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{{quote|''"[[Sarcasm Mode|It's not every day you meet your dream girl]]. ''[[[Beat]]]'' Sorry."''|'''Takato Matsuki''', ''[[Digimon]]''}}
A character, usually male, first meets a stranger, usually female and presumably a future [[Love Interest]], in a dream of his, before meeting her in real life and discovering that she wasn't just an invention of his subconscious. She really is the "girl of his dreams".
How did a real person like her end up in his dreams? Maybe they were [[Prophetic Dreams]], or [[Dream Spying|his dreaming of his own time]]. Maybe it was [[Telepathy]] on her part. Or maybe they happened to [[Talking in Your Dreams|meet each other's consciousness]] in a collective [[Dream Land]].
Either way, meeting someone of your desired gender in a dream always means that the person is special, or otherworldly, or fated to be yours. Romantic love is practically guaranteed.
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** 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.
*** I always thought it was the human-friendly Sovereigns' way of getting two characters who needed to team up but wouldn't meet under normal circumstances to meet.
* ''[[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]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Scott Pilgrim in the first volume of ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' has his dreams rudely interrupted by a courier-girl named Ramona. This is because one of the "subspace highways" she uses regularly passes through the [[Dream Land]] of his mind. (Despite what she says, it ''is'' a bit like ''[[Super Mario Bros.]] 2''.)
* 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.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Terry Gilliam's ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]''
* ...as well as ''[[12 Monkeys]]'' (but the recurring dream was caused by {{spoiler|a childhood memory of seeing something horrible happen to his time-traveling future self and his lover.}}
* ''[[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?
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'''Quaid:''' That's right. }}
* Valentine is a male version in ''[[Mirror Mask]]''.
* ''The Good Night'' featured a married man dreaming of a mysterious woman who adores him sexually, played by [[
* 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.
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* ''[[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]].}}
* Tragically narrowly averted in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who
* A few of the subplots in ''[[Flash Forward 2009|FlashForward]]'' invoke this trope. Playing it straight, they have Bryce's flash that involves meeting up with a girl in a restaurant and spends some time trying to find her, but doesn't have all the information needed. In a slight subversion, Olivia's flashforward shows her romantically involved with Lloyd Simcoe. Too bad she's already married...
* 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.
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* This can happen to Ness in ''[[Earthbound]]'', as a psychic plea from the imprisoned Paula.
** 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.
* The player character in [[Knights of the Old Republic]] has dreams {{spoiler|(actually resurfacing memories)}} of Bastila before their first meeting. Only applies if the character is male and actually does the romantic subplot.
* 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.
* Extremely offbeat adventure game ''[[Chu Lip]]'' starts with the hero dreaming of a girl on a nap while he moves to a new town. Then he discovers that she actually lives in said town... And he wants to figure out how to win her heart.
* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' starts with a dream sequence dungeon featuring the protagonist Serge, a random third party member, and most significantly his future significant other, Kid.
* 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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