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* In ''FruitsBasket'', after Kyo falls asleep recalling his relationship with [[spoiler:Kyoko Honda]], he dreams of her and [[DrivenToSuicide his mother]] and sees [[spoiler:[[MyGreatestFailure Kyoko's dead body]]]]. A brief NightmareSequence culminates with [[spoiler:Kyoko]]'s body turning into [[LoveInterest Tohru's]], and seeing [[BloodOnTheseHands blood on his hands]]. [[spoiler:The last image actually ''does'' show up again, but Tohru wasn't actually dead, and he wasn't really involved in the accident.]]
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* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's OctoberDaye novel ''One Salt Sea'', Anceline offers to take Toby swimming ''fast''. Toby says she looks forward to that -- in her nightmares, she thinks.

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* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's OctoberDaye ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' novel ''One Salt Sea'', Anceline offers to take Toby swimming ''fast''. Toby says she looks forward to that -- in her nightmares, she thinks.
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* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's OctoberDaye novel ''One Salt Sea'', Anceline offers to take Toby swimming ''fast''. Toby says she looks forward to that -- in her nightmares, she thinks.
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A character who suffers from these may also be experience {{FreudianSlip}}s and BogglesTheMind.
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* In ''Webcomic/DocRat'', Doc, in a high fever, dreams of being attacked for not being at work -- and then bringing disaster upon them by going to work.

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* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1164 Pooch dreams that Percy vanished -- much to Percy's discomfiture.]]

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* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', ''{{Sinfest}}'',
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[[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1164 Pooch dreams that Percy vanished -- much to Percy's discomfiture.]]


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** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4492 Crimney dreams of the Boggle game producing more demonic words.]]
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* In PatriciaAMcKillip's "The Kelpie" Wilding suggests that Emma is sleeping poorly because of these; a future of matrimony and children will give her little chance to paint.

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* In PatriciaAMcKillip's Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip's "The Kelpie" Wilding suggests that Emma is sleeping poorly because of these; a future of matrimony and children will give her little chance to paint.
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Unlike BadDreams, this can and usually is overcome by doing the dreaded thing, or getting past it. Except where they are one and the same, fueled by a fear of facing MyGreatestFailure again -- in which case facing it will still fix the dreams.

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Unlike BadDreams, this can and usually is overcome by [[FaceYourFears doing the dreaded thing, or getting past it.it]]. Except where they are one and the same, fueled by a fear of facing MyGreatestFailure again -- in which case facing it will still fix the dreams.
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* In the first series of ''{{BuffyTheVampireSlayer}}'', everyone's dreams start to come true. Most are "classic" anxiety dreams such as being in class in one's underpants (Xander), having to sing in public (Willow), losing the ability to read (Giles), and having to sit a test for which she had not taken the class or studied (Buffy).

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* In the first series of ''{{BuffyTheVampireSlayer}}'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', everyone's dreams start to come true. Most are "classic" anxiety dreams such as being in class in one's underpants (Xander), having to sing in public (Willow), losing the ability to read (Giles), and having to sit a test for which she had not taken the class or studied (Buffy).
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Not prophetically -- this trope is to DreamingOfThingsToCome what BadDreams is of DreamingOfTimesGoneBy. Though confusion is possible.

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Not prophetically -- this trope is to DreamingOfThingsToCome what BadDreams is of DreamingOfTimesGoneBy. Though DreamingOfTimesGoneBy -- though confusion is possible.




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* In PatriciaAMcKillip's "The Kelpie" Wilding suggests that Emma is sleeping poorly because of these; a future of matrimony and children will give her little chance to paint.
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* In {{Homer}}'s ''Iliad'', he uses an anxiety dream of being unable to flee when chased, or unable to pursue when chasing, as a metaphor for Achilles's chase after Hector, where Hector couldn't get away, and Achilles could not catch him.
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* Also by WenSpencer, in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' the Princess Rennsaeler has been having BadDreams about the theater explosion that killed her husband and older sisters. When she falls in love with Jerin, she starts dreaming that he's there too.

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* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Sirius's anxiety dreams are revealed his TalkingInYourSleep -- "He's at Hogwarts" -- although explicably so only with the knowledge that he just learned [[spoiler:Peter Pettigrew]] was at Hogwarts, ready to strike.
** Not ready to strike; Sirius is TheAtoner and was out for [[{{Revenge}} revenge]].

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* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Sirius's anxiety dreams are revealed his TalkingInYourSleep -- "He's at Hogwarts" -- although explicably so only with the knowledge that he just learned [[spoiler:Peter Pettigrew]] was at Hogwarts, ready to strike.
** Not ready to strike; Sirius is TheAtoner and was out for [[{{Revenge}} revenge]].
strike the moment Voldemort started regaining strength.
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* In WenSpencer's ''{{Literature/Tinker}}'', she suffers them regularly, a mix of current events tossed up with a dream [[TheMaze maze]].
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** Not ready to strike; Sirius is TheAtoner and was out for [[{{Revenge}} revenge]].
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* In ''{{Peanuts}}'', Snoopy dreams of Charlie Brown's flying him like a kite, so that he crashes into the earth and shatters. Waking he blames the 30-inch pizza eaten just before bed.
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* In JackCampbell's TheLostFleet novel ''Invicible'', Geary's BadDreams are mixed with this; he tells Desjani that he dreamed of her death. She tells him that [[HerHeartWillGoOn His Heart Will Go On]] will be his duty.
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* In DevonMonk's Literature/AllieBeckstrom book ''Magic to the Bone'', Allie comments on how she does not have them, sleeping on the drive to a friend's, escaping a city where she's suspected of murdering her father.
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* In DevonMonk's ''[[Literature/AgeOfSteam Dead Iron]]'', [=LeFel=] does not sleep because he will only dream of dying, which is near.
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* In LMMontgomery's ''TheBlueCastle'', Valancy dreams that she is confronting someone whom she told something that proved to be face, and he proves to be made of glass and breaks.

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* In LMMontgomery's ''TheBlueCastle'', Valancy dreams that she is confronting someone whom she told something that proved to be face, false, and he proves to be made of glass and breaks.
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** [[http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=3042 And about her job and Ryan's -- jumbled together]]
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* In ''SandraAndWoo'', [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/01/30/0346-the-contender-iv/ Woo dreams of being replaced.]]

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* In ''SandraAndWoo'', ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'', [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/01/30/0346-the-contender-iv/ Woo dreams of being replaced.]]
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* DorkTower: [[http://www.dorktower.com/2006/01/06/comics-archive-745/ Once he had them about school, now about running games]].

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* DorkTower: ''DorkTower'': [[http://www.dorktower.com/2006/01/06/comics-archive-745/ Once he had them about school, now about running games]].




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* In ''SandraAndWoo'', [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/01/30/0346-the-contender-iv/ Woo dreams of being replaced.]]
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* In LMMontgomery's ''TheBlueCastle'', Valancy dreams that she is confronting someone whom she told something that proved to be face, and he proves to be made of glass and breaks.
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* Happens to Aang repeatedly in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "Daydreams and Nightmares", about his upcoming battle against [[FinalBoss Firelord Ozai]]. He tried not sleeping because the nightmares were so bad, but then he went into sleep deprivations and [[MushroomSamba started hallucinating]].

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* Happens to Aang repeatedly in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "Daydreams "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderNightmaresAndDaydreams Nightmares and Nightmares", Daydreams]]", about his upcoming battle against [[FinalBoss Firelord Ozai]]. He tried not sleeping because the nightmares were so bad, but then he went into sleep deprivations and [[MushroomSamba started hallucinating]].
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** In "Restless" Willow dreams that she's turned up for a play without having learnt the lines, then she has to deliver a talk in her Season One nerd persona before a classroom full of her jeering friends. Xander's dream involves him going to the toilet, only to find the entire Initiative is watching him and taking notes.
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* Phase of the WhateleyUniverse has anxiety Dreams regularly, and often wakes up in a sweat from them. They're not prophetic, just symptoms of his stress.

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* In the first series of [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer}}, everyone's dreams start to come true. Most are "classic" anxiety dreams such as being in class in one's underpants (Xander), having to sing in public (Willow), losing the ability to read (Giles), and having to sit a test for which she had not taken the class or studied (Buffy).

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* In the first series of [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer}}, ''{{BuffyTheVampireSlayer}}'', everyone's dreams start to come true. Most are "classic" anxiety dreams such as being in class in one's underpants (Xander), having to sing in public (Willow), losing the ability to read (Giles), and having to sit a test for which she had not taken the class or studied (Buffy).(Buffy).
** A more subtle version is in "Hush" when Buffy has an EroticDream of kissing LoveInterest Riley Finn -- except it's taking place in front of an entire class, showing her nervousness about trying to get his FirstKiss.
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* Happens to Aang repeatedly in the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "Daydreams and Nightmares", about his upcoming battle against [[FinalBoss Firelord Ozai]]. He tried not sleeping because the nightmares were so bad, but then he went into sleep deprivations and [[MushroomSamba started hallucinating]].

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* Happens to Aang repeatedly in the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "Daydreams and Nightmares", about his upcoming battle against [[FinalBoss Firelord Ozai]]. He tried not sleeping because the nightmares were so bad, but then he went into sleep deprivations and [[MushroomSamba started hallucinating]].
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* In ''SquidRow'' [[http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=2610 Randie has them about Christmas -- in October.]]

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