History Main / DreamingOfTimesGoneBy

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** In ''The Opal-Eyed Fan'', the heroine dreams of a centuries ago HumanSacrifice on the island where she was shipwrecked.

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* This is the majority of the gameplay in ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' games.
* Happens to Aya Brea in ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2''. It's not so much sleeping as it's fainting from exhaustion.

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* In later parts of ''Bringing Me To Life'' Max starts dreaming about events of ''Film/TheMatrix'' over seventy years ago. Since he is one of the reincarnations of the main cast.
* Miku has these in the vocaloid fanfic ''Fanfic/RottingCamellias''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': In the "Tales from the Monastery of Spinjitzu" short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06dl4OZoaY "Green and Gold"]], Lloyd's dream shows us the Ultra-Dragon again and explains where it went after Season 2.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "I'm a Little Bit Country", in which Cartman tries to invoke this trope to get out of studying for an American history report.

* The FramingDevice for "Evergreen," the origin story of the Ice King's crown, on ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because the crown's first owner passes their memories to future owners.

See BadDreams for dreams of the character's past and ExpositionOfImmortality for when the character actually lived through the past they're dreaming about.

* '''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''': Izuku has a dream [[spoiler: through One for All]] about [[spoiler: the origin of One for All itself.]]

* ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks'': Rin continuously has dreams of Archer's life when he was alive. This is presumably a side effect of their contract. Because Archer has amnesia, it takes Rin a while to piece together and realize what she's seeing: [[spoiler:Archer is in fact a FutureBadass version of Rin's boyfriend Shirou, and the memories she's been seeing show how [[TraumaCongaLine his life went to shit, he was betrayed by everyone he tried to save, and his ideals were dragged through the mud]].

* In the InteractiveFiction game ''Curses'', sleeping in the Servant's Room gives the player a vision of the Dark Ages, with a Celtic army preparing to fight a hopeless battle against the invading Saxons. [[spoiler: It's also DreamingOfThingsToCome; at the climax, the player travels back in time and visits the same location in person.]]

* In later parts of ''Fanfic/BringingMeToLife'' Max starts dreaming about events of ''Film/TheMatrix'' over seventy years ago. Since he is one of the reincarnations of the main cast.

* Zig-Zagged in the first KnightsOfTheOldRepublic. The PlayerCharacter and Bastila are having dreams that retrace the steps of Darth Revan and Darth Malak as they sought out the [[PlotCoupon Star Maps]]. It's played off as [[DreamingOfThingsToCome Force visions]] until TheReveal at the game's three-quarter mark.

* During season 5 of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' Steven starts having dreams about [[spoiler:Pink Diamond]]'s past from her perspective when he sleeps in places she visited even though he shouldn't be able to do this because she is dead. [[spoiler:Turns out this is because Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz, who gave her life to create Steven, were actually the same person]].

* In addition to ''DreamingOfThingsToCome visions of the future'', Gammon Octo from the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'' has dreams about events that happened hundreds of years in the past.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Strays}}'', [[http://www.straysonline.com/comic/125.htm Meela has one of a murder]], and more after.

A sleeping character dreams a vision of events past -- sometimes ''long'' past -- and certainly ones he never saw.

Might be explained by [[{{Reincarnation}} the dreaming characters having lived in the past]], [[GeneticMemory or having an ancestor living in that past]], in which case there are definite limitations to what he will dream of.

* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Opal-Eyed Fan'', the heroine dreams of a centuries ago HumanSacrifice on the island where she was shipwrecked.

* In Creator/RickRiordan's ''[[Literature/TheKaneChronicles The Throne of Fire]]'', Sadie dreams of Ra's being forced from his position.

* In ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'', Silas and Sarah Heap dream of Nicko and Snorri as the latter are walking across a snow-covered forest ... 500 years before.

* Zig-zagged in ''Webcomic/{{NoFuture}}''. Andrew has visions of a future that already happened, but hopefully won't.

* In ''TheQuestportChronicles'', [[AmnesiacHero Mei]] has dreams of events long past, including an EldritchAbomination's imprisonment and [[TearJerker her mother's death]].