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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Played with in ''[[Yumeria]]'' where the main character Tomokazu first meets a strange girl named Mone in a dream of his. The next morning the girl appears to have come out of the [[Dream Land]] and is currently sleeping in bed next to him... naked. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** The English dub actually has him, after meeting <s>Ruki</s> Rika for real, joke about how "it's not every day you get to meet your dream girl - sorry, couldn't resist." She threatens to hurt him if he calls her that again.

** Interestingly, though he tries, neither he nor we ever find out what made him dream of her before the subject is dropped on pain of pain.

* ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]!'' opens with Sato having a dream that mostly symbolizes his delusions. At one point, however, Misaki appears in the background with her trademark white umbrella, watching Sato with an enigmatic smile. Not only does his dream [[Foreshadowing|foreshadow]] his meeting with Misaki later in the episode, but how his dream ends foreshadows {{spoiler|his suicide attempt in the final episode during a last-ditch attempt to convince Misaki not to end ''her'' life}}.

* Used as a [[Red Herring]] and then [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] in the manwa ''Girl In My Dreams'': Soon after losing his girlfriend Ji-Soo in a tragic accident the protagonist Ji-Hoon starts dreaming of a beautiful girl named Yuna who appears to be playing this trope straight until she reveals she's actually a vengeful aspect of Ji-Soo's spirit intent on committing [[Grand Theft Me]].

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[W.I.T.C.H.]],'' Cornelia dreams of Caleb, a guy living in other dimension before meeting him.

* In ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]],'' Professor X meets Lilandra after dreaming of her repeatedly, though when you're the most powerful psychic in the world, it's not as surprising.

* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', sleeping people are often conscripted into being temporary servants in Morpheus' kingdom. In the issue "Season Of Mists", one man begs a woman to tell him her name and address before they wake up. It's not shown if they manage to find each other in the real world.

 

* In the oldest version of ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', Beauty dreams, repeatedly, of a handsome young man who begs her to rescue him. Technically, she ''had'' met him at this point, but [[Two-Person Love Triangle|she doesn't realize it]] until the Beast transforms.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Total Recall]]''. A psychiatrist is trying to convince Quaid that what he's experiencing isn't real, but an implanted memory.

{{quote|'''Psychiatrist:''' And what about the girl? Brunette, athletic, sleazy and demure? Just as you specified. Is that coincidence?

'''Quaid:''' That's right. }}

* Valentine is a male version in ''[[Mirror Mask]]''.

* A dark version occurs in the horror movie ''[[Lifeforce]]''. An astronaut becomes obsessed with the beautiful woman he finds on an alien spacecraft (as she's played by a [[Ms. Fanservice|stark naked Mathilda May]] that's not surprising) who turns out the be a [[Life Energy]]-sucking space vampire. She later informs him that she probed his mind long before his ship approached hers, taking from it an image of his perfect woman.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''Chrome Circle'', Tannim and Shar have repeated dreams of one another long before they ever meet.

* M'k'n'zy dreams about Elizabeth Shelby before meeting her in ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]'', and they end up married. Though that same dream also involved [[Unfortunate Implications|Picard]] ...

* ''[[Dune]]''. Paul Atreides has dreams of the future where he sees the Fremen girl Chani he will eventually meet and fall in love with. His son, Leto II, later has similar dreams during his Spice ordeal, but subverts the trope by deliberately choosing a different path, since it was the love for Chani that led Paul to his eventual doom.

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': Matt Parkman sees a future where he's married to [[Super Speed|Daphne Milbrook]], and they even have a kid together. They end up finding each other back in the present during Volume 3 and become a very sweet (if awkward) couple.

** Unfortunately, Matt's dreams of the future also predicted Daphne ''dying'' in his arms. {{spoiler|In the Volume 4 episode "Cold Snap", [[You Can't Fight Fate|she passes away]] in a heart-breaking [[Tear Jerker]] of a scene, but from a septic gunshot wound, not a subversion of [[Outrun the Fireball]].}}

* Happens in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]].'' A boy with an [[Arranged Marriage]] to Deanna dreams of another woman who turns out to be of the alien race of the week, and she has dreamed of him all her life as well. Turns out he's the only one who can cure their horrible disease, and he winds up leaving with the aliens.

* In the ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Slumber", Clark Kent dreams of a girl named Sara Conroy before he ever met her. He saves her life in both the dream and real world, but they do not become attracted to each other at all, and she becomes a Clark/Lana [[Shipper on Deck]].

 

== [[Music]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** A gender reversed version is found in ''[[MOTHER 1|Earthbound Zero]]'' Ana fell in love with Ninten when she started seeing him in her dreams.

* In ''[[Space Quest]] 4'', it isn't quite a dream, but pretty much all of the events of that game feel like a really weird dream to Roger Senior. More importantly (as far as this trope is concerned), it is in this game, during a particularly weird segment at the end, that Roger Senior first sees Beatrice, the woman who will bear his son, Roger Junior.

* The opening of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'' may be a partial example - Link's sleep is interrupted by a telepathic message from Princess Zelda, and immediately sets out to find her.

* Played with in the beginning of ''[[Shin Megami Tensei I]]'': during the game's opening dream sequence, the protagonist is asked to name his two (male) allies {{spoiler|who will eventually become the Law Hero and the Chaos Hero, and depending on your choices one or both will be at your throat by the end of the game}} before meeting a mysterious woman named Yuriko who claims to be the protagonist's "eternal partner". {{spoiler|She's actually none other than Lilith, and she plans to [[Adam and Eve Plot|create a new humankind with the protagonist.]]}}

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