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Dreams

Person
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. He believed in free association and dream analysis in developing what is now known as "the talking cure." From Wikipedia

History
American President Abraham Lincoln had a dream that seemed to predict his own assassination. Lincoln's dream was related to his friend and bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon, who himself related it in a book, well after the event: Source: Wikipedia

Film
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984): directed and written by Wes Craven and starring Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon and Robert Englund. Tagline: If Nancy Doesn't Wake Up Screaming She Won't Wake Up At All. Source: IMDb

Numbers
12: number of “universal dreams”.  Anthropologists, psychologists and dream workers have found similar themes in dreams, which transcend all generations and cultures. Read more

Thing
pipe dream: (of an idea or plan) impossible or very unlikely to happen:
Her plans are not realistic - they'll never be more than a pipe dream.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Song
Dreamer by Super Tramp
See lyrics

Recipe
Sweet Dreams
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Wordplay
Dreams can come true is an anagram of consummated career
Bad dream is an anagram of bed drama
Source: Anagram Genius

Literature
I Dream’d in a Dream by Walt Whitman
I dream’d in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth;
I dream’d that was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest;
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.

Quotes and Proverbs
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (John Barrymore)
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. (Walt Disney)
If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep. (Yiddish)
The king of the dreamers lies in the hospital. (German)
Source: Creative Proverbs

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