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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': At the beginning of ''Tempest Rising'', the half-mermaid Tempest falls off her board while swimming and almost drowns before her legs briefly fuse into a tail, allowing her to swim to safety. Every night for the next week, she has nightmares about the ocean dragging her under.

* ''Literature/DolphinSong'': After Melody meets the dolphins Shara and Speckle, she starts to have a recurring dream about being a dolphin and frantically searching for something. When she wakes up, she can never remember what she was looking for. [[spoiler:She's DreamingOfThingsToCome about Shara searching for her dead son Speckle's spirit so she can guide it to [[{{Heaven}} the great ocean beyond the waves]].

* Subversion: One episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' involves him obsessing over this recurring dream he's been having about waking up in a hotel room and one of his male coworkers coming out of the shower and [[HomoeroticDream climbing into bed with him]]. At the end of the episode, Sigmund Freud comes out of the shower instead. There's another couple of episodes where he counsels friends or callers through understanding their recurring dreams. He's a Freudian, so he obviously believes that recurring dreams are important, but Martin (his father) dismisses it all as 'dreams are weird'.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E53TwentyTwo Twenty-Two]]", Liz Powell experiences a recurring dream in which she follows a strange nurse to the hospital morgue, Room 22. [[spoiler:It turns out to be [[DreamingOfThingsToCome a prophetic dream]] warning her not to board Flight 22 to Miami Beach. She doesn't and the plane explodes immediately after take off.]]
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay Shadow Play]]", Adam Grant suffers a recurring nightmare in which he is convicted of murder and sent to the electric chair every night.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Nightcrawlers", TheVietnamVet Price has a recurring nightmare about his unit, the Nightcrawlers, hunting him as he deserted them while they were under attack by the Viet Cong. Only Price survived. As he has the [[YourMindMakesItReal ability to manifest his thoughts]], the Nightcrawlers appear in the real world and cause havoc whenever he falls asleep.

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', an ordinary man has a recurring dream of a beautiful woman he has never seen before. It turns out [[spoiler: she was his wife but was erased from existence because of a time-travel battle between a superhero and supervillain]].

* In ''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.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the fourth episode, Daniel Molloy mentions to Louis de Pointe du Lac that he had been dreaming about their first meeting in 1973 at Polynesian Mary's ever since Louis mailed to him the cassette tapes of their first interview. In the sixth episode, viewers finally get a glimpse of their shared past after Daniel falls asleep due to his medication.

* The protagonist of ''Webcomic/{{Life}}'', Felicia, has a few. One of them she later uses to inspire a drawing.