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{{quote|''"And it shall come to pass in the last days, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams"''
|''[[The Bible]]'', Acts 2:17}}
In [[Real Life]], [[Real Dreams Are Weirder|dreams are just dreams]]. If a friend [[Face Heel Turn|turns on you]] or [[Dead Little Sister|your sister dies]] or you're living in a [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|palace made of lego that floats in the sky and changes colour]], it's not an [[Dreaming of Things to Come|early glimpse of things to come]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Once she starts getting involved with the supernatural, {{spoiler|Asuna}} of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' starts getting these. Later [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by it being some self-induced [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] that's starting to break down.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' begins with Nanoha dreaming of [[Girl of My Dreams|a magical boy]] fighting a losing battle against [[Monster of the Week|a strange monster]], which naturally, turned out to have actually happened.
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* In an issue of ''Impulse'', Bart Allen has a series of increasingly bizarre dreams including one where he's visited by warped versions of [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] members Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, Brainiac 5, Apparition and Spark, based on his own... unique... interpretation of his cousin XS's description of them. Two issues later he does indeed meet precisely those Legionnaires.
** Of course, [[The DCU]] has a [[The Sandman|Lord of Dreams]] to justify this sort of thing; any dream prophecies come from ''his'' power, not the dreamer's. Er, except for Dream Girl.
*** [[Retcon
* A major theme of ''Bone''. Dreams are an extension of the setting, and nobody ever has a dream that ''isn't'' a prophecy, suppressed memory, or psychic message from someone.
== Films ==
* [[The Movie]] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Two Towers]]'' begins with a sequence showing Gandalf's battle with the Balrog... which then turns out to be a dream of Frodo's, even though it's an entirely accurate depiction of what really happened.
** Also, in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Return of the King]]'', Aragorn has a dream of Arwen dying. He then wakes up to find that Elrond has arrived to tell him that Arwen's dying.
* ''[[Dead of Night]]'': A young man recounts a dream he had while in hospital, in which he has a premonition about {{spoiler|his own death, as an ominous hearse driver turns out to look just like a tram driver he meets when he gets out. The tram crashes, after he gets off in a fright.}}
** This sounds like a retelling of a similar classic ghost story, ''Room For One More''. {{spoiler|To whit; the protagonist has a dream where (as time period allows) a mortician/ferryman/hearse driver/whatever is preparing a large number of deceased bodies/souls, sees the protagonist approaching and says "Room for one more." Cut to the waking world, and he encounters a(n) stagecoach/bus/elevator/boat/roller coaster where a familiar (and invariably creepy) man holds them up, saying the same phrase. He declines, waiting for the next one; moments into the trip, something horrible happens and everyone else dies.}}
* The short film known as ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0872275/ 5:45 A.M.]'' features a car crash that sends a psychic shockwave to a nearby motel, as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FLwhsfJ6P0 here].
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* ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' has this in spades, at least in the third book. In fact, the dreams are so abundant and proven true that there's really no suspense when you already know what's going to happen because you're beaten over the head with it 400 pages before it happens.
* ''Under the Dome'' also has this trope, with all of the children in Chester's Mill having precognitive dreams/seizures, and anyone who {{spoiler|goes through the radiation belt surrounding the dome's generator}} having similar visions. Apparently, Stephen King likes this trope.
* Nikolai Bolkonsky at the end of ''[[War and Peace]]'' has a dream that, [[No Ending|had the book continued]], would most likely have come true. Sonya has dreams of Prince Andrei lying down in bed in a rickety house, and that's where he dies.
* Prophetic dreams in ''[[Warrior Cats|Warriors]]'' were originally established as dreams that only medicine cats receive, and when they did have one, it was a pretty big deal. As the series progressed, ''every'' dream that ''every'' character had contained either a prophecy, a glimpse into the future, or allowed them to speak with their ancestors.
** Actually, prophetic dreams are still limited to medicine cats, it just seems otherwise because from series 2 onward, there's been at least one protagonist who is a medicine cat. However cats in the Place of No Stars are still capable of visiting non-medicine cats.
** Firestar and the four Sun-Drown Journey cats were the only non-medicine cats to have prophetic dreams in any case, but this is [[Justified]], since they were all [[The Chosen One]].
* All the viewpoint characters in ''[[
* There's a good deal of "everyone" in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. Bran starts getting "the wolf dreams" after [[Disability Superpower|he's crippled from his fall]]
** The youngest Stark, Rickon, has the same prophetic dream as Bran did about their father's death. It's the first indication that Bran didn't just have a nightmare, and it supports the idea that this ability runs in the family and/or is connected to their relationships with their wolves as Rickon and Shaggydog are very close.
* There are several in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', notably Boromir's and Faramir's recurring dream about Isildur's bane that prompts Boromir to go to Rivendell. Frodo also sees Gandalf's escape from Orthanc in a dream, though he doesn't understand what he saw until he hears Gandalf's story later.
* Alex in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
* Bella has this constantly in ''[[Twilight (
* In ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'', this precedes the coming of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Slake-moths]].
* In [[Gone
== Live Action TV ==
* An interesting thing to note is that, in an episode of ''[[
** Interestingly? Haven't you been to [https://web.archive.org/web/20141104033022/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=28&Itemid=45&limitstart=16 Superdickery]?
** There's an old, old theory that Superman's powers are all psychic in some nature ("Tactile telekinesis" instead of actual [[Super Strength]], fooling an entire planet by [[Paper-Thin Disguise|simply wearing glasses]], etc.), so it kind of makes sense if you don't think about it too much.
* A literal interpretation of this is the Centauri in ''[[
** [[Fridge Logic|One has to wonder whether Lord Refa's genocidal intentions were related to a dream of being beaten to death by dozens of Narns.]]
*** This would make this a [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]] as well. One good way to piss off an entire race to the point where they want to beat you to death is to attempt to wipe them all out.
* In
* Several characters on ''[[
* The eponymous ''[[
* Starting in the pilot of ''[[American Gothic]]'', and continuing on to about the twelfth episode, Gail Emory proves to possess some form of this ability, since she continually relives or witnesses the fire which claimed the lives of her parents, even though she wasn't actually there to see the tragedy the first time. Once Buck [[Manipulative Bastard|has revealed to her the truth about how and why her parents died]] and she realizes they [[Broken Pedestal|weren't as wonderful as she thought they were]], this ability seems to disappear... which [[Evil Is Sexy|considering the trouble]] [[Virginity Makes You Stupid|she gets into later]], is rather unfortunate.
* [[House (TV series)|Dr. Gregory House]] was shown to have (apparently accurate) visions of his future patients' outcomes during a near death experience (a rather odd choice of subject-matter for a psychic dream). He chose not to believe in the supernatural anyway. Apparently forgetting all about
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': In Season 3, after meeting the precognitive African man, Matt suddenly has his eyes turn white a la Isaac and has a dream that happens to be about the same part of the future that Peter has just popped off to.
** It is implied that after his death, the precognitive African man "passed" his abilities down to Matt. Considering that Matt is a telepath to begin with, having precognitive abilities isn't really that far-fetched.
** In Season 1, Peter had these; Season 3 revealed this to be because {{spoiler|precognition is his mother's superpower, and he copied it from her.}}
* Claudia Brown has dreams about Gorgonopsids and anomalies before poofing out of the timeline on ''[[Primeval]]''.
* The ''[[Terminator]]'' series contains no psychic powers, but a recent arc on ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' concerns Sarah having a series of dreams about a mysterious symbol. Possibly justified by saying that she saw it on the wall earlier and only subconsciously recognised its significance.
* Averted in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', where the only ones with psychic powers are demon-tainted (Sam and others like him), prophets of the Lord (Chuck), or apparently just natural psychics who do it for a living (Missouri and Pamela).
* The core premise of ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[Malcolm in
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== Toys ==
* Several characters in ''[[Bionicle]]''. Vakama is the most prominent one, but [[Word of God|Word of Greg]] says it was " probably just a glitch in his AI". Gali and Kopaka have also have them, and there was the occasional mention of Nokama being able to have them, too. These have disappeared in later years as the series started [[Doing
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' makes use of this in the plot, with characters remembering past events of other people in dreams.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' has Princess Zelda and Link with prophetic dreams about Ganondorf (the latter before he's even met the man). And this is ''before'' they get their respective Triforces. It might have something to do with legends about Hylian ears being designed to hear the messages of the gods...
== Web Comics ==
* This happens in a series of early ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Parodied in [http://catandgirl.com/?p=1339 this] ''[[Cat and Girl]]'' strip.
* Pretty much anyone on or near Skaia in ''[[Homestuck]]'' has these. Although technically, the dreams are just waking up in another body. Eventually, players go there as their waking selves, either by traversing their gates, building/flying their way there, or more rarely, via god tier resurrection.
** That is, for the Prospit players. For the Derse players, their dreams are prophetic in a wholly different manner - they listen to the whisperings of [[Eldritch Abominations]] that exist beyond the session.
** Then there's the matter of players of dead dreamselves, who end up dreaming in the [[Eldritch Location|furthest ring]], as Karkat and Jade find out the hard way while Feferi figures this is the case all along and [[Heroic Sacrifice|allows her dream self to get killed]] to prove the eldritch abominations aren't all that bad. Feferi also convinces the gods to produce [[Lotus Eater Machine|dream bubbles]] for her and Jade to dream within, which seem to allow those within them to lucidly dream.
* Dave Davenport of [[Narbonic]] had a couple of bizarre dreams that, in hindsight, outlined the major plot developments of the rest of the webcomic. Dave was {{spoiler|a potential Mad Scientist that Helen was keeping artificially suppressed}}, not a psychic, but that may or may not count given the details of the setting.
* ''[[What's New
* ''[[
== Web Original ==
* In [[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', William's habit of dreaming about things he should have forgotten after the [[Reset Button|Returns to the Past]] was one of the factors that helped them cinch his initiation as a Lyoko Warrior. Not that he lasted more than a day, but ''anyway''...
* Parodied on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in one of the Halloween episodes, where Bart has a nightmare about facing terrible danger on the bus ride to school (which of course, comes true.)
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Lisa: ...and? }}
* From ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
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'''Chaca:''' Well, in ''my'' dream, Dad had to kiss a llama!
'''Tipo:''' Yeah, [[Tempting Fate|like THAT would ever happen.]] }}
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