In sleep he sees all that is yet to come: first a burning bush and a great fire and men and women and children with yellow Stars of David on their arms herded like cattle in great metal beasts to a place where the tracks terminate. From there through a great gate into a dark place and ovens and black smoke, gold teeth collected in dirty buckets, skeletal moselmen with bare feet in the snow. Then a great cleansing fire and he sees boats on the sea and refugees docking at secret alcoves and kissing the sand, armed men and women spreading out across the bare land. Then later still the roads cut into the earth and the villages eradicated and the new settlers spreading again and again like locusts. New houses, new roads, great cities until of the wild places nothing remains. But all that is yet to come.
—Locusts, by Lavie Tidhar
We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing.
—The recurring dream, Prince of Darkness
"Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flyin'
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children cryin' and colors flyin'
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin' Mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Flyin' Mother nature's silver seed
To a new home..."
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children cryin' and colors flyin'
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin' Mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Flyin' Mother nature's silver seed
To a new home..."
I dreamt of a... nightmarish cafe, brilliantly lit, but underground, with no way out. I'd been dead a long, long, time. The waitresses all had the same face. The food was soap. The only drink was cups of lather.
—Vivian Ayrs, Cloud Atlas
Elsa: "But dreams and nightmares, they don't always make sense. You feel bad about Hans, so your mind is finding ways for you to process that."
Cassandra: "You don't think they're prophetic?"
Elsa: "Impressions to the contrary, we don't live in a fairy tale."
Cassandra: "You don't think they're prophetic?"
Elsa: "Impressions to the contrary, we don't live in a fairy tale."
"I dreamt of those with the black blood crawling from the cold depths of the sea, hungry for carnage and hungry for the souls of men, a wicked thing with ten long arms and a single blue eye destroying everything in his path, tearing the City of Kings apart and salting the earth beneath. I dreamt of a princess bleeding, dying in her young love's embrace. I dreamt of a gathering of beasts, Snake, Kraken, and Wolf, all together in the snow as the dead marched and light left the world. But mostly I keep dreaming of Dragons. When the King sits the throne for the sixth time, a red tear shall mark the sky, and it will be a sign that the three children of fire have come. From the south comes fire, from the north comes ice. In betwixt is suffering and death. An age of darkness shall be upon us, and only the Promised one will deliver us."
— Ser Oswell, The Open Way
She sat on the side of her bed for a few seconds and composed herself. Then she opened a drawer from the night stand, took a cassette recorder from it, turned it on, and began to speak.
"This is August 17th. Another entry in my dream journal. I think this one might be a prophecy. It's been a long time since I've had one... but this one seemed intense enough to be. I just hope it isn't.
"I saw my brother Lex. His wife Ardora was alive, and he was killing her.
"And then he was killing Superman."
"This is August 17th. Another entry in my dream journal. I think this one might be a prophecy. It's been a long time since I've had one... but this one seemed intense enough to be. I just hope it isn't.
"I saw my brother Lex. His wife Ardora was alive, and he was killing her.
"And then he was killing Superman."
— Lena Thorul, Kara of Rokyn
Can Mario be truly dead? Or was it all just a horrible dream of things to come?
— Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom Part 3's opening words, acting as the Mind Screwdriver for the ending of Part 2.
Mohiam: Do you often dream things that happen, just as you dreamed them?
Paul: Yes.
Paul: Yes.
Surtur: I cannot die. Not until I fulfill my destiny, and lay waste to your home.
Thor: You know, it's funny you should mention that. Because I've been having these terrible dreams of late! Asgard up in flames. Falling to ruins. And you, Surtur. The center of all of it.
Surtur: Then you have seen Ragnarok, the fall of Asgard, the great prophecy.
Thor: You know, it's funny you should mention that. Because I've been having these terrible dreams of late! Asgard up in flames. Falling to ruins. And you, Surtur. The center of all of it.
Surtur: Then you have seen Ragnarok, the fall of Asgard, the great prophecy.
He often walked round and round the castle, but not too near to it. One night he dreamt that he found a Blood-Red Flower, in the middle of which was a beautiful large pearl; that he picked the flower and went with it to the castle, and that everything he touched with the flower was freed from enchantment. He also dreamt that by means of it, he recovered his Jorinda.
