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Dreams and dreaming are ubiquitous in storytelling. There are many, many dream-related tropes: here are several. See also Sleep And Wakefulness Tropes.

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Tropes

• Acid Reflux Nightmare
• Adventures In Comaland
• All Just a Dream
• Anxiety Dreams
• Bad Dreams
• Based on a Dream
• Blank Book
• But You Were There, and You, and You
• Cannot Dream
• Catapult Nightmare
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• Erotic Dream
• Fever Dream Episode
• Flashback Nightmare
• Girl of My Dreams
• A Glitch in the Matrix
• Hatsuyume
• Homoerotic Dream
• I Was Having Such a Nice Dream
• Life Is But A Dream
• Living Dream
• Lotus-Eater Machine
• Mad Dreamer
• Marshmallow Dream
• Mental World
• Mind Virus
• Nightmare Sequence
• Not Wearing Pants Dream
• Opinion Changing Dream
• Or Was It a Dream?
• Pinch Me
• Psychic Dreams for Everyone
• Real Dreams Are Weirder
• Recurring Dreams
• Recursive Reality
• Surreal Symbolic Heads
• Talking in Your Dreams
• That Was Not A Dream
• Virtual Reality Interrogation
• Vision Quest
• Visions of Another Self
• Win to Exit
• Your Mind Makes It Real
• Your Worst Nightmare

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Always Night

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