History Main / DreamIntro

[[folder:Film -- Animated]]

[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': "Rest in Peace, Marina Garito" opens with Stella dreaming that she gets in a traffic accident and is helped out of her vehicle by a young woman. She awakes with a start, and that day gets presented with a new case - the murder of the very woman she was dreaming about, whose missing twin brother Stella has been searching for for quite some time.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'': The intro starts with Po being [[DreamSue an uber-awesome legendary kungfu warrior...]] and then Po wakes up, revealing that that was just a dream (he's just the son of a noodle cook).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'' begins with [=SpongeBob=] as the manager of the Krusty Krab, saving the day after a guy gets no cheese on his patty. The crowd hoist him over their shoulders and cheer him, but then the cheers turn into his foghorn alarm and [=SpongeBob=] wakes up.

* ''Animation/FlowerFairy'': Season 1 episode 3 opens with An'an dreaming about her PrecociousCrush, Wangke. Wangke has a potted flower with him and explains he wants to give it to someone special. An'an thinks she's that someone, but it's actually Wangke's grandma. An'an is woken up from this dream by her dad.

* ''Film/BringItOn'' beings with Torrance and her cheerleading squad doing an awesome, boastful cheer in the school gym... then she's suddenly naked and humiliated in front of the crowd. She wakes up realizing it was just a bad dream.
** All the direct to DVD sequels begin something like this too.

* ''Tris's Book'', the second book of the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' series, begins with Tris having a FlashbackNightmare about what happened at the end of the first book.

* Just before the first case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', Phoenix has a dream of the Judge [[DropTheHammer slamming a giant gavel on him]] to the tune of Music/JohannSebastianBach's ''Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor''. It turns out it was just a meaningless [[AnxietyDreams Anxiety Dream]] triggered by a cell phone with the ''Toccata's'' first few bars as its ringtone. And then the exact same dream comes back during the fourth case, [[IronicEcho this time with more meaning behind it]], since [[spoiler: Phoenix now has to defend a blatantly guilty person in court.]]

'''Ruff''': I don't know!...\\

'''Granddad:''' What did I tell you boy? You'd better not even ''dream'' of telling the truth! You'd better learn to lie like your Granddaddy! I'm gonna find me a nice white man and lie to to him right now...
* Early in the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels'' episode "Cavey's Mexicali 500", Captain Caveman is dreaming that he and Taffy Dare are alone on a small island. A giant hawk snatches Taffy, and Cavey flies to the rescue. Cavey wakes up, clutching his alarm clock bird.

* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' A episode called [[Camping Out]] where Pee-Wee has dream called Allegretto in the beginning of an episode, after the dream Pee-Wee finally wakes up and noticed that the viewer has come for him.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* Just before the first case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', Phoenix has a dream of the Judge [[DropTheHammer slamming a giant gavel on him]] to the tune of Music/JohannSebastianBach's ''Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor''. It turns out it was just a meaningless [[AnxietyDreams Anxiety Dream]] triggered by a cell phone with the ''Toccata's'' first few bars as its ringtone. And then the exact same dream comes back during the fourth case, [[IronicEcho this time with more meaning behind it]], since [[spoiler: Phoenix now has to defend a blatantly guilty person in court.]]

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' starts off in a dream to help the player design his character, to give Sora a Psychic Dream, and to establish the bizarre nature of the plot.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' begins with a scene of Ganondorf chasing Princess Zelda on horseback, which turns out to be a nightmare that Link is having. This ends up [[DreamingOfThingsToCome occurring for real later in the game]].
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' begins with Link dreaming first of [[ExpositionFairy Fi]], then of [[BigBad the Imprisoned]], despite not knowing of either.

[[folder:Webcomics]]

* A few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' begin like this.

* ''VideoGame/WarioWare: D.I.Y.'': In the intro, Dr. Crygor dreams about playing a Nintendo Wii, when suddenly several characters come out of the TV screen and fly towards him. He wakes up and is then inspired to make the Super [=MakerMatic=] 21.

* ''Series/{{Napoleon}}'': After Napoleon's defeat in Moscow, the next episode opens with him quietly watching his troops retreat and slowly freezing to death while being relentlessly hunted down by Cossacks. This is revealed to be a nightmare when Napoleon wakes up in Paris.

* The ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' video "Mario The Babysitter!" starts with Bowser kidnapping Rosalina, when Mario appears in a Film/{{Superman}} suit and [[WeaksauceWeakness defeats Bowser with his hair]]. When he grabs Rosalina, they both bump into a wall and Mario instantly wakes up. Needless to say, he is less than amused.

--> '''Granddad:''' Mm-Hmm. You were having that dream where you were making the white people riot!
--> '''Huey:''' But Granddad, I was telling the truth!
--> '''Granddad:''' What did I tell you boy? You'd better not even ''dream'' of telling the truth! You'd better learn to lie like your Granddaddy! I'm gonna find me a nice white man and lie to to him right now...

--->'''Professor Fange''': ''[off-screen]'' How do you say 'Fetch the Stick' in Chinese?
--->'''Ruff''': I don't know!
--->'''Professor Fange''': What are the leash laws in Ecuador?
--->'''Ruff''': I don't know!...
--->'''Professor Fange''': George Washington's Dog invented Kibble! True or False!?
--->'''Ruff''': I DON'T KNOW!!! I DON'T KNOW!!! ''[Sobs]''
--->''[The scene is revealed to be a dream Ruff was having, the scene cuts to Ruff waking up with a gasp.]''\\

* The ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "[[Recap/{{JusticeLeagueS2E5And6OnlyADream}} Only a Dream]]" starts with John Dee having an DreamSequence about [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] the League.

** Episode 7 begins with Les dreaming she has become the queen of Moon Haven, with Master Satellite as her king. Les is woken up from the dream by Grunt.
** Les has another episode-opening dream involving Satellite in episode 48. The two find each other in a flower field, but suddenly Les has to use the bathroom. While she's in a conveniently-placed outhouse, water floods the place and separates her and Satellite; Les wakes up from the dream to find that she wet her bed.