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* Wiser characters in ''[[Redwall]]'' tend to get visions of the future or of Martin the Warrior, sometimes in actual dreams, other times in brief trances. Badger Lords are especially prone to visions of their eventual deaths.
** The [[Big Bad]] Cluny has [[Bad Dreams]] about past atrocities—mixed with Dreaming of Things to Come.
* The Road of Dreams is a metaphysical place in [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Visual Novel/Memory Sorrow And Thorn|Memory, Sorrow, Andand Thorn]]'' series. Most people only touch on the Dream Road in their sleep, but particularly sensitive individuals may receive portentous dreams, and those familiar with [[Functional Magic|the Art]] can enter it at will or using [[Applied Phlebotinum|magical devices]] called Witnesses. Subverted in that, while the Road will reveal true things, the ''interpretation'' of those things is often [[Prophetic Fallacy|cryptic and misleading]], and [[The Chessmaster|powerful minds]] can manipulate the dreams of others to further their goals. Further, it's possible to lose your way on the Road and/or meet up with things that are not... wholesome, with effects ranging from [[Go Mad from the Revelation|insanity]] to [[Your Mind Makes It Real|death]].
* In ''[[Death Star]]'', a trooper dreams about dying in a brawl against other trooper, with someone fighting and dying at his side, all while desperately [[You Shall Not Pass|buying some time for someone else]]. Later he dreams about pursuing and being shot by a fleeing Han Solo. Turns out he's {{spoiler|mildly Force-Sensitive}}; the second dream almost comes true, but he knew not to chase as fervently. {{spoiler|The first one came completely true.}} In both cases, the narration was almost identical in the dream as in the event.
** Both ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'' and the ''[[Hand of Thrawn]]'' Duology have Luke, early on, voluntarily entering a trance state to try and receive visions of what's to come. He gets them, but they're fragmented and confusing enough that while they do help, he doesn't do this often.
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