Throughout the Golden Ass and Lucius' adventures, the revelation of the true nature of a situation/person/reality is used often and to varying extents. Some of the most prominent examples are as follows:
- The ultimate death of Socrates - while Socrates initially died following having his throat slit and heart ripped out, he remained animated (the illusion) until drinking water from a stream resulted in the plug in his neck falling out, leading to the disillusionment (revelation) of his true state of death.
- The corpse-confession regarding his guard - when briefly reanimated by the Egyptian priest, the corpse testified that his wife had killed him. To support his claim, he revealed that the man who had guarded his corpse the night before (who bore the same name as he) suffered facial mutilation in his place. This was revealed to the crowd when the guard reached up and pulled off the clay nose and ears that had replaced his own, thus revealing what had before been concealed.
- The animation of the wineskins - while this is loosely a revelation, it still warrants a mention. Because Lucius was under the false impression that the wineskins were robbers and that he had killed them, Pamphile's confession that the "robbers" were in reality animated wineskins qualifies as a revelation to Lucius.
- Isis' prophecy to Lucius - prophecy qualifies as a revelation of the future, so in telling Lucius how he will return to human form, Isis creates a revelation. While Lucius had always known how to return to his human form, this revelation is important because it exemplifies the common occurrence of immortals prophesying to mortals during the time.
- The astrologer - as astrology was one of the most prominent applications of revelation in the ancient world, it is important to mention this, even if it did not play an overly important part in the novel compared to some of the other revelations. While the astrologer's prediction that Lucius would become something akin to Odysseus did come to fruition, he was also of questionable credibility, as he lacked the foresight to avoid his own shipwreck.