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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]]
* At the end of ''[[Monster (manga)|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.
* 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.}}
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* Woody Allen's ''[[Match Point]]''▼
* In [[Madeleine L'Engle]]'s ''The Other Side of the Sun'', Stella (an Englishwoman) goes to live with her husband's father in the [[Deep South]] shortly after the [[American Civil War]]. After a dream involving fireflies and her husband metamorphizing into a (black) man she had met there, she wakes to the realization that her husband and this man are half-brothers.▼
* ''[[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 (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'Engle]]'s ''[[The Other Side of the Sun]]'', Stella (an Englishwoman) goes to live with her husband's father in the [[Deep South]] shortly after the [[American Civil War]]. After a dream involving fireflies and her husband metamorphizing into a (black) man she had met there, she wakes to the realization that her husband and this man are half-brothers.
* Used in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' after Bella learns Edward is a vampire. Even though Dream-Edward is attempting to lead her to her doom, Bella realizes she doesn't care if Edward's a vampire as she's more upset that Dream-Edward is about to be attacked. The same dream with a slight twist is used in the sequel ''New Moon'' so she can realize {{spoiler|Jacob is a werewolf.}}
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''Fulgrim'', Fulgrim [[Talking in Your Dreams|hears voices nagging at him every night]]. He convinces himself that it's his subconscious. {{spoiler|He's wrong.}}
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* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Hermetic Millenium|Count to a Trillion]]'', Menelaus, owing to his mental modifications, can consciously think while dreaming—which still leads to this.
* In [[Barbara Hambly]]'s ''Ran Away'', [[Benjamin January]] dreams of his dead wife asking where Sabid is—which causes him to consider whether Sabid might actually be in New Orleans, making trouble again for the same man he attacked years ago.
* In ''[[
* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|Up Jim River]]'', Donovan, in his drugged sleep, realizes a few things (on top of getting his soul pieced back together).
== [[Live-Action
▲* Woody Allen's ''[[Match Point]]''
▲* ''[[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 (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.
* [[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 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).
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* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209192641/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2170 Slick dreams some marvelous truths -- which he forgets, like dreams, after being awake a minute.]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Happened a few times on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. ''Twin Peaks'' was even explicitly parodied at one point during one of these.
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