the famed playwright George described into his dictation machine was conjured into real life. Note he also conjured a giant, red-eyed elephant into existence. |
| tz1985e1x18c | choice | The things the script readers of a radio broadcast were reading got conjured into reality in the studio. |
| tz2002e1x34 | choice | The textbook hypochondriac Harry Radditch's overactive imagination conjured into reality a fictional virus he's read about in the science fiction novel "Mission to Zebulon". Harry subsequently conjured into reality a cure for the virus and also an ice age. |