Bonnibel

rosengreen:

As someone who struggles with disassociation and sometimes delusions, media that explores unreality, challenges the character’s perception of reality, or generally messes with one’s perception of things can make me really anxious and upset and sometimes even trigger episodes. I know that many other people with psychosis, delusions or disassociation can also be harmed by this so I am making a list of media that contain these kinds of tropes.

Please feel free to add on and if you do not feel comfortable doing so, you can always send anons and I will add, or DM me!

Doctor Who: (TV)
Season Four, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
Season Five: Amy’s Choice
Season Eight/Christmas Special: Last Christmas

Supernatural: (TV)
Season Five: Sam, Interrupted

The Magicians: (TV, based on the books by Lev Grossman)
Season One: The World In the Walls

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: (TV)
Season Six: Normal Again

Futurama (cartoon/TV)
Season Five: The Sting

Black Mirror (TV show)
Season two: Playtest (though honestly every episode has the potential to be seriously upsetting

The Truman Show (movie)

Jacob’s Ladder (movie)

Shudder Island (movie, based on the book)

Inception (Movie)

The Matrix (movie)

Total Recall (movie)

House of Leaves (book) by Mark Z. Danielewski

@schizomnom

Unfortunately tropes like this are commonplace in the horror genre and listing every horror movie/book/game that contains unreality would be incredibly difficult. It’s always a good idea to do research beforehand, or stay away from the genre altogether if you are especially susceptible to dissociation. On that note, here are some series that contain these things that I’ve noticed to be particularly popular on Tumblr:

Undertale
OFF (video game)
Yume Nikki
Doki Doki Literature Club
American McGee’s Alice
MOTHER/Earthbound
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Serial Experiments Lain
Oyasumi Punpun
Paprika and Perfect Blue

Adventure Time does this sometimes. The main episode I can think of right now is King Worm, but there are probably others.

Welcome to Nightvale is intended to be far more humorous than it is scary, but if you’re particularly sensitive to surrealism you’ll want to avoid it regardless.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory has an infamously creepy and disorienting scene during the boat ride; some versions of the movie have actually cut it, so that’s something you can look up ahead of time.

It feels stupid to include something like Spongbob but there was an episode in season 7 called “Squidward in Clarinetland” that’s so unsettling it’s known for literally giving children nightmares.