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5 | [[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/TheCranberries And oh, my dreams\ |
6 | It's never quite as it seems\ |
7 | Never quite as it seems]]'']] |
8 | |
9 | ->''"To sleep, perchance to dream."'' |
10 | -->--'''Hamlet''', ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' |
11 | |
12 | Dreams and dreaming are [[OmnipresentTropes ubiquitous]] in storytelling. There are many, many dream-related tropes: here are several. See also SleepAndWakefulnessTropes. |
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15 | !!Tropes |
16 | [[index]] |
17 | * AcidRefluxNightmare: Nightmares brought on by TheFoodPoisoningIncident or eating too much. |
18 | * ActingOutADaydream: A character acts out what he's imagining. |
19 | * AdventuresInComaland: Dreaming while in a coma rather than regular sleep. |
20 | * AllJustADream: The events of all, or most, of an episode are revealed to have all been a dream at the end. |
21 | * AnxietyDreams: A character dreams that something they worry about happens. |
22 | * AwkwardlyGayDream: A character has a homoerotic dream despite being straight -- awkwardness ensues. |
23 | * {{Baku}}: A tapir-like {{Youkai}} that eats bad dreams. |
24 | * BasedOnADream: A work that was based on a dream. |
25 | * BedtimeBrainwashing: Communicating with a person in sleep-like state to influence their dreams or actions. |
26 | * BizarreDreamRationalization: Character tells themselves they're dreaming to explain away the weird things they're seeing. |
27 | * BlankBook: A character picks up a book, but it's blank or just has gibberish in it. |
28 | * ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: Dream characters look like and/or act like the waking-life characters, even if they are not. |
29 | * CannotDream: An inability to dream. |
30 | * CatapultNightmare: After a nightmare, a character falls out of bed or sits up abruptly. |
31 | * CrapsackWorldEscapistSanctuary: The real world is objectively awful, so a character finds refuge in an imaginary world. |
32 | * CrashingDreams: A dream and a real-world event that happen at the same time are similar. |
33 | * DaydreamBeliever: A character believes that a ShowWithinAShow is reality. |
34 | * DaydreamSurprise: Viewers think that something was happening, but it turns out to be a character daydreaming. |
35 | * DeliciousDaydream: When a character has a daydream about food. |
36 | * DelusionConclusion: Audience members believe that the supernatural elements of a story are due to it taking place in a dream. |
37 | * DreamApocalypse: An apocalypse happens because the world was AllJustADream and the dreamer woke up. |
38 | * DreamBallet: Dreaming about ballet. |
39 | * DreamDeception: A character lies to another that they're dreaming. |
40 | * DreamEmergencyExit: Doing this in a dream will automatically wake you up. |
41 | * DreamEpisode: An episode centered around one or more characters dreaming. |
42 | * DreamIntro: The intro was AllJustADream. |
43 | * DreamLand: AnotherDimension where all the dreams are taking place. |
44 | * DreamPeople: Characters within dreams. |
45 | * DreamRealityCheck: If this is just a dream, then one may wake up and get out. |
46 | * DreamSequence: A character's dream takes up a scene. |
47 | * DreamSpying: Dreaming about something that is happening somewhere else. |
48 | * DreamStealer: Somehow stealing or destroying someone else's dream. |
49 | * DreamSue: Dreaming about being TheAce. |
50 | * DreamTellsYouToWakeUp: When dream characters [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin tell the dreaming character to wake up.]] |
51 | * {{Dreamville}}: Dreams, VR scenarios, artificial realities and other imaginary events set in suburbia or small towns. |
52 | * DreamWalker: A dreaming character becomes part of another person's dream. |
53 | * DreamWeaver: Being able to do cool things via lucid dreaming. |
54 | * DreamWithinADream: A character dreams about dreaming. |
55 | * DreamingOfThingsToCome: Dreaming the future. |
56 | * DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: Dreaming about past events, despite not having experienced them. |
57 | * DreamingTheTruth: Dreaming allows a character to realise something. |
58 | * DreamsOfFlying: Flight in dreams. |
59 | * DreamsVsNightmares: Heroic individuals who support good dreams fighting evil individuals who spread nightmares. |
60 | * DyingDream: Someone has a dream before they die. |
61 | * DyingToWakeUp: Dying in a dream instantly wakes you up. |
62 | * ElderlyFutureFantasy: Character has a dream where they and other characters are elderly in the future, often with having a current conflict in the story that's still going into old age. |
63 | * EroticDream: Dreams about sex and/or other erotic stuff. |
64 | * FantasyKeepsake: An item that came from a dream or a daydream. |
65 | * FantasySequence: Daydreaming. |
66 | * FeverDreamEpisode: Nightmares or hallucinations caused by fever take up a whole episode. |
67 | * FlashbackNightmare: Nightmares of bad memories. |
68 | * GirlOfMyDreams: Meeting your future LoveInterest in a dream. |
69 | * AGlitchInTheMatrix: A hint that an event is a dream. |
70 | * GuiltInducedNightmare: A nightmare caused by guilt. |
71 | * {{Hatsuyume}}: The first dream a person has in the new year is prophetic. |
72 | * InTheDreamingStageOfGrief: Devastated character copes by convincing themselves it is/was just a bad dream. |
73 | * IrritationNightmare: Someone has a nightmare about something which annoys them. |
74 | * IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: Someone is annoyed to be woken up from a good dream. |
75 | * LivingDream: A character exists because someone dreamt them up. |
76 | * LotusEaterMachine: A dream world meant to trap someone from reality. |
77 | * MadAtADream: A character is mad at something that happened in a dream. |
78 | * MadDreamer: An insane person mistakes dreams for reality. |
79 | * MarshmallowDream: A character dreams they are eating something, which leads to them chewing on their pillow. |
80 | * MentalWorld: A place that exists in a person's mind. |
81 | * MindVirus: A bug like a ComputerVirus but it infects peoples' minds. |
82 | * NearDeathClairvoyance: Someone astral projects before they die and look around. Alternatively, an already-dead person looks around. |
83 | * NightmareOfNormality: A supernatural character is made to believe they are mundane, popularly through an illusion of an ordinary life. |
84 | * NightmareSequence: A character has a nightmare. |
85 | * NightmareWeaver: Tormenting people in their sleep with bad dreams. |
86 | * NotWearingPantsDream: Nudity or ComedicUnderwearExposure in dreams. |
87 | * OpinionChangingDream: A dream changes the dreamer's opinion. |
88 | * OrWasItADream: It looks like the character only dreamed the events of the story, but then it's hinted that what they supposedly dreamed about had actually happened. |
89 | * PastExperienceNightmare: Nightmares about bad past events. |
90 | * PlaguedByNightmares: A character is tormented by repeated nightmares. |
91 | * PrefersTheIllusion: Character chooses to keep living in an illusion or dream. |
92 | * PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Anyone, including non-psychics, can have psychic dreams. |
93 | * ThePursuingNightmare: A nightmare or other imaginary threat that operates by stalking or chasing down dreamers. |
94 | * RealDreamsAreWeirder: In fiction, dreams aren't "supposed" to be surreal. |
95 | * RecurringDreams: Dreams that happen more than once, which (usually) make them important. |
96 | * RecursiveReality: Reality or non-reality has different "layers". |
97 | * TheSandman: The mythical Lord of Dreams, nothing less. |
98 | * SchrodingersButterfly: The distinction between reality and non-reality is left ambiguous. |
99 | * SharedDream: Two or more characters share the same dream or nightmare. |
100 | * ShatteringTheIllusion: A character is under an illusion, but then the illusion breaks. |
101 | * SleepParalysisCreature: People who suffer from the nightmarish hallucinations associated with sleep paralysis often imagine seeing some sort of creepy monster. |
102 | * SimulatedFantasyPostApocalypticReality: After the apocalypse, virtual reality becomes a haven for survivors - or a hell. |
103 | * TakenFromADream: A character brings something from a literal dreamworld into reality. |
104 | * TalkingInYourDreams: Communicating via dreams. |
105 | * ThatWasNotADream: Character talks about a dream they had and is then told that they weren't dreaming and what they described actually happened. |
106 | * TragicDream: A character has a wish-fulfillment dream that cannot come true. |
107 | * VirtualRealityInterrogation: You invoke AllJustADream via virtual reality. |
108 | * VirtualRealityWarper: Controlling virtual worlds, the digital cousin to the DreamWeaver. |
109 | * VisionQuest: A character visualises their thoughts in order to discover themselves. |
110 | * VisionsOfAnotherSelf: The same actors play different characters in the past and future vision scenes. |
111 | * WeakerInTheRealWorld: A being can do anything in dreams, but not so much in reality. |
112 | * WinToExit: Characters must win somehow in order to exit a virtual reality. |
113 | * YourMindMakesItReal: If you do something in your imagination, it comes true. |
114 | * YourWorstMemory: A character revisits the worst moment of their life, often through dreams. |
115 | [[/index]] |
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