Basic Trope: A character dreams of a dreaded future.
- Straight: Georgiana dreams that at the archery competition, she shoots someone while aiming at the target.
- Exaggerated: Georgiana dreams that when she tries out for the team, she shoots everyone in the world to death.
- Downplayed: Georgiana dreams of being a little nervous at the competition.
- Justified: Truth in Television.
- Inverted:
- The more pressure on Georgiana, the better she sleeps.
- Georgiana is looking forward to the competition and dreams of winning it.
- Subverted:
- Georgiana's strange dreams do not, after all, let up after she wins.
- Alice expects to dream about the competition, but Real Dreams are Weirder; she dreams about something that has no connection to the competition.
- Double Subverted: They were really symbolical representations of other problems in her life, which she resolves, ending the dreams.
- Parodied: Georgiana dreams of disasters — such as being trampled by a stampede of T. rexes, every day because she dreads getting through the day.
- Zig Zagged: Alice has a complex dream that partly involves the competition and partly involves other weird things, and the parts about the competition are sometimes good and sometimes bad.
- Averted:
- Georgiana's nervousness is manifested only through other tropes; she sleeps like a baby.
- Georgiana can't sleep because of stress, therefore she didn't dream at all.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Georgiana? You did NOT have a bad dream about the competition? What kind of writer would put that into our show??"
- Invoked: Georgiana looks at her schedule and predicts anxiety dreams.
- Exploited: Sebastian watches how Georgiana sleeps to see if she's nervous.
- Defied: Georgiana takes sleeping pills whenever she's nervous, to ensure Deep Sleep.
- Discussed: "Worrying about the future always gives me nightmares."
- Conversed: "On TV, if a character has a nightmare it's because they're worried about something, and that happens a lot in real life, but sometimes in real life, nightmares just happen."
- Implied: Georgiana wakes up from her sleep with a Big "NO!", implying she was having a nightmare, and she is nervous about the competition, but it's never outright said that the nightmare was about the competition.
- Played For Laughs: Georgiana dreams about showing up naked to the competition, because Naked People Are Funny.
- Played For Drama: Georgiana has nightmares relating to her untreated anxiety disorder.
- Played for Horror: The dream turns out to be prophetic and she ends up actually shooting someone.
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