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Every second of the night, I live another life.''|'''Heart''', "These Dreams"}}
The images are slightly blurred, the music has harps or ominous over-tones, and might be shot from a first-person perspective. The last word of every sentence echoes (echoes, echoes). Yep, your character is having a Dream Sequence. Expect the action in this dream sequence to be a thinly disguised look at the dreamer's internal
Another variety of this sequence is when the characters have fantastic and silly adventures in settings that the show's main premise could not accommodate. This can also overlap with [[Separate Scene Storytelling]] if the dreamer is told a story while falling asleep.
Differs from [[All Just a Dream]] in that usually you know immediately that the character is dreaming, and the dream usually lasts for no more than
Musically, its beginning is often indicated by an upward-moving [[wikipedia:Whole tone scale|whole tone scale]] (example: C, D, E, F#, G#, A#, C, ...) played on a instrument like a harp or a keyboard with lots of reverb. The end of the sequence is often indicated by the same scale played downwards. The same musical motif is often used for [[Flashback Effects]]. In the whole tone scale, all the notes are the same distant apart, with no single tone standing out, which creates its blurry, dreamy quality. "Impressionist" composers like Claude Debussy made an extensive use of that scale.
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* Takeshi Hokuto has two of these in ''[[Cromartie High School]]'': one of them deals with his subordinates and an obsession with meat, and the other deals with him switching places with Ara-chan the seal, whom he despises.
* In the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', Chrono has a dream in which he's standing on a battlefield littered with bodies, and Aion holds out an outstretched hand and urges him to come. It reflects Chrono's troubled past and foreshadows flashbacks we get to see in later volumes.
* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', Ahiru has a dream in the beginning of each season. The first one is later revealed to be a flashback showing how Drosselmeyer chose her to be the titular [[Magical Girl]], while the second season shows her dancing with
''[[Princess Tutu Abridged]]'' plays the first one (mostly) straight but the second seems [[Erotic Dream|slanted towards the sexy]] and is more blantent with the imagry. In this, Ahiru (Duck) is heading towards Mytho and is about to take his hand before Fakir snatches it, pulls her away, lifts her chin up, runs his finger over her lips and closes them and leans in for the kiss and Duck wakes up. She is quite upset, being the Mytho fangirl she is, about dreaming of Fakir.
* The third episode of the OVA ''[[My Dear Marie]]'' consists entirely of these.
* Yuichi in ''[[Kanon]]'' briefly has one of these while actually still awake after {{spoiler|briefly snapping when Mai appears to have committed suicide. But he can't hold onto it and returns to reality, and things... get better somehow. Magic!}}
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** In one the Captain hallucinating that Tintin is a bottle of Champagne and attempting to pull his head off.
** 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
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== Live Action Television ==
* ''[[Northern Exposure]]'': An extended Dream Sequence (in this case actually a hallucination) -- lasting nearly the entire
* 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.
* The entire ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Restless", the finale for season 4, was four dream sequences; these turned out to prefigure the major events for the remaining seasons.
* There was an episode of ''[[News Radio]]'' in which the air conditioning was malfunctioning, causing the entire cast to have hallucinations. Some of these were short [[All Just a Dream]] moments, but others were obvious dream sequences.
* ''[[Frasier]]'' episode "Freudian Sleep". Frasier has an [[All Just a Dream]] experience, followed by dream sequences from the other members of the Crane family (even Eddie, the dog.)
* ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'': The dream
** It was also in 3D, as part of a theme night.
* ''[[Twin Peaks]]''. The dream sequences contained major plot points, and the reality of the dream-world was eventually shown to be the home of several minor characters as well as BOB, the [[Big Bad]].
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== Theater ==
* In musical theatre, the
** Unusually, ''Lady in the Dark'' concentrates practically all its singing and dancing into three long
** 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.
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== 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]].
** Later, Sarah has [http://egscomics.com/index.php?arcid=96 a dream] about [[I Just Want to Be Special|getting magic and using it to save the day]].
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' features an [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=182 amusing dream sequence] from Kat. It involves lots of [[The X-Files|Fox Mulder.]]
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