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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Po's claim that his dream was of noodles is interpreted by his father as this: he will take over the restaurant.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' opens with Ethan having a dream we first assume is just a [[PastExperienceNightmare miserable scrambling of past events]], but turns out to be this.
** Later in the film he has another, this one much more clearly tied to the future rather than the past.

* In ''Literature/TheGenesisOfJennyEverywhere'' this is justified in terms of one of WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere's characteristic abilities- being able to read the thoughts of her other selves throughout TheMultiverse. This Jenny, unaware of her own powers and unable to control them fully, manifiests this in the form of dreams she uses as a form of escapism from mundane reality--namely the pressures of school and her [[EducationMama overbearing mother who insists on her studying hard and getting there extra early]], not lying in bed dreaming. Also serves as {{Foreshadowing}} for the life she will one day lead when she discovers how to shift between realities.

* On the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', Fundy is revealed to have this ability, due to suffering from some form of insomnia which "links events in reality to his dreams".

* ''WebVideo/LeftPOORDead'': Tippy hears about their visit to Dr. Smedley's lab in one such dream

-->'''Hitomi:''' Van!? ''You're'' the mysterious naked savior?
-->'''Van:''' Naked? You ''wish''. My wings can come out just fine with my pants still ''on'', thankyouverymuch.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Angela Petrelli has the ability to see the future while dreaming. She also seems able to appear in other people's dreams, as she used this aspect of her power to wake Sylar and get him save Peter, even while she was trapped in her own mind.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E53TwentyTwo Twenty-Two]]", Liz Powell, who is in hospital for exhaustion, has a recurring nightmare in which she wakes up in her hospital room, accidentally breaks a glass of water and hears the sound of footsteps in the corridor. The footsteps belong to a nurse. Liz then takes an elevator down to the basement and arrives at the morgue, Room 22. The nurse comes out and says, "Room for one more, honey." Liz's doctor and her agent Barney Kamener try to convince her that it is nothing more than a delusion. After Liz is released from hospital, she is going to fly to Miami Beach for her next gig. However, she is startled when she is told that she will be flying on Flight 22. In her confusion, Liz bumps into a woman and breaks the vase that she is carrying, just as she broke the glass in her nightmare. As she prepares to board the plane, she notices that the stewardess is identical to the nurse. She says, "Room for one more, honey." Liz screams and races to the terminal. The plane takes off but explodes within seconds.

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' episode "Vatos", Jim (a member of the survivors' camp) goes a distance away from the survivors and starts digging holes. Understandably, this freaks the camp out, and they tie Jim to a tree to cool off before asking him why he was digging. Jim claims he had a dream that he couldn't remember, but he knew that he needed to dig the holes. It turns out that this was justified, because [[spoiler:a number of zombies attack the camp at the end of the episode, and several people (both zombies and survivors alike) are killed]]. Jim comments at the end of the episode that he remembers why he dug the holes: [[spoiler:they're graves]].
* ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' episode "[[Recap/TheWildWildWestS2E12TheNightOfTheManEatingHouse The Night of the Man-Eating House]]". Near the beginning of the episode Artemus Gordon has a dream that lasts almost the entire episode. Near the end of the episode he wakes up, and events start to follow what happened in his dream.

** It has also been speculated that Mulder's dream-within-a-dream in "The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati" of a little boy on a beach building a sand space ship with him is prophetic of baby William.

* In the ''Literature/{{Confessions}}'', Monica has a dream where a mysterious stranger prophesies that her prodigal son will return to her. Her AmoralAttorney offspring tries to twist the dream to argue that it implies Monica will become like him, but she forcefully holds that it means he will become a Christian like her.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': "Blood Diamonds" in the final season [[spoiler:has Alex having a nightmare about Walker and Trivette being killed by Victor Drake and her, Sydney and Gage [[PlagueEpisode almost testing positive for Ebola virus]] after a diamond smuggler Trivette posed as to lure Drake into a trap gave it to a prostitute they interrogated after he was murdered by her pimp. Alex finally wakes up from her nightmare after Walker is killed by Drake, but he was revealed to be on the case from her dream that morning.]]

* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, dreams are one way that the [[PsychicPowers Heraldic Gift]] of [=ForeSight=] manifests. Herald Vanyel of the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', for example, has a recurring dream about his own death. It mostly goes away at the end of ''Magic's Pawn'', at which point Vanyel is reassured that it was symbolic rather than directly prophetic... but then it recurs again in ''Magic's Price'', and plays out almost beat-for-beat during his LastStand.

* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'':
** Upon his 'birth', Xenilla got an onslaught of them, foreseeing some monster that would destroy Terra. He assumed it was Godzilla.
** Rarity has a nightmare of the BigBad's forces destroying Equestria if he succeeds in his plans. [[spoiler: It would appear to have been sent by the Nightmare Forces.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''[=/=]''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''[=/=]''Film/{{Gamera}}''[=/=]''Film/PacificRim'' {{crossover}} fanfic ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', Celestia has a symbolic vision of the [[TheSwarm gyaos]] attack on Canterlot (and Godzilla's counterattack) shortly before it happens.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BookFiveLegends'', Korra has a nightmare about the enemies she will face later on.

* Tuyen's future-forecasting ability in the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheOtherSideOfTomorrow''.

* Luna apparently has this ability in the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''[=/=]''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheEquestrianWindMage'', foreseeing Ganon's arrival in Equestria at the start of Season 2. Unfortunately, [[TheDragon Dethl's]] own DreamWeaver abilities allow him to counter this power, keeping her from seeing what the [[TheManBehindTheMan real villains]] are plotting.

* In ''Literature/TheJourneyToAtlantis'', Max has several of these. Two of them stand out. Before getting stranded on the island, he (and Stacie) both dream about being on a certain beach. After the ship sinks and they reach the island, they soon discover the exact beach that was in the their dreams. Another time is when he dreams about Luna and Sol, although he doesn't know who they are. Despite this, he later sees obelisks on the island that have depictions of them, but still doesn't see that what they did was {{Divine Intervention}}.

* This is a pretty standard quest hook for tabletop games in general. The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' free adventure [[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030629a "Fallen Angel"]] suggests it for use with a divinely inclined character such as a cleric.

* The title character of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' frequently had these, most pointing to the same event involving her, TokyoTower, and a beautiful silver-haired man [[WingedHumanoid with wings]].
** In the manga, she gets a couple of dreams about the event, but only when she got close to capturing all the cards.
** Fairly common in other Creator/{{CLAMP}} series as well.

* Freeza and Kami of ''Manga/DragonBall'' both had "premonitions" that turned out to be startlingly accurate, but the straightest example is Beerus from ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'', who literally gets visions of the future during his long naps, though his attendant claims ''they'' aren't usually accurate...

* Ryou has a bizzare dream in episode 4 of ''Manga/GourmetGirlGraffiti'' where she's eating some food offered by students who have pieces of food for a head. Later that episode she gets to eat the food concerned.

* Franklin Richards of ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' has "special dreams" which are prophetic. May be symbolic: before a clash among the Fantastic Four, the Comicbook/XMen and Doctor Doom, he dreamed of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men dying, and his father turning into Doom, which foretold aspects of the clash. May also be literal: in his first meeting with ComicBook/PowerPack, they deduce why an alien is chasing them -- Katie Power is carrying an alien artifact that could be traced -- he recounts how he had dreamed that the alien chased ''him'', and so they give him the artifact, which leads to their victory.

* This was the lone "superpower" of Wesley Dodds a.k.a. [[ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre The Sandman]]. He would dream about crimes that had not yet been committed.

** In "The Shooting Star" Tintin dreams he is visited by Philippus the prophet who then shows him a picture of a gigantic spider, claiming it is life size! Later in the story, he actually meets Philippus again and he discovers an island where a spider has grown to gigantic size due to the radiation of a comet.

* Protaganist Emily/Kiko of the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' satire DarkFic ''Fanfic/TheAdventuresOfKikoFluffyPants'' gets prophetic dreams during the course of the story, although it turns out she is [[spoiler:being fed specially designed dreams to make things come true.]]

* In the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fic ''Fanfic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion'', the German student from the 1920's appears to dream of the times of Aeon War.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Legend of Korra]]'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BookFiveLegends'', Korra has a nightmare about the enemies she will face later on.

* [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Akane]] has a few of these in ''[[http://www.iamnota.net/doku.php?id=ff:comes_the_cold_dragon Comes the Cold Dragon]]'' that make her realize how much she will need to learn to keep up with Ranma after his ascension to the [[TookALevelInBadass titular]] [[AnIcePerson Cold]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon]].

* ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue1971'': In Madeline's recurring nightmares, the man with the axe keeps cutting through one of the ropes in the theatre, causing a rope to drop from the rigging. During the climax, [[spoiler:Marot is using one of the ropes to descend from the rigging towards her on the stage. Seeing the axe on stage, Madeline realises that the dream ahs been tellin ger how to defeat Marot. She grabs the axe, cuts through the rope and Marot plunges to his death]].

* In the 10th ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' movie, ''[[Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai The Rise of Darkrai]]'', it is revealed that someone in the far past had nightmares of Dialga and Palkia destroying the city, an event that comes true during the movie. The person in the past responded to the nightmares by having the Space-Time tower built, which would play a song to calm the two Pokémon.