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It can often be useful — or at least funny — to contrast the coherence of metaphorical or plot-driven dreams with "realistic" dreams that are far more bizarre. When people actually dream, it doesn't make sense.note This is because even though the brain is fully active while asleep, it's operating without much guidance due to the fact that the body is placing more priority on simply decluttering the brain; additionally, in childhood, a great deal of neuroplasticity occurs during sleep, which can result in these new neural connections creating very odd, yet vivid thought patterns. A great deal of the surreal nature of most dreams are their non-linear and often completely nonsensical ordering, brought about partially as a result of the brain consolidating and calling upon memories in both the short term and long term to invent its own story. Dreams may have a narrative thread or sequence of some description, yet often what happens in each section is only tangential in relevance to what happened before, if not completely irrelevant altogether. Plus, the brain will fully or partially flush short-term memory upon waking, so what the person remembers after the fact is usually the juiciest bits. Things happen in random orders, for no good reason. Reality routinely shifts, unnoticed by the dreamer.note Unless they do. But even those who do notice the reality-shifts don't always think anything of them. Nevertheless, "dream" is an incredibly potent metaphor. We use "dream" to mean "aspiration", and "nightmare" to mean "fear". Fictional characters are also likely to have meaningful dreams of some variety — either because they may have a supernatural ability that gives them these dreams, or just because, due to the Law of Conservation of Detail , only their meaningful dreams are reported in the story. All this means that most of the time, when fictional dreams are described, they're considerably more coherent than real dreams ever are. A savvy author may point this out by throwing in some dream elements that are just as weird as non-fictional dreams, either to contrast with the plot-relevant stuff or to disguise that it's there at all. Alternately, characters may be able to tell the difference between prophetic and regular dreams precisely because the prophetic kind are coherent. In one common version of this, a character is put in a position where "their dreams will come true". Unfortunately, it's meant literally. So it means their life becomes strange and non-linear, not that all their deepest desires are suddenly satisfied. Similarly, some people may use this for Literalist Snarking when someone else says, "I'm Your Worst Nightmare." This often involves Word-Salad Humor or, if it's a Nightmare Sequence, Word-Salad Horror. May also overlap with Surreal Humor or Surreal Horror. Other characters may dismiss a particularly trippy dream as an Acid Reflux Nightmare. May be the cause of a Waking Non Sequitur. Absolutely Truth in Television, so No Real Life Examples, Please!. Examples |
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Adventure Time: The season 4 episode "King Worm" is this trope; Finn has been trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine by the titular psychic worm which is feeding off his dreams, and these dreams are every bit as surreal and horrifying as real dreams are capable of being. As bizarre as the world of Ooo is already, everything is just disconcertingly off even by the show's weird standards; highlights include Princess Bubblegum having coffee with The Lich while telling Finn he wouldn't understand because he's "too young", the Ice King being chased by a giant golem made of hundreds of Gunters clustered together while it rains a storm of tiny Lumpy Space Princesses that splatter on the ground, and Jake melting into a puddle while assuring Finn that "Everything's normal". Even more disturbingly, as weird as the episode is, quite a lot of what we see ends up being foreshadowing of future events in the series. In the season 4 finale "The Lich", Finn is worried because he just had a troubling prophetic dream involving Billy, the Lich, and the Cosmic Owl. Jake tries to reassure his brother by telling him about his own weird dreams, which are a lot less meaningful. Pretty much every dream in the series is like this, from Lemonhope's surreal nightmares inspired by his fear of Lemongrab in "Lemonhope" part 1 and 2, Finn's dreams about Flame Princess and Ice King blasting his crotch with their respective elements in "Frost and Fire", or his dream about his hat floating off and being stolen by a whale in "Billy's Bucket List". Dreams are often relevant, if not pivotal, to the plot of the episode, but they're never mundane or linear. |
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In Eric, the description of the demon guarding the gates of Hell says "it would be a lazy use of language to say that the thing that answered the door was a nightmare. Nightmares are usually rather daft things and it's very hard to explain to a listener what was so dreadful about your socks coming alive or giant carrots jumping out of hedgerows. This thing was the kind of terrifying thing that could only be created by someone sitting down and thinking horrible thoughts very clearly." | |
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In Thud!, Brick the troll regards being the center of attention in a room full of watchmen to be his worst nightmare. Then he remembers a number of even worse nightmares he had after particularly bad drug trips, and is distracted mentally sorting them out, getting up to his nineteenth-worst nightmare before Carrot snaps him back to the present. | |
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In The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Richard Cook has several dreams he claims to be prophetic visions, but rather ruins the effect by concluding his description of one with "and then after a short further dream about getting into a bath full of Smarties wearing a Batman costume, I woke up". | |
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Our Dumb Century features an article on Martin Luther King Jr. about his speech "I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night", in which he describes seeing Yankee Stadium full of wild animals, meets Jackie Gleason, and gets threatened by a giant roll of paper towels. | |
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Angel. In "Soul Purpose", Angel has a number of Anxiety Dreams reflecting his current fears, but is rather puzzled by the presence in one dream of a man in a bear suit. | |
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Cheers: One episode begins with the bar gang talking about typical anxiety dreams, until Woody mentions a dream he had about going to a classy restaurant where you had to check your legs in at the door, and then spending the entire meal worrying if someone would accidentally take his legs. | |
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The Talmud specifically says (Nedarim 8a-b) that just as you can't grow wheat without getting straw, any prophetic dream is going to have parts that shouldn't be taken seriously. | |
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In The Name of the Rose, Adso has a very bizarre dream mixing recollections from one of his past readings (the Coena Cypriani) along with the people and dramatic events currently taking place in the abbey. This leads afterwards to an "Eureka!" Moment . | |
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Peewees Big Adventure - Waitress Simone confides her wishes to break free: | |
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Justice League: In contrast to the dreams of the rest of "Only a Dream", the Flash's dream (before Dr. Destiny turned it into an inescapable nightmare) was a surreal romp that included giant frogs in the fridge, cannibal children, and watching cartoons of himself while a small boy picked at the plot holes. In another episode, Supergirl had a dream where she went out, chased, and murdered a guy. She went to Martian Manhunter, who wasn't sure what to make of it, since it was far more linear and logical than normal dreams. It wasn't a dream, it was a shared memory between Supergirl and her clone. |
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Cyanide and Happiness references Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech: | |
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Lovecraft Country opens with Atticus—a Korean War veteran and science fiction fan—having a dream that looks like a monochrome 1950's war movie that somehow becomes an Alien Invasion movie In Color! involving flying saucers, a Green-Skinned Space Babe in a metal bikini, and tentacled horrors that can be destroyed with a baseball bat. | |
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In Harry Potter, Harry has a variety of weird dreams throghout the series, bordering on a Running Gag; examples include showing up at a Quidditch match only to find that the other team was riding dragons, or watching Neville and Professor Sprout waltz in the Room of Requirement while Professor McGonagall plays the bagpipes. He has magically significant dreams, too, but even then some of them are kind of trippy and only make sense in retrospect. Used for Mood Whiplash in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Harry is having a "normal" dream, full of weird symbolism about his day, which abruptly shifts to a vision of Nagini attacking Mr. Weasley. When Professor McGonagall tries to convince him that it was just a dream, Harry explains that no, he was having a dream before this interrupted it. |
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King of the Hill: In "Hank's Unmentionable Problem", Peggy's nightmare about Hank dying (yes, from constipation) is realistically and hilariously weird. Hank's corpse is caked in clown makeup, former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop officiates the burial and asks everyone to pass in their algebra homework, and the grave turns into a giant toilet, with Cotton "flushing" Hank's casket. | |
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Iolanthe has the Lord Chancellor and his Nightmare Song, which describes a dream in which he is travelling on a Channel steamer which is also a train, a coach and a fleet of bicycles, while an eleven year old lawyer sells the crew shares in a company which plants shopkeepers to grow the things they sell. | |
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Episode 17 takes place almost entirely in a dream Hikaru's having while in a coma after being shot down. While there is something of a narrative to it (Minmay getting captured and Hikaru's repeated attempts to save her), as the dream goes on things start making less sense, such as Hikaru attempting to bicycle to the Moon, the Zentraedi holding Minmay captive turning out to be her cousin Kaifun, and Misa Hayase just randomly appearing and disappearing from scenes with no continuity and no acknowledgement. | |
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This is a common joke in Discworld novels: Pyramids parodies Pharaoh's dream from the biblical story of Joseph (mentioned below) when the protagonist, Pteppic, has reluctantly been made pharaoh of Djelibeybi. "He saw seven fat cows and seven thin cows. They were playing trombones." Pteppic also dreams that Dios has found an obscure law requiring him to marry a cat. In Eric, the description of the demon guarding the gates of Hell says "it would be a lazy use of language to say that the thing that answered the door was a nightmare. Nightmares are usually rather daft things and it's very hard to explain to a listener what was so dreadful about your socks coming alive or giant carrots jumping out of hedgerows. This thing was the kind of terrifying thing that could only be created by someone sitting down and thinking horrible thoughts very clearly." Played subtly for horror in Witches Abroad: In Small Gods, Urn says that harnessing the lightning is the dream of mankind, and Didactylos replies "Is it? I always dream of a giant carrot chasing me through a field of lobsters." In Hogfather, Teatime announces, "I'm Your Worst Nightmare!" When he's taken too literally, he then has to clarify that he doesn't mean "the one with the giant cabbage and the sort of whirring knife thing" or a bunch of equally improbable things, but rather "the one where this man comes out of nowhere and kills you stone dead." "Hey, that one isn't all that scary compared to the oth—" Subverted later in Hogfather, however. Some characters' ridiculous childhood nightmares — like the big scary wardrobe in the corner of the room that wants to eat you — come to life, and scare the pants off the hardened criminals they terrorise. And then some of them kill them (or at least killing them is probably the best they could hope for). The Wee Free Men has a bit where Rob Anybody describes "normal things gone wrong" as one of the nightmarish threats in Elfland, and Tiffany recalls having surreal nightmares about being threatened by a sugar bowl, or a pair of her late grandmother's boots. In Thud!, Brick the troll regards being the center of attention in a room full of watchmen to be his worst nightmare. Then he remembers a number of even worse nightmares he had after particularly bad drug trips, and is distracted mentally sorting them out, getting up to his nineteenth-worst nightmare before Carrot snaps him back to the present. |
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In The Secret Life of Dolls, the Littlest Bella tends to talk incoherently in her sleep about possums and pineapple cake. This makes it rather hilariously obvious that she's faking when she wants the Littlest Edward to sit with her while she sleeps and just happens to talk in her sleep about being afraid and alone and wanting a strong vampire to protect her. | |
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In My Life Is A Goddamn Mess, Minato wishes he had the kind of "normal" dreams that don't make sense, instead of the plot-relevant ones he tends to actually have. | |
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In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the "island where dreams come true" is a horrifying place where nothing makes any sense. | |
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In an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, Harry was concerned about Fantastic Racism against aliens: | |
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DuckTales (2017): In the episode "A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!", the characters explore a shared dreamscape. While the part composed of Lena's dreams is plot-relevant, the rest is just random dreams about things such as Louie being a cat and Huey having absurdly long legs. In "Let's Get Dangerous!", Launchpad comments that "This is like every dream I've ever had! Only my hands aren't made of waffles. ...Right?" He then licks his hands to make sure that they aren't made of waffles, and is disappointed to find that they are not. |
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Home Movies - the guys are confronted by the angry goalie Brendon got a goal off of (by the ball bouncing off his face): | |
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In Turning Red, Mei's nightmare seems to be this but is actually an extremely subtle example of Dreaming of Things to Come that serves as a Genius Bonus. | |
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Also based entirely around the exploration of bizarre dreamscapes is Yume Nikki ("Dream Diary"), where you wander blithely around surreal, nonsensical landscapes, meet bizarre creatures, and acquire the ability to use a number of strange powers. The game is generally about as aimless and random as real dreams are. | |
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Isabelle's sidequest in Lunarosse were based on actual dreams the game's creator had. So yes, he really had dreams involving moose pie and monkeys playing with uranium. | |
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In Digimon Adventure 02: The Story We Never Told, this is how the Emperor makes his debut to Davis in chapter 2. | |
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Played with in Azumanga Daioh. Each character's hatsuyume — the first dream of the New Year, which is normally supposed to be meaningful — is instead a series of non-sequiturs that veer into Surreal Humor. Osaka dreams that Chiyo uses her pigtails to fly, Tomo dreams she's comically superior to everyone else, and Sakaki dreams that a weird orange cat is Chiyo's dad. The last of these is meaningful in a roundabout way, as Chiyo's dad ends up giving Sakaki cryptic hints about her goal to find a "real cat". Other dreams the characters have are just as strange, such as when Osaka dreams that Chiyo's pigtails are detachable and sentient. | |
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At one point in Gravity Falls: Legend of the Gnome Gemulets, if you talk to Candy she'll remark "They always say to follow your dreams, but one time I had a dream that I ate the Earth." | |
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In Bob and George, Shadow Man (hidden from Mega Man's view) introduces himself to Mega Man as "the one who haunts your dreams". Mega Man takes several guesses at who this person is, which start reasonable (Dr. Wily) before getting more and more bizarre (such as "the milkman"). | |
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In the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "Nightmares and Daydreams", Aang's nightmares and hallucinations are quite strange. Ozai as a giant who taunts Aang about Aang not wearing pants, Aang with Anime Hair, Aang falling into a giant abacus because he forgot about his math test, and Appa and Momo having a swordfight while koala-sheep cheer them on and a six-armed version of Guru Pathik floats by on a cloud singing a nonsensical song about chakras. After all this silliness, the final nightmare comes as a real shock: it's as weird and free-associating as the rest, but much darker and based on reality, in the way of really bad dreams everywhere. | |
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LSD: Dream Emulator is based entirely around this, and specifically some details of the creator's dreams. As such, nothing therein really makes sense, textures keep changing, and (aside from in Flashbacks) no two days are exactly alike. | |
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In Canadian Bacon, when John Candy's character is threatening a mountie played by Stephen Wright (long story), one of Candy's friends says "We're your worst nightmare." The mountie then proceeds to ramble his actual worst nightmare, a dream where he was lost in the Yukon being chased by wolves, and there were these tall skinny rabbits... | |
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Played subtly for horror in Witches Abroad: | |
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Steven Universe: In "Chille Tid", Steven quickly realizes there might be something to his reoccurring dreams about Lapis Lazuli because they're relatively more coherent than his other dreams (which include imagining himself and the Crystal Gems as the stars of a cheesy sitcom, and flying with Dogcopter). This is also in contrast with Pearl's dream, in which she is on a surfboard with what appears to be Rose Quartz, up until "Rose" turns around and is revealed to have Greg's face with a pizza slice for a tongue, and thanks Pearl for fixing his van. In the Steven Universe: Future episode "In Dreams", Steven discovers he can broadcast his dreams onto his television set. Peridot gets the idea to use this ability to create their own version of the Camp Pining Hearts reboot, which he tries to dream while Peridot records it. Unfortunately, their attempts keep getting interrupted by various strange things happening in Steven's dream, some of which are related to Steven's personal issues (like weird versions of the Diamonds showing up, or the bio-injector from Steven Universe: The Movie appearing in the background) while others are just plain nonsensical (like Steven turning into a baby, or Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl suddenly appearing, turning out to be part helicopter, and flying away). |
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Most of the dreams in Slightly Damned are very relevant to the plot, detailing characters' emotional struggles or serving as flashbacks. And then, Rhea dreams up this. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb special "Summer Belongs to You," Candace calls her Love Interest Jeremy while he's in Paris (where it's the middle of the night): | |
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In Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged Cid asks Cloud if he had a dream (in the ambition sense of the term) and Cloud shares his own strange dreams that are suspiciously close to his Crossover appearances. | |
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The Golden Child. The Big Bad communicates with Eddie Murphy's character in a dream, lampshaded by him because of all the weird stuff happening such as the live Studio Audience, a unicorn trotting around inside the house, and the scantily-clad heroine being tied up with toilet paper. | |
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A Man of Iron: At one point in the second book, Pepper has a stress-induced nightmare where she's in the Red Keep, and she blurts out Iron Man's identity to Tywin and Joffrey. Then Jon, who's dressed as a Kingsguard and speaking with Tyrion's voice, points out that she's naked, and asks if she's prepared for the test her septa is giving. During an argument with Jojen in the third book over the latter's dream visions, Jaime mentions once having a dream about his father wearing dresses and singing to badgers. |
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From The Onion: Our Dumb Century has the headline: "MLK: 'I had a really weird dream last night.'" The article has King describing a really weird dream he had the other night, concluding that he has no idea what on Earth it meant. Their horoscope section once had the prediction "You will soon meet the woman of your dreams, the one where every tooth in her mouth has its own screaming face." |
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Normally, demigods from Percy Jackson and the Olympians have meaningful dreams (which is lampshaded to Hades and back), but Percy mentions a recurring dream he has where he's taking a standardized test while wearing a straitjacket (though the time he dreams it in the series, it's meaningful because Thalia was taking the test with him). | |
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In Super Mario RPG, you can sleep in a special dream bed in one of the hotels. If you do, you have dreams you can actually watch, such as Mario being surrounded by chefs, or having Toad reveal that he's secretly a monster. | |
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Charlie mentions having one in an early episode of Lost: | |
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In Hogfather, Teatime announces, "I'm Your Worst Nightmare!" When he's taken too literally, he then has to clarify that he doesn't mean "the one with the giant cabbage and the sort of whirring knife thing" or a bunch of equally improbable things, but rather "the one where this man comes out of nowhere and kills you stone dead." "Hey, that one isn't all that scary compared to the oth—" Subverted later in Hogfather, however. Some characters' ridiculous childhood nightmares — like the big scary wardrobe in the corner of the room that wants to eat you — come to life, and scare the pants off the hardened criminals they terrorise. And then some of them kill them (or at least killing them is probably the best they could hope for). |
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A Shadow of the Titans: Tarakudo uses this trope to keep Jade from realizing she's stumbled onto him messing around with her subconscious — he conjures multicolored mushrooms and ducks in top hats, then turns himself into a basketball with a mustache. | |
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In The Dragon Prince, Ezran wakes up and starts talking about a crazy dream he just had. Callum assumes that Ezran mistook recent events for a dream, but it turns out that he was talking about an actual dream: | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: When Carl is having recurring nightmares, Jimmy offers to enter his dreams to help sort them out, assuring him it will be easy to find and apply a logical solution, since that's how Jimmy's dreams work. Carl is skeptical, since in his last dream, he married a turkey. When Jimmy enters the dream, he finds oddities like Libby rowing her desk to school with a mannequin's leg (since her paddle was broken), Carl's pen turning into a worm, and Carl still married to the turkey (who eats the worm pen). Jimmy finds the whole experience unsettling, but Carl and their dreamed-up classmates find nothing unusual. | |
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Watership Down. The rabbit seer Fiver annoys his brother Hazel by describing a dream of events that happen later in the novel. However they're all jumbled together in a confusing hodgepodge, plus he's also describing things that he's never seen before, such as a "tunnel of water" (e.g. a culvert). | |
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The Book of Mormon has the Spooky Mormon Hell Dream, which involves (among other things) giant dancing Starbucks cups, as well as Elder Price being lumped in with the likes of Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, and other horrible historical figures. Played with, in that the bizarre impossibility of it is what convinces Elder Price to shape up. To make things better, apparently every single Mormon has the same dream whenever they sin, no matter how minor the infraction. | |
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Rugrats: "In The Dreamtime" involves Chuckie having a series of very surreal dreams/nightmares, featuring such things as the backyard, Spike's doghouse, and Tommy's house turning into warped dreamscapes filled with all sorts of absurd creatures and objects, Spike talking in a posh British accent, doorways to space, hallways lined with distorted pictures of Tommy, and friends spontaneously turning into clowns. The ending suggests that he gets it from his father. | |
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In another episode, Supergirl had a dream where she went out, chased, and murdered a guy. She went to Martian Manhunter, who wasn't sure what to make of it, since it was far more linear and logical than normal dreams. It wasn't a dream, it was a shared memory between Supergirl and her clone. | |
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Pyramids parodies Pharaoh's dream from the biblical story of Joseph (mentioned below) when the protagonist, Pteppic, has reluctantly been made pharaoh of Djelibeybi. "He saw seven fat cows and seven thin cows. They were playing trombones." Pteppic also dreams that Dios has found an obscure law requiring him to marry a cat. | |
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Dreams in The Bible - even the prophetic ones - are occasionally straightforward, but are just as often realistically bizarre and symbolic. A recurring plot point is where a dreamer has a premonition that their dream meant something, but requires a person with divine inspiration to figure out what it meant. For example, the Pharaoh has a dream (nightmare?) of seven fat cows and seven skinny cows emerging from the Nile River, then the skinny cows eating the fat cows while remaining just as skinny as before, followed by a similar dream except the cows are replaced with wheat - including the part where the skinny wheat eats the fat wheat. Joseph interprets the dream to be a premonition of seven years of plenty, followed by seven years of famine. The Talmud specifically says (Nedarim 8a-b) that just as you can't grow wheat without getting straw, any prophetic dream is going to have parts that shouldn't be taken seriously. |
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On Joan of Arcadia, while God does occasionally talk to Joan through dreams, her normal dreams also include Adam as a dog and evil koala bears in hats. | |
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The third story in Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star takes place in a dream the heroine is sharing with Nageki. They take a train across the stars, hop off to explore one called the Holiday Star, explore a fairy tale-esque world resembling a watercolor painting, meet an odd King who's very timid, narrates his own behavior, and gives them RPG quests and sometimes just appears... they find their other friends in various odd (yet vaguely fitting) roles in the dream, like Okosan as the Divine Messenger of Pudding and Shuu as a chef who wishes to cut up and cook people. Then it turns out that this is a shared dream that does not have origins with any of the dreamers - it's an element of the afterlife, which they wound up in by accident, and the King will not let them leave now that they have visited. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: "The Dream" opens with Gumball dreaming that he's at his school, which features anomalies such as Ocho being giant, Hector being small, Mr. Small putting his head on the base of a payphone when hanging up and then moonwalking away, Richard being a centaur who speaks in gibberish and glides around by shooting rainbows out of his butt (and is also the President), and Gumball opening his locker to have it pour water out and give him a pineapple. It's then interrupted by Darwin suddenly appearing to steal Penny from Gumball, kicking off the episode's actual plot. "The Advice" has Darwin taking Mr. Small's suggestion to follow his dreams literally, so he has Gumball recreate a dream he had where he was wearing cake for shoes, there was a leprechaun who spoke backwards, and there was Abraham Lincoln as a goat. |
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: After finding out that dreams are a look into what happens in alternate universes, Wong asks about a recurring dream he has in which he's running naked from a clown. According to America Chavez, there really is an alternate dimension out there where this occurs. | |
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Will Save World For Gold: Ell's dream about Lord Skullocaust looking for "birds" which are clearly imps, while Odivallus is back to his old appearance and acting completely out of character. Mora thinks it's nonsensical even by dream standards. | |
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And Shine Heaven Now: Alucard taps into a young Sir Integra's dreams to try to see what's bothering her, and the first thing he sees is... singing hills, a blue sky, and a talking llama. | |
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Ballistic Kiss: The protagonist mentions that he constantly have dreams about being stalked by Santa Claus with a shotgun. | |
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National Anthem : In Chapter 7, Link describes for the readers a highly lucid "sensitive" dream that he is having and proceeds to describe the difference between his important dreams and his regular, weird ones: | |
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A deleted scene from The Incredibles has Helen having Anxiety Dreams about her husband leaving her because she has settled into the role of housewife, which translates into picking up laundry near a pool while Bob is being held aloft on a couch and fed grapes by beautiful women, ending with her getting sucked into a washing machine. The scene was eventually cut in favor of making Helen's worries about Bob's fidelity into subtext. | |
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The shot game Psychosomnium is set inside a dream, and it mimics the characteristics of actual dreams. The narrative is vague and disjointed, the player frequently experiences switches from one protagonist to another, and the entire thing ends with a somewhat creepy Gainax Ending (which may represent a dream suddenly turning scary moments before the sleeper wakes up.) | |
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Cul-de-sac: Alice complains about cartoon animals telling her to follow her dreams, because her dreams involve giant dogs and tiny clowns, and who wants to follow that? | |
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In The Jennifer Morgue, Bob can tell his dream is really weird as it follows a linear structure (seeing through the eyes of Ramona Random via "destiny entanglement") instead of featuring camel-headed spider gods trying to get him to sign a Microsoft User Agreement. | |
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Blade Runner: While napping in his apartment, Deckard has a dream about a unicorn in a forest. This appears at first to be a random non-sequitur that has nothing to do with anything, and Deckard never tells anyone about it. However, in the final scene as Deckard flees his apartment he finds an origami unicorn left there by an agent who specializes in hunting replicants, implying Deckard is a replicant and his memories and dreams are pre-programmed. | |
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The Wee Free Men has a bit where Rob Anybody describes "normal things gone wrong" as one of the nightmarish threats in Elfland, and Tiffany recalls having surreal nightmares about being threatened by a sugar bowl, or a pair of her late grandmother's boots. | |
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In the Blackadder episode "Potato", Walter Raleigh says he's brought Queen Elizabeth lands beyond her wildest dreams...her response is to ask if he's sure because she's had some pretty wild dreams, like the one where she was a sausage roll, or the one where there was this enormous tree and she was sitting right on top of it. In "Ink and Incapability", Blackadder is relieved that Dr Johnson isn't angry at him for destroying the world's first Dictionary. Then he sees Baldrick with a dog's head. "Oh God, this is a dream, isn't it..." |
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In Aunt Dimity Goes West, Lori goes from the recurring nightmare of being shot and menaced by Abaddon (back home in Finch) to dreaming of blue-eyed cocker spaniels, who remind her of the Colorado cabin's young caretaker Toby. | |
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The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack makes note of this: | |
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In the Steven Universe: Future episode "In Dreams", Steven discovers he can broadcast his dreams onto his television set. Peridot gets the idea to use this ability to create their own version of the Camp Pining Hearts reboot, which he tries to dream while Peridot records it. Unfortunately, their attempts keep getting interrupted by various strange things happening in Steven's dream, some of which are related to Steven's personal issues (like weird versions of the Diamonds showing up, or the bio-injector from Steven Universe: The Movie appearing in the background) while others are just plain nonsensical (like Steven turning into a baby, or Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl suddenly appearing, turning out to be part helicopter, and flying away). | |
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The current page image comes from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book Double Down wherein Greg has a dream where he kicks a field goal with his own head on a distant planet while asking for extra mustard on his turnips. Greg himself calls the dream "completely bonkers". | |
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One early Big Nate strip sees Nate describe a recurring dream he has; in the first part, he's walking through a supermarket in a girl's bathing suit when someone mistakes him for a box of waffles and tries to pour syrup on his head, and in the second part he's in a football field being forced to shave rats by a woman playing a banjo. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Murder Mystery", the story is revealed to be Penny’s jalapeno and pepperoni pizza-fueled nightmare. The dream is far more cohesive than real-life examples, though some surreal touches occur, such as Penny’s classic private eye props containing unusual properties (the calabash pipe she "smokes" emits soap bubbles, and her deerstalker-style hat sports antlers). | |
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One of Max's election speeches in Sam and Max Save the World: Abe Lincoln Must Die! plays on this. | |
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Interestingly played with in The Infinite Loops. Twilight Sparkle complains about a surreal dream to her friends, while equally surreal events occur around her; the distinction, of course, is that the latter are things she's gotten used to. | |
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Ugly Americans had a twist on the phrase "a dream come true", with Callie bringing Mark's dreams into reality... including such sights as Doug (the Koala-man) riding a saddle on Frank's back, and Callie looking like his naked mother. | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has a massive example of this trope in Chapter 24. It covers both in story stress and the author mocking Betrayal Fics, begining with a mocking parody of betrayal fic cliches which quickly goes crazy to include rocks with top hats, Ash taking the role of Clovis La Britannia, Gary acting like Gollum, and then the local MissingNo shows up...just as the dream ends. Red has a similarly odd dream later. Less nuts, but when one has a dream where Ash Ketchum is acting like the the Red/Blue Rival as champion one can't say many things are more odd in-series. |
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The Comic Strip Presents: Didn't You Kill My Brother? | |
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In the Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot TV series, all the Care Bears share a dreamspace where they tend to have rather mundane dreams (where they do the same things they tend to do in their waking lives), so it was rather refreshing to see the bears having more dream-like dreams in the Share Bear Shines movie. | |
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In The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Puss's dreams generally involve sideways gravity and Babieca being a unicorn. Who can talk. And fly. | |
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In Our Little Adventure, when Jordie was Talking in Your Dreams, Emily is jealous: she dreamed of being naked in an aquarium with people staring. | |
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In the Homestar Runner cartoon "Donut Unto Others", Homestar claims that his idea to open his own donut stand came to him in a dream... a dream in which he was "a French long-jump champion with eight wooden legs". Even sillier, the ensuing Imagine Spot shows Homestar as a one-legged, Mexican champion at the high-jump. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In season 2, Buffy has a dream about opening an office-supply warehouse in Las Vegas, mixed in with her more prophetic dreams about Drusilla and Angel. In "Restless", the First Slayer comes into each of the main character's dreams to kill them. The dreams have lots symbols for the characters' histories, mindsets, and even some foreshadowing...but each of them also includes a guy offering slices of cheese and Meaningless Meaningful Words. Despite fan theories, Word of God conforms that he was meant to be meaningless humor. |
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My Dream Is Yours: The dreams of most of those affected by Dream-Transfer-itis are pretty mundane. Orchid's, however, is the most bizarre dream of them all, consisting of things like giant twirling lollipops, samba-dancing bunnies, and of course, singing and dancing toy dinosaurs. Otis is affected by this dream, and it's such a nightmare to him that he attempts to purge it from his brain for days after he first has it. To say nothing of baby agent Orson's dream, which involves him riding a giant radioactive komodo dragon through a post-apocalyptic wasteland while killing zombies. Unlike with Otis having Orchid's dream, however, Orchid doesn't think of Orson's dream as a nightmare, and for good reason. |
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In the Stargate Atlantis episode "Doppelganger", the problem of the week is an alien entity making everyone have nightmares in which Sheppard is trying to kill them. The team meets for lunch, everyone compares their Sheppard-dreams... and then McKay, who hasn't been affected yet, talks about his nightmare about Carter inviting him to dinner, serving him lemon chicken (given his strong citrus allergy) and telling him she's promoting Zelenka over him, after which he gets eaten by a whale. | |
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In Small Gods, Urn says that harnessing the lightning is the dream of mankind, and Didactylos replies "Is it? I always dream of a giant carrot chasing me through a field of lobsters." | |
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In Austin & Ally, a prospecting manager ask Austin what his wildest dream his. He takes it rather literally before Ally clarifies the woman meant his career goals. | |
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Kaiju Girl Caramelise: Kuroe wakes up one morning and talks to herself about a "crazy dream" where, after her date with Arata, she suddenly turned into a Kaiju and walked down the Harumi River before swimming away in a panic upon realizing he and everyone else was staring at her now ugly visage. Then she turns on the news and realizes it actually happened. | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, one of the messages randomly generated by a disco horoscope is "Your dreams will come true this week! Specifically, the dream in which twinkling lights surround you like fireflies while you're disemboweled by a rabid shark." | |
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In Ender's Shadow, Bean has a dream where thousands of people are fighting, only for a giant shoe to stomp them all. Wearing the shoe is a laughing Bugger/Formic. The dream clearly seems to deliver An Aesop about "despite all the squabbles on Earth, we must remember that we face a greater enemy or we'll all die." However, Bean dismisses this, thinking dreams don't have morals, they're just random firings of our brain that we assume is a narrative. The only thing it can tell me is what I feel. He then decides the REAL moral of the dream is "Don't be one of the scurrying ants. Be the shoe." | |
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Obviously, given that the main character is a psychiatrist and a lot of episodes focus on psychological issues, dream sequences in Frasier usually are symbolic and meaningful. However, some dreams are totally nonsensical, like Daphne dreaming about Queen Elizabeth drinking cocktails with Martin on the latter's balcony. Also, in one episode Frasier has a recurring dream about being in bed with Gil, which he thinks means something and which he tries to analyze, but upon pondering the details, winds up realizing that the dream actually makes no sense and has nothing to do with anything in his life. | |
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Friends: In one episode Phoebe reveals an elaborate dream she had where she and Ross were playing chess on a frozen lake, he called her "boring" and then removed his "energy mask" to reveal that he was actually Cameron Diaz. Phoebe initially only remembers the "boring" comment and spends the episode mad at Ross until she remembers the rest of it. | |
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Downplayed in Inception. The Villain Protagonists are industrial spies who can enter the target's dreams and convince them to reveal their secrets. In order for this to work the target can't know he is dreaming, so a convincing 'dream architecture' designed and controlled by the Caper Crew is created that appears just like the real world. When things do get weird, it's a sign that something has gone badly wrong. The trick is then to adapt this weirdness to your own advantage before the target wakes up. | |
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In The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, Wyldstyle tells one of Queen Whatevra's guards "I'm Your Worst Nightmare!" He replies in confusion "You're me, when I'm late to school, I forgot my homework, and my pants are made of pudding?" | |
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In The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan, Nova gets both a strange, random dream, followed immediately by a plot-relevant vision in Chapter 5. The strange dream is full of Shout Outs, such as a guard's armor being painted with hot rod flames and bunnies, and is purportedly serenaded with Luna and Celestia playing a set of bagpipes and a vuvuzela respectively. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Phantasms", Data's new dreaming program gives him his first nightmares, including workmen breaking apart the ship, himself being unable to speak without making a high-pitched squealing noise, mouths appearing on strange parts of people's bodies, an old-fashioned telephone inside his own chest cavity and Troi turning into a "cellular peptide cake with mint frosting" which he cuts up, causing her to scream. The crew eventually hook Data up to the holodeck to experience these dreams in person. It turns out that his dream program is trying to warn him that interphasic organisms (the workmen) have infected both the ship and the crew and are feeding on their cellular peptides and he can destroy them by emitting an interphasic pulse (the squeal he makes). A highly surreal and disturbing episode. | |
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