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The protagonist's sexual dreams about a friend or enemy causes them to reassess their relationship. Or not, just as long as they're having them.

 

 

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* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Shinji has a particularly [[Mind Screw]]-ish dream (for the audience ''and'' himself), including erotic visions of Misato, Asuka, and Rei. Even when Shinji is dreaming of Asuka throwing herself at him, she ''still'' refers to him as "[[Baka]]-Shinji" (stupid Shinji). Baka-Shinji.

* In one ''[[Code Geass]]'' [[All There in the Manual|side story]], Kallen is woken from such a dream about Zero; she was talking in her sleep, but luckily for her, her friend thinks she was talking about being on medication.

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' [[High School AU]] ''Guren Gakuenhen'' has Simon dreaming about Nia this way. Specifically, a naked Nia saying "Okay, Simon... let's gattai!" while in his house.

** He wakes up and the last part turns out to be true.

** Worth mentioning is that Shiki is awakened every morning by Hisui, one of the [[Meido|maids]]. It's apparently pretty clear what Shiki's dreaming about as he sleeps. ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|Unless he dreams about ''her'']])

** Shirou in ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' gets one about Rin as well. Interestingly enough it's not in Rin's route. {{spoiler|Except when she opens her eyes her eyes are different. When Rider takes off the visor and you see the same eyes it becomes clear it was Rider in the dream disguised as Rin.}}

** It's inverted in Kagetsu Tohya, the Tsukihime side story. Len actually has an erotic dream about ''Shiki'' where he can do nothing but watch.

** Almost at the beginning of the manga, Ranma had a dream about a mountain-sized Kuno grasping him (in female form, naked) while volcanoes erupted and jet fighters bombed a city. The anime version merely had him (again, naked in female form) in a pool, with Kuno offering his suddenly ''very phallic'' wooden sword ("Grab onto this!"); upon refusing, "she" sank to a reef at the bottom of the pool, only to be surrounded by countless naked Kunos (and this was after he had Kuno repeating his declaration of love to male-Ranma, including at one point where they were both naked in the bath). Both times, he woke up screaming his head off.

** After being knocked unconscious while trapped in a deserted island with Kuno (again,) female-Ranma dreamed about living there happily as the kendoist's wife, already with several children. Again, she woke up in absolute terror and slapped him silly at first sight.

** Akane herself experienced a unique dream once, when cursed to sleep endlessly by a magical incense burner. Not only did she (as the heroine of the dream) expressed definite love for Ranma, but she also saw the competition as cruel dominatrixes (an especially disturbing case with Kodachi,) and, when a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] Ranma came to rescue her, she didn't complain much when he brought her down for an [[Unusual Euphemism|amorous tryst]].

* Disturbingly subverted in ''[[Saikano]]'': Shuji has a nightmare in which Chise appears in full-on [[Person of Mass Destruction|Ultimate Weapon mode]] and threatens to kill him; confused, he turns and sees Fuyumi naked in bed beside him.

* Played with in the ''[[Lucky Star]]'' OVA, when Kagami dreams about Konata casting a spell on her house. To undo the spell, Dream-Konata tells her that she must call out a certain phrase, which she does as she wakes up, only to find her sister staring at her with the wrong([[Freud Was Right|?]]) idea about what just happened.

** Specifically, Kagami wakes up saying "I want to *BLEEP* with Konata."

* ''[[Sora no Otoshimono]]'': A [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] reveals that [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Mitsuki Sohara]] experiences dreams of willingly doing very naughty things with Tomoki, to which she firmly and ''violently'' denies. [[Covert Pervert|Apparently, she's very chaste]], [[Blatant Lies|or so she'd like the others to believe]].

* [[Great Teacher Onizuka]] manga: Anko dreamed about Noburo during the Okinawa trip. This was replaced in the anime with him walking in on her from the bath because apparently this was more acceptable on TV.

* While never stated, in the 37th episode of [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Riza has a pretty...suggestive sounding dream.

* In ''[[Afterschool Charisma]]'', Shiro has one of Marie Curie's clone in the fourth chapter. Ikkyu rudely wakes him up.

** Later, Touma has one of Kaori wearing Index's swimsuit.

 

== Comic Books ==

* An elaborate example opens the ''[[XXXenophile]]'' story "Net Dreams".

* In ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'', Dan has one about a villainess he once defeated, who then turns into Laurie, but the dream becomes rather disturbing after that.

** More specifically, first he sees himself with the villainess, then with naked Laurie... then they tear their skins off, revealing their costumes underneath. In the movie, they cut out the first bit, because they'd cut out the character.

*** [[Moment Killer|Andddd then a bomb goes off.]]

* ''[[Little Ego]]'' is an adult-oriented, erotic parody of the classic ''[[Little Nemo]]'' comics written and drawn by Vittorio Giardino. The main character, called Ego, is a woman seemingly in her middle twenties. As in Little Nemo, each story is about her having a dream, and she wakes up in the last panel. Whereas Little Nemo talked to his mother after waking up, Little Ego thinks what she will tell her psychoanalyst. Every story in the Little Ego comic book involves erotic imagery, with Ego appearing half-naked or fully naked in at least one point. She has sexual intercourse with men, with other women, and even with plants and animals.

* In ''[[Zatanna]]'' #16 (the final issue of the 2011 series), a seriously sleep deprived Zee is woken from a dream involving two hunky men and a tub of cocoa butter when Uriah breaks into her library. She spends the rest of the issue trying to deal with the pest as quickly as possible so she can get back to the dream.

 

* Pick a fandom, any fandom. Some romantic fanfic will have used this at some point.

** Counts double if it's got at least one character who has some sort of telekinesis, mind control powers, hypnotism, or connection to dream imagery. There's a fanfic out there that [[Homoerotic Dream|features]] Sheldon Sands from ''Once Upon A Time In Mexico'' with [[Sandman|the Corinthian]]. Who, surprisingly, doesn't have all that much fic out there utilising this trope.

** If you really want to know, she dreamed of {{spoiler|the main cast doing an orgy in the classroom after subjecting her to some mild bondage. Rei was the domina.}} And to think Hikari's the most innocent girl in the entire cast... wonder how she knows so much about ''it''.

** Part of an Evangelion doujin consists of '''Rei''' having an erotic dream about Shinji. Or to be more exact, she fantasizes about the two of them together naked in a void-like empty space; they kiss... then she starts ''breastfeeding him''. How's ''that'' as [[Mind Screw]]?!

 

== Film ==

* Roy gets one in both ''[[Shanghai Noon]]'' and ''Shanghai Knights''. In the former, he dreams that he's in a saloon with a number of gorgeous women, one of whom begins to bite his ear as he tells them of his adventures. He awakens to find himself buried up to his neck in the ground with a vulture nibbling his ear. In the latter, he dreams that he's in a room with a number of gorgeous women and his friend's ''sister''. He suggests that the two try some positions from the Kama Sutra and she begins to lick his face, only for him to wake up and discover that he fell asleep in a car and a sheep climbed in and was licking him.

* Perhan and Azra in ''Dom za vensanje (Time of the Gypsies.)'' ...or was it a dream?

 

== Literature ==

* [[Older Than Steam]]: In Edmund Spenser's ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'', the Redcross Knight's erotic dream about his ward, Princess Una (albeit magically induced), is the start of his [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|long spiral]] down the road of sin and despair.

* ''[[The Giver]]'': Jonas dreams of Fiona, experiencing his first "Stirrings" and introducing us to the first sign of how screwed up a [[Dystopia]] we're dealing with.

{{quote|'''Riva:''' "She was really beautiful, blonde hair, dark eyes, and would you ''believe'' she had no clothes o--"

'''Belgarath:''' "''Riva! Forget about the girl! What did'' Belar ''say?!''" }}

* ''[[House of Leaves]]''. Johnny has a bunch of these over Thumper. They are eventually crowded out by [[Brown Note|the nightmares]].

* Happens to Harry in ''[[Harry Potter]]'', when Ginny "began cropping up in his dreams in ways that made him devoutly thankful that Ron could not perform Legilimency."

* Stingo, the protagonist of ''[[Sophie's Choice|Sophies Choice]]'' has one about a girl he grew up with. It comes across as [[Nightmare Fuel]] both to him and the reader, since the girl had just committed suicide.

 

* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'': Xena dreams of Ares in "Eternal Bonds". See also [[UST]] and [[Slap Slap Kiss]].

* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'': Maya dreams about sex with Eliot, and then Eliot of sex with Maya as part of [[Will They or Won't They?|their romantic arc.]]

* In the ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' episode "The Blind Date" Jeff tells to Larry, that when he was fantasizing about Jenna Jameson while masturbating, Cheryl, Larry's wife "popped in", and doesn't understand why Larry isn't happy to find it out. Later, when Larry fantasizes about Cady Huffman, she suddenly turns into Jeff's wife, Susie, shocking Larry, since they can't stand each other.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'': Kara dreams of Leoben (Paint!sex)

** In the episode "Eric's Corvette Caper", Kelso thinks he's having one of these, when Jackie and Donna sneak into the room he's sleeping in.

* ''[[I'm Alan Partridge]]'': Whilst it doesn't exactly make him reassess his relationships with them (he's far too shallow for that), the erotic daydream that Alan Partridge frequently segues into in the first season of this show certainly reveals much to the audience in more ways than one; dressed in a leather codpiece and a jumper with the nipples cut out, Alan offers to do a lapdance for a variety of men - all of whom, significantly enough, have a certain amount of influence in determining the future of Alan's career in television.

* ''[[A Different World]]'': Whitley has an erotic dream about Dwayne (this was long before they actually hooked up). She was slightly freaked by the... vividness of the dreams (especially since she was a virgin at the time).

* In the ''[[Married... with Children]]'' episode "Nightmare on Al's Street", Marcy has several erotic dreams about Al, much to her horror and disgust. She eventually realizes that the dreams are a subconscious way of punishing herself, because he refused to admit to Al that he was right about something. At the end, Al ends up having a dream about her, which shocks him equally.

* ''[[Lexx]]'': Stanley's erotic dreams typically derail into nightmares. This is as much due to [[I'm a Humanitarian|the kind of woman he tends to meet]] as his own subconscious self-loathing.

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': Sam has one of these featuring Bela, and is very flustered when he figures out who he's been dreaming about (after waking up with an extremely dopey grin on his face). He's even more flustered and awkward when Bela shows up shortly after to talk with him and Dean.

* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', when Angela asks Cory if he's ever thought of her as more than a friend, Cory responds that he did once when he had a dream about her of this sort. Then, when Angela shoves him onto the bed and climbs on top of him [[It Makes Sense in Context|to prove a point]], Cory says "Oh no! It's the dream!".

* In one episode of ''[[30 Rock]]'', Jenna and Tracy begin having these about Kenneth, which counts as a [[Homoerotic Dream]] for Tracy. The only way they can solve it is by killing him in the dream.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

{{quote|'''Jason''': Oh man Peter, I had the worst dream ever last night.

'''Peter''': Oh?

'''Jason''': I dreamed that Lara Croft from "Tomb Raider" was determined to make me her boyfriend or something. It was like eight straight hours of misery. She just would not leave me alone. She even threw herself on top of me four or five times. Judging by the look on your face, I'm guessing you had lousy dreams,too.

'''Peter''': Jason, are you familiar with the extra little prayer I say each night before bedtime? }}

 

== Theater ==

* Rod has a "really nice dream" about his roommate Nicky in ''[[Avenue Q]]''.

* Moritz and "legs in sky blue stockings" in ''[[Spring Awakening]]''. {{spoiler|The dreams get worse after Melchior writes an essay for Moritz explaining the ins and outs of sex, leading Moritz to kill himself.}}

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'', Arche dreams of sex with Cless while drunk.

* The female player character in [[Dragon Age]] can confess to having erotic dreams about Alistair.

* Then there's Dist in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. We never do learn exactly what he's dreaming of, but he's moaning Jade's name...

** And Jade was there. And he replies by [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"raping" him]].

* In ''[[Fallout]] 3'', at the beginning of game proper, you are woken up by your friend Amata. One of dialogue options is "Amata? I was just dreaming about you..." (it's unclear if it isn't just a wily talk). For [[Les Yay|both]] sexes.

** However, if you actually say this as a girl, it is pretty clear that Amata isn't interested.

*** In fact, she gets rather [[Squick|grossed out]] by the thought of it.

* ''[[Tsukihime]]'' has Shiki being shown one of these by one of Arcueid's familiars, in the Near Side routes, as a way of showing her gratitude for helping her defeat Nero Chaos. Since said familiar is a little...inexperienced, the scenes can vary from pleasant, to slightly uncomfortable, to outright disturbing, depending on which heroine the player has him dream about. Shiki also has a [[Meido|maid]] who wakes him up every morning - combine that with a [[Raging Stiffie]] and Shiki apparently talking in his sleep for a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] if the dream is about ''her''.

 

* In the ''[[Ciem Webcomic Series]]'', Candi's erotic dreams about the men in her life are implied to be so intrusive (and memorable,) that they interfere with her ability to function in life.

* In ''[[Friendly Hostility]]'', Collin is creeped out after having an erotic dream about his friend Arath. Fox assures him that it's natural for him to dream about people other than his significant partner. He goes on to casually list the various people/beings he's had sexy dreams about, which Collin is not enthused to hear in its entirety.

* [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-1-brings-back-the-80s/07-prison-sex/a-73/ This] ''[[Shortpacked]]'' strip (at this point, Ethan was gay-but-doesn't-know-it).

* In ''[[Misfile]]'' Ash experiences [[Gender Bender|her]] first sex dream in [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=578 this strip] and [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=579 continues in this one] the effect is discussed in [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=592 this] one. This being ''[[Misfile]]'' naturally they then find all sort of ways to [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|avoid speaking about it]].

* ''[[Linburger]]''. Poor Neut seems to be the only Cyll not getting any in the [[Free-Love Future]] hedonistic society. As such, he has sexual fantasies about Lin and the Firne twins Kien-Tai. But mostly Lin.

* A recurring theme in ''[[Ménage à 3]]''. Gary mostly dreams of Zii and DiDi. Yuki has had some quite disturbing ones {{spoiler|about Gary}}

* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', Monica has an amusing one involving [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/madness/ Gerard Butler.] It also gets bonus points for being head-trauma induced.

* There is a odd romantic erotic fantasy dream in in ''[[Karate Bears]]'': but i guess it takes all kinds.[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/05/sweet-dreams.html click here]

* [http://www.cracked.com/article_18715_everyones-dream-someone-elses-nightmare-5Bcomic5D.html This] comic by [[Subnormality|Winston Rowntree]], with an unusual twist.

 

== Western Animation ==

* In an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' Hank has a dream that he's grilling naked with Nancy. He tells Peggy about the dream and says that she was in it instead. Hank asks John Redcorn what the dream means and then things start to get out of control. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].

* In ''[[Family Guy]]'' Peter dreams about someone named Jenny. Turns out he was dreaming of comedian Richard Jeni {{spoiler|and his sweet ass}}.

* Hinted at in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Fearful Symmetry (AKA Galatea)." Supergirl has confided a recent nightmare to Green Arrow, who says that dreams can feel realistic. He then mentions [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|having one such dream]] the previous night as he looks over at [[Kick Chick|Black Canary]].

 

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