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7	->''"Do your dreams change, (name)? Mine do not. I have one dream..."''
8	-->-- '''Arator the Redeemer''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''
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10	The more often you have a dream, the more important it is. If you're DreamingOfThingsToCome, the upcoming event is even more plot-significant than you thought. If someone's TalkingInYourDreams, they want to make ''really sure'' you get the message. And if it's not [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone psychic in origin]], but a plain old FlashbackNightmare or indeed any form of PastExperienceNightmare, you know the event involved ''really'' bothered the dreamer. (That last is TruthInTelevision; the symptoms of PTSD can include recurring dreams of the traumatic experience.) As is having AnxietyDreams when you are ''really'' worried about stuff.
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12	DeepSleep often can prevent it.
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14	This gets subverted, usually for comedy, with a character having a persistent, bizarre dream that has nothing to do with anything. A recurring NotWearingPantsDream or GuiltInducedNightmare is a common example. Compare and contrast PlaguedByNightmares, where a character's consistent bad dreams are a sign of personal issues.
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21	* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': The titular main character is particularly susceptible to these. These dreams almost always begin with her and Kero atop of the TokyoTower, ready for battle, surrounded by the Clow Cards... and then they begin changing accordingly. The dreams have shown her things like her own transformation into a MagicalGirl, Syaoran's arrival, [[spoiler: Kaho's involement in the Judgement]]...
22	* Einhard Stratos of ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' has her recurring FlashbackNightmare based [[GeneticMemory from the memories she inherited from]] [[WarriorPrince Hegemon Klaus Ingvalt]], her ancestor, and how he had failed to prevent the HeroicSacrifice of Sankt Kaiser Olivie Segbrecht, [[StarCrossedLovers his rival and possible lover]].
23	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' had Asuna getting these. [[spoiler: Turns out that the "dreams" are really memories that have been suppressed with LaserGuidedAmnesia.]]
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27	* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'':
28	** Samaritan has recurring DreamsOfFlying -- he actually ''has'' the power of flight, but he [[ChronicHeroSyndrome never has the time]] to just fly around for fun rather than flying toward the latest emergency.
29	** In one story, 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]].
30	* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'':
31	** The central character of "In Dreams" has a recurring nightmare due to buried childhood trauma.
32	** In "Night After Night", one of the things the title refers to is Bruce's recurring nightmare about his parents' death.
33	* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheUntoldStoryOfArgoCity'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} having repeated dreams where her supposedly deceased biological parents shout that they are alive and trapped in a pocket dimension prompts her to investigate what happened to Zor-El and Allura In-Ze.
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37	* In ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', originally a weekly Sunday comic strip, Nemo's dreams continued as an ongoing story arc, even though he woke up at the end of every strip.
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41	* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Kanae's favorite dream includes kissing Kyon at a beach and magically teleporting to a shadowy wooded glade surrounded by bunnies and flowers. [[spoiler: After the fight with a robot at the beach Kanae, still somewhat dazed, believes she's dreaming when Kyon [[HolyBacklight shows himself like in her dream]], and decides to kiss him only to realize later everybody is watching them.]]
42	* In ''Fanfic/GettingBackOnYourHooves'', Twilight is awakened repeatedly by nightmares of her encounter with Discord. Spike is also implied to be having recurring nightmares of his greed induced rampage. Trixie had recurring nightmares involving an Ursa as a filly as well. [[spoiler:Trixie teaches Twilight and Spike, who was listening, lucid dreaming, allowing them to successfully conquer them, which her grandmother taught her as a filly.]]
43	%%* A ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' fanfic based on a relationship between Matt Devlin and Alesha Philips reveal that she frequently has this about his near-fatal (in this universe) shooting, while another reveals they both have this (him about the shooting, her about her rape). %% incomplete example - what are the titles of these fics?
44	* In ''Fanfic/DoubleAgentVader'', Leia has recurring dreams about the mother who died when she was born.
45	* In ''Fanfic/HereticPride'', the Jedi youngling Aloo has a recurring dream that's actually a memory of the family she was taken from when she was too young to still remember them consciously.
46	* The ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4997916/1/ Gaz's Nightmare]]'' is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title might suggest]], about a nightmare Gaz has been having night after night about being rendered immobile and unable to speak, being ForcedToWatch as [[spoiler: Dib eats a whole [[TrademarkFavoriteFood pizza]] without her getting any]].
47	* In ''Fanfic/TheMeaningOfHarmony'', Sunset's recurring nightmares kick off the plot of the story. Once she goes back to Equestria, she finds out that Twilight and the princesses have been having the same dreams as her.
48	* ''Fanfic/MyDreamIsYours'' has an interesting and somewhat inverted take on the trope. Most agents have a specific dream that often recurs, but when they are affected with Dream-Transfer-itis, they begin having a recurring dream that isn't their own, which causes them to suffer from SleepDeprivation. So essentially, it's more like the ''lack'' of usual recurring dreams that kicks off the plot and has most characters suffering from a case of OOCIsSeriousBusiness.
49	* In ''Fanfic/TorqueJakAndDaxter'', the Dark Warrior has been having dreams that he can’t understand not knowing that they are of his past life as Jak. They began after he caught sight of Keira.
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53	* ''Anime/ChildOfKamiariMonth'': Kanna has a recurring dream of running with her mother through a forest when she was a child, her mother slowly getting further and further away until she disappears into a bright light--symbolizing her death.
54	* Aki Ross has dreams like this in ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' which are very integral to the story.
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58	* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Captain Marvel\|2019}}'', Vers wakes up from one of her recurring nightmares involving a fiery crash and a woman she doesn't recognize. She refuses to go back to sleep and instead convinces Yon-Rogg to spar with her. [[spoiler:The dream is actually a recurring flashback, albeit with some details differing from the actual event, such as her bleeding blue instead of red.]]
59	* In the TV Movie ''Film/TheDeadlyDream'' (1971) Creator/LloydBridges dreams he's being chased by mysterious people. Every time he falls asleep the dream picks up at the same point. Then the dream begins to leak into his idyllic real life and he comes to realize [[spoiler: the dream is real and his only temporary escape is in his dreams of a "real life"]]
60	* ''Film/TheFugitive'': Richard Kimble has nightmare after nightmare of his wife's murder while he tries to solve the crime.
61	* In the film adaptation of ''Film/IRobot'', Sonny has a reoccurring dream in which a figure watches from the top of a cliff, as a group of robots are forced into storage. He believes that Spooner is the figure in the dream. [[spoiler:The end of the movie has the dream play out in real life, only it's ''Sonny'' on the cliff. Given his creator's earlier comments about how robots will one day advance to having feelings and dreams like humans, it seems to hint that Sonny will lead the way to robots being treated as equals and not as convenient appliances.]]
62	* Ethan dreams twice of (his ex-wife) Julia being threatened by Solomon Lane in ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout''. [[spoiler: Guess what happens in the last act of the film.]]
63	* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' centers around teenagers having recurring dreams about Freddy Krueger. Said dreams end ''very'' badly to say the least...
64	* ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness'' has everyone involved with the Brotherhood of Sleep having one. Except it's not actually a dream, but an attempt from future scientists to [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture warn the past about the incoming apocalypse]].
65	-->[[NightmareFuel You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing.]]
66	* In ''Film/TheYoungPoisonersHandbook'', Berridge has recurring nightmares related to his guilt over murdering his parents. The viewer learns what some of these dreams are when Graham writes them down and presents them to Dr. Zeigler as his own nightmares, and they are quite disturbing.
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70	%%* A short story has two doctors discussing the death of an insane man they'd be treating. The man had told them that he'd been having a continuous dream, in which he was standing on a beach and forced to watch a massive wave come closer, all while unable to move. Every time he fell asleep again, the dream picked up where it left off. The man eventually became so terrified of this dream that he tried everything possible to keep from sleeping. [[spoiler:The end of the story reveals that the man's autopsy reported his cause of death to somehow be drowning.]]
71	* In ''Literature/{{Alterien}}'', Oberon Navarro has recurring dreams of being experimented on by the often-silent Dr. Grey.
72	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
73	** 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.
74	** In an earlier book, he mentions a recurring dream where he's trying to convince Cassie to go into a dark cave, symbolic of [[AnxietyDreams his stress]] about [[TheChainsOfCommanding always ordering her and the others]] into dangerous situations.
75	** In ''The Capture'', Jake has several dreams where he's a tiger hunting his brother, Tom. At first, it represents how he sees Tom (who's been taken over by a PuppeteerParasite) as an enemy, but when that same PuppeteerParasite gets into Jake later in the book, Jake sees ''himself'' as the prey.
76	* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', six years ago Princess Ren lost family in a theater explosion that happened while she was out on the steps at the exit. Finding burned bodies, or getting close enough to someone to fear losing them, or smelling burning things in her sleep, tends to [[FlashbackNightmare make the dreams return]].
77	* There are a few subversions in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of recurring dreams involving [[SurrealHorror giant boots with teeth]] and such things as that. But played straight in ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' with the dream about [[Literature/TheBible the seven thin cows and seven fat cows]], one of which is playing a trombone, which is a sign that someone is a member of the Djelibeybian royal family.
78	* ''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]].]]
79	* The titular character of ''Literature/{{Eva}}'' has recurring dreams about a vast jungle, which turn out to be the lingering instincts of the chimpanzee her memories were copied into.
80	* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'', Robin keeps on having a dream involving a deer, a forest, a woman waiting for him and Nikita holding a bird in her hands, with someone claiming that she can fix Robin.
81	* Harry starts having recurring dreams of a long hallway with a door the end in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', and eventually starts getting tantalizing glimpses of what lies beyond the door before waking up. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[BigBad Voldemort]] is using the mental link he and Harry share to show him the Hall of Prophecy in the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries, as part of Voldemort's plan in this book: to get his hands on the complete prophecy regarding him and Harry, which only he or Harry can retrieve.]]
82	* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'': In the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', Herald Vanyel has two sets of these. One is a nightmare about him becoming encased in ice until he becomes ice himself (reflecting how unhealthy his SafetyInIndifference strategy has become), and the other is a DreamingOfThingsToCome sequence about his future death in defense of Valdemar.
83	* Faramir in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' has recurring dreams, both prophetic in nature ("Seek for the sword that was broken") and nightmares of the drowning of Numenor. The last one was based on the recurring dreams that both Creator/JRRTolkien and his son Michael had (see below).
84	* ''Literature/{{Manifestation}}'': One of the main characters, Tock Zipporah, has recurring dreams throughout most of the book, each one building off the previous ones.
85	* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians,'' Percy has a recurring dream where he's wearing a straitjacket while trying to take a test, symbolic of his [[BookDumb academic anxiety]]. Funnily enough, this is practically the only dream he has that ''isn't'' psychic...though when we, the readers, get to see it, [[DreamingOfThingsToCome Thalia has found her way in]].
86	* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' Jon Snow [[spoiler: when he doesn't have dreams of magical nature)]] has recurring dreams about something calling for him from the crypts of Winterfell, then the Stark ancestors tell him that he doesn't belong there and he's not a Stark. This has to do with his underlying insecurity issues (he's a bastard who never felt to really belong) [[spoiler: but also may be indicative that he's meant to be someone else, if you pay attention to ''many'' theories about his parentage.]]
87	* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': In ''Literature/DeathStar'', the Force-sensitive stormtrooper Nova Stihl [[DreamingOfThingsToCome dreams often of his own death]]. There are at least two different scenarios, one in which he's fighting other troopers as a DelayingAction, one in which he's chasing a Corellian smuggler. There are variations on the first one; sometimes he's fighting alone, sometimes with a companion, and the odds against him vary. When the second scenario happens he averts death by not following Han Solo too closely, but in the first he's as grimly willing as he is in each dream.
88	* ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'': From ''The Fairy Godmother'', when Elena's asking about Alexander's dreams:
89	-->She was trying to think of something to say when he spoke. "Tell me about your dreams, will you?" he asked. "Do you have them every night? Are they always the same?"\
90	"I've been having them most nights, and they're never exactly the same," she said, staring into the fire, leaning back on her elbows. "They always start when I find myself in a-a very odd place. I'm on the shore of some large body of water, and it's night, but very bright, bright enough to see colors.\
91	"Apparently we're having the same dream."\
92	"Does that mean something?" he asked, and ran his fingers through his hair, nervously. "Is it significant?
93	* ''Literature/Tempest2011'': 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.
94	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
95	** Creator/SandyMitchell's Literature/CiaphasCain has recurring nightmares. They only begin to impact the plot in ''The Traitor's Hand'', when one of them starts to ''[[TalkingInYourDreams change]]''...
96	** Hark has recurring dreams in Creator/DanAbnett's Literature/GauntsGhosts novel ''Only In Death'', of Tanith pipes. They haunt him so much that he slips and writes about them in the journal. [[spoiler:Turns out that Soric was TalkingInYourDreams to warn him. After [[ICannotSelfTerminate killing Soric in mercy]], he finds himself missing them.]]
97	* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
98	** Occasionally cats will have recurring dreams that are an omen of some sort, and they must work out what it means.
99	** In ''Mothwing's Secret'', Mothwing's nightmare of Tadpole's death keeps coming back.
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103	* An episode of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' has Cory plagued by recurring nightmares of him murdering his best friend Shawn in a variety of ways (pushing him down an open elevator shaft, bludgeoning him with a baseball bat, etc.) [[spoiler: When he finally makes himself follow the dream to its end, he realizes that killing Shawn (along with the rest of his friends and an earlier RomanticFalseLead) is symbolic of how he'll naturally prioritize Topanga over everyone else when he marries her.]]
104	* One episode of ''Series/EmptyNest'' has Harry unable to sleep due to a recurring nightmare in which he's unable to escape from a tiger while wearing his wife's bathrobe. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that he's having the dream because [[spoiler: he's due to appear at a medical conference at the hospital where she died.]]
105	* In one episode of ''Series/FlightOfTheConchords'', Mel keeps dreaming that Bret is doing awful, offensive things to her and she gets so angry she tells him to apologise in real life (which he does, although a little reluctantly). His dream-behaviour eventually gets so bad she physically attacks him and breaks his arm. There's no real point to the dreams themselves, it's just another demonstration of Mel's insanity.
106	* 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 [[AwkwardlyGayDream 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'.
107	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Bran Stark keeps dreaming about a crow with three eyes. In the books, the Three-Eyed Crow turns out to be part of the manifestation of Bran's powers as a greenseer, who are (at least semi) magical beings. They are long thought to be extinct with the power to see the future in their dreams, who had been leaders of the Children of the Forest, and were defeated by the First Men. The (tremendously ancient) Three-Eyed Crow himself is eventually encountered by Bran (who is training to become a greenseer) and company, and is known as the Last Greenseer, and who identifies himself as one Lord Brynden, the same name as an ancient Targaryen Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
108	* A WhatDoTheyFearEpisode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' reveals that Blanche has had a series of recurring dreams where she was trapped in a small room with a group of bald men. It later comes true when she boards a plane full of former Mr. Cleans on their way to a reunion.
109	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding]]", 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 "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]", viewers finally get a glimpse of their shared past after Daniel falls asleep due to his medication.
110	* ''Series/LoveAndDestiny'': Ling Xi frequently dreams about Jiu Chen defeating the demon king.
111	* In "The House", a segment on ''Series/NightGallery'', a woman has recurring dreams of walking around a house. She eventually finds the house she's been dreaming of, and the people who live there recognize her... because she's often been seen as a ghost haunting the place! The segment was based on a short story.
112	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Is implied that Miriel has nightmares from time to time about [[spoiler:Numenor being engulfed by a great wave]]. She is terrified by her nightmares as they are prophetic in nature, and doesn't know what could provoke such a disaster and if it can be avoided.
113	* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' has Bridge have a recurring dream that they end up in a battle against some robots and the Megazord is defeated. It worries him.
114	* On an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Carla dreams that her husband Turk and his {{Heterosexual Life Partner\|s}} JD realize that they might not be so heterosexual after all, and team up to MurderTheHypotenuse (her) so that they can be together. She wakes up very distraught, and Turk assures her that such a thing will never happen. She tells him the dream isn't the problem, because she has that dream all the time. [[SkewedPriorities What freaked her out was that she dreamed in English instead of Spanish]].
115	* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E06TheImpossibleBox The Impossible Box]]", after Soji abruptly wakes up and startles Narek in bed, she apologizes to him and explains that she had a weird dream, and that she keeps having it.
116	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
117	** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E17TwentyTwo 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.]]
118	** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E26ShadowPlay Shadow Play]]", Adam Grant suffers a recurring nightmare in which he is convicted of murder and sent to the electric chair every night.
119	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E4 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.
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123	* ''Podcast/OnTheThreshold'': Taken to the LogicalExtreme and PlayedForHorror in that after making discovery of her [[MissingTime forgotten PhD work]], Dr. Applegate dreams of ''nothing else'' except a looped conversation with herself and empty hallways. It only gets worse when she breaks the cycle of recurring dreams through lucid dreaming [[spoiler: and draws the attention of [[EldritchAbomination something]] that relentlessly pursues her in her dreams and leaves her debilitated with exhaustion and stress.]]
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127	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Friendship", Miss Brooks suffers from a recurring dream where she's being chased by a man with a knife. [[spoiler: It turns out a broken bedspring poking through her mattress is the cause of her nightmares.]]
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131	* ''Theatre/MissSaigon'': Implied by Ellen's lyrics in "I Still Believe", as she watches her husband Chris sleep, "Last night... once more the nightmare came...", moments before he awakens from yet another bad dream.
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135	* Ashley in ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'' has a recurring FlashbackNightmare. Figuring it out is an important part of the game.
136	* Each campaign in ''VideoGame/EYEDivineCybermancy'' starts with waking up in a strange dream landscape surrounded by enormous inscribed pillars, with a monolithic wall behind the exit portal. Dying with no available resurrectors causes you to wake up again in the landscape, with "[[NoNameGiven Mysterious]]" telling you it was [[DreamingOfThingsToCome a vision of a possible future]]. The first time you start a campaign with a new character, you wake up with your Mentor's corpse slumped against the portal.
137	--> ''It's true that I killed my Mentor... [[MindScrew and yet, I am not his murderer]].''
138	* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' has several storylines that take the form of recurring dreams, surrounding a topic and starting to follow a whole theme once you start sorting them out. There are also certain individuals and entities that tend to cause recurring nightmares when contacted.
139	* In ''VideoGame/LostSmileAndStrangeCircus'', Noah, the protagonist, has one where there is a woman with a baby. The woman is singing a lullaby, when suddenly a dark man comes and kidnaps her, leaving the baby all alone.
140	* [[PlayerCharacter Shepard]] has a reoccurring dream of chasing the kid who he watched die on Earth through a dark forest in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', always unable to catch him before the kid abruptly catches fire. It gets creepier with the addition of the whispering voices of the dead in later incarnations of the dream [[spoiler:and in the final version, Shepard himself/herself being the one who catches fire]].
141	* ''VideoGame/PrayerOfTheFaithless'': The first part of the game where the player has control, is with Aeyr in his recurring dream of the "haunted dream house" as he says in its opening cutscene.
142	* Arator the Redeemer, an NPC in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' Hellfire Peninsula zone, claims to ''only ever have'' one dream. It involves his father trying and failing to tell him something, and is one of the reasons he thinks that father may be NotQuiteDead.
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146	* ''VisualNovel/TheCurseOfKudan'': Ever since she was a child, Sakuya has been plagued by a nightmare where she is trying to save a woman from falling off a cliff, only for the woman to attempt to drag her down to her death. It's revealed that [[spoiler:these nightmares come from Sakuya's repressed memories of witnessing a similar murder attempt]].
147	* Comes up a few times in ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'': Riki has recurring nightmares of the same scene of death and despair [[spoiler:which turns out to be the present real world, the immediate aftermath of the bus crash he was in before he entered the world Kyousuke created]], Komari has recurring dreams of an older brother she can't remember [[spoiler:which turns out to be her repressed memories of the past]] and Kud has a vague recurring nightmare she can never remember in detail [[spoiler:which turns out to be a vision of the future and her mother being executed.]]
148	* ''VisualNovel/{{Mizuchi}}'': After becoming the shapeshifter Ai's companion, the protagonist Linh begins having dreams of being underwater and seeing a large hand reaching for her. It's revealed that [[spoiler:these dreams are actually Ai's memories back when the shapeshifter was an ordinary carp]].
149	* Edgeworth in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' states in one case that he always has the same dream. (His dream being of the day his father was killed.) "For fifteen years... I have had a recurring dream. A nightmare... it’s only a nightmare. That’s what I told myself. But now I know, [[DreamingTheTruth it wasn’t a dream]]." It scares him because [[spoiler:it's a dream that he himself fired the gun that killed his father.]]
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153	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace used to have one about [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-09-11 a lespuko skull taunting her]].
154	* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2400/fc02344.htm Raibert has reoccurring nightmares about never getting a full night's sleep.]]
155	* The protagonist of ''Webcomic/Life2012'', Felicia, has a few. One of them she later uses to inspire a drawing.
156	* ''Webcomic/NinthElsewhere'': Probably inevitable since the comic takes place in a MentalWorld.
157	* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': The dream of Emil's in which Lalli stumbles in Chapter 17 gives every indication of being one, as Emil tells Lalli that having him in it makes it "different" and that it always ends before a certain point in the real event he's dreaming about.
158	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane keeps dreaming about his own murder, trapped in a cycle of the same memories night after night.
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162	* Beatrice of ''Webcomic/TheDreamer'' has recurring dreams set in the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution American Revolution]].
163	* ''Roleplay/EquestriaChronicles'' has Dartbreak, who is traumatized over the death of his friends.
164	* A major characteristic of Kate of ''WebVideo/KateModern'' was that she was troubled by recurring nightmares, which eventually turned out to be of some significance.
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168	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Hank is upset over recurring dreams about grilling naked with his attractive neighbor Nancy. However the dreams themselves are utterly chaste and not the least bit erotic, they're just speaking normally about the quality of the burgers and such. Peggy worries that this means that he's bored of her, but in the end Hank realizes that he wasn't bored with his wife but of propane and his grill and the dreams were a way to rejuvenate his love of grilling.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In the Order 66 arc, it is heavily implied by [[spoiler:Tup's]] last words that [[spoiler:the clone troopers' [[ManchurianAgent control chips]]]] give them recurring nightmares of [[spoiler:carrying out [[ThePurge Order 66]]]], nightmares that they cannot fully remember upon waking.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': As explained in [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E11Bibo "Bibo"]], this is how [[spoiler:Eila's]] [[DreamingOfThingsToCome dreams of the future]] always come.
171	* Dr Venture, of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', has recurring dreams of being eaten by a twin in the womb all throughout Season 1, which become explained in the season finale.
172	* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Bloom had these about a nymph named Daphne, who turned out to be her sister trying to tell Bloom about her origins.
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176	* Creator/JRRTolkien conceived of the idea for the Downfall of Númenor because of a recurring dream he had about an enormous wave looming up over the land and crashing down on it.
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