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Can also occur in delirum and hallucinations. |
Can also occur in delirum and hallucinations. |
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These are not [[Dreaming of Things to Come|prophetic]] or [[Dream Spying|psychic]] [[Dreaming of Times Gone By|dreams]], or having it [[Talking in Your Dreams|communicated to him]]; he had all the information in hand, he just hadn't put it together. Though some dreamers assume they are dreaming the truth for prophetic or communicating dreams. Seldom if ever [[Recurring Dreams]], except where they overlap with [[Bad Dreams]], especially if the character is suffering [[Trauma |
These are not [[Dreaming of Things to Come|prophetic]] or [[Dream Spying|psychic]] [[Dreaming of Times Gone By|dreams]], or having it [[Talking in Your Dreams|communicated to him]]; he had all the information in hand, he just hadn't put it together. Though some dreamers assume they are dreaming the truth for prophetic or communicating dreams. Seldom if ever [[Recurring Dreams]], except where they overlap with [[Bad Dreams]], especially if the character is suffering [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]. |
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* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' whilst near death, Laura Roslin hallucinates and dredges up a forgotten memory of seeing {{spoiler|Gaius Baltar kissing a Number 6 on Caprica before the attack}}. Though she met both later, she didn't until that moment connect the two in her head. |
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' whilst near death, Laura Roslin hallucinates and dredges up a forgotten memory of seeing {{spoiler|Gaius Baltar kissing a Number 6 on Caprica before the attack}}. Though she met both later, she didn't until that moment connect the two in her head. |
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* This happened in an episode of ''[[Medium]]''. A Texas Ranger was troubled by dreams that had only recently started to become clear... and then the things he was dreaming started happening (a pair of EMTs killed and dumped where he dreamed they would be, and so on). It later turned out that he truly wasn't having prophetic dreams; he'd spent some time comatose in a hospital, and while in that state had overheard someone making plans that later presented themselves as dreams as his mind made sense of the information. |
* This happened in an episode of ''[[Medium]]''. A Texas Ranger was troubled by dreams that had only recently started to become clear... and then the things he was dreaming started happening (a pair of EMTs killed and dumped where he dreamed they would be, and so on). It later turned out that he truly wasn't having prophetic dreams; he'd spent some time comatose in a hospital, and while in that state had overheard someone making plans that later presented themselves as dreams as his mind made sense of the information. |
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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.'' |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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* 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 ''[[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]]. |
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== [[Truth in Television]] == |
== [[Truth in Television]] == |
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* 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 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. |
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* 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 [ |
* 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]. |
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* Subverted by Otto Loewi, a German pharmacologist who earned the Nobel prize for his discovery of of the neurotransmitter [ |
* 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]]. |
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** 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). |
** 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). |
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* There is a legend that Dmitri Mendeleev had seen the periodic table of the elements in dream. |
* There is a legend that Dmitri Mendeleev had seen the periodic table of the elements in dream. |
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