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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', Anastasia and the Dowager Empress have a special lullaby, which plays on a music box the Empress gives her. The song later has a more well-known reprise in 'Once Upon A December', which Anya sings when remembering traces of her past. Anastasia, upon remembering the Empress, sings it with her, and the Empress realizes it is really her.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', Moses casually whistles his true mother's lullaby - we've actually seen said lullaby on screen, but it sets things up for his sister Miriam's reveal.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', Moses casually whistles his true mother's lullaby - we've actually seen said lullaby on screen, but it sets things up for his sister Miriam's reveal.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', Anastasia and the Dowager Empress have a special lullaby, which plays on a music box the Empress gives her. The song later has a more well-known reprise in 'Once Upon A December', which Anya sings when remembering traces of her past. Anastasia, upon remembering the Empress, sings it with her, and the Empress realizes it is really her.
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* The Victory Hymn in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' is sung as a memory aid by Sunny and whistled by the Resistance member Snake has to stalk. It's heard again at the end in an awesome Music/EnnioMorricone-SpaghettiWestern-style arrangement - maybe the characters can see the game's happy ending?
* The Tsukimori Song from ''VideoGame/FatalFrameIVMaskOfTheLunarEclipse''. Bits and pieces of the song are the only things that protagonist Ruka can remember from her childhood.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Remember11}}'': ''Kagome, kagome...''

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* The Victory Hymn in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' is sung as a memory aid by Sunny and whistled by the Resistance member Snake has to stalk. It's heard again at the end in an awesome Music/EnnioMorricone-SpaghettiWestern-style arrangement - -- maybe the characters can see the game's happy ending?
* The Tsukimori Song from ''VideoGame/FatalFrameIVMaskOfTheLunarEclipse''.''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaskOfTheLunarEclipse''. Bits and pieces of the song are the only things that protagonist Ruka can remember from her childhood.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Remember11}}'': ''VisualNovel/Remember11'': ''Kagome, kagome...''
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* The Hymn of the Fayth in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' also counts, for Tidus; he finds himself humming it in a flashback, but its connection to Spira is only made clear later. (The track title for Tidus's murmuring is called ''[[IncrediblyLamePun Hum of the Fayth]]''.)

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* The Hymn of the Fayth in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' also counts, for Tidus; he finds himself humming it in a flashback, but its connection to Spira is only made clear later. (The track title for Tidus's murmuring is called ''[[IncrediblyLamePun ''[[{{Pun}} Hum of the Fayth]]''.)
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* Benny whistles "In the Hall of the Mountain King" in Dean's Purgatory flashbacks, in Supernatural
* In ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', four major characters [[spoiler:discover themselves to be Cylons]] after they realize they've all been hearing the same unearthly music playing throughout the ship. (The song is, in fact, an indie-rock cover of Music/BobDylan's "All Along the Watchtower").
** And it's now shown up in the minds of [[spoiler:Kara Thrace]] and [[spoiler:Hera Agathon]].

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* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Benny whistles "In the Hall of the Mountain King" in Dean's Purgatory flashbacks, in Supernatural
flashbacks.
* In ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', four major characters [[spoiler:discover themselves to be Cylons]] after they realize they've all been hearing the same unearthly music playing throughout the ship. (The song is, in fact, ship - an indie-rock cover of Music/BobDylan's "All Along the Watchtower").
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Watchtower". It later shows up in the minds of [[spoiler:Kara Thrace]] Thrace and [[spoiler:Hera Hera Agathon]].
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I absolutely adore that episode and that moment, but it is not this trope - they know full well it's a song they learned from a fallen comrade, and they're not particularly surprised or mystified at thinking about when they encounter the same "enemy" they were fighting in the war that he died in. It's a Nostalgia Melody, not a Dream Melody.


* A major TearJerker in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Wounded", where both Miles O'Brien and his old Captain are haunted by an old Irish war ditty that turns out to have strong symbolic connections to the the events and backstory of the episode's plot.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'' trilogy, the Eight Melody is a lullaby sung by a mother to her son and how [[CentralTheme her love can both plunges the son into evil or redeems him back into the light]]. You have to collect each line of the melody from individuals and places with great personal sorrow, so you can play it to the son to stop him from embracing [[TheCorruption the dark side of their great psychic power]].
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* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' uses the opening bars of "Part of Your World" as this trope, notably when Eric hears mermaids singing, Ariel gives up her voice to Ursula, and Ursula disguised as Vanessa uses said voice to hypnotize Eric.

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* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' uses the opening bars of "Part of Your World" as this trope, notably when Eric hears mermaids singing, Ariel gives up her voice to Ursula, and Ursula disguised as Vanessa uses said voice to hypnotize Eric.

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