In TV or film, which scene/s stand out as the most memorable for any reason?

I would say that the dream nuclear holocaust sequence in Terminator 2 is the most memorable, and shocking.

A similar scene, albeit not a dream, but psychic vision and minus the actual explosion, was in the film The Dead Zone, when the ambitious, slimy US Senator (Martin Sheen) shakes the psychic's hand (Christopher Walken) in the cheering crowd, and is seen as the insane future President, forcing his Generals to activate their hand signatures over the nuclear launch facility.

Of course, the dream/death imagery of Maximus' hand over the barley fields in Gladiator was brilliant.

Which other unforgettable dream sequences are there?

An American Werewolf in London
A while since I've seen this one but the scene where he is in bed and attackers burst in through the windows. He wakes up, or thinks he does, but it happens again and he is still dreaming, or is he ????

An American Werewolf in London
A while since I've seen this one but the scene where he is in bed and attackers burst in through the windows. He wakes up, or thinks he does, but it happens again and he is still dreaming, or is he ????


Terrifying .... A great film that influenced nearly all werewolf films since.

I've always liked the dream sequence in Hitchcock's Spellbound, which was designed by Salvador Dalí.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzxlbgPkxHE

In Dumbo when he gets drunk!!! That is some crazy stuff!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nwNPaYoTY8

In Dumbo when he gets drunk!!! That is some crazy stuff!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nwNPaYoTY8

Looks like he was on something other than alcohol - thanks to Dumbo I was totally let down the first time I ever got drunk and didn't see any pink elephants! :hihi:

Thank you for putting up the link though; I was probably about 7 the last time I saw that!

I'd say 12 Monkeys, but I'm not sure if they would count as a dream sequence or not, given what is revealed at the end.

The dream of flying from The Sea Inside

The Ghost & The Darkness...

When the lion attacks his wife and child.

Newhart (American sitcom from the 80's)

Looks like he was on something other than alcohol - thanks to Dumbo I was totally let down the first time I ever got drunk and didn't see any pink elephants! :hihi:

Thank you for putting up the link though; I was probably about 7 the last time I saw that!

I think its mushroom season now, so if you want to see pink elephants, go out and get picking! :D

I think its mushroom season now, so if you want to see pink elephants, go out and get picking! :D

Oh not to worry, I found exactly what I needed to see my pink elephants long ago. ;)

N.B. I'm not condoning drug use though, of course. :P

Blade Runner


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAJGM8c6Wg4&feature=related

That entire season of Dallas without Patrick Duffy gets another nomination from me. :hihi:

In a similar vein as the Dumbo scene, I always remember the dream scene from Winnie The Pooh from my childhood.

Heffalumps and Woozles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlM5VKZCkiw)

Cantagallo...

:lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9GXlsOApFs

urka urka tirulero sun shines today ...

The sequence where Beavis and Butthead hallucinate in the desert, as made by Rob Zombie. If the audio is played backwards, there's a clip of Beavis saying 'I suggest everybody goes to college and studies hard'. Haha!

top gun....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLuDseMV_84&feature=related

(but it is in italian....)

That entire season of Dallas without Patrick Duffy gets another nomination from me. :hihi:

That was what reminded me of the Newhart series finale - they did a sort of spoof of the Dallas ending. :D

That was what reminded me of the Newhart series finale - they did a sort of spoof of the Dallas ending. :D

Wasn't that the one where the entire run of the sitcom was supposed to be a dream sequence taking place during the previous sitcom it spun off from?? :confused: It's all a bit strange.

Wasn't that the one where the entire run of the sitcom was supposed to be a dream sequence taking place during the previous sitcom it spun off from?? :confused: It's all a bit strange.

Aye, that's the one, although it wasn't a spinoff. It is a bit much to wrap your head around if you don't know both series, but here goes:

Bob Newhart had a sitcom in the 70's called "The Bob Newhart Show" where he played a psychologist named Bob, married to Emily, played by Suzanne Pleshette. Episodes of "The Bob Newhart Show" contained scenes where Bob and Emily would talk while lying in bed.

"Newhart" was a different series that aired in the 80's, where Bob Newhart played Dick, who owned a B&B in Vermont with his wife, Joanna (played by Mary Frann.)

The last scene in the series finale of "Newhart" shows Bob Newhart waking up in bed in a dark room, and telling his wife (who you can't really see) about the crazy dream he just had. She turns over and leans in, and it's Suzanne Pleshette. So, the whole "Newhart" series was a dream Dick from "The Bob Newhart Show" had.

I thought it was absolutely brilliant.

More people should do that, but with completely unrelated series.

Have the very last scene in Lost showing Chandler waking up next to Monica in New York going "You will not believe the dream I've just had."

:hihi:

That entire season of Dallas without Patrick Duffy gets another nomination from me. :hihi:

That's got to be included. Also the version in "Family Guy" where the Y2K computer bug causes a nuclear war, leveling Quahog, only to be revealed at the end to have been Pam Ewing dreaming the whole thing.

Also the terrifying "dream" sequences in "Whistle and I'll Come to You" (a late 60s adaptation of an M.R. James short story starring Micheal Horden). Creepy as hell.

That's got to be included. Also the version in "Family Guy" where the Y2K computer bug causes a nuclear war, leveling Quahog, only to be revealed at the end to have been Pam Ewing dreaming the whole thing.

Also the terrifying "dream" sequences in "Whistle and I'll Come to You" (a late 60s adaptation of an M.R. James short story starring Micheal Horden). Creepy as hell.

One of my favourites. It's here in all it's creepiness, if anyone DARE look.

Double dare you . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGQOEJWp4o