Dream Tropes

"''I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.''"

- William Butler Yeats

""To sleep, perchance to dream.""

- Hamlet

Dreams and dreaming are ubiquitous in storytelling. There are many, many dream-related tropes: here are several. See also Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes.

Tropes

 * Acid Reflux Nightmare
 * Adventures in Coma Land
 * All Just a Dream
 * Anxiety Dreams
 * Bad Dreams
 * Based On a Dream
 * Blank Book
 * But You Were There and You And You
 * Cannot Dream
 * Catapult Nightmare
 * Crashing Dreams
 * Daydream Believer
 * Daydream Surprise
 * Dream Apocalypse
 * Dream Ballet
 * Dreaming of Things to Come
 * Dreaming of Times Gone By
 * Dream Land
 * Dream People
 * Dream Sequence
 * Dream Spying
 * Dream Stealer
 * Dreaming the Truth
 * Dream Weaver
 * Dream Within a Dream
 * Erotic Dream
 * Homoerotic Dream
 * Fever Dream Episode
 * Flashback Nightmare
 * Girl of My Dreams
 * Hatsuyume
 * I Was Having Such a Nice Dream
 * Living Dream
 * Lotus Eater Machine
 * A Glitch in The Matrix
 * Mad Dreamer
 * Marshmallow Dream
 * Mental World
 * Mind Virus
 * Nightmare Sequence
 * "Not Wearing Pants" Dream
 * Opinion-Changing Dream
 * Or Was It a Dream?
 * Pinch Me
 * Psychic Dreams for Everyone
 * Real Dreams Are Weirder
 * Recurring Dreams
 * Recursive Reality
 * Talking in Your Dreams
 * That Was Not a Dream
 * Vision Quest
 * Visions of Another Self
 * Win to Exit
 * Your Mind Makes It Real
 * Your Worst Nightmare