Questions tagged [dreams]
For questions about dreams, their significance, and manipulation of them within works of speculative fiction.
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I'm looking for the title of a book about a group of dream warriors who fight a "demon" with psychic abilities that hides in peoples dreams
I read a book in the early- to mid-eighties that I have not been able to recall the title to. The story was set in roughly the present day. A small group of people were able to enter the dream world ...
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Fantasy YA novel from at least 10-15 years ago about kids who can enter a dream world when they fall asleep
So I read this book 10-15 years ago, but I'm not sure when it was published. It's a YA novel with a young male protagonist, I think, who finds out he can enter a different world when he goes to sleep. ...
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Classic short story about a recurring dream of approaching death
In this story, a man relates a recurring dream of Middle Eastern swordsmen on horseback riding hard toward him along a curve of sandy shore. They approach closer and closer each night, and he is ...
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Short story about lucid dreaming and a gun that protects the protagonist in his sleep
I read this decades ago—probably in the 1960s—and am pretty sure it was from an anthology. It was English language. As a boy, our hero had nightmares, and his father taught him how to mentally bring ...
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Have professional dreamers been explored in the Alien franchise?
In the Alan Dean Foster novelisation of the film Alien, the book starts off with:
Seven dreamers.
You must understand that they were not professional dreamers.
Professional dreamers are highly paid, ...
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Short story where alien pills or medication are used as a way of teaching
I feel like the story starts out with a guy in a bar and an alien or some other sort of advanced lifeform. I seem to recall a part in the story where the alien gives this guy a tablet or medication (...
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Children's book about a kid traveling out of his body during sleep in New York city
Children's book about a kid traveling out of his body during sleep in New York city while visiting his grandfather. Then meets Babe Ruth, etc.
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Trying to find a movie about a dad who goes to a fantasy universe to find kids
Hey so I tried to find this movie but I couldn't. I only remember vague details but it was about a white family with a dad who I think was estranged to his kids (a son and a younger daughter) and he ...
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Book set in a dream-world type setting with a female protagonist
I'm looking for a book series I read as a teen. Within the past 10-12 years. I want to say it was a trilogy but I could have just read all books available at the time.
It had to do with a dreamscape ...
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Book about a live reality tv show where money depends on viewers but they were really harvesting dreams
There's a book I checked out of the library a couple years ago and I'd like to get my sister to read it but I don't remember what it's called.
I actually don't remember if you got money or not but I ...
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Identify a story about a man who pays to dream that he is successful
Can anyone help me identify some science/speculative fiction plot I remember from the 1980s? I'm pretty sure it was a short story I read in a book, though it's possible that I have gotten it confused ...
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Short story: dream machines and androids
A boy sets off on a quest and eventually learns from an oracle/librarian/sentient machine/? that he is an android, and so is everyone in his city, without being aware of it; there are no more real ...
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An old children's series about a wizard and dreams?
I was born in 1992 and live in a country where most cartoons might have probably aired years after their original time but the one I'm talking about is certainly before 2002.
I remember it being about ...
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A man enters a comatose author's dreams to wake him up
This is a short story, I think, but I might be wrong.
A man is recruited to enter an authors' dreams to try & bring him out of a coma & finds himself in a hackneyed barsoom type world where ...
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90s cartoon about guardians against nightmares
In the 1990s, I saw an animated show about some guardians of dreams that protect children’s dreams against nightmares. I dont remeber much, only that they travel in pillow-like space ship and there ...
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