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* In ''FilmAliGIndahouse'', Ali G has a dream that ends with a beautiful woman performing oral sex on him. He wakes up to discover his dog licking him in an intimate place.

* In Bryan Miranda's ''{{The Journey to Atlantis}},'' Max and Stacie are both dreaming about being in each other's arms on a beautiful beach, just about to kiss. Max is woken up by a crash of thunder just before the fact.[[/folder]]

* In Bryan Miranda's ''The Journey to Atlantis,'' Max and Stacie are both dreaming about being in each other's arms on a beautiful beach, just about to kiss. Max is woken up by a crash of thunder just before the fact.[[/folder]]

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* In ''The Order of the Phoenix'', HarryPotter's prophetic dream is cut short by Ron's snoring, just as he was finally about to find out what was behind the mysterious door.

* ''HermansHead''. Herman is woken up just as he does a swan dive onto a bed containing two beautiful women.

A character finds themselves in an important [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic dream]], receiving vital information from a dead relative in a near-death experience, or just having a [[EroticDream terribly good time]] in their head, [[CrashingDreams they hear the phone ringing or someone shouting their name]] and they are defibrillated back to the land of the living, just before the really good bit.

* Real-life example: According to [[UrbanLegends popular legend]], SamuelTaylorColeridge's poem ''Kubla Khan'' was inspired by a dream he had. He was about halfway through writing the whole thing down when he was interrupted by a visitor -- and upon returning to his desk, could no longer remember the rest of his dream, forcing him to publish the (fairly sizeable) fragment he already had.

* ''Fanfic/ADelicateBalance: The third chapter opens with Rarity being awoken from a dream in which her fashions are madly popular, she can eat as much chocolate as she wants, and her cat does all of her paperwork for her. She isn't happy to be interrupted.

* ''WinxClub'' has a VERY special case: Tecna plays a partially-CG, partially-traditional animation sequence on her virtual goggles for her pixie Digit. It ends with her and boyfriend Timmy kissing. [[{{Macekre}} In the 4K dub]], she's playing back a dream on her goggles, and it cuts right before the kiss, with a voice-over by Tec explaining that she woke up just before then. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/KuliaMakani/02080003.jpg Screencap of the cut kiss, presented upside-down.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEJSBkh9Y4k And a video.]]

* Done heartbreakingly in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', when Viral realizes that [[spoiler:his wife and daughter aren't real, but a product of a LotusEaterMachine.]]

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* Randolph's Carter's motivation for undertaking [[HPLovecraft ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'']] is to find again a glorious city he once saw in a dream but was snatched away from by the gods of DreamLand. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Boston.]]
* In ''The Order of the Phoenix'', [[HarryPotter Harry Potter's]] prophetic dream is cut short by Ron's snoring, just as he was finally about to find out what was behind the mysterious door.

* Subverted beautifully in ''{{Northern Exposure}}'', "Spring Break". Joel remarks during his erotic dream of performing Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistable" surrounded by the trademarked Palmer powerclones that he always wakes up before the good bit. One of the women leans over and tells him not this time -- the screen cuts to black and we hear a zipper being opened. Cue Titles.

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* The ''SouthPark'' episode "Best Friends Forever" concerned a recently-deceased Kenny being enlisted by the forces of Heaven to defeat the forces of Hell, but he keeps being resuscitated at crucial moments.

-->'''Lionblaze:''' Aww, I was having a really great dream!\\

* In ''StarTrek VI: The Undiscovered Country'', Kirk and [=McCoy=] were framed for murder and sent to a Klingon penal colony. They escape, and are trapped by the leader of the colony who arranged the murder, and is about to [[JustBetweenYouAndMe tell them who was responsible as he kills them]]. At that instant, based on the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Viridian Patch]] that Spock had slapped on Kirk before they were sent into exile, they are beamed back to the Enterprise, just in time to save them from a certain death, but also making it impossible for them to find out the answer.

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* The ''SouthPark'' episode "Best Friends Forever" concerned a recently-deceased Kenny being enlisted by the forces of Heaven to defeat the forces of Hell, but he keeps being resuscitated at crucial moments.
* ''WinxClub'' has a VERY special case: Tecna plays a partially-CG, partially-traditional animation sequence on her virtual goggles for her pixie Digit. It ends with her and boyfriend Timmy kissing. [[{{Macekre}} In the 4K dub]], she's playing back a dream on her goggles, and it cuts right before the kiss, with a voice-over by Tec explaining that she woke up just before then. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/KuliaMakani/02080003.jpg Screencap of the cut kiss, presented upside-down.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEJSBkh9Y4k And a video.]]
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* Composter Giuseppe Tartini had a dream where he [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the Devil]]; the Devil took up a violin and began to play a sonata Tartini described as "so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy." When he woke up, he jotted down as much as he could remember, calling it the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Trill_Sonata Devil's Trill Sonata]], but he still wrote that the difference between what he heard and what he wrote was so great that he would give up music forever just to recreate that one sonata.

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* One episode of ''FatherTed'' featured Ted in an AffectionateParody of ''{{Ballykissangel}}'', only without the WillTheyOrWontThey between Father Peter and Assumpta; Ted and Assumpta definitely were, when he was woken by Father Dougal to offer him a peanut. Ted shouted at Dougal, went back to sleep, and had a nightmare where he was being chased by a giant peanut.

* In the 8th episode of ''AzumangaDaioh'', the "New Year's Dream Special", several of the main characters' dreams are shown. [[SchoolgirlLesbians Schoolgirl Lesbian]] Kaorin naturally dreams about her crush, Sakaki, [[RescueRomance coming to her rescue]], but the dream is interrupted by her mother trying to wake her up so they can take their traditional trip to the shrine on New Year's Day. Poor Kaorin just pulls the covers over her head and begs for it to keep going.

* Happens a couple times in ''WarriorCats'':
** Cats occasionally dream they were ''just'' about to catch a mouse when awakened
** During a drought, Lionblaze is dreaming about the lake being filled with water

** In a dream, Squirrelpaw is talking to a spirit-cat, about to be told how she can save her sister, when Shrewpaw wakes her up.

** [[spoiler:Ivypool]] is spying on the Dark Forest. She's just about to hear the plans for the final battle whne [[spoiler:Dovewing]] awakens her.

* Real-life example: According to [[UrbanLegends popular legend]], Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''Kubla Khan'' was inspired by a dream he had. He was about halfway through writing the whole thing down when he was interrupted by a visitor -- and upon returning to his desk, could no longer remember the rest of his dream, forcing him to publish the (fairly sizeable) fragment he already had.