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* Franchise/{{Batman}} is [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes depicted]] as having recurring nightmares about [[DeathByOriginStory his parents' murder]].

* ''ComicBook/SpiderManAndBatmanDisorderedMinds'' opens with Bruce and Peter having nightmares about the deaths of the Waynes and Uncle Ben respective, which end with [[spoiler:the Waynes' killer turning into Carnage and the Burglar turning into the Joker.]]

* In ''Fanfic/DotHackGUTheStaircaseToNowhere'', [[spoiler: Haseo has a dream where a friend of his commits suicide right in front of him. He admits that it's a memory]].
* The ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Bait and Switch|STO}}'' opens in one, telling an incident about ten years earlier when now-Captain Kanril Eleya, then an energy weapons noncom, was nearly killed while helping fight off a BoardingParty. Part of it reappears in chapter nine but ends early when she accidentally punches the person she's in bed with and he shakes her awake.
** Reappears in the {{prequel}} ''Fanfic/ShakedownShenanigans'' and is interrupted this time by Tess, her roommate for the passenger liner trip to Vulcan, yelling for her to shut up.
* In chapter 15 of the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy Blood and Spirit]]'', [[spoiler:Zelda has one about Hylia finding the corpse of the very first Link. She's so traumatized by said dream that she ends up assuming a TroubledFetalPosition for several moments.]]
* The ''VideoGame/Portal2'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/BlueSky'' has plenty of these, mostly from Wheatley [[spoiler: remembering his time as a WhiteCollarWorker in Aperture Science.]] Early on [=GlaDOS=] forces Wheatley to relive his worst memory (taking over the Facility, betraying Chell, and pretty much going insane with the need to Test) over and over again via invasive connections into his mind.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' fic ''[[Fanfic/LittleMoments Breaking Point]]'', [[spoiler: Ben has nightmares where he thinks he lost his cousin that time he finally killed Vilgax.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Composure}}'', Princess Celestia keeps dreaming of the moment her sister [[GreenEyedMonster turned evil]] and [[CainAndAbel tried to kill her]].
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] fic series ''Fanfic/{{Dangerverse}}'', Harry and Draco have to deal with these after being rescued from their respective "caretakers".
%% Needs Context * Occurs in the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''[=/=]''[[Literature/TheWarGods Oath of Swords]]'' fic ''Fanfic/DemonOfJustice''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] fic ''Fanfic/ADifferentLesson'', a guilt-ridden Tai Lung has one of these near the beginning of the story, a [[RecurringDreams repetition]] of [[PastExperienceNightmare old dreams]] [[FlashbackNightmare about his rampage]] which has returned to him [[MoralEventHorizon now that he's truly aware of]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the magnitude of what he did]].

%% Needs Context * The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' fic ''[[Fanfic/ACaptiveLight A Fading Hope]]'' has one of a sort.
* Topaz has several of these in the ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' series ''Fanfic/TheForeverTrilogy'', and it is mentioned the others do as well.
* {{Discussed|Trope}}, ironically enough, in a {{Flashback}} in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsOptimalAlwaysSayNo'', when Greg is trying to convince his parents that he isn't suffering from them after his tour in Afghanistan.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' fanfic ''Fanfic/GhostBoy'', Turbo suffers from {{Past Experience Nightmare}}s chronically throughout the fic. Many are actually [[spoiler: FlashbackNightmare dreams of the time he spent as King Candy.]]

* Ursa has many in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fic ''Fanfic/GuideMeHome'', to the point where she actually finds it "refreshing" to have a normal nightmare.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6260492/1/Happy_Families_Are_All_Alike Happy Families Are All Alike]]'', a ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}''[=/=]''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' crossover, begins with a flashback to a meeting with the Third Hokage.
* Cadance has one of being captured by Chrysalis in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''[[Fanfic/TheNuptialverse Honeymoon]]''.
* [[spoiler: Ania]] is tormented by these towards the end of the ''Literature/TheHungerGames''[=/=]''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' crossover ''[[Fanfic/BrutalSeries Horrible]]''.

* Hanyu has one in the first chapter of the ''VideoGame/AuditionOnline'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LearningFromNightmares''.
* Opening the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' fic ''Fanfic/MakeMeYourRadio'' is General Iroh awaking from a nightmare where his ships burned around him, bombarded from aircraft above.
* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MemoriesBornOfFire'', Spock has multiple nightmares about the ''kal-i-fee'' in which Kirk does not survive.
%% Needs Context * Used several times for Literature/SherlockHolmes in the fic ''[[Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries Mortality]]''.

%% Needs Context * Happens in the ''Manga/DeathNote''[=/=]''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'' crossover ''Fanfic/NoHoper''.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''[=/=]''Franchise/TouhouProject'' crossover ''Fanfic/PrinceOfDarknessNoMore'', Ivan has these in order to foreshadow [[spoiler:Carmilla's]] return.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] fic ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', Jade has one in the fifth interlude to her torture by Lung.
* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ShinraHighSOLDIER'', Julia has one related to her time as a prostitute and her rape by Jenova-controlled Sephiroth.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SophisticationAndBetrayal'', the protagonist [[RecurringDreams often dreams]] of the disaster that transported him to Equestria, and his near-drowning in the process.
* The ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''[=/=]''Franchise/StarTrek'' crossover ''[[Fanfic/StarlightSeries Starlight]]'' starts off with Lilo dreaming about the car crash that kills her parents. A few chapters later, Nani dreams about the day she received the phone call telling her of the outcome.
* Shepard has one where he remembers dying in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AStarToSteerHerBy''.
* Most the younger characters in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' DeconstructionFic ''Fanfic/StrangeAndInvisibleHistory''. Viktor sometimes dreams of seeing blood and brains on the floor of the British Ministry and Draco has the 'chorus of screams' from the various battles he fought in.
* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] fic ''Fanfic/AStudyInRegret'', this used several times for poor Holmes.
* In the ''VideoGame/Portal2'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TargetAcquired'', Wheatley has one of the core transfer scene, [[spoiler:except he doesn't realize it's a flashback, [[TearJerker but thinks Chell is forcing him to go through the core transfer all over again.]]]]
* Talia has one about being assaulted at a party in the ''Literature/TheHungerGames''[=/=]''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' crossover ''Fanfic/{{Terrible}}''.
* Prowl has one in the ''Film/Transformers2007'' fic ''Fanfic/ThingsWeDontTellHumans'', revealing what happened when he learned that Jazz had died.
* The fates of Ienzo's parents are seen in his nightmares in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fic ''Fanfic/TheVioletRoom''.
* Siren has one in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''[=/=]''VideoGame/BioShock'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Vision}}''.

* Hanyu has one in the first chapter of the ''VideoGame/AuditionOnline'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LearningFromNightmares''.
* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ShinraHighSOLDIER'', Julia has one related to her time as a prostitute and her rape by Jenova-controlled Sephiroth.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SophisticationAndBetrayal'', the protagonist [[RecurringDreams often dreams]] of the disaster that transported him to Equestria, and his near-drowning in the process.
* The ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''[=/=]''Franchise/StarTrek'' crossover ''[[Fanfic/StarlightSeries Starlight]]'' starts off with Lilo dreaming about the car crash that kills her parents. A few chapters later, Nani dreams about the day she received the phone call telling her of the outcome.
* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MemoriesBornOfFire'', Spock has multiple nightmares about the ''kal-i-fee'' in which Kirk does not survive.
* In the ''VideoGame/Portal2'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TargetAcquired'', Wheatley has one of the core transfer scene, [[spoiler:except he doesn't realize it's a flashback, [[TearJerker but thinks Chell is forcing him to go through the core transfer all over again.]]]]
* Siren has one in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''[=/=]''VideoGame/BioShock'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Vision}}''.
* ''Fanfic/YouAreNotAtFault'': After the end of the world, Shinji's dreams are plagued by recurring nightmares where he watches again how Asuka's Evangelion was ripped apart and eaten.
* ''Fanfic/KyoshiRising'' has a variation in Chapter 9; it isn't Kyoshi remembering a traumatic experience in her own life, but instead she witnesses Avatar Yangchen executing fifty Waterbenders who had opposed her (she sees this through Yangchen's eyes, and only later learns it was something the earlier Avatar did).
* In ''Fanfic/PokemonBlackandWhiteTaleofaLegend'', Thrin dreams of the time her friends dared her to go into the forest north of Lacunosa Town, where she ran afoul of Kyurem.
* ''Fanfic/AnEmeraldUnearthed'' opens with Emerald's dream about the BigBad, [[LoanShark Randall Silva]], shooting her mother about a debt her father, Cole, failed to pay. She watches while waiting on the stairs while Cole begs Silva not to do it. She implies that this isn't the first time.

* ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}'': Altalune receives one of these in the [[Recap/ParadoxusPrologo prologue]], just before she leaves to start the events of the main plotline. This unpleasant dream of hers is also a PastExperienceNightmare and a GuiltInducedNightmare at the same time -- it was about her childhood trauma when she found her mother and Stella's corpses along with what she thought was her sister's. Truth be told, little Trisha truly was on the brink of death.

* In the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4562981/ Goku's Wish: The Return of Broly]]'', Broly, while knocked out from exhaustion from being revived, sparring with Goku (whom, thanks to his specifying in his wish towards reviving Broly that Broly won't have any of his negative emotions, Broly no longer hates Goku), and then having to fight Vegeta after the latter grew enraged at Goku's decision to revive him after he was sore about his previous wound to his pride from their last encounter, ends up having a nightmare that initially seemed to be flashbacks to his past where he basically was destroying various galaxies, although it then turned more into a premonition nightmare where apparently a duplicate of Broly mocks the current Broly for his growing "soft" from his revival and proceeds to destroy the Earth before Broly wakes up in shock, and it is implied shortly thereafter that Broly was disturbed at the possibility of a duplicate, or worse, that he still has some evil in his heart that somehow avoided purification before revival. Vegeta, while knocked out, also ended up having a flashback to when he fought Broly on New Planet Vegeta, which was enough to actually reopen his wounds.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6260492/1/Happy_Families_Are_All_Alike Happy Families Are All Alike]]'', a ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}''[=/=]''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' crossover, begins with a flashback to a meeting with the Third Hokage.
* Cadance has one of being captured by Chrysalis in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''[[Fanfic/TheNuptialverse Honeymoon]]''.
%% Needs Context * The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' fic ''[[Fanfic/ACaptiveLight A Fading Hope]]'' has one of a sort.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] fic ''Fanfic/ADifferentLesson'', a guilt-ridden Tai Lung has one of these near the beginning of the story, a [[RecurringDreams repetition]] of [[PastExperienceNightmare old dreams]] [[FlashbackNightmare about his rampage]] which has returned to him [[MoralEventHorizon now that he's truly aware of]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the magnitude of what he did]].
* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] fic ''Fanfic/AStudyInRegret'', this used several times for poor Holmes.
* [[spoiler: Ania]] is tormented by these towards the end of the ''Literature/TheHungerGames''[=/=]''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' crossover ''[[Fanfic/BrutalSeries Horrible]]''.

* In ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'' Ned Stark suffers from nightmares about the events in Tower of Joy, and his sister dying asking him to keep a promise.
%% Needs Context * Used several times for Literature/SherlockHolmes in the fic ''[[Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries Mortality]]''.

* In ''Fanfic/DotHackGUTheStaircaseToNowhere'', [[spoiler: Haseo has a dream where a friend of his commits suicide right in front of him. He admits that it's a memory]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' fic ''[[Fanfic/LittleMoments Breaking Point]]'', [[spoiler: Ben has nightmares where he thinks he lost his cousin that time he finally killed Vilgax.]]

* Topaz has several of these in the ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' series ''Fanfic/TheForeverTrilogy'', and it is mentioned the others do as well.
* In ''Fanfic/TheNewCaptainN'', Bowser's backstory fluctuates back and forth between this, narrative, and his own mind.
* The fates of Ienzo's parents are seen in his nightmares in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fic ''Fanfic/TheVioletRoom''.

* The ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Bait and Switch|STO}}'' opens in one, telling an incident about ten years earlier when now-Captain Kanril Eleya, then an energy weapons noncom, was nearly killed while helping fight off a BoardingParty. Part of it reappears in chapter nine but ends early when she accidentally punches the person she's in bed with and he shakes her awake.
** Reappears in the {{prequel}} ''Fanfic/ShakedownShenanigans'' and is interrupted this time by Tess, her roommate for the passenger liner trip to Vulcan, yelling for her to shut up.
* Shepard has one where he remembers dying in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AStarToSteerHerBy''.
* In chapter 15 of the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy Blood and Spirit]]'', [[spoiler:Zelda has one about Hylia finding the corpse of the very first Link. She's so traumatized by said dream that she ends up assuming a TroubledFetalPosition for several moments.]]
* {{Discussed|Trope}}, ironically enough, in a {{Flashback}} in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsOptimalAlwaysSayNo'', when Greg is trying to convince his parents that he isn't suffering from them after his tour in Afghanistan.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' fanfic ''Fanfic/GhostBoy'', Turbo suffers from {{Past Experience Nightmare}}s chronically throughout the fic. Many are actually [[spoiler: FlashbackNightmare dreams of the time he spent as King Candy.]]

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Some people, when they sleep, get chased by giant hot dogs, fall down bottomless pits (where they presumably die of dehydration), see their best friends wearing crowns, or have other disturbing, sometimes Freudian experiences cooked up specially for them by their subconscious.

* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': Yuma has one at the start of Chapter 3, seeing himself pass by Number One taking the Book of Death while at the World Detective Organization.

* ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure'' plays with this. There's a dream showing Cure Moonlight fighting and losing to Cure Dark. For the other Cures, it's a CallToAdventure. For [[spoiler:Yuri]], it's this. And boy does [[spoiler:she]] suffer from it.

* In the ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'' [=OVAs=], both Goh and Shin have dreams of the war in heaven. These are used as a framing device at the beginning and end of the two episodes. Zeus has a flashback daydream in the middle first [=OVA=] as well.

* In the ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' OAV, Zelos has one of these about [[spoiler:his mother's death]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', Mindf███ has a recurring Flashback Nightmare of [[spoiler:her brother forcing her to cut out her own eyes and tongue]], which gets transferred to her girlfriend Sistah Spooky due to telepathic PowerIncontinence.

* The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' fic ''[[Fanfic/ACaptiveLight A Fading Hope]]'' has one of a sort.

* Used several times for Literature/SherlockHolmes in the fic ''[[Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries Mortality]]''.
* Occurs in the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''[=/=]''[[Literature/TheWarGods Oath of Swords]]'' fic ''Fanfic/DemonOfJustice''.

* Happens in the ''Manga/DeathNote''[=/=]''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'' crossover ''Fanfic/NoHoper''.
* Happens in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] fic ''Fanfic/{{Paladin}}''.

** Reappears in the {{prequel}} "Fanfic/ShakedownShenanigans" and is interrupted this time by Tess, her roommate for the passenger liner trip to Vulcan, yelling for her to shut up.

* In ''Film/MacGruber'' the title character is a RetiredBadass who refuses to return and face off against his arch-enemy, who [[WidowedAtTheWedding murdered his spouse during their wedding]]. However, he decides to accept the CallToAdventure after having a nightmare about that fateful day.

* Shadow had some in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', revealing that [[spoiler:he was a train robber named Clyde who couldn't MercyKill his wounded partner and spent the rest of his life regretting it. They also underline the implication that he is Relm's DisappearedDad]]. Since the nightmares appear at a very low chance when staying in inns, and even then only if you knew to save his life at the FloatingContinent, many players don't even know of their existence.

* Zero has one of these at the start of ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'', and it is also implied that this wasn't the first time he had the nightmare.
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', when Old Snake finds out he has to return to Shadow Moses Island, the setting of the first ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', he has a playable nightmare flashback complete with [=PS1=] graphics.
** It is implied in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2'' that Solid Snake frequently experienced nightmares relating to his mission in Outer Heaven.
** The severity of Raiden's nightmares about his {{Child Soldier|s}} past is the main reason he won't allow people (like Rosemary) to stay with him when he sleeps because he's afraid of hurting them.

* In ''VideoGame/SierraOps'', Junius Fahrenheit has recurring nightmares of nearly burning to death in an incident from six years before. One such nightmare serves as the game’s tutorial and opening scene.
* ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Z}}2: Hakai-Hen'' had [[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Chirico Cuvie]] experiencing one during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayezowZz52U prologue of Scenario 39]]. It was about the final battle he had with the Barcoff Squadron and it showed how he was sad at the loss of their lives.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsMX'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58btwrZOIrA Hugo has a nightmare/flashback of the final moments he had with the Cry Wolves]]. After failing to neutralize the Devil Gundam, the Cry Wolves are taken out one by one. Alberto's son Foglia is turned into a zombie by the Devil Gundam and Hugo tries to reason with Foglia but ultimately gets his Gespenst blown up.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV'', [[Anime/Daitarn3 Banjo Haran]] dreams of the time he confronted Koros and Don Sauzer before the mission to infiltrate the Ameterasu. Koros wants Banjo and Daitarn 3 to join them and help them spread humanity across the cosmos, but Banjo refuses because of his hatred of the Meganoids.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'', Emil dreams of [[spoiler:Richter killing him]].
* Emma gets these in ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics'', to her childhood as a slave in the vibra mines. They are easily among the most chilling scenes in the story.
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* Kei of ''VisualNovel/AkaiIto'' gets nightmares of things taking place in the past, including [[spoiler:[[FantasticRacism the last days of Sakuya's people]]]].
* In ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'', Tomoya starts to have these as he gets closer to Kotomi, complete with [[FreezeFrameBonus a seemingly random]] [[ArcWords rabbit and deer.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', Hajime has a dream pertaining to when he [[spoiler:was selected to undergo the procedure to become Izuru Kamukara while surrounded by students in the reserve course.]]
* Riki of ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' has been having recurring nightmares since recently as of the beginning of the game, though it isn't until later that we find out what they're of, and it isn't until much later that we find out that they are this trope. [[spoiler:Specifically, memories of an event that have been repressed when he's awake as long as he exists in the created world.]]

* Happens in ''VisualNovel/SongsOfAraiah'', where Jason has dreams in which [[spoiler: he remembers seeing the execution of his best friend by the Reformists]]

* In WebComic/DanTheSnowman, the eponymous hero seemingly has a nightmare that may or may not be his [[http://danthesnowman.com/comic/liars-scientists-and-thieves/ailleurs origin story]].

* Jade's second dream in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' after [[spoiler:her dreamself's death]] ends up being this, though to be fair, Jade was going off the rails and Feferi [[spoiler:(who had died)]] probably didn't mean to startle her. She's just kind of [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004894 weird]] like that.
** In general Sburb players with dead dream selves experience flashbacks in their dreams, though they are not nightmares most of the time.
* Vashiel gets a couple of these in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}''.
** Leading to some fans to label him a mass murderer.

* Used to establish the backstory in ''Literature/SailorNothing''.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}'': Altalune receives one of these in the prologue, just before she leaves to start the events of the main plotline. This unpleasant dream of hers is also a PastExperienceNightmare and a GuiltInducedNightmare at the same time. It was about her childhood trauma -- when she found her mother and Stella's corpses along with what she thought was her sister's. Truth be told, little Trisha truly was on the brink of death.

* Prowl has one in the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' fic ''Fanfic/ThingsWeDontTellHumans'', revealing what happened when he learned that Jazz had died.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': In the first season, Zelgadis has a flashback about when his great-grandfather, the priest Rezo, turned him into a [[CursedWithAwesome chimera]], igniting his HeelFaceTurn.

* Holly from ''Literature/ByAnyOtherName'' has nightmares about the time two men kidnapped her and tried to kill her, and she barely managed to escape.

* In ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', Cassie has a recurring Flashback Nightmare of destroying her undead mother, which she uses to defeat Ashley at their first meeting when he tries to pull a YourWorstNightmare on her.

* ''Series/TheSandman2022'': Johanna Constantine suffers from a recurring nightmare of a failed case where her friend was DraggedOffToHell. Morpheus notices this before they ever meet in person, and cures her of it [[PetTheDog in thanks]] for her help.

* Sarine Elle, central figure in ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'', has a real [[http://www.errantstory.com/2006-06-05/518 honker]] of a flashback nightmare about the disastrous birth of her stillborn daughter, which goes far toward explaining her [[LikeASonToMe relationship]] with Meji Hinadori.

* ''Series/TheSandman2022'': Johanna Constantine suffers from a recurring nightmare of a failed case where her friend was DraggedOffToHell. Morpheus notices this before they ever meet in person, and cures her of it [[PetTheDog in thanks]] for her help.