Dreaming of Things to Come/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character has prophetic dreams of a future event.

• Straight: Marguerite dreams of meeting a man, a stranger, in a rose garden. Later that day, she visits a rose garden she has heard of, and meets the man.
• Exaggerated: Marguerite dreams that she woke up, went through her day, went back to bed, etc until the day of her death; then she wakes up and has to live through it all, without variance.
• Downplayed: ???
• Justified: ???
• Inverted: ???
• Subverted: Marguerite goes to the rose garden and tries to convince herself that it looks like the dream --not much -- and meets no one.
• Double Subverted: Except that the man had been invisible and watching her.
• Parodied: Marguerite has a prophetic dream, which she forgets when she wakes up.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: ???
• Enforced: "We need a romantic way for them to meet."
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: Marguerite tries to walk the same paths as she did in the dream.
• Defied: Marguerite deliberately avoids the rose garden.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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