Anxiety Dreams/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character dreams of a dreaded future.

• Straight: Georgiana dreams that at the archery compeitition, she shoots someone while aiming at the target.
• Exaggerated: Georgiana dreams that when she tries out for the team, she shoots everyone in the world to death.
• Downplayed: Georgiana dreams of being a little nervous at the compeitition.
• Justified: Truth in Television.
• Inverted: The more pressure on Georgiana, the better she sleeps.
• Subverted: Georgiana's strange dreams do not, after all, let up after she wins.
• Double Subverted: They were really symbolical representations of other problems in her life, which she resolves, ending the dreams.
• Parodied: Georgiana dreams of disasters -- such as being trampled by a stampede of T. Rexes, every day because she dreads getting through the day.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Georgiana's nervousness is manifested only through other tropes; she sleeps like a baby.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "Georgina? You did NOT have a bad dream about the competition? What kind of writer is that??"
• Invoked: Georgiana looks at her schedule and predicts anxiety dreams.
• Exploited: Sebastian watches how Georgiana sleeps to see if she's nervous.
• Defied: Georgiana takes sleeping pills whenever she's nervous, to ensure Deep Sleep.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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