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* The 1945 Creator/AlfredHitchcock film ''Film/{{Spellbound}}'' famously has a dream sequence designed by Creator/SalvadorDali(!).

* Dream sequences are major parts of, and a primary plot point in the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction ''Fanfic/{{Composure}}''.

* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''[[ChristmasEpisode Lexmas]]'' is mostly Lex's extremely [[Heartwarming/{{Smallville}} heartwarming]] and [[TearJerker/{{Smallville}} tearjerking]] dream.

* ''Series/NorthernExposure'':
** An extended Dream Sequence (in this case actually a hallucination) -- lasting nearly the entire episode -- was used to very good effect in "Dinner at Seven-Thirty". As evidenced by this episode, an extended DreamSequence may perform the function of an AlternateUniverse in series where an AlternateUniverse ''per se'' would not fit with the show's genre.
** Joel has another episode-long dream in "Jules et Joel".
** More traditional examples occur in "Spring Break", with everyone getting slightly loopy with the arrival of the eponymous season.
* In ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' episode "Questions and Answers", Dorothy dozes off while studying for Jeopardy and has a dream in which she goes up against a first time opponent and a returning champion, who surprisingly is Rose.

* There was an episode of ''Series/NewsRadio'' in which the air conditioning was malfunctioning, causing the entire cast to have hallucinations. Some of these were short AllJustADream moments, but others were obvious dream sequences.

* ''Series/{{Blossom}}'' has this almost OncePerEpisode.

* ''Series/TwinPeaks''. The dream sequences contained major plot points, and the reality of the dream-world was eventually shown to be the home of several minor characters as well as BOB, the BigBad.
* ''Series/GilligansIsland'' had more than its share of dream sequences, though they often provide the program's biggest laughs and the cast reportedly loved doing them.
* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Silly dream sequences were often seen.
* ''Series/{{Mash}}'' has a season 8 episode, simply titled "Dreams", which concentrates on the dreams and nightmares had by each of the main characters as they try to catch sleep during a grueling, casualty-heavy two-day period.

* ''VideoGame/{{Scratches}}'' has two dream sequences on different nights, the first one has hints of [[OrWasItADream not being just a dream]], the second is purely nightmarish.

* ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'' is mostly this.

* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', this is the start of the first Valentine's Day Event, "Chocolate Lady's Commotion," complete with a light mist distorting the beach where the protagonist wakes up to indicate this is probably a dream. Before the protagonist wakes up from the dream, however, VoluntaryShapeshifting {{Yandere}} Kiyohime explains that she had [[MundaneUtility morphed herself into chocolate]] and [[LetsMeetTheMeat is happy to let all 240,000 calories of herself to be eaten]], [[BlackComedyCannibalism even if she were cut into pieces to be eaten later]]. The protagonist snaps to reality either decrying this as a crime or realizing it's a dream.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has sequences where the characters fall asleep due to a mysterious force, and they dream about the adventures of Laguna Loire, Kiros Seagill, and Ward Zabac. [[spoiler:It later turns out that these "dreams" are essentially a form of time travel caused by Ellone, allowing the characters to experience actual past events from the trio's perspective.]]

* In ''[[VideoGame/TearsToTiara2 Tears to Tiara 2]]'', Hamil dreams of meeting the supreme goddess Tanit in an oasis and begs for guidance. His request is answered and [[spoiler:Tanit appears on earth as Ashtarte.]]
* In ''VideoGame/VividConceptions'', the protagonist belongs to the Bantam race which tends to have very vivid dreams. In-game, these become "dream levels" with tough platforming sequences that eschew realistic environments.
* ''VideoGame/{{Daxter}}'': If the player makes Daxter go to sleep, his dreams will involve him enacting some sort of movie pastiche (''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', etc) while defeating a slew of enemies headed his way. Completing the quick-time mini-games featured in these sequences allows Daxter to learn new attacks, gain more health, receive cosmetic upgrades ([[AndYourRewardIsClothes Hat, pants]]), and prize codes the player could enter on the ''Daxter'' official website.
* ''VideoGame/Tak2TheStaffOfDreams'': The Dream Realm portions have Tak go through a dream world, [[spoiler:also potentially the entire game]].
* A part of ''VideoGame/ChickenFeet'' involves you being sent to a dream where you meet and talk with the giant chicken Cooper.
* Several of these happen over the course of ''VideoGame/CalmereNightmare'''s story. It's [[OrWasItADream left ambiguous if they really were dreams]], and if so, which parts.

** In the side-story called “Ayanami’s Lesson”, Rei has a dream where she meets Teri. After that dream she makes her choice to [[spoiler:turn against Gendo.]]

* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''[[ChristmasEpisode Lexmas]]'' is mostly Lex's extremely [[{{Heartwarming/Smallville}} heartwarming]] and [[{{TearJerker/Smallville}} tearjerking]] dream.

--> '''House''': "Good thing I brought my axe-cane."

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Near the end of "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]", Daniel Molloy slips into slumber after receiving a levodopa transfusion, and he dreams about how he and Louis de Pointe du Lac (''and'' Rashid, as it turns out) first met at Polynesian Mary's in 1973.

* ''Series/CosmosASpacetimeOdyssey'' has a significant one in its first episode: Giordano Bruno, a free thinker during the Inqusition, dreams one night of a confining curtain of stars which he is able to crawl under into the infinite cosmos he believes in. It features stars, planets, and Ophanim[[note]]those angels that look like wheels[[/note]]. Since this is considered heresy by the geocentric Church, preaching about this dream eventually leads to his death. (In RealLife there was more to his trial than that, but belief in a "plurality of worlds" was one one of the charges.) The dream gets a CallBack in the final episode when Bruno "escapes" from his prison cell in a FantasySequence.

* [[PlayerCharacter Clementine]] has a rather tragic dream sequence after [[spoiler: being shot]] in Season Two of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''. She dreams that [[spoiler: she is back in the RV the group used in Season One, eight years old again and reunited with her long-dead guardian Lee. He offers her some reassuring words and, if prompted, will promise to stay with her and keep her safe.]]

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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Near the end of the sixth episode, Daniel Molloy slips into slumber after receiving a levodopa transfusion, and he dreams about how he and Louis de Pointe du Lac (''and'' Rashid, as it turns out) first met at Polynesian Mary's in 1973.

* Chapter 25 of ''{{Webcomic/Rain}}'' is almost entirely devoted to Rain's dream that she's her fictional hero, Kaminari.

* In ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'', Virginia and her father have an extremely bizarre and disturbing example of this, complete with [[SpiritAdvisor the ghost of Snow White]] doing her level best to snap them out of it. Christine's usage of the poisoned comb on her little girl's hair is particularly chilling, while the weird Electra-complex suggested by Virginia being Tony's wife (not to mention Wendell the dog as her brother--[[spoiler:or is that [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone prophetic?]]]]) are just plain odd. But what do you expect from something inspired by eating magic mushrooms? Of special note (something which appears throughout the miniseries) is the emphasis on the decidedly more grim aspects of fairytales...