Dreaming of Times Gone By/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character sees, in dreams, past events he was not present at.
 * Straight: Edwige sees a tomb and dreams that night of the murder of the young man buried there. She investigates and finds out that he was actually murdered, which she had not known, and finds an object he carried.
 * Exaggerated: Edwige is getting the History of the World in animated color every night.
 * Downplayed: ???
 * Justified: ???
 * Inverted: ???
 * Subverted: Edwige dreams of the murder, and finds out that the details of her dream were definitely wrong.
 * Double Subverted: Except that the historical record was tampered with.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: ???
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: Edwige seeks out locations with historical mysteries and sleeps there, to rouse such dreams.
 * Defied: Edwige takes drugs that make her sleep too deeply to dream.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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