Basic Trope: Someone has a dream while dying.
- Straight: Alice, while dying, has a dream of going on a cruise with her now dead husband, Bob.
- Exaggerated: Alice's whole life was just a dream of a dying baby Alice.
- Downplayed: Before Alice goes into a coma, she has a dream about her dead relatives greeting her.
- Justified: She was thinking about Bob, and dreaming about Bob and her will put her at peace before dying.
- Inverted: A sleeping Alice has a dream about her death.
- Subverted: It seems like Alice is dreaming about going on a cruise with Bob... but then it's revealed that we were looking at a different couple, Charles and Diane, who looks like Alice and Bob.
- Double Subverted: Then we see Alice's dream about kissing Bob before dying,
- Parodied: Alice has a dream about her house magically growing limbs and dancing, her and Bob riding unicorns colored like a rainbow, and anthropomorphic animals having sex with each other before dying.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Alice dies normally without having a dream.
- Nobody dies at all.
- Enforced: "We need to add a scene that's heartwarming and tear-jerking at the same time. How about having Alice dream about being on a cruise with Bob before she dies?"
- Lampshaded: "Bob, I know I'm dreaming right now, but I promise I'll see you on the other side."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice realizes what's going on halfway through the dream and wakes up to save herself.
- Discussed: "I'm probably gonna see Bob in my dreams before I die."
- Conversed: "Oh look, Alice is having a dream about her being a cruise with Bob before she dies. That's so sad!"
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