A dream sequence is a technique used in storytelling, particularly in television and film, to set apart a brief interlude from the main story. The interlude may consist of a flashback, a fantasy, a vision, a dream, or some other element. It is normally apart in time or space from the main story, or contrary to the continuity of the main story. Many writers and critics look down on dream sequences as a cheap way to explain a character's motives without actually integrating them into the plot,^{[citation needed]} especially when it is used as an ending, wherein the main character wakes up and realises that everything that had happened was all a dream. This is usually considered an anticlimactic and ineffective way to wrap up a story or to explain previous improbable situations. For the 2001 film, see Storytelling (film) Storytelling is the ancient art of conveying events in words, images, and sounds. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... In literature and film, a flashback (also called analepsis) takes the narrative back in time from the point the story has reached, to recount events that happened before and give the back-story. ... Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... In religion, visions comprise inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a mythical being, and are believed (by followers of the religion) to come from a deity, directly or indirectly via prophets, and serve to inspire or prod believers as part of a revelation or an epiphany. ... A dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep. ...

Audio or visual elements, such as distinctive music or coloration, are frequently used to signify the beginning and end of a dream sequence.

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Examples

• Dream Sequence music video for Child of Glass turns out to be a crazy dream.
• That's So Raven episode "Don't Have a Cow" is, except for a few brief moments, Raven's vision.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Rock-a-Bye-Ed" is Johnny's nightmare.
• The 8th season of Dallas is written off entirely as a dream.
• Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett deals a lot about dreams, including one instance when the main character Tiffany Aching remarks on how the cliché ending of "she woke up and it was all a dream" is the worst ending for any story.
• The Gorillaz music video for Dare turns out to be bassist Murdoc's crazy dream.
• On the sixth season of Married... with Children, an episode entitled Al Bundy, Shoe Dick mirrored Dallas' elimination of storylines via a dream. In real life, Katey Sagal (Peg Bundy) had gotten pregnant and it was written into the series. Ms. Sagal later had a miscarriage, and to write all of the baby events out of the show, that entire season up to that point was made a dream by Al Bundy.