I Was Having Such a Nice Dream: Difference between revisions

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In the 8th episode of ''[[~~Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|~~Azumanga Daioh]]'', the "New Year's Dream Special", several of the main characters' dreams are shown. [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Schoolgirl Lesbian]] Kaorin naturally dreams about her crush, Sakaki, [[Rescue Romance|coming to her rescue]], but the dream is interrupted by her mother trying to wake her up so they can take their traditional trip to the shrine on New Year's Day. Poor Kaorin just pulls the covers over her head and begs for it to keep going.

* In the 8th episode of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', the "New Year's Dream Special", several of the main characters' dreams are shown. [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Schoolgirl Lesbian]] Kaorin naturally dreams about her crush, Sakaki, [[Rescue Romance|coming to her rescue]], but the dream is interrupted by her mother trying to wake her up so they can take their traditional trip to the shrine on New Year's Day. Poor Kaorin just pulls the covers over her head and begs for it to keep going.

* Discussed in ''[[Lucky Star]]'' episode 11. They rationalized why people who are unwilling to wake up specifically ask for five minutes, and not an hour.

* Parodied in the first chapter of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. Rosette is called on the phone to rush to a mission while her assistant, Chrono, is sleeping in their car. After the call she climbs into the car and tries to wake Chrono up--who protests that he needs to sleep "just a little longer". When Rosette asks ''how'' long, Chrono responds "about ten hours". Naturally, he gets punted out of the car and forced to go to work.

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== Literature ==

* Randolph's Carter's motivation for undertaking [[HP Lovecraft|''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'']] is to find again a glorious city he once saw in a dream but was snatched away from by the gods of [[Dream Land]]. {{spoiler|It turns out to be Boston.}}

* Randolph's Carter's motivation for undertaking [[H.P. Lovecraft|''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'']] is to find again a glorious city he once saw in a dream but was snatched away from by the gods of [[Dream Land]]. {{spoiler|It turns out to be Boston.}}

* In ''The Order of the Phoenix'', [[Harry Potter|Harry Potter's]] prophetic dream is cut short by Ron's snoring, just as he was finally about to find out what was behind the mysterious door.

* Happens a couple times in ''[[~~Warrior Cats (Literature)|~~Warrior Cats]]'':

* Happens a couple times in ''[[Warrior Cats]]'':

** Cats occasionally dream they were ''just'' about to catch a mouse when awakened.

** During a drought, Lionblaze is dreaming about the lake being filled with water.

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== Live Action TV ==

* Subverted beautifully in ''[[Northern Exposure]]'', "Spring Break". Joel remarks during his erotic dream of performing Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistable" surrounded by the trademarked Palmer powerclones that he always wakes up before the good bit. One of the women leans over and tells him not this time -- the screen cuts to black and we hear a zipper being opened. Cue Titles.

* One episode of ''[[Father Ted]]'' featured Ted in an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[~~Ballykissangel (TV)|~~Ballykissangel]]'', only without the [[Will They or Won't They?]] between Father Peter and Assumpta; Ted and Assumpta definitely were, when he was woken by Father Dougal to offer him a peanut. Ted shouted at Dougal, went back to sleep, and had a nightmare where he was being chased by a giant peanut.

* One episode of ''[[Father Ted]]'' featured Ted in an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Ballykissangel]]'', only without the [[Will They or Won't They?]] between Father Peter and Assumpta; Ted and Assumpta definitely were, when he was woken by Father Dougal to offer him a peanut. Ted shouted at Dougal, went back to sleep, and had a nightmare where he was being chased by a giant peanut.

* ''[[Herman's Head]]''. Herman is woken up just as he does a swan dive onto a bed containing two beautiful women.

* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' Fran is having the beginnings of an erotic dream about Maxwell, and she is woken by her mother. She goes back to sleep immediately afterwords. She later had to check if she was asleep, when Maxwell quoted the dream verbatim.

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* Similarly, the story of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' came to author Robert Louis Stevenson in a dream. His wife, hearing his screams and assuming he was having a nightmare, awakened him, much to his incense. Apparently, she had awakened him at the first transformation scene.

* Norm MacDonald worked this into an old stand-up bit about his dream of standing by a pool with Christie Brinkley, and waking up just before it gets to the good part. When he tries to re-dream the scenario, he winds up ''shooting'' pool with ''David'' Brinkley.

* Composer Giuseppe Tartini had a dream where he [[Deal ~~With~~ the Devil|sold his soul to the Devil]]; the Devil took up a violin and began to play a sonata Tartini described as "so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy." When he woke up, he jotted down as much as he could remember, calling it the [[wikipedia:Devilchr(27)s Trill Sonata|Devil's Trill Sonata]], but he still wrote that the difference between what he heard and what he wrote was so great that he would give up music forever just to recreate that one sonata.

* Composer Giuseppe Tartini had a dream where he [[Deal with the Devil|sold his soul to the Devil]]; the Devil took up a violin and began to play a sonata Tartini described as "so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy." When he woke up, he jotted down as much as he could remember, calling it the [[wikipedia:Devilchr(27)s Trill Sonata|Devil's Trill Sonata]], but he still wrote that the difference between what he heard and what he wrote was so great that he would give up music forever just to recreate that one sonata.