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[[File:Whisper of the heart dream sequence.jpg|frame|link=Whisper of the Heart]]
{{quote|''I want to see you clearly, come closer to this
''But all I remember, are the dreams in the mist
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** The one in ''The Cigars of the Pharaoh'' is downright creepy.
** In ''The Seven Crystal Balls'', Tintin, Haddock and Calculus all dreamed that the mummy one of Calculus's friends had brought back from Peru had come to life and was going to destroy them. The mummy—not all bandage-wrapped, but a arrestingly realistic dessicated corpse—comes to life to throw a glass ball filled with poison gas. The mummy is hallucinatory but the gas is real. Tintin dream sequences had a heckuva lot of disturbing images in them.
== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' Haruhi was shown dreaming about flying through the sky, sentai-style, with Kyon the rest of the brigade, to fight evil aliens.
== Film ==
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* In ''[[Dracula: Dead and Loving It]]'', Dracula has a "[[Non Sequitur Scene|daymare]]," where he believes his vampirism is cured and goes out to enjoy the beauty of the light. Then he bursts into flame and wakes up screaming and running.
* Most of [[Inception]] is basically a dream sequence. With [[Dream Within a Dream|dreams within dreams]].
== Literature ==
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* In ''[[Hard Times]]'', Stephen Blackpool's dream of a wedding quickly becomes that of a burial.
▲== Live Action Television ==
* ''[[Northern Exposure]]'': An extended Dream Sequence (in this case actually a hallucination) -- lasting nearly the entire episode—was used to very good effect in "Dinner at Seven-Thirty". As evidenced by this episode, an extended Dream Sequence may perform the function of an [[Alternate Universe]] in series where an [[Alternate Universe]] ''per se'' would not fit with the show's genre.
* The ''[[Golden Girls]]'' episode "questions and answers".Dorothy dozes off while studying for Jeopardy and has dream in which she goes up against a first time opponent and a returning champion,who surprisingly is Rose.
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'''Blackadder''': Are you sure?
'''Dr. Johnson''': I've never been more sure of anything in my life sir.
'''Blackadder''': I love you, Dr. Johnson, and [[I Want to Bear His Children|I want to have your babies]]. [''Sees Aunt Marjorie''] Sorry, excuse me, Dr. Johnson, but my Auntie Marjorie has just arrived. [''Blackdrick appears with a dog's head instead of his own''] Baldrick! Who gave you permission to turn into an alsatian! Oh god, it's a dream, isn't it? [''Dr. Johnson, Aunt Marjorie and Bladrick starts to dance around the room''] It's a bloody dream! Dr. Johnson doesn't want us to burn his dictionary at all. }}
* ''[[The Sopranos]]'' has some of the best dream sequences in any show or movie. Some of the creepy ones with Tony's mom are much more frightening than your average horror scene.
* Blair on ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' is prone to having these. They are always nightmares, based on her favorite movies, and usually open the episode they appear in.
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* [[The Young Ones]] - "Sick" has a memorable one. A conscience-stricken Rik, believing that he has killed Neil, dreams of being tried and sentenced to death by Mike and Vyvyan, causing the gallery of attractive young women to plead for his life and then start to remove their clothes...
{{quote|'''Rik's Conscience''': Oi! OI! - Stop having a wet dream, you little pervy, you're supposed to be ''racked with remorse''!}}
== Music ==
* In the mid 1980's, [[the Rolling Stones]] produced a compilation of music videos/promo films entitled '''Video Rewind''', which entailed bassist Bill Wyman, disguised as a guard, breaking into a 'lost' exhibit at the British Museum, which consists of various rock artifacts - one of the artifacts being a mid-70's Mick Jagger! They use the artifacts as a springboard to show the various videos, while also making pithy comments about their own career as the Stones (Mick: You ever try sleeping in the same room with Keith? Bill: No but Ive stayed in the same hotel with him!). Near the end, Bill
* Happens in the video to [[Queensrÿche]]'s well-loved [[Black Sheep Hit]], "Silent Lucidity". There's also a [[Nightmare Sequence]] thrown in for good measure between the middle and near the end of the video.
* [[Krokus]]'s ''Screaming In The Night'' plays with this. On a mysterious island, the hero, who is imprisoned, is in love with a beautiful woman, but an evil dictator sentences him to death and kills the woman. {{spoiler|The hero turns out to be the lead singer, and he ends up in a diner, where the beautiful woman is a waitress, the dictator was the chef, and Krokus was on the TV, which the lead singer sings to while standing on the counter that his band-mates were eating at.}}
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'': Sarge gets a really trippy one about being a food-themed superhero.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 3.5E supplement ''Heroes of Horror'' includes tips on how to DM a dream or nightmare sequence.
** The free adventure [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030629a "Fallen Angel"] suggests a dream sequence as a plot hook.
== Theater ==
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** The second act of ''Mamma Mia!'' opens with a warped, strangely echoing reprise of the earlier songs, and then segues into the young heroine's nightmare about who her real father is. The dream involves neon and black colors (with plenty of purple), eerie lighting, snorkels and flippers, and a man in a bridal gown (we do not make this up.)
* The Rodgers and Hart musical ''I'd Rather Be Right'' is almost entirely a dream sequence. The young lovers fall asleep in Central Park, sharing a dream in which they meet President Franklin Roosevelt and various other political figures of the 1930s, then awakening at the end.
== Video Games ==
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** Teammate Gannayev-of-Dreams is an old hand with dream sequences [[Meaningful Name|as his name suggests]]. He shepherds the [[Player Character]] through them all if he's in the party. Yes, he can enter ''other characters''' dream sequences.
▲== Webcomic ==
* ''[[The Chapel Chronicles]]'': season one ends in a four page Dream Sequence entitled [http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/28 Chapel in Wonderland] in which Chapel finds herself dressed as Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Fred, her archenemy is the Cheshire Cat, Lady Gaga appears having beheaded Justin Bieber, wanting to play chess with flamingos and using Rupert as the ball. Chapel finally leaves and walks off but is still dressed as Alice at the end.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has a [[Story Arc]] showing the quite revealing dreams of each major character the night after the fight with [[Big Bad]] Damien [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-02\]; this continues into the succeeding arcs with Ellen's dreams, which are particularly significant due to Nioi's [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up|magical intervention]].
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180307055557/http://centralcitytower.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-installment.html Project 0] opens with a dream sequence. Doubles as a [[Good Morning, Crono]].
* ''[[Punch an Pie]]'' uses Dream Sequences as a means of contrasting the two main characters' different thought processes. Angela has wacky and meaningless dreams involving her favorites TV shows, video games, and books; Heather has introspective dreams where she reexamines her flimsy [[Freudian Excuse]] and tendency toward projecting her repressed traits onto others.
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Broken Saints]]'' makes frequent use of these, most notably in Acts 2 through 5 of Chapter 20.
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' has PLENTY of dream sequences, one of the more memorable recent ones being Maria Graham's dream after her {{spoiler|accidental killing of Francine Moreau}}, which included Nicholas Cage and Robobear 5000. According to the writer, the likely never-to-be-finished endgame of v2 included {{spoiler|Bryan Calvert's highly symbolic dreams on the helicopter ride to meet Danya and while back home, including being back with Tori again}}.
== Western Animation ==
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Narrative Devices]]
[[Category:Dream Tropes]]
[[Category:Older Than Dirt]]
[[Category:Acting for Two]]
▲[[Category:Dream Sequence]]
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