Best Dream Scenes in Movies

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[@Inticonde]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind captures what it feels like in a dream. Things not making sense, faces being different, locations not being correct…but nothing really feeling too out of place to the dreamer. Acceptance.

[@EmanAugust]

Not a film but The Sopranos had such great dream sequences & episodes. Some of them gave me serious chills. "When my time comes, will I stand up?"

[@offspringfan1288]

Said it before and I’ll say it again, Terminator 2 Sarah’s nuclear nightmare is the best dream sequence ever!

[@starwarsroo2448]

That one is absolutely awesome

[@Kthomasritchie]

The nightmare scenes in the original movie were also handled extremely well.

[@Wildcock23]

Yes!

[@pesky716]

I couldn’t watch it as a child when I first saw it, and I still look away.

[@SmallvillenerdTwo]

This isn't a film but the Buffy episode "Restless" is about the main characters falling asleep and having connected dreams. IMO this episode of Buffy portrays dreams in the most realistic way I've seen in TV or Film. One character runs through a college hallway and ends up in his parent's basement in a completely unbroken shot and scenes go from day-to-night in an instant. It uses that "dream logic" to explore the characters' inner fears and desires in such a unique way. If you've never seen the series before I recommend this one episode because it's truly a work of art.

[@rafaelhenriq9803]

Speaking in Buñuel, the dream sequence in "Los Olvidados - 1950" is so poetic and devastating, both at the same time. Unforgettable!

[@slc2466]

I brought this one up in a reply to the poster of the "Belle de Jour" comment, then went on You Tube to watch it again after many years. It is hard to put the sequence out of mind, along with the overall grimness of the film.

[@jonanjello]

@rafaelhenriq9803 - Hey, thanks! Never heard of this movie, but I watched it tonight and am greatly impressed by Buńuel’s dream sequence (and final moment. ) Los Olvidados reminds me a bunch of 1939’s Dead End, a recommend watch, though without an oneiric quality. Thanks for the great movie recommend -where do I go next with Buńuel?

[@bramford7e]

Rosemary's Baby has one of the best dream sequences I've ever seen.

[@83aber1]

My favorite dream scene was in Wayne's World 2 when Wayne dreamt about Jim Morrison giving him guidance in his life.

[@leedurbin4419]

I had the exact same dream

[@kthx1138]

And in that dream, was there an Indian with a naked bottom lol?

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

So there I am, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night...

[@raminybhatti5740]

Has to be Vertigo. Hermann's score and the psychedelic visuals are absolute magic.

[@FrancoisDressler]

I love what Polanski does with the nightmare scenes in Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby (the latter being ambiguous as to whether it's real or not was brilliantly done).

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

The Rosemary's Baby one is impossible not to shift about in your seat watching. I think the likeliest thing is it being a mix of fact and fiction. That's the most terrifying thing about it to me, where does one end and the other begin.

[@carlosdumbratzen6332]

The dream sequences in Paprika are truly dream like. They flow into each other and have a certain unseriousness that I have in my dreams aswell.

[@andykang6469]

There is a dream sequence in the beginning of "Wild Strawberries (1957 ) by Ingmar Bergman". It really feels like you're actually watching someone dreaming.

[@voiceover2191]

My favourite dream scenes: 1) Dream scene in Hitchcock's Spellbound, sets of the dream courtesy of Salvador Dali 2) Dream scenes in Tarkovksky's "Ivan's Childhood" or "Mirror", all masterpieces of course 3) Dream scenes in Tarsim's The Cell 4) Dream Scene at the end of Brazil by Terry Gilliam 5) Dream scenes in Twin Peaks 6) Dream scene in The Exorcist by the priest foreshadowing the death of his mother 7) Hitchock's Vertigo 8) Mulholland Drive Club Silenzio (but whether it's a dream is debatable) 9) Dream Sequence in Lost Highway told by Fred 10) Dream sequence in Jacob's ladder, though it could be argued the whole movie is a dream sequence on someone's deathbed 11) Dream scene in Rosemary's Baby 12) Dream scene in The Big Lebowsky Of course the record of longest dream is held by tv series Dallas, when they killed of the character of Bobby at the end of a season, so he didn't return the whole next season. Fans complained so much that they brought him back by having a scene with him and his wife the next season declaring the whole previous season to have just been a dream, because after a whole season of events it wasn't possible to bring him back in an organic way, so they just decided to cancel the whole previous season. :)

[@robnjosnavelin3496]

great list. Of all of them, I think #11 most accurately depicts the structure feel and flow of a dream. but I have yet to see Spellbound, had no idea about the Dali link, cheers!

[@FrancoisDressler]

#6 is an underrated one. Extremely unsettling.

[@bryangarcia5599]

_'Okay, so you had a dream about this place. Tell me.'_ _'Well, it's the second one I've had, but they're both the same. They start out that I'm in here, but it's not day or night. It's kind of half-night, you know? But it looks just like this... except for the light. And... I'm scared like I can't tell you. Of all people, you're standing right over there... by that counter. You're in both dreams, and you're scared too. I get even more frightened when I see how afraid you are, and then I realize what it is. There's a man... in back of this place. He's the one who's doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face. I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream. ...That's it.'_ _'So... you came here to see if he's really out there.'_ _'To get rid of this godawful feeling.'_

[@syko567890]

Mulholland Drive.

[@famousashtray]

The beginning of 8 1/2 has to be the most accurate depiction of a dream ive ever seen. So eerie.

[@jessebarajas7972]

Thank you so much for reading my comment, me and my mom were thrilled. It means so much to me! It's a great feeling, seeing that my opinion matters.

[@jwnj9716]

Exorcist 3 dream scene is just so bizarre. For some reason, it's in a mosque and let's not forget the cameos.

[@bryangarcia5599]

🤟🏼 *FABIO!* 🤟🏼

[@Ytnzy250]

Nightmare on Elm St. When the blonde chick ventures outside into the dark alley & Freddy's arms span out the width of the lane as he chases her back into her house. As she tries to run up the stairs & her feet sink into each stair like a swamp is slowly swallowing her. To this day that memory still gives me chills.

[@bryangarcia5599]

With all due respect, you seem to be conflating two disparate scenes from the film into one. The 'blonde chick' (Tina) is indeed chased by Krueger in the alley, but is killed shortly thereafter, in the infamous 'dragged across the ceiling' scene. The character whose feet sink into the steps is Nancy, the film's primary protagonist and 'final girl', and that scene occurs much later in the film, immediately preceding her climactic confrontation with Krueger.

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

There you go... I'll see if I can find a Top 10 Freddy Krueger kills lol

[@robmann400]

Jacob’s Ladder. Isn’t the entire movie except the ending a dream? Also the hospital sequence in An American Werewolf In London is a wonderfully brutal scare.

[@GlassThirdEye]

It's not really a dream. He's dead the entire movie. As far as I know you don't dream when you're dead.

[@robmann400]

I thought he was in the process of dying and is dead at the end but I haven’t seen that one in 20+ years so...

[@GlassThirdEye]

@@robmann400 lol yeah you might actually be right now that I think about it. It closes with him being pronounced dead so yeah I guess that technically qualifies.

[@Wildcock23]

“Jacob’s Ladder” is a traumatizing film. That being said, it is also an exceptional one.

[@GlassThirdEye]

@@robmann400 most of the movie I always interpreted as him navigating the after life. A purgatory of sorts or the bardos in Buddhism. At the end he walks up the stairs with his son into a white light as if he finally let go and moved on but the last scene throws a wrench it that a bit so I guess I blocked it out lol

[@andrewross1809]

End dream sequence in De Palma's 'Carrie' with the reverse film of the car. Simple and scary.

[@HOTD108_]

Not a movie, but the best dream sequences I've ever seen are the ones in The Sopranos. They're the most authentic to how real life dreams feel.

[@rong2912]

Most of Mulholland Drive is a dream.

[@Houldey]

Might be cheating kinda, but Paprika by Satoshi Kon.

[@Bigfrank88]

Amazing film

[@rhysperegrine5100]

An early Peter Dinklage playing the angry little person in Living in Oblivion, asking why every dream sequence has to have a dwarf. "Have you ever actually had a dream about a dwarf?! I've never had a dream about a dwarf...and I'm a f***ing dwarf!"

[@Mark6435bz]

Rosemary's 'dream' in Rosemary's Baby. Father Karas' dream in The Exorcist.

[@JWGARCIA79]

"Altered States" has amazing dream sequences

[@voiceover2191]

It could be argued whether they are dream sequences, but amazing they were as was the whole movie, still very much underrated.

[@JWGARCIA79]

​@@voiceover2191 well drug induced dream sequences

[@voiceover2191]

@@JWGARCIA79 In the end it doesn't really matter, they are just amazing and I still remember when I first saw the movie, I was both terrified and blown away by the movie.

[@Icedsobaka]

Nick Cage dreaming about the Motorcycle man in Raising Arizona that scene is fantastic and very funny

[@JWGARCIA79]

every Stanley Kubrick movie

[@sandorx4]

Nothing beats Vertigo, and the way it ties into the story.

[@BishopWalters12]

25th Hour is easily my favorite Spike Lee movie, Six Feet Under is another show that did some really interesting things with the meaning of dreams and learning about a character.

[@Kthomasritchie]

Do the Right Thing is arguably his best, but I agree with you, 25th Hour is also my favorite. A film I always come back to.

[@Wildcock23]

C’mon fellas… Spike Lee’s best film is “Clockers” 😉

[@vinvanveen]

"8 1/2" and "Wild Strawberries" have my favorite dream sequences.

[@joeytorres1105]

Original Ghostbusters when the Ghost removes belt and unzipps Ray. They score during that scene makes it number #1.

[@newyorkerinvegas]

Just came across your channel tonight and I am hooked! 25th Hour is my favorite film and your analysis is, imo, spot on! Excited to check out more of your channel.

[@jonanjello]

Hi DFL, I’ve been catching up in your videos lately. Your insight and views on movie are my favorite. Thanks for all you do.

[@darthbakercamelia]

The end of Taxi Driver can be argued to be a dream sequence. Which is one of my favorite really.

[@christopherpaul7588]

I was hoping you'd talk about the dream sequences from the first two seasons so I'm looking forward to part 2. All I'll say is apparently he had the actors read their lines backward and then he played it forward to give it an extra creepy, nightmarish edge. What a genius!

[@Dec4AllTimeAlways]

Top Gun: Maverick has a fan theory of being a death dream as Maverick doesn't really survive the first crash. Nearly impossible to withstand 7672 MPH (Mach 10) if the plane flames out like the Challenger in '86.

[@grahamblack1961]

Roman Polanski made some of my favorite dream sequences in Rosemary's Baby and Macbeth.

[@uhdudewhy7980]

Father puts his hand on his son's shoulder: "Should've been you, Gordon."

[@GuamoKun]

It’s not a movie but The Sopranos had some of the best dream sequences. But for movies? My vote goes for Suspiria 2018, yes I Stan the movie

[@soysaucehairdye7869]

I have the same exact toy fish from that one episode of The Sopranos where Tony dreams that Pussy is a rat.

[@budball2]

The Wizard of Oz

[@looney1023]

Paprika. Just all of Paprika. The creativity, the logic, the symbolism... it's just stunning. Even if it's "unrealistic" as a dream (my dreams tend to be much less creative than anything Satoshi Kon would imagine) it's utterly spellbinding

[@37willdog]

Jacob’s Ladder - technically the whole movie is one but the last scene really hits hard

[@mikmac220]

Dallas did the best dream sequence ever in film history

[@pegacorn13]

Excellent choices. I'd have to mention 2005's "Stay" with Ewan McGregor as one of my favorites because essentially the entire film is a dream sequence. Every scene and every detail is dreamlike because it is in essence what the film is. I'm always confused as to why this movie gets such terrible reviews because it is absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking and each subtlety contributes to its devastating and ethereal experience. As for television series: my #1 will always be Ruth's dream sequence when she shoots each of her ex's. For me, nothing beats it: it's surreal, emotional, poignant, meaningful and absolutely hilarious. I have yet to find a series that can top Six Feet Under

[@ClearCritique]

I wouldn't have thought about Audition for best dream scenes, but you're completely right. It's so surreal and disturbing.

[@zachmontminy]

The dream sequence in Scott Pilgrim vs The World is pretty great and well directed, albeit short. And helped in no small part by a remix of the Fairy Fountain theme from Zelda :)

[@movie-mandan]

To me, it is Akira's "Kagemusha," hands down

[@levity2022]

Best dream scene in movie would have to be in Peggy Sue Got married when she gets knocked unconscious at reunion and "goes back in time". This also has to be one of the two best time travel movies with Back To The Future.

[@nfal445]

Was Terminator 2 talked about. That Sarah Conner dream is crazy.

[@carl_anderson9315]

Persona. The whole movie is one of the best psychological movies of all time and almost a dream sequence on its own. 8 1/2 The levitating scene. Rosemary’s Baby: the sex/rape scene

[@tecknolust4250]

My fav dream scene is in Charlie chaplins gold rush

[@YevOnegin]

Exorcist 3 and Sopranos lithium dreams are the only ones that felt like "real" dreams. Most of the time, they're overly symbolic and plot-specific, to such a degree that I wonder if the writers have ever had an actual dream.

[@IlluminatiLand]

The Dream Seq. in Ed Woods film "Glen Or Glenda" ~ One of the most surreal filmed seq's ever made...

[@amitabhmishra116]

Please anyone, list down the movie she has mentioned in the video because I don't want spoiler so I'm not watching this video. But still, I wanna know the name of the movies so that i can catch up with them.

[@bryangarcia5599]

_Ōdishon (Audition)_ (1999) _Otto e mezzo (8½)_ (1963) _Belle de Jour_ (1967) _25ᵗʰ Hour_ (2002) 'The Test Dream' ( _The Sopranos_ S05E11) (2004) _Vertigo_ (1958)

[@hawkwhirlwind]

The end of Brazil is of course a tragically amazing dream sequence.

[@christopherpaul7588]

Your description of the end of the 25th Hour reminds me of the end of Brazil, a movie which is considered to be the protagonist's dream. I just love how, at the end, it seems he's going off into the sunset to live happily ever after with the girl and then it cuts to him awaiting his punishment. Crazy ending! Now I have to see the 25th Hour again! By the way, I can't believe you consider it Spike's best film. I tend to prefer directors' first moves and She's Gotta Have it for me is absolutely brilliant.

[@BubblegumCrash332]

My favorite dream sequence was Game of Thrones seasons 5 thru 8.............. Oh wait 😔😔

[@dannyvasquez4966]

May be having insomnia right now,somehow Maggie channel just makes sense to watch right now✨🌙✨

[@danfors1333]

Oscar for best dream scene goes to... Dumb & Dumber. And an Emmy to Dallas for having an entire season being a dream so that Patrick Duffy could be brought back from death.

[@versetripn6631]

Dream/Daydream: Paraplegic Tom Cruise rising from his VA wheelchair and running, 'Born on the 4th of July'. Nightmare: Father Karras' mother and the subway, 'The Exorcist'. Just learned... That actor won a Drama Pulitzer and Tony for Best Play, (That Championship Season), along with an Oscar nod for 'The Exorcist'. All in the same year I was born, Bruce Lee died and P. Floyd delivered 'Dark Side of the Moon'. 😎😎😎 There IS no "Darkside" of the 'spoon' really. As a matter of fact it's ALL "Dark".

[@RobAGabor]

I don't quite know if you were saying Vera Miles played Carlotta Valdez. According to IMDB, Carlotta was played by Joanne Genthon.

[@theurbanloner8879]

I think I'm having a dream sequence right now . Coldest piece .

[@anthonymusto3537]

"Brazil" classic hero&heroine!and yes I'm an old white guy!

[@Wildcock23]

I was waiting for someone to mention “Brazil”! 😉

[@dmaniz888]

"I had another Monica Bellucci dream."

[@toddhill7483]

The film Excision. The main character Pauline (AnnaLynne McCord) had vivid and memorably graphic dreams, spaced out through several scenes.Her overbearing mother was played by Traci Lords and the family priest John Waters. A must watch.

[@deckofcards87]

I think the dreams scenes in *Vertigo* and *The Conversation* are the two that stick out in my mind. Especially Coppola's film, that felt very "relatable" to me, weirdly enough...It captured anxiety and paranoia so well. James Stewart's dream, on the other hand, is more like a montage of insanity, and an elaborate way to figure out the twist. Both dreams are formed by obsession.

[@damianstarks3338]

Great video on dream sequences in movies

[@SanVanSkater]

I've always found the dream sequence in The Conversation to be really effective; Harry Caul expressing his guilt and trying to open up to the woman he may have doomed, as she stares at him; both characters walking parallel to each other with a hill dividing them and an eerie fog backed by that tense soundtrack. Then later on in the film, it becomes nightmarish.

[@leekindler7505]

The dream sequence in Maniac Cop 3 is pretty awesome.

[@RodericSpode]

Spellbound isn't one of Hitchcock's best movies but it has a great dream sequence designed by Salvador Dali. My favorite dream sequence though is in the excellent Akira Kurosawa film Kagemusha.

[@christopherhaines1813]

The Big Lebowski

[@moog67]

Rosemary's Baby. Hands down.

[@Fluffydingo]

Raising Arizona dream sequence at the end. Maybe it was Utah.

[@stereokid]

The Mutant Nazi Massacre dream from An American Werewolf in London.

[@Abuu1732]

I'm not entirely certain of the encounter you mentioned for Belle de Jour, but if you're referring to the scene with the Duke, I also found that sequence quite perplexing. Although I'd have to place it in parallel to the scene right before it where Severine's concluding remark with the housecleaner speaks to how incomprehensible our subjective pleasures are to outsiders. Prior to the Duke, her interaction with the Asian man seemed brutish from the perspective of the housemaid, but contrary to her reaction, it seemed she actually thoroughly enjoyed it. In the case of the Duke, his pleasures are extremely strange, to say the least, and regarded almost as a universal taboo. Severine, at one point, breaks character in her act for the Duke and just stares at him doing whatever he is doing in astonishment. The same curiosity and assertion the housemaid had of Severine when she entered the room is present with Severine as she witnesses the Duke. Tbh thou I also just thought it was Buñuel's way of showing how her fantasy and reality are beginning to slowly intersect and merge with one another. Where it was initially explored in a confined space, it now takes on life in public, but I also feel I'd need to see more of his works to become familiar with how he explores dreams, as you'd mentioned. Lastly also felt like the biggest question of the film was what was in the Asian man's box.

[@gregorytyson995]

The short film "An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge."

[@Starkardur]

Luis Bunuel said that he himself couldn't really explain the ending of Belle Du Jour. Also to keep in mind that he was hired as the director for that movie and therefore was only partly his vision.

[@sandorx4]

He rarely had any vision, anyway.

[@joeodonnell921]

Some great dream sequence's in film but id have to give it to TV for my favorite ones from twin peaks & sopranos.

[@ColonelFredPuntridge]

If you're gonna cite a dream-sequence from Hitchcock, wouldn't it have to be the one in _Spellbound_ which Dali worked on? Followed by the flashback in _Frenzy_ where Rusk recalls strangling "Babs" and realizes that her dead hand is gripping his initialed tie-clip.

[@thunderstruck5484]

John Carpenter’s “Prince of Darkness “ when one of those Simon and Simon brothers turns over after waking up in bed and that scary face blonde is staring at him! Then he really wakes up

[@Wulfpack1]

Luv the shirt Maggie!

[@driiifter]

Last time I said Fear and Loathing, but I forgot about the Science of Sleep. that was the only movie that reminded me of how i felt when i was a kid and couldn't tell the difference between my dreams and reality.

[@dollface9448]

Everything in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 4 Finale "Restless"

[@alexanderg1297]

The first time I watched Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, I completely forgot that Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth was in the middle of a daydream. It also didn’t help that I had edibles at the start of the movie.

[@michaelmacias8]

i recently made a short film that has a dream sequence. In the script the boy who has the dream is shown going to sleep. but when we were shooting didnt have time to film that. so in the editing I was force to just cut straight to the dream.

[@kylewilliams9352]

Requiem For a Dream. I guess they’re technically hallucination sequences, but still. That movie still disturbs me to this day

[@KurdtKoebane1]

Hi Maggie! Do you think that 2nd half of "The Last Temptation of Christ" is a dream? That would've be my favourite dream movie scene.

[@MattsMovieReviews]

I love the dream sequences in The Exorcist and The Exorcist III.

[@vdochev]

Easy. Any dream scene from a David Lynch movie. ❤

[@JesseGoldsmith]

Bunuel. The mother-meat scene from Los Oldvidados. Sheer perfection.

[@ryanrudolph5667]

I’ve always wanted more review of Italian cinema from you, but especially Antonioni and Fellini. What would you call your favourite Fellini film? I know it’s a silly question but I would very much like to know. Also an excellent video and amazing comments with an unsurprising number of my favourite films mentioned.

[@jjvladimir6070]

Off the top of my head, mine would be the dream sequence from The Nice Guys (2016)

[@Silly81]

As far as TV dream sequences are concerned, one of my favorite episodes of MASH was the episode were everyone was dreaming/having nightmares, I don’t remember the name of the episode but it was haunting when I first saw it and I never forgot about it. And movies, this is probably a cliche but A Nightmare on Elm Street, pick one, my favorite is Nancy’s dream at school. The back to back dream sequence from An American Werewolf in London is classic. The funniest for me is a tie between Office Space and Happy Gilmore.

[@ColonelFredPuntridge]

Also, the end of _Day of the Dead_ (Romero, 1985) reveals that the whole movie has been a dream-sequence, doesn't it?

[@AnthonyGuerrino_aka_TonyMoro]

Aliens has the best one. Beginning of the film we all believe Ripley had one of the aliens inside her and it just pops out of her belly.

[@sammiller4392]

Surely Living In Oblivion! If not that then Funhouse in season 2 of The Sopranos

[@mordreddelavirac]

That dream scene in Brazil when he becomes Icarus

[@FrankieTeardrop1998]

The second and third acts of The Wizard of Oz.

[@positivetakes5592]

Shout out to the dream sequence in El Mariachi which I believe was later referenced in Breaking Bad