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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* At the end of ''[[Monster (
* Happened to ''[[Lupin III]]'' once; Fujiko left Lupin a few cryptic negatives with strange lines and symbols that belong to Pycal/[[Spell My Name
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* Woody Allen's ''[[Match Point]]''▼
▲* At the end of ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'', Tenma has a dream ([[Or Was It a Dream?|or not]]) of Johan revealing to him what it was about his childhood that plagued him the most.
* ''[[Vertigo]]''▼
▲* Happened to ''[[Lupin III]]'' once; Fujiko left Lupin a few cryptic negatives with strange lines and symbols that belong to Pycal/[[Spell My Name With an "S"|Piker]], a menacing magician. Lupin had already figured out his fire-shooting and levitation tricks but is completely clueless about how he becomes invulnerable. Later, however, Lupin accidentally falls out the window and the resulting blow knocks him into some sort of dream where the negatives are projected over each other, revealing {{spoiler|a chemical formula for an extremely resistant liquid.}}
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (
* The 2004 remake of ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' makes use of this trope.▼
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' originally was to include a [[Dream Sequence]] where Helen's worries about Bob took shape. This was one of the first things cut from the plot partly because it was too lazy. It's discussed on the DVD extras, though.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Madeleine L
* Used in ''[[Twilight (
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer
** In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''Fulgrim'', Serena d'Angelus forgot that she was a murderer until her [[Bad Dreams]] made her discover the bodies. (Leading to her [[Driven to Suicide|suicide]].)
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer
* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer
* Inverted in ''[[Book of Amber|The Second Chronicles of Amber]]''. In ''Sign of Chaos'', Merlin muses (I don't have the exact text on me, so I'm paraphrasing) "Someone who had been through all the truly bizarre crap I had over the past few days should have had a revelatory dream, waking up with new insights as to how to deal with their problems. Me? I woke up in the middle of the night and realized that my feet hurt.
* Buttercup has dreams in ''[[The Princess Bride (
* In ''[[Felidae]]'', Francis the cat has a highly disturbing dream that symbolises the motive behind the murders he's investigating. He still has to do some more conventional investigation to work out what the dream ''means'', though.
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Hermetic Millenium
* In [[
* In ''[[
* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm
== [[Live-Action
* [[Twin Peaks]]
▲* Woody Allen's ''[[Match Point]]''
* In an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', as I recall. The not-so-good doctor had a dream which gave him the key to resolving his latest case (it also involved him wearing a catheter which ruptured, but that had more to do with his own issues at the time).▼
▲* ''[[Vertigo]]''
▲* In ''[[The Princess Bride (Film)|The Princess Bride]]'', Buttercup declares she will not marry Humperdinck after dreaming of the Ancient Booer, who calls her garbage for setting aside true love in favor of becoming Queen.
▲* The 2004 remake of ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]'' makes use of this trope.
▲* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' originally was to include a [[Dream Sequence]] where Helen's worries about Bob took shape. This was one of the first things cut from the plot partly because it was too lazy. It's discussed on the DVD extras, though.
▲* [[Twin Peaks]]--Agent Cooper has an iconic dream early on in which the victim whispers the name of her killer. He immediately forgets it, however, and it's a while before he is able to remember.
▲* In an episode of ''[[House (TV)|House]]'', as I recall. The not-so-good doctor had a dream which gave him the key to resolving his latest case (it also involved him wearing a catheter which ruptured, but that had more to do with his own issues at the time).
** They've used it again. Although in this case, you can't be sure if he just hadn't put the facts together or if he was actively in denial. {{spoiler|After all, who wants to remember that they got their best and only friend's girlfriend in a bus accident?}}
* In ''[[The Sopranos]]'', Tony had a dream where he was forced to face that he knew one of his underlings was wearing a wire.
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* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' 2-parter "Human Nature/The Family of Blood" has the temporarily-human/amnesiac Doctor/John Smith dreaming about his Time Lord adventures and recording them in his ''Journal of Impossible Things.''
** In the Series Five episode "Amy's Choice", the Eleventh Doctor's feelings are revealed when psychic pollen gets stuck in the TARDIS time rotor, heats up, and induces a dream state for Amy, Rory, and the Doctor. The pollen latches on to the Doctor's massive amounts of darkness and reveals the difficult truths about Eleven's character to Amy and Rory in two dreams.
* The ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' episode "Bitches" had Emerson to discern a clue he hadn't noticed before which allowed him to deduce that the dog the case revolved around was still alive. [[Brick Joke|This in the same episode in which he told off Ned for treating a dream as anything other than random images]].
* The practice of "sleeping on a problem" is common practice in any field where mental roadblocks are commonplace. Often, forcing yourself to sleep will at least help you be more refreshed and ready to tackle the problem later; also, when you're asleep, your subconscious mind is free to make wilder leaps of logic without being bothered by the part of your brain that determines whether or not a particular idea makes sense.▼
* The German chemist Friedrich August Kekule was trying to figure out the structure of the compound benzene. He had a daydream about a snake biting its own tail. When he woke up, he realized that the benzene molecule was in the shape of a ring, and this was later confirmed. [[The Other Wiki]]'s [[wikipedia:Benzene Rings#Ring formula|take on it]], and Mr. Kekule's [http://books.google.com/books?id=3aqDhzUdLS4C&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=%22I+turned+my+chair+toward+the+fire+place+and+sank+into+a+doze%22&source=bl&ots=kXcky2OuiN&sig=8Qs5pg-C2Laj3JEKbtmdAqJfapk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#v=onepage&q=%22I%20turned%20my%20chair%20toward%20the%20fire%20place%20and%20sank%20into%20a%20doze%22&f=false own description of the experience].▼
* Subverted by Otto Loewi, a German pharmacologist who earned the Nobel prize for his discovery of of the neurotransmitter [[wikipedia:Acetylcholine|acetylcholine]]. One night in the spring of 1921, he awoke with the sudden realization that he knew how the the brain's electrical signals traveled along synapses. He hurriedly wrote down his revelation and went back to sleep, only to discover in the morning that, to his horror, [[The Illegible|he could not read what he had written down]].▼
** Fortunately, he had the same dream the following night. [[Oh No Not Again|Taking no chances this time]], he got up and went right to the lab (where his experiments confirmed his idea).▼
* There is a legend that Dmitri Mendeleev had seen the periodic table of the elements in dream.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Westward (
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Happened a few times on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. ''Twin Peaks'' was even explicitly parodied at one point during one of these.
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* The practice of "sleeping on a problem" is common practice in any field where mental roadblocks are commonplace. Often, forcing yourself to sleep will at least help you be more refreshed and ready to tackle the problem later; also, when you're asleep, your subconscious mind is free to make wilder leaps of logic without being bothered by the part of your brain that determines whether or not a particular idea makes sense.
▲* The German chemist Friedrich August Kekule was trying to figure out the structure of the compound benzene. He had a daydream about a snake biting its own tail. When he woke up, he realized that the benzene molecule was in the shape of a ring, and this was later confirmed. [[The Other Wiki]]'s [[wikipedia:Benzene Rings#Ring formula|take on it]], and Mr. Kekule's [http://books.google.com/books?id=3aqDhzUdLS4C&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=%22I+turned+my+chair+toward+the+fire+place+and+sank+into+a+doze%22&source=bl&ots=kXcky2OuiN&sig=8Qs5pg-C2Laj3JEKbtmdAqJfapk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#v=onepage&q=%22I%20turned%20my%20chair%20toward%20the%20fire%20place%20and%20sank%20into%20a%20doze%22&f=false own description of the experience].
▲* Subverted by Otto Loewi, a German pharmacologist who earned the Nobel prize for his discovery of of the neurotransmitter [[wikipedia:Acetylcholine|acetylcholine]]. One night in the spring of 1921, he awoke with the sudden realization that he knew how the the brain's electrical signals traveled along synapses. He hurriedly wrote down his revelation and went back to sleep, only to discover in the morning that, to his horror, [[The Illegible|he could not read what he had written down]].
▲** Fortunately, he had the same dream the following night. [[Oh, No, Not Again|Taking no chances this time]], he got up and went right to the lab (where his experiments confirmed his idea).
▲* There is a legend that Dmitri Mendeleev had seen the periodic table of the elements in dream.
* A famous anecdote from the middle 20th century plays on this trope. While it appeared in many places and was attributed to many individuals (including prominent psychologist William James), the earliest known version appeared in the ''Cleveland Plain Dealer'' newspaper in November 1939. According to the article “Thanksgiving Nightmare” by Claire MacMurray, a Mrs. Amos Pinchot had a dream in which she had achieved a profound insight into the ultimate of truth of life and distilled it down into a poem of ineffable beauty and wisdom. At the end of the dream she half-woke and scribbled down the poem so as not to lose it. In the morning she had forgotten all but the broadest outline of the dream, and eagerly read what she'd written in the night:
{{quote|<poem>''Hogamus Higamus
''Men are Polygamous
''Higamus Hogamus
''Women Monogamous''</poem>}}
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[[Category:Dream Tropes]]
[[Category:Truth and Lies]]
▲[[Category:Dreaming The Truth]]
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