Dream Tropes
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; —William Butler Yeats
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"To sleep, perchance to dream."
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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
- Fever Dream Episode
- Flashback Nightmare
- Girl of My Dreams
- Hatsuyume
- I Was Having Such a Nice Dream
- Living Dream
- Lotus Eater Machine
- 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