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* The ending of ''[[Kirby Right Back At Ya]]'' had Kirby falling asleep and {{spoiler|ending up in a nightmare realm filled with food, it's then that the baby star warrior realized that he can attack with his powers in this dream.}} Unlike before when he was awake.

* The 2006 film ''[[Paprika]]'' centers around a device that (like ''Inception'' four years later) allows people to enter others' dreams and manipulate them.

 

* In the incomplete ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4354353/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Wand-of-Uru Harry Potter and the Wand of Uru]'' by JoeHundredaire/alienyouthct, Harry was plagued by a series of dreams which he thinks may be showing him various alternate futures, and explicitly wishes that they were lucid so that he could ask questions and discover more details.

 

* ''[[Waking Life]]'': through a series of loosely related dream sequences, this film explores the concept of lucid dreaming and associated psychological concepts. The Dreamer encounters several interesting people who impart information of varying degrees of profundity.

* ''[[Inception]]''{{'}}s "extractors" are all by definition lucid dreamers who jointly dream a dream with their target and manipulate it and them into giving up the information they want. According to [[The Other Wiki]], writer/director Christopher Nolan wrote the original proposal ''based'' on the concept of lucid dreaming.

* The various ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' films all revolve around Freddy Krueger, a malevolent entity who can enter people's dreams and manipulate them. The third film of the original series, ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'', centers on the efforts of a psychiatrist to help a group of teens learn how to use their own dreaming to fight him.

 

* The song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gYIbMwswKM "Ponderous"] by [[2nu]] describes the events that occur in a dream; the narrator/singer mentions several times that he is aware within the dream that it is in fact a dream.

 

* The [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greeks]] were aware of lucid dreaming. In ''[http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/dreams.1b.txt On Dreams]'', [[Aristotle]] wrote

{{quote|''...often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.''}}