Quotes / Dream Within a Dream

"I hate double dreams."

— Doug Funnee

"...this is not my carpet. Which means we are not in my apartment. We are still dreaming."

—Saito, Inception

"What a strange dream. Within a dream. Or is this the dream?"

— Mizuhara Makoto, El-Hazard: The Magnificent World

"Is that a dream? Or a dream within a dream?"
"I think it's a dream inside The Matrix inside a dream."
"Just keep shooting!"

— South Park

"Last night I dreamed I was awake, and then when I woke up I was asleep."

— Durwood Fincher, Today prank interview

Ansem: "But you feel it, don't you? This world, the nightmare, the abyss. Why haven't you returned to the reality whence you came?"
Riku: "No. This is a..."
Ansem: "Dream of a dream. A twofold nightmare. This whole journey, you have been inside Sora's dreams. And now darkness within darkness awaits you."

— Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]

"My dreams are getting way too literal."

— Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

"You are a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically this is not far from the truth."

— Morpheus, The Matrix

Candace: When my brothers got busted, it was only a dream!
Phineas: But who had that dream, was it Perry or you?
Candace(speaking): Actually, I think my dream was inside of Perry's dream!
Buford: My mind is blown!

— Phineas and Ferb

Kara Zor-El was dreaming.
She was dreaming that she was dreaming.
Yes, that was the answer. For there she was, clad in her green nightdress, below the quilt her mother had made for her years ago, in the comfortable four-poster bed she'd had built on Rokyn to resemble the one in which she'd slept on Earth.
[...]
She was looking at herself lying in the bed.
Yes, it was a dream.
But why would she dream of herself dreaming? Most curious.

— Kara of Rokyn

''I awoke in a fever
The bedclothes were all soaked with sweat
She said "You've been having a nightmare
...And it's not over yet!"

— Roger Waters, The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking

Studio Executive Guy: Ahh, a dream within a dream, ya got me!
Screenwriter Guy: Yeah, you thought he was done dreaming, but he's not!
Studio Executive Guy: My concept of reality has been shattered and I don't know how to feel any more!

— Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: The Wolverine

Gumbo: You're actually probably still asleep.
Nick: Dream within a dream, a pretty tired movie trope, I'd say.

— Adam@home: January 23, 2024

Oh I wake up in the morning
Then I wake up in the morning
Try to wake up in the morning
So I wake up in the morning
But I wake up in the morning
Just to wake up in the morning
Then I wake up in the morning
Quite refreshed
And then I'm just in time to...

— Finn M-K, Wake up in the morning then I wake up in the morning then I wake up in the morning then I wake up in

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