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1	'''Basic Trope''': A character dreams of a dreaded future.
2	* '''Straight''': Georgiana dreams that at the archery competition, she shoots someone while aiming at the target.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Georgiana dreams that when she tries out for the team, she shoots everyone in the world to death.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Georgiana dreams of being a little nervous at the competition.
5	* '''Justified''': TruthInTelevision.
6	* '''Inverted''':
7	** The more pressure on Georgiana, the better she sleeps.
8	** Georgiana is looking forward to the competition and dreams of winning it.
9	* '''Subverted''':
10	** Georgiana's strange dreams do not, after all, let up after she wins.
11	** Alice expects to dream about the competition, but RealDreamsAreWeirder; she dreams about something that has no connection to the competition.
12	* '''Double Subverted''': They were really symbolical representations of other problems in her life, which she resolves, ending the dreams.
13	* '''Parodied''': Georgiana dreams of disasters -- such as being trampled by a stampede of T. rexes, every day because she dreads getting through the day.
14	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice has a complex dream that partly involves the competition and partly involves other weird things, and the parts about the competition are sometimes good and sometimes bad.
15	* '''Averted''':
16	** Georgiana's nervousness is manifested only through other tropes; she sleeps like a baby.
17	** Georgiana can't sleep because of stress, therefore she didn't dream at all.
18	* '''Enforced''': ???
19	* '''Lampshaded''': "Georgiana? You did NOT have a bad dream about the competition? [[WhoWritesThisCrap What kind of writer would put that into our show]]??"
20	* '''Invoked''': Georgiana looks at her schedule and predicts anxiety dreams.
21	* '''Exploited''': Sebastian watches how Georgiana sleeps to see if she's nervous.
22	* '''Defied''': Georgiana takes sleeping pills whenever she's nervous, to ensure DeepSleep.
23	* '''Discussed''': "Worrying about the future always gives me nightmares."
24	* '''Conversed''': "On TV, if a character has a nightmare it's because they're worried about something, and that happens a lot in real life, but sometimes in real life, nightmares just happen."
25	* '''Implied''': Georgiana wakes up from her sleep with a BigNo, implying she was having a nightmare, and she is nervous about the competition, but it's never outright said that the nightmare was about the competition.
26	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
27	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
28	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
29	* '''Played For Laughs''': Georgiana dreams about [[NotWearingPantsDream showing up naked]] to the competition, because NakedPeopleAreFunny.
30	* '''Played For Drama''': Georgiana has nightmares relating to her untreated anxiety disorder.
31	* '''Played for Horror''': The dream turns out to be [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic]] and she ends up actually shooting someone.
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