Nine of the Most Memorable Dream Sequences in Film and TV

"I've always believed that films and dreams are inexplicably linked," says Mark Kermode at the start of an episode of BBC Radio 4's Screenshot exploring dreams on screen. "Films somehow reproduce the experience of dreaming."
Dream sequences are almost films within films, taking the viewer into a new mini story with its own style and logic. Used well, they can open up whole new worlds, as in Christopher Nolan's mind-blowing 2010 movie Inception. Used badly, they can make everything a bit daft, or be a lazy way to write yourself out of narrative difficulties, like Bobby's brazen resurrection in Dallas.
Here are some of the most famous dreams in film and television. Some are fantastical delights, while some are horrible nightmares...

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