Basic Trope: Someone has a nightmare that's more annoying than actually scary.
- Straight: Charlie is having a dream where he's unable to read.
- Exaggerated:
- Charlie is having a dream that combines all (or at least a lot) of his annoyances into one - he can't read, Alice and Bob keep making annoying noises, he keeps eating his least favorite foods, he's hearing his least favorite song...
- Charlie has annoying dreams every night.
- Downplayed: Most of Charlie's dream goes normally, but there's one frustrating moment when he can't read.
- Justified: Charlie was particularly annoyed that day, and it made its way into his dream.
- Inverted: Charlie has a dream about relaxing.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Charlie doesn't have any annoying dreams.
- Enforced:
- "We should add a Nightmare Sequence, but let's not make it too scary, given that this is a show for kids. Maybe we could have Charlie having a dream where he's getting annoyed by something?"
- To reveal what Charlie's Berserk Button (and/or other annoyances) are without getting into any exposition.
- To throw in a Faux Horrific joke.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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