Psychic Dreams for Everyone: Difference between revisions

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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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* 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.

 

 

* 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.

 

== Films ==

* ''[[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.}}

 

 

** [[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.

* Several characters on ''[[Lost]]'' have prophetic dreams, most notably Locke and Eko. We have never been witness to one of Ben's dreams, but he has indicated he "used to have" prophetic dreams.

* The eponymous ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' gets these occasionally as part of her [[Chosen One|Slayer]] powers, mostly in the earlier seasons. There's a slight parody in one episode: Buffy is telling Willow about a nightmare she had in which she was being chased by an incorrectly filled in answer bubble marked "None of the Above". Willow mentions that she hopes it isn't one of Buffy's prophecy dreams.