History Main / EroticDream

->''"Oooh Dream Weaver, I believe you can get me through the night."''

* An early ''Series/PrivatePractice'' episode has Addison dream about Pete doing her in various places (usually in the office). She wakes up by falling off the bed. This becomes the episode's RunningGag until, on advice from her female coworkers, she employs a [[DateWithRosiePalms showerhead massager]] after telling Pete what she intends to do with her fantasies of him (Pete the Cowboy and Pete the Gladiator). He finds it disturbing.

!Examples:

* ''ADifferentWorld'': Whitley has an erotic dream about Dwayne (this was long before they actually hooked up). She was slightly freaked by the... vividness of the dreams (especially since she was a virgin at the time).

* In one episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Jill confides in Tim that she has dreams like this all the time about {{Tarzan}}. Tim at first thinks this is silly at first, but Wilson, ever the [[StraightMan voice of reason]], helps him analyze it, suggesting that if she's dreaming of Tarzan, she would be playing the part of Jane, resulting in two people with the same first name initials as the two of them. (At the end of the episode, Tim tries to impress her with a Tarzan costume; which might have worked better if it wasn't the middle of winter.)

* Shiki is ''deliberately'' given an erotic dream by Arcueid in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', as thanks for his assistance. Unfortunately, who he dreams ''about'' is the source of much grief for Shiki, since it winds up being about Arcueid. In the anime, the dream itself soon turns into a nightmare when Arcueid makes it clear she wants Shiki's blood (the manga and game went with the sex). In the visual novel, though, you can actually ''choose'' who you want the dream to be about.
** Worth mentioning is that Shiki is awakened every morning by Hisui, one of the [[{{Meido}} maids]]. It's apparently pretty clear what Shiki's dreaming about as he sleeps. ([[CrowningMomentOfFunny Unless he dreams about ''her'']].)

** Or she might be just teasing. We never actually see the dreams, after all.

** However, if you actually say this as a girl, it is pretty clear that Amata isn't interested.
*** In fact, she gets rather [[{{squick}} grossed out]] by the thought of it.
**** If you say it is a male, she seems to be flattered but quickly ignores it to say the bad news that starts the journey.

** Buffy and Angel have a shared sexual dream in "Amends"... then Angel vamps out and bites her (in the dream). They do end up getting back together at the end of the episode, but not sexually.
*** Note that this dream was brought on by [[UltimateEvil the First Evil]]. It wants to get them to have sex in reality, [[CantHaveSexEver which will cause him to turn evil again]].

* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy has a sex dream involving both Series/{{Angel}} ''and'' Spike.

** In the episode "Restless" Xander dreams about Willow making out with her girlfriend Tara, and Buffy's mom wearing a red nightgown trying to seduce him.

* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', the titular character's subconscious must either hate him for getting [[GenderBender his curse]], or has way too much fun with it, as his erotic dreams are inevitably {{Catapult Nightmare}}s due to technically being {{Homo Erotic Dream}}s:

* In ''Fanfic/LunasPowerAndRainbowsLove'', Rainbow Dash starts having what are implied to be erotic dreams after realizing she's in love with FLuttershy.

* Shiki is ''deliberately'' given an EroticDream by Arcueid in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', as thanks for his assistance. Unfortunately, who he dreams ''about'' is the source of much grief for Shiki, since it winds up being about Arcueid. In the anime, the dream itself soon turns into a nightmare when Arcueid makes it clear she wants Shiki's blood (the manga and game went with the sex). In the visual novel, though, you can actually ''choose'' who you want the dream to be about.
** Worth mentioning is that Shiki is awakened every morning by Hisui, one of the [[{{Meido}} maids]]. It's apparently pretty clear what Shiki's dreaming about as he sleeps. ([[CrowningMomentOfFunny Unless he dreams about ''her'']])

--> -- '''Gary Wright''', "Dream Weaver"

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji has a particularly MindScrew-ish dream (for the audience ''and'' himself), including erotic visions of Misato, Asuka, and Rei. Even when Shinji is dreaming of Asuka throwing herself at him, she ''still'' refers to him as "baka-Shinji" (stupid Shinji). Baka-Shinji.
* Naturally, Ayato in ''RahXephon'' has a similar [[EroticDream erotic]] (although it's a bit more complicated than that) [[EroticDream dream]] about [[spoiler: Haruka]]

* ''AdventureTime'' manages a weird version of this when [[KidHero Finn]] dreams about his girlfriend, [[PlayingWithFire Flame Princess]], blasting his body with fire in a way that he obviously finds very enjoyable. Note that most of the fire [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar seems to be aimed at his crotch]].

* ''LittleEgo'' is an adult-oriented, erotic parody of the classic ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' comics written and drawn by Vittorio Giardino. The main character, called Ego, is a woman seemingly in her middle twenties. As in Little Nemo, each story is about her having a dream, and she wakes up in the last panel. Whereas Little Nemo talked to his mother after waking up, Little Ego thinks what she will tell her psychoanalyst. Every story in the Little Ego comic book involves erotic imagery, with Ego appearing half-naked or fully naked in at least one point. She has sexual intercourse with men, with other women, and even with plants and animals.

* Happens to Harry in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', when Ginny "began cropping up in his dreams in ways that made him devoutly thankful that Ron could not perform Legilimency."

** Jason starts dreaming about [[CuteMonsterGirl Jessica]] after she healed him with her blood. He feels terrible about it, since she's his best friend's girlfriend, particularly when it leads to [[spoiler: the two of them getting together in real life.]]

* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Sookie has them with Bill and Eric, and later [[spoiler: [[HomoeroticDream naked Bill]] turns up in Sam's dreams]].

!!Examples:

[[folder:Anime]]

[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Sam has one of these featuring Bela, and is very flustered when he figures out who he's been dreaming about (after waking up with an extremely dopey grin on his face). His face wasn't the only thing grinning. No joke, this is actually referenced when Dean calls him over as he's waking up. Sam starts to rise, then glances down and hesitates, using a stretch to cover for his... awkwardness. He's even more flustered and awkward when Bela shows up shortly after to talk with him and Dean.

The protagonist's sexual dreams about a friend or enemy causes them to reassess their relationship. Or not, just as long as they're having them.

See also HomoeroticDream, FreudWasRight, and, if they were denying {{UST}} before, DreamingTheTruth.

* In the 2003 ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime it is implied Riza Hawkeye has one such dream.