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* [[Boys Love]] example: ''[[Koi Wa Ina Mono Myouna Mono]]'' or ''[[Secret Love]]'', a manga by Taishi Zaou: The high school boy Masafumi Tamura has several dreams of having sex with another boy. To his fear, he meets the boy, Narumi Seiwa, who sure is interested in making the dreams come true.
* Female dreaming of male example: Nanoha dreams of Yuuno via telepathy in the very first episode of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. How much they fit the "Romantic love is practically guaranteed" part of this trope mostly depends on which side of the [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] you are.
* Another genderflipped example is from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'': the first time Sakura Kinomoto saw Li Syaoran was in one of her [[Prophetic Dreams]]. Unlike the aforementioned example, they're VERY much an [[Official Couple]].
* In ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', Azmaria has a dream about Joshua near the beginning of volume 2, and finds out in the same chapter that he's Rosette's missing brother. They don't actually meet in person until volume 5. {{spoiler|In the epilogue, Azmaria is shown holding Joshua's hand at Rosette's funeral. A ring is clearly visible, implying that, yes--they did actually get married.}}
* In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', Takato first sees Ruki in a dream, rocking a [[Badass Longcoat]] and generally being awesome. Takato/Ruki is a major [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] in the fandom; but Takato actually has a crush on one of his classmates, Juri, and she more or less returns it in the end.
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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 ''[[WITCH (Comic Book)|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.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Terry Gilliam's ''[[Brazil (Filmfilm)|Brazil]]''
* ...as well as ''[[Twelve12 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?<br />
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* 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 [[Penelope Cruz]].
* A dark version occurs in the horror movie ''[[Lifeforce (Film)|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.
** Mostly because a Dragon decided to play matchmaker to make up for a mistake in his past by manipulating their early dreams. The funny part is, he wasn't trying to matchmake for ''them'' -- and he was very embarrassed when he found out how erotic their dreams had gotten.
* 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.
* ''[[Belgariad|Belgarath the Sorcerer]]'': Riva Iron-Grip dreamt of his future betrothed continuously for ''years'' courtesy of his God, Belar... and since Belar knows his people, the dream girl didn't wear much. On the other hand, she was roughly newborn when the dreams started, and had to wait a while to grow up. Riva was ''very'' happy to meet her for real finally.
* Inigo and Giulietta in the sequel fragment at the end of ''[[The Princess Bride (Literaturenovel)|The Princess Bride]]''.
* The book ''Tree of Dreams'' contains the story "Dream Girl", in which a prince meets a girl in a dream and falls in love. The prince's friend convinces the king that the best solution is to let the prince go out and travel so he can meet a real girl. Then they come to a country where the king's daughter has been locked up because she wants to marry a man she met in a dream...
* ''[[Inheritance Cycle (Literature)|Eragon]].''
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[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/NS/Recap/S4 E9 Forest of the Dead|Forest of the Dead]]"- {{spoiler|Donna's fake husband turns out to be a real person uploaded into the computer, but his stutter makes him unable to get her attention before she leaves, so she never knows he's real.}}
* 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: theThe 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 Onon Deck]].
* Tenar is this to Ged in the [[Sci Fi Channel]] version of ''[[Earthsea Trilogy]]''.
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* This can happen to Ness in ''[[Earthbound]]'', as a psychic plea from the imprisoned Paula.
** A gender reversed version is found in ''[[MOTHER 1 (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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: aA Link Toto T Hethe Past (Video Game)|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.]]}}
** Although a short while later you get ''another'' dream sequence, where you {{spoiler|meet the Heroine, the ''real'' "eternal partner".}}
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Achewood]]'': Roast Beef first meets Molly while clinically dead and in the [[Mundane Afterlife]]. When he's brought back to life, his initial reaction is to believe it was [[All Just a Dream]], but they meet again after Roast Beef has another brush with death, and {{spoiler|are eventually reunited more permanently when [[Crosses the Line Twice|heaven burns down]] and Molly gets a second chance at life on Earth}}.
* Subverted in ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' [http://xkcd.com/240/ #240], where a guy dreamed of a girl from a dying world, and right before the dream ended, she told him coordinates for a location and time in the near future. When he went, [[Reality Ensues|nothing happened]]. {{spoiler|In real life, a bunch of fans dissatisfied with this ending actually followed the coordinates and made something happen together.}}
** [[Accidental Innuendo|Not like that]].
* ''[[YuYU+ME: Me Dreamdream]]'': {{spoiler|Half-inverted, in that the dreamer is the one who moves.}}
* This is the main conceit of ''[http://dreamless.keenspot.com/ Dreamless]'': the main characters (who live on opposite sides of the world, so one is asleep while the other one is awake) share each other's waking lives in their dreams. Too bad [[Star-Crossed Lovers|their countries are about to go to war with each other]]...
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Aang from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' sees Toph in a vision before ever having met her. When they do run into her a short time later, Aang is positively convinced the she, and no-one else, is destined to be his Earth Bending teacher. The romantic part exists only in the minds of the fandom, as Aang was in love with Katara all along.
* Disney's ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'':
{{quote| But if I know you<br />
I know what you'll do<br />
You'll love me at once<br />
The way you did once upon a dream. }}
* ''[[X-Men (Animationanimation)|X-Men]]'' has Lilandra encountered the same way as the comics, and yet not. Where the comics have bad dreams ending with a girl in a spacesuit who eventually beams down in front of him, the show had ... imagine visions of a great battle in space that are tearing your mind apart. At the end, there's this giant, bug-eyed monstrosity. It sees you. [[Oh Crap|And it's coming for you.]] It ends there, but the effect on your sanity and powers don't, by a long shot. It gets worse and worse for the Prof until he realizes that he must not resist it, and takes the creature’s hand. Instantly, the pain and psychic trauma stop, and the creature is there. And turns out to be a spacesuit, with a pretty girl inside. She just needed the psychic link to pinpoint him.
 
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