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4	A character is bored or uninterested in learning something. Or they are just completely uninterested in a certain topic and don't understand why other people value it so much. Or they're just a mean person who doesn't understand why their behavior is wrong. In all cases, they don't care about the topic, and may even poke fun at other characters for taking it so seriously.
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6	Then the character goes to sleep. Before they fall into unconsciousness, they might even say: "I wish that certain person/event/product didn't exist." As they start dreaming, [[TalkingInYourDreams some legendary character arrives and provides the person with a lot of background information about the topic]]. Sometimes the dreaming ignoramus has put in the action themselves. Or they see a world where the [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor people or things they wished didn't exist now indeed don't exist, with catastrophic consequences]]. In any case, they finally gain knowledge, respect and enthusiasm for a topic that they originally knew nothing about.
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8	When the character eventually awakes, if they were supposed to be the antagonist, they make a HeelFaceTurn. They are glad that it was AllJustADream and finally realizes the importance of learning math, respect for your country, [[ThickerThanWater respect for your ancestors]], respect for people they formerly threatened or hurt, why a certain product is necessary,... and so on. In most cases, they even become a vocal supporter of the cause.
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10	This plot device (which some audiences may consider corny if it's not done well) was very popular in old educational films and TV series.
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12	Compare DreamingTheTruth. Sometimes doubles as a GuiltInducedNightmare.
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20	* In the final episode of ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'', while trapped in the Cave of Memories, Morte dreams of her family. While she desires to stay with them and forget the real world, they convince her that not only should she return to live life, but that the world doesn't need to be destroyed after all - just changed, through her life and what she accomplishes with her friends.
21	* At one point in ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', Reinhard von Lohengramm of the Galactic Empire contemplates grinding his rival and WorthyOpponent Yang Wen-li's battlefleet down via attrition with his overwhelming strength, but a visitation by [[spoiler:his dead friend Sigfried Kircheis]] convinces him to offer a cease-fire instead.
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25	* Mr. Slowy's nightmare about [[spoiler:Wilie becoming a clone of Wolffy]] at the beginning of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Happy, Happy, Bang, Bang!'' episode 30 leads him to decide to expel Wilie from Goat School. However, this doesn't last long, and a peace agreement between goats and Wolffy is signed in order to let Wilie continue to study in Goat School.
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29	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In one early story, ComicBook/{{Robin}} (at that time Dick Grayson), was getting so disobedient with Batman that the latter scolded him that his son would end up disobedient like him. Robin ended up having a dream of getting married, having a son, inheriting the Batman costume while his son inherited his Robin costume, but the son was also disobedient like him, but this time with fatal results of trapping him ''and'' his son in a missile heading towards explosion, death was inescapable. When Robin actually woke up, he became more obedient with Batman's instructions. [[spoiler:In hindsight, it became more tragic that [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily disobedience was what caused the second Robin to die horribly]], he did not receive similar opinion-changing dream.]]
30	* In the Center for Disease Control's official [[https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6023 ''Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic'' comic]], the main character Todd falls asleep on the couch after watching horror movies and dreams a ZombieApocalypse has started in his neighborhood and he and his girlfriend Julie have to make an emergency kit and evacuate to a safe zone in order to survive. When the safe zone is overrun by zombies, Todd wakes up to learn the zombie pandemic was AllJustADream, but he decides to make plans and emergency kits in the event of a natural disaster anyway.
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34	* In one of the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' stories, a princess hates men because she dreamt about a male bird who left his mate to a birdcatcher, to save himself, after she had stayed behind to rescue him. A strange plot device, considering that the princess lives in a world where her father will ''execute'' her for losing her virginity ... it's not as if she needs a dream to have a low opinion of men. But, of course, her hate of men is easily remedied by telling her the truth about the end of that story; the hero (who, for some reason, had the ''same'' dream) tells her that the male bird was killed by a falcon before he could return.
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38	* At the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', Alice longs for a world where everything is nonsense. She then dreams of falling into just such a world, and by the end, the sheer insanity of Wonderland makes her tired of nonsense and anxious to go home.
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42	* Happens in the 1943 ''Film/CabinInTheSky'', where a man who gambles too much has a DreamWithinADream where some angels and devils try to get his soul. As he awakes in real life he throws the dice away and swears to repent and devote his life to going to Church more often.
43	* Wayne's plan for Waynestock in ''Film/WaynesWorld2'' is the direct result of a dream with Jim Morrison telling him to set up a huge show in Aurora. Others he recruits also mention having the Jim Morrison dream later on. WHOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
44	* This is the concept of the movie ''Film/{{Inception}}'', including the title, which refers to the act of specifically engineering an Opinion-Changing Dream for another person without them realizing it.
45	* Also the entire point of the film ''Film/{{North}}''. The titular character is annoyed with his parents until he wakes up from his dream and accepts them for who they are.
46	* ''Film/ACaseOfSpringFever'': This trope is one possible explanation for the film's plot, in which a frustrated man grumbles "I hope I never see another spring in my life!" and is confronted by Coily the Spring Sprite, who demonstrates how critical springs are to modern life by making the man do without them. He's so affected that he spends the last few minutes of the short lecturing his (clearly annoyed) golf buddies about how great springs are.
47	* ''Film/TheFamilyMan'': A mysterious man named Cash shows Jack an alternate life where he chose to start a family with his college girlfriend Kate rather than become a Wall Street executive who doesn't yet realize he's LonelyAtTheTop. Cash describes this as a "glimpse" and thus only temporary, but Jack does wake up in the same place and time before the glimpse began, his downtown bachelor's apartment. The experience leads him to track down Kate and reconnect with her after by giving a heartfelt description of the life he saw they had together.
48	* In ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', Dorothy dreams of escaping from dull, dreary Kansas where the local busybody persecutes her dog and going "over the rainbow" to "a place where there isn't any trouble." Her dream of Oz teaches her that there's no place like home.
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52	* One ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' book centered on [[GreenAesop environmentalism]] had Papa Bear go through one after he decided he didn't need to recycle or plant trees to replace the ones he cut down.
53	* Despite CommonKnowledge, the trope is [[AvertedTrope averted]] in ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. Yes, Scrooge does get into bed near the start of the story and get out of bed near the end, but Dickens makes it pretty clear that Scrooge sleeps ''between'' the Ghosts' visits, not ''during'' them. That being said, some of the story's [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol many, many adaptations]] do play this trope straight.
54	* The children's book ''Literature/JustADream'', a classic [[GreenAesop Green Aesop]], is entirely based on this idea. As in the above example, the main character is uninterested in environmentalism until he has a series of dreams showing what the world might be like if no one took care of the earth.
55	* In the ''Literature/LaVitaNuova'', the course of the [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]]'s life is changed when a dream convinces him to give up loving anyone but his deceased OneTrueLove. The dream is probably the least spectacular in the ''Vita Nuova'', since it avoids any cannibalized hearts or crying stars in favor of a lone vision of the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman at the moment Dante saw her and experienced LoveAtFirstSight.
56	* In "The Young King" by Creator/OscarWilde, the initially naive title character has three of these on the night before his coronation, opening his eyes to the horrible labour, suffering and death involved in percuring the materials for his coronation attire. This prompts him to refuse to wear them, against the pleas of his advisers, opting to dress in his former humble goatherd's attire with a briar for his "crown", which earns him the derision and hatred of the people. But in the Cathedral, just as the people start to call for his death, sunlight streams through the window and clothes him in robes more splendid than the ones he was given to wear, and his briar crown and staff bloom with roses and lilies with gold and silver stems, more beautiful than the jewels in the crown and sceptre he was originally given. The old Bishop declares that God himself has crowned the young king.
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60	* ''Series/HighwayToHeaven'': Two episodes from the late winter of 1986:
61	** "Heaven On Earth," where Mark vents his frustration over how unfair it was that a cute 5-year-old girl he had just met was killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver, and a number of other more mundane situations, and wishes he could be God for a day to "make things right" in his view. When Mark goes to rescue a teen-aged girl who was trapped in a [[HouseFire burning house]], he is overcome by smoke and falls unconscious. Instead of burning to death, however, Mark is allowed to have a dream where his desire to play God is played out, only with results that he didn't foresee (such as the aforementioned teen-aged girl, who was a hard-working young girl learning about responsibility becoming an AlphaBitch that would make Nellie Oleson look like nothing) ... and the little girl that died in the car accident is still dead. Mark soon realizes that God has a reason for things happening the way they are and that some things, as bad or unpleasant as they are, are out of his (Mark's) control. Mark soon realizes that his vision of "Heaven on Earth" is best left to God.
62	** "The Torch," where a Holocaust survivor, Everett Soloman, who is on the speaking circuit to talk about his experiences and to warn students against complacency, comes into conflict with a neo-Nazi group who try to intimidate him by killing his son. Soloman has a bad heart and needs a transplant and there seems to be no hope ... until the man that killed his son is accidentally killed himself after a machine gun in his basement accidentally discharges. The upshot is that the killer's heart is a perfect biological match for Soloman, and the transplant is a success ... until Soloman learns the identity of his donor. Soloman has a heart attack and nearly dies, but while he is being revived, the trope kicks into play: He has a dream where he is visited by his mother and father (who both died in the Nazi war camp, in a method that would be indescribable anywhere) and his son, who urge him to continue to speak about the Holocaust, how it was allowed to happen and what can be done to never let it happen again. Soloman soon recovers and, with renewed purpose, is back on the speaking circuit.
63	* An episode of ''Series/SisterSister'' ("I Had A Dream" (1998)) features Tamera ridiculing the deeds of her African-American ancestors and feeling reluctant to carry on with her own miserable life. In her dream she is visited by several historical Afro-American figures who all claim they want to give up and do something else. She convinces them to do otherwise and do the historical deed that they are famous for. When she wakes up, she respects her ancestors, and realizes that ambition can also help her make important contributions to history.
64	* In an episode of ''Cosby'', Creator/BillCosby's character Hilton Lucas is uninterested in studying Creator/WilliamShakespeare, until he has a dream where Shakespeare himself (played by Tom Conti) explains the relevance of his works. One notable CastingGag moment finds Lucas cast in the role of Theatre/KingLear, with Sabrina La Beauf(Sandra from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'') as Goneril. By the end of the episode he's much more interested in Shakespeare's plays.
65	* In the ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' episode "And the Winner Is...", B.P. Richfield runs for Chief Elder and has Earl Sinclair run against him so Richfield would win. At first Earl is willing to lose, until he has a dream of [[CrapsackWorld a world run by Richfield]], where Earl's family is poor and minimum wage is lowered to a few cents. This dream inspires Earl to try harder to win. Later, when his popularity goes up but the family remarks that Earl might not be smart enough to make a good chief elder, Earl [[GenreSavvy refuses to sleep]] knowing he'll have a dream convincing him that he'll make a terrible chief elder. And he is right.
66	* In the ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "Dreams", several characters have dreams, and for some this seems to affect them.
67	* On ''Series/TheSopranos'', several characters have opinion changing dreams. Tony has one about Big Pussy which finally forces him to confront the truth that he had betrayed them, and has another after being seriously wounded that lasts several episodes.
68	** It's notably [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the episode "Employee of the Month." Tony's therapist Dr. Melfi is [[RapeAsDrama raped]] in a parking garage, and later discovers the guy working at a fast food restaurant. Once she knows his name, she begins having dreams about a massive dog ripping the guy to pieces. In talking to her own therapist, Melfi realizes that the dog represents Tony--all she has to do is tell him what happened, and he'll ensure that the rapist dies an ''extremely'' painful death. Despite having the dreams again, though, when Tony finally asks her if there's something she wants to say to him, Dr. Melfi says "No," choosing to [[WhatYouAreInTheDark keep her moral code intact.]]
69	* ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'': Chase has one, leading him to return Zoey's DVD to the time capsule.
70	* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': In the episode ''[[Recap/TheBradyBunchS4E17BobbysHero Bobby's Hero]]'' Bobby becomes so fascinated with UsefulNotes/JesseJames that he brings a toy gun to school and makes his teachers and parents very concerned. They arrange for the grandson of one of James's victims (who was alive long enough to meet the outlaw) to talk with Bobby, and the elderly man informs him that James was nothing but "a mean, dirty killer." When Bobby goes to sleep with those words echoing in his head, he has a dream wherein his family are riding a train in the Old West. Jesse James shows up to rob the train and "kills" the entire family, helping Bobby realize that the crook is not a hero.
71	* ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' renounces Valentine's Day, then that night dreams she's a lonely old spinster. When she wakes up, her opinion on Valentine's Day in regards to boys doesn't change (she's a tomboy at this stage), but she does share Valentine's Day love with Henry.
72	* An episode of ''Series/NowAndAgain'' has the main character Michael Wiseman complaining about a need for reading material which is dismissed as unimportant by Dr. Morris, only for him to then dream that the nanotech used to maintain the artificial body Michael's brain is in that the doctor created have run amock and begun eating all the printing ink off of all paper in the world including money. After witnessing the apocalyptic loss of all printed works from the world when he wakes and realizes it was a dream he changes his mind and begins making reading material available to Michael.
73	* An episode of ''Series/SmartGuy'' uses this, with a twist: Yvette has been struggling with her college applications, afraid to apply to her dream university Brown for fear of rejection and instead "playing it safe" with a less renowned state college. Then she has a recurring dream in which she marries Marcus's dimwitted friend Moe Tibbs, whom she isn't attracted to at all such that the initial dream is treated as a CatapultNightmare. After several nights of trying to find out why she's having these dreams, she eventually plays along and joins Dream!Moe on their "honeymoon" at a cheap motel room. When Yvette questions Dream!Moe on what their future will be like, Dream!Moe responds that he's content to just coast on by with minimum wage job and his ZanyScheme of the week, putting in the bare minimum amount of effort. Yvette, horrified that ''this'' is what her future will be like, realizes that because she settled on her choice of college, she settled on love and on life as well, only "choosing" Dream!Moe because he was safe and familiar. Dream!Moe then inspires her to apply to Brown like she had wanted, and when she wakes up she immediately rushes to fill out her application.
74	* Corey from ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' is initially flippant and dismissive of his black history month assignment. He's motivated to take it more seriously after meeting various African American trailblazers and pioneers in a dream, realizing that their struggles and achievements are important and need to be remembered.
75	* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E18BusinessAsUsual "Business as Usual"]], Quark gets into the business of arms dealing, but despite raking in huge profits very quickly, he finds all his friends in Starfleet [[WhatTheHellHero now refuse to have anything to do with him]]. While wrestling with the prospect of selling weapons to a tyrannical ruler who wants to exterminate 28 million of his own people [[MakeAnExampleOfThem as an example]], he has a nightmare where he is confronted by the ghosts of his friends, killed by the weapons he sold, who call him out. After [[CatapultNightmare waking up screaming,]] (and whispering [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone "What have I done?"]]) he resolves to sabotage the deal, betray his crooked business partners, and [[EveryoneHasStandards never deal in arms again]].
76	* This was a very popular trope on ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''. Since magic users were unable to rely on direct mind control to make people change their opinions, they often resorted to invading their dreams.
77	** In one early Halloween episode, Darwin's latest client insists on using a stereotypically ugly WickedWitch as part of an advertising campaign. Samantha explains that such caricatures are deeply offensive to her kind, so Darrin tries to use a CuteWitch instead, only to get shot down. That night, Samantha and her aunts Mary and Bertha team up to teach the client a lesson by giving him a dream wherein ''he's'' an ugly witch.
78	** Another episode has Abner and Gladys Kravitz, the Stephens's neighbors, have a big fight and separate, with Abner staying with Darrin and Samantha and [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave quickly wearing out his welcome.]] Since they're both too stubborn to apologize, Samantha hits upon the idea of having both Abner and Gladys have a simultaneous dream of the day that Abner proposed to her, hoping that it will make them remember their love. It works--as soon as they wake up, they immediately run into each other's arms.
79	** In another client-based episode, the CEO of Darrin's latest campaign is a BadBoss and petty tyrant who treats his employees like garbage. As it happens, Aunt Clara's [[IneptMage latest magical mishap]] has summoned UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria from the past. Her Majesty's presence inspires Sam to give the CEO a lesson in humility by having him dream that he is Queen Victoria ruling over his company, only to be violently overthrown when people get sick of his cruelty. The CEO quickly changes his tune the next day.
80	* A few episodes of ''Series/GilligansIsland'' involved circumstances wherein one of the castaways would grab the JerkassBall, be rude to their friends, fall asleep, have an elaborate dream sequence, and see the error of their ways. The cast later went on record as saying these were some of their favorite episodes to do, as it gave them a chance to get away from the island setting once in a while.
81	** In one episode, a would-be dictator on the run from the law washes up on the island and convinces Gilligan to try to "take over." Gilligan then dreams that he's the leader of a country with the other castaways as his cabinet and the dictator as his TreacherousAdvisor, who keeps telling him to execute his friends. Gilligan realizes that the man is trying to make him into his puppet (and even has a vision of himself as a ''literal'' puppet on strings), wakes up, and declares that he won't listen any longer.
82	** One episode has Gilligan discovering that a lottery ticket he purchased before that fateful "three-hour tour" is a winner, making him a millionaire. The Howells "adopt" him and let him into their exclusive beach country club (keep in mind that there are literally ''eight people'' on the island), but NiceGuy Gilligan insists on giving the other castaways I.O.U.s so they can afford to get in. Mr. Howell dislikes the club's exclusivity being broken and steals the lottery ticket so that no one can join. That night, though, he dreams that he is an Old West forty-niner who's come across gold, with the other castaways as desperate souls who need money. When Thurston wakes up, he realizes that he's been a jerk and tells Gilligan to welcome the others back. In a final twist, it's then revealed that Gilligan's ticket has been declared void since no one claimed the prize, but Thurston decides to let the other castaways stay in the club regardless.
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86	* In ''Literature/TheBible'':
87	** ''Literature/ActsOfTheApostles'': In Acts 10:9-23, Peter falls into a trance and sees many animals which were forbidden (unclean) for a Jewish person to eat. He is commanded by God to "kill and eat," but replies that he had never broken Jewish dietary laws before. God replies, "What God hath cleansed, that call not thou unclean." Peter learns from this to accept the Gentiles (non-Jewish people) as converts to Christianity and to no longer treat them as outsiders to the faith.
88	** ''Literature/TheFourGospels'': When Joseph discovers that Mary is pregnant before they are even married, he plans to quietly break things off with her, (during this period in time, a woman becoming pregnant out of wedlock could result in her getting executed if he willed it, so this is considered a merciful act) but then an angel comes to him in a dream, telling him to go ahead and marry her anyway, saying she is pregnant with the Son of God.
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92	* Act II of ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' ends with Elder Price having a "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream", complete with a song of the same name. Price was content to just leave Elder Cunningham alone in Uganda, but Price realizes through the dream that he's done something terrible. That, and he pissed off Jesus at the same time. So Price tries to go back and reconcile things with Cunningham.
93	* In ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls'', during the scene when the gamblers are attending the revival at the Save-A-Soul mission because Sky won a bet, Nicely-Nicely Johnson recounts a dream he had that turned him from his wild gambling ways. This turns into the rollicking number "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat". (Clip from the 2011 Broadway revival is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bnzSSPP4mGE#t=0 here]]; the film version (performed by Stubby Kaye) is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCfGjUfXUIE here]].) The trope is subverted, in that Nicely didn't change his ways and may not (probably didn't, in fact) even have such a dream at all.
94	* In ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'', after Tevye decides to cancel the ArrangedMarriage between his daughter Tzeitel and the elderly drunk Lazar Wolf, he realizes that his wife will not accept the decision without some spiritual reason underlying it, so he pretends to have a dream in which he is confronted by the vengeful ghost of Lazar's late wife, who threatens to haunt and kill Tzeitel if the marriage goes forward.
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98	* Sunny spends the entirety of ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' refusing to tell anyone about the nightmares and psychological issues he is experiencing because [[spoiler:he would have to confess accidentally killing his sister Mari to his friends, who loved her as much as he did]]. But in the best ending route, [[spoiler:after a scuffle with Basil ends with the both of them in the hospital, Sunny engages in a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with the titular Omori, who tries to drive him to suicide- should Sunny win by accepting what he did, he decides when waking up that he should not bottle his feelings any longer, and the game ends with him about to confess what he did]].
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102	* A few days after firing Kyle in the prologue to ''VisualNovel/LastWindow'', Ed has a bizarre dream in which he found Kyle dead by the road. He decides not to take his chances and agrees to rehire Kyle if he can manage to prove himself.
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106	* ''[=YugiNoNo=]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlXR-ZIIPwU has a skit]] in which the Eugene character has a nightmare over being sent to [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Yugioh Hell]] for playing [[HighTierScrappy Trickstars]]. [[SubvertedTrope He didn't seem to care]].
107	-->'''Eugene:''' ''[awakes in terror]'' Oh, ''[begins laughing]'' it was just a dream... Wow that was the worst dream I've had my whole life, that was horrible... Gosh... Phew... [[WorthIt The easy wins are so worth it though]]...
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111	* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Flu-Ouise", Louise is sick with the flu, and mad at her family for accidentally wrecking her favorite toy, a Kuchi Kopi nightlight. She has a [[FeverDreamEpisode fever dream]] where she imagines her melted Kuchi Kopi inviting her to move into his fortress, where they can be alone and away from the people who annoy, disappoint, and generally hurt her. Along the way, she encounters plush toys [[AndYouWereThere voiced by her family members' voice actors]] trying to persuade her not to wall herself up in a (metaphorical) fortress, and it's ultimately an un-melted "Good" Kuchi Kopi who persuades Louise to destroy the fortress and forgive her family. Louise naturally [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on all the heavy-handed imagery, and [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong the random musical numbers]].
112	* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'':
113	** In "WesternAnimation/PlutosJudgementDay", WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse punishes [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]] for chasing a little kitten. Pluto then goes to sleep and has a nightmare where he is sent to Hell and tortured by several cats. When he awakes he changes his ways and acts gentle towards his feline friends.
114	** In ''Donald's Diary'', Donald Duck falls asleep while waiting for Daisy so he can propose to her. His dream turns into a nightmare about the AwfulWeddedLife, complete with ObnoxiousInLaws and Daisy turning Don into a HenpeckedHusband to the point he literally turns into a robot with a WindUpKey in the back. When Donald wakes up, he flees from Daisy in terror and ends up joining [[LegionOfLostSouls the French Foreign Legion]] to get away from her.
115	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
116	** The ''WesternAnimation/PorkyPig'' cartoon ''WesternAnimation/OldGlory'' has Porky struggling to get through the Pledge of Allegiance. He falls asleep and is visited by Uncle Sam who tells him about the American War of Independence. Porky learns the value of American freedom and wakes up. Now he is able to recite the entire Pledge from memory.
117	** Subverted in "Pigs Is Pigs", where Piggy is seen eating too much for his own good. When he goes to bed he has a nightmare where a scientist forcefeeds him. Eventually Piggy has a BalloonBelly and eats one more piece of food before he explodes. After he wakes up, he still rushes downstairs to continue eating, having learned nothing!
118	** "WesternAnimation/TheBigSnooze" has Elmer Fudd [[NoFourthWall tearing up his Warner Brothers contract]] after being bested by WesternAnimation/BugsBunny one time too many. Bugs invades his dreams and induces [[DerangedAnimation a truly bizarre nightmare]] as only Creator/BobClampett can produce, prompting Elmer to get back to work.
119	* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "WesternAnimation/HeavenlyPuss" shows Tom dying and going to Heaven. There he is told that he should go to Hell, but if he can make Jerry sign a contract of forgiveness he may enter Heaven. Tom goes through great lengths to do so, but in the end he fails and is cooked in Hell. Then it turns out it was AllJustADream and he hugs Jerry to become friends again.
120	* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
121	** Mocked in "I'm A Little Bit Country" where Cartman acts as if he doesn't care about American history so that he can induce an opinion changing dream. He elaborately stages incidents that would render him unconscious so that he can have the educational dream and thereby avoid the bother of actually studying. After many amusing failed attempts, he succeeds.
122	** Played straight in "Cartoon Wars: Part I". At first, Kyle opposes Cartman's efforts to have the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode pulled, but changes his mind after having a dream in which he sees his brother killed in a terrorist attack.
123	** Happens a second time with "Jewpacabra", where Cartman's tranquilizer-fueled dream of the Book of Exodus has such an effect that he '''converts to Judaism'''.
124	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
125	** In "Hillennium", Hank gets swept up with the worries about the [[MillenniumBug Y2K bug]] and is terrified of what the TurnOfTheMillennium will bring, and when he puts some varnish on Peggy's grandfather clock, the smells of it combined with lack of ventilation in the garage make Hank fall unconscious. He has a dream where he's a mole in a a game of Whack-A-Mole, with several moles (including a version of Peggy). Hank is initially fearful of getting whacked, with mole Bobby de-aging back to a baby and making a fort of toilet paper. It's not until he talks to a mole version of legendary Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry that he should stop fearing getting whacked and enjoy the moments when he pops out and doesn't get whacked. When Hank recovers, he then learns that he shouldn't be afraid of what the future will bring.
126	** Similarly, in "Trans-Fascism", Hank drives a lunch truck serving [[UnfortunateIngredients then-illegal trans-fat foods]]. At first he sees himself as a patriot for disobeying an unjust law. A dream featuring George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Tom Landry (on Landry's B-17 during World War II) in which they express their disapproval of Hank's actions gives Hank the strength to tell Buck that he wants out.
127	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' featured this plot with Binky in "Thanks a Lot, Binky!". Binky regularly does good deeds because he knows they're the right thing to do. He told a teacher to stop his friend from doing a dangerous stunt, [[BeingGoodSucks causing his friend to get detention and hate him, and doing so made him miss the wrestling special he wanted to watch]]. He resolved to stop doing good deeds until he had a dream where his favorite wrestler told Binky that doing good deeds was the best thing he ever did and the world would be a much worse place if he didn't do them.
128	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "Bart the Lover" sees Bart's class watching a short movie that's a parody of ''Film/ACaseOfSpringFever'' (see Film, above) except that the man in question wishes to get rid of zinc. It reaches its peak when, in desperation, he [[DrivenToSuicide tries to shoot himself]] only to discover that the gun won't work without zinc either, causing him to lament "Zinc! Come back!"
129	* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': The short "Donald's Goofy World" has Donald becoming angry at Goofy after Goofy drives him crazy trying to fix his door and telling him that he never wants to see his face again. Then the door falls on top of him, knocking the duck out, and he has a dream where EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING is turning into Goofy - including various TV shows, animals, plants, his neighbors, the sun, Mickey, Pluto, Daisy, and his nephews. The dream eventually culminates in Donald barricading himself in his house, after which Goofy (who appears on [[TheTelevisionTalksBack Donald's television]]) suggest that Donald give being Goofy a try. Donald refuses, but then realizes that he's suddenly wearing Goofy's clothes... and then, to his horror, Donald turns into Goofy himself (to which Goofy says, "Now YOU'RE Goofy too!"). After that, Donald wakes up and realizes that it was all just a dream. He initially lashes out at Goofy, then apologizes and says that he's glad there's only one of him. Goofy agrees: "There IS only one of me! [[HereWeGoAgain And I'm gonna fix your door!]]"
130	* The ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' episode "Time for Everything" centers around a conflict between Dongwa and his father, Baba. They both come from a family of cats that have primarily been scribes, but Dongwa is more interested in practicing kung fu than in doing his "scrolls" homework. When Dongwa coaxes his sister Sagwa into doing his work for him, Baba finds out and scolds them. But when Baba goes to bed, he has a nightmare that flashes back to ''his'' younger days, when he wanted to play outside but his grandfather insisted on him doing his scrolls. The next morning, partially due to this, Baba and Dongwa are able to reach a compromise: writing is still an important tradition, but Baba will give Dongwa less scrolls to do so Dongwa doesn't have to think of it as work, and Dongwa can use the additional spare time to practice kung fu.
131	* In the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' episode "It's A Wonderful Half Life", Cat and Dog go to bed angry after an argument, each wishing he wasn't stuck to his brother so he could live his own life. They have a shared dream done in InkblotCartoonStyle where [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Cat is a wealthy and successful factory owner with no friends, and Dog is a happy-go-lucky hobo without a place to call home]]. They end up meeting and becoming friends after Dog saves Cat's life, and after the two wake up from their dream they reconcile.
132	* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
133	** In "Marco Grows a Beard", Star accidentally gives Marco a beard so long it fills the Diaz house with hair, and she loses her MagicWand in the mess. After struggling to get through the forest of hair, she's about to give up and lies down for a nap. Star then has a dream where one of the Laser Puppies talks to her, encouraging her not to give up by pointing out she's been able to kick butt since before she got the wand.
134	** In "Star vs. Echo Creek", Star goes on the run after accidentally wrecking a police car, and ends up in a bubble at the bottom of a river. There, she encounters a jolly talking dragon who tries to convince her to live in his underwater realm, where she can do whatever she wants... provided she never sees her friends and family again. The dragon eventually admits to being a figment of Star's imagination trying to convince her that running away is a good idea, but the experience actually convinces Star to turn herself in to the police.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': Whenever [=BoJack=] goes on one of his benders, expect this to happen:
136	** "Downer Ending": After [[GoneHorriblyRight reading "One Trick Pony"]], he disowns and refuses to allow its publication out of fear and self-denial, claiming [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter he can do it better.]] After a night of drug-binging and postponing, he goes into a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind journey of self-discovery]] [[MoodWhiplash and]] [[FreudianExcuse psychological]] [[AbusiveParents scars]], culminating in the happiest moment he has ever lived, [[YankTheDogsChain only to have it yanked away.]] By the time he regains consciousness, not only has he failed to present an alternative to the autobiography and convinced himself that Diane should publish the original, but he has realized [[BrokenBird what an utter wreck he is]] and worse, [[IAmAMonster how bad it]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone can affect him and others.]] [[AintTooProudToBeg He spends the last portion of the episode]] asking Diane if he is a good person.
137	** "That's Too Much, Man": Once [[RockBottom the Oscar nominations, the groupies and his friends fade out]], [=BoJack=] contacts Sarah Lynn and they enter a six-weeks long bender with every drug imaginable: vicodin, LSD, heroin, etc. In between his blackouts, the constant shifts in scenery and light-headed visions, he has some flashbacks to his reunion with Sarah Lynn in 2007 when [[CareerResurrection he was planning his comeback]] and [[OpportunisticBastard needed a guest star in the first episode]]. Sarah Lynn was [[ThePerilsofBeingTheBest having some problems with stardom]] and [[ThePowerOfFriendship wanted to rely in a true friend]]...until she realized he had come for the guest spot, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero leading her to drugs and booze to cope and the state she was at the beginning of the series]]. And [[AesopAmnesia he's repeating the same mistake again]]. Unlike the example above, [=BoJack=] doesn't realize the lesson in time and the bender combined with keeping up with the lower tolerance due to her brief sobriety kills Sarah Lynn just as she was starting to realize what she wanted in life.
138	* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' in the episode "Lawnmower Dog", when Rick uses a device to allow them to enter dreams. The original idea was to convince Morty's teacher to give him good grades, but things go awry and they end up meeting Scary Terry, a "[[CaptainErsatz legally-safe knockoff]] of [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet an '80s horror character with miniature swords for fingers instead of knives]]". Scary Terry hunts them relentlessly, until he just gets tired and goes home to sleep. They decide to go into ''his'' dreams, where they help him through a nightmare of his own. Terry wakes up thinking they're cool guys and befriends them. He in turn helps them with their original plan with Morty's teacher. The same trick is used in the B-Plot where Rick has to use the same device to get Snuffles/Snowball/Snuffles to leave Earth with the rest of his super smart dogs and not take over.
139	* Invoked in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Obsoletely Fabulous." Bender escapes before he can receive a "compatibility" upgrade that will make him love the new model of JobStealingRobot and goes on a journey that [[spoiler:ends with him learning to love the new robots on his own. [[AllJustADream Then he wakes up]] and discovers that he received the upgrade after all, with the whole story being the way his consciousness processed it.]]
140	* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "The Other Bin of Scrooge [=McDuck=]!", Lena ends up falling under the spell of a magic dream catcher that makes her witness her worst nightmare (which ends with her accidentally vaporizing her best friend) and it ultimately helps her commit to the HeelFaceTurn that she had been on the edge of for the whole season. [[spoiler:It's just too bad that [[FamilialBodySnatcher Magica takes over her body immediately afterwards]].]]
141	* An odd example from ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet:'' in "Numbers Game", Wheeler opines that people shouldn't have more kids than they can afford, and the other Planeteers yell at him for being insensitive. Then he goes to sleep and dreams that he and Linka are married with a lot of kids. He wakes up with the moral that large families are miserable and bad for the environment, and it's ''framed'' as this trope...except that the writers apparently forgot that ''that was his opinion to begin with.'' It's perhaps the best example of how Wheeler is always treated as wrong, even when espousing the show's own viewpoint.
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145	* In [[TheFifties the early 1950s]], Creator/LucilleBall had grave doubts about adapting her popular radio sitcom, ''My Favorite Husband'', for the new and untested medium of television... until she had a dream in which her close friend, Creator/CaroleLombard (who had been dead since 1942), told her to "give it a whirl". She did, and you may have heard of the resulting series: ''Series/ILoveLucy''.
146	* [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104940/trivia?item=tr0659078 According to IMDb,]] Steve Whitmire was incredibly nervous when taking over as Kermit the Frog for ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' (the first Muppet project since the death of Creator/JimHenson). He felt more confident after having a dream where he met Henson in a hotel lobby and talked about his fears, which Henson assured him would pass.
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