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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' is particularly susceptible to these.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' had Asuna getting these. {{spoiler|Turns out that the "dreams" are really memories that have been suppressed with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]].}}
* Einhard Stratos of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[Spin Offspring|ViVid]]'' has her recurring [[Flashback Nightmare]] based [[Genetic Memory|from the memories she inherited from]] [[Warrior Prince|Hegemon Klaus Ingvalt]], her ancestor, and how he had failed to prevent the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] of Sankt Kaiser Olivie Segbrecht, [[Star-Crossed Lovers|his rival and possible lover]].
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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', Kanae's favorite dream includes kissing Kyon at a beach and magically teleporting to a shadowy wooded glade surrounded by bunnies and flowers. {{spoiler|After the fight with a robot at the beach Kanae, still somewhat dazed, believes she's dreaming when Kyon [[Holy Backlight|shows himself like in her dream]], and decides to kiss him only to realize later everybody is watching them.}}
* In ''[[Getting Back On Your Hooves (Fanfic)|Getting Back Onon Your Hooves]]'', Twilight is awakened repeatedly by nightmares of her encounter with Discord. Spike is also implied to be having recurring nightmares of his greed induced rampage. Trixie had recurring nightmares involving an Ursa as a filly as well. {{spoiler|Trixie teaches Twilight, and Spike, who was listening, lucid dreaming, allowing them to successfully conquer them, which her grandmother taught her as a filly.}}
 
== Film ==
* ''[[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street]]'' centers around teenagers having recurring dreams about Freddy Krueger. Said dreams end ''very'' badly to say the least...
* Aki Ross has dreams like this in ''[[Final Fantasy: theThe Spirits Within]]'' which are very integral to the story.
* [[Prince of Darkness]] has everyone involved with the Brotherhood of Sleep having one. Except it's not actually a dream, but an attempt from future scientists to [[Fling a Light Into Thethe Future|warn the past about the incoming apocalypse]].
{{quote| [[Nightmare Fuel|You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing.]]}}
 
 
== Literature ==
* In ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', when Crayak finally becomes a visible force in the plot, Jake reveals that he's been dreaming repeatedly of the first time he glimpsed him.
* Harry in ''[[Harry Potter]] and the [[Order of the Phoenix]]''.
* There are a few subversions in ''[[Discworld]]'' of recurring dreams involving [[Surreal Horror|giant boots with teeth]] and such things as that.
* [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s [[Ciaphas Cain]] has recurring [[Bad Dreams|nightmares]]. They only begin to impact the plot in ''The Traitor's Hand'', when one of them starts to ''[[Talking in Your Dreams|change]]''...
* Hark has recurring dreams in [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[GauntsGaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''Only In Death'', of Tanith pipes. They haunt him so much that he slips and writes about them in the journal. {{spoiler|Turns out that Soric was [[Talking in Your Dreams]] to warn him. After [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|killing Soric in mercy]], he finds himself missing them.}}
* Faramir in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' has recurring dreams, both prophetic in nature ("Seek for the sword that was broken") and nightmares of the drowning of Numenor. The last one was based on the recurring dreams that both [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] and his son Michael had (see below).
* In ''[[Death Star]]'', the Force-Sensitive stormtrooper Nova Stihl [[Dreaming of Things to Come|dreams often of his own death]]. There are at least two different scenarios, one in which he's fighting other troopers as a [[Delaying Action]], one in which he's chasing a Corellian smuggler. There are variations on the first one; sometimes he's fighting alone, sometimes with a companion, and the odds against him vary. When the second scenario happens he averts death by not following Han Solo too closely, but in the first he's as grimly willing as he is in each dream.
 
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', Grace used to have one about [http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-09-11 a lespuko skull taunting her].
* ''[[Ninth Elsewhere]]'': Probably inevitable since the comic takes place in a [[Mental World]].
 
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== Real Life ==
* [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] conceived of the idea for the Downfall of Númenor because of a recurring dream he had about an enormous wave looming up over the land and crashing down on it.
 
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