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[[Another Dimension]] that is not so "other". [[Pocket Dimension|Pocket Dimensions]] are spaces that are too small or too easily accessible to be truly considered a separate dimension and are referred to as a small extra pocket of space that is attached to our own. Much like an actual pocket, they are often used for some extra space where you can get things [[Bigger Onon the Inside]]. A [[Speculative Fiction]] favourite, the uses are plentifold. Storage for a [[Bag of Holding]], hiding places, transportation, an explanation for physics defying superpower: a [[Pocket Dimension]] can do them all. Can't make [[Aladdin (Disney film)|julienne fries]] though.
 
Also can serve as a (sometimes unstable) [[Small Secluded World]] with its own ecosystem and lifeforms. This is a quite handy place for keeping some nasty lurksome monsters; it lets them be very alien and make intermittent contact.
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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'', the original bodies of the four, and later their cloned bodies, are stored in a pocket dimension, a private stasis pocket.
 
 
== Literature ==
* [[The Fair Folk]] in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'' are explained to live in a parasite dimension that just sort of floats around our own, waiting for times when the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]] itself allows them to burst through.
** Death's Domain exists in a similar world.
** nearly every anthropomorphic personification has been shown to have or use one of these, from the Kaos, to the tooth fairy.
* In ''[[Dark Lord of Derkholm]],'' Mara's specialty is making these. {{spoiler|She uses them to hide away the people of cities about to be ransacked.}}
* The Room Of Requirement in [[Harry Potter]]
** Not to mention [[Bigger Onon the Inside|the Weasleys' tent]].
* The future human civilization of Walter Jon Williams's 2010 novel ''Implied Spaces'' uses pocket dimensions maintained by vast post-human artificial intelligences as living space.
* In [[Michael Moorcock]]'s ''[[Elric of Melnibone]]'' stories, the Half Worlds where the Beast Lords live.
* ''[[Fablehaven (Literature)|Fablehaven]]'' has the transdimensional knapsack. {{spoiler|Also serves as a [[Sealed Room in Thethe Middle of Nowhere]] for Warren.}}
* The Other World in ''[[Coraline (Literaturenovel)|Coraline]]''. She even comments about it : "Small world", indicating it's not really another dimension.
 
 
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** The world of the [[Doctor Who/Recap/S3 E7 The Celestial Toymaker|Celestial Toymaker]] is described as this.
** The bubble universe of House also qualifies.
* In ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'', they can stand on a hilltop and look through binoculars... and see the backs of their own heads.
* In ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'': "The Tale of the Super Specs", the protagonists end up trapped in one when the [[Alternate Universe]] overtakes the normal universe's space. In "The Tale of the Doll Maker", Susan is trapped in [[Creepy Doll]] form in a dollhouse accessed by a one-way portal in the attic of the normal-sized house. In "The Tale of the Pinball Wizard", Ross ends up trapped in a replica of the mall inside the pinball machine in Mr. Olson's shop.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* While the cosmology of the [[Dungeons and Dragons]] universe changes over the year, at various points you can be rest assured this trope appears and plays a major part. Various "planes" exist not as full world but as smaller "demi-plane" realms which can occasionally collide with ours and unload some XP filled monsters. One of the games most iconic elements, the [[Bag of Holding]], is explained as being a hole which leads to another plane thus allowing it to be [[Bigger Onon the Inside]]. So you can get a pocket in your pocket.
** ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]] II'', a video game based on the [[Dungeons and Dragons]] Forgotten Realms setting has one level in which you can follow a kidnapped band of actors into a pocket dimension where slaves with [[Shock Collar|Shock Collars]] are ruled over by demons who live in [[O-Ring Orifice|O Ring Orifices]]. [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?]]?
*** The ''Throne Of Bhaal'' expansion/'sequel' gave the PC their own pocket plane, a lovely little pied-Ã -terre situated just off Bhaal's layer of the [[Hell|Abyss]] and within easy commuting distance of ''anywhere''.
** The spell "Rope Trick" created an extra-dimensional space that you could crawl up to (and into) using a rope.
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== Video Games ==
* Xen in ''[[Half Life]]'' looks to be some sort of pocket-dimension/InnBetweenTheWorlds, filled with an alien atmosphere and what appear to be broken fragments of the [[Big Bad|Nihilath's]] shattered homeworld, inhabited by weird [[Starfish Aliens|xenofauna]].
* ''[[Wolfenstein (Video2009 Gamevideo game)|Wolfenstein]]'s'' Black Sun Dimension also looks like a very small, isolated spherical volume of space. At its center is the Black Sun, an inexhaustible source of strange energy. The best guess is that the Black Sun is the only thing keeping that place from collapsing on itself in a Big Crunch.
* ''[[Prey]]'s'' {{spoiler|final boss fight}} takes place in one of these. It's origin and purpose are not clear, but judging by the mining explosives found there, it might be used by the aliens for storing extra-large asteroids prior to mining.
* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'' there is the interdimensional dance club Pocket D, a neutral zone where heroes and villains can get together but are incapable of attacking one another.
* At the far end of ''[http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ Endgame: Singularity]'''s tech tree is the ability to build reality bubbles where you can carry out experiments ''that would otherwise run the risk of destroying the universe.'' {{spoiler|This is the final step on the way towards [[A God Am I|"Apotheosis"]], where your digital sentience becomes a benevolent, watchful deity.}}
* In ''[[Master of Orion (Video Game)|Master of Orion]] II'', the Antarans were banished by the Orions to a pocket dimension the size of a single star system. Their escape is the premise of the game, and you can invade Antares yourself if you build a Dimensional Gate. If you don't want to deal with them, you can turn the "Antarans Attack" option off.
* The magical world of [[Touhou|Gensokyo]] was sealed off from the rest of the world when people decided that they didn't want to be bothered with magical creatures anymore. Since then there's the occasional human who wanders in by accident / gets dragged in by Yukari, but they either settle down in the Human Village or [[I'm a Humanitarian|get eaten]] by one of many ''[[Youkai]]''.
* [[Super Mario 64 (Video Game)|Super Mario 64]] has this unintentionally, in the form of the "Black Room of Death", a [[Minus World|glitch room]] that is too large to exist where it is.
* Dimentio's "Dimension D" in [[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]], which multiplies his strength by 256(though this effect is also given to anyone else who enters it).
* The "Sharpened Shield" Shield World in ''[[Halo]]: [[Ghosts of Onyx]]''. Furthermore, Forerunner Slipspace Pods also trap their occupants in pocket dimensions, so some characters in ''Ghosts of Onyx'' ended up locked in a pocket dimension within a pocket dimension.
* Divine Divinity has a gobelin living inside a cristal ball carried by another gobelin. When the hero looks into the ball, he is sucked inside it and reappears in a small garden near a mansion where the seeked gobelin lives. There a quite a share of uncanny things there too, such has sudden bursts of rain, a war between bees and wasps (with each side asking you for support and none being the "good" side) and a lot of closed recipients with a handful of keys lying around.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)|Genius: The Transgression]]'' has Bardos -- pocket worlds made of concepts [[Science Marches On|disproved by science]]. The more prominent ones include an alien-inhabited Mars, the [[Hollow World]] (home to [[Prehistoria|dinosaurs]] and [[Anachronism Stew|cavemen]] and [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Nazis]]), and the Seattle of Tomorrow, which [[Ancient Conspiracy|Lemuria]] tried to bring into this world [[Gone Horribly Wrong|with disastrous consequences]].
 
 
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