Bad Dreams/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character has dreams about things he's suffered.
 * Straight: Hortsenia wakes up screaming, having dreamed of her family's massacre.
 * Exaggerated: Hortsenia suffers from chronic insomnia, trying to avoid the dreams.
 * Downplayed: Hortsenia occasionally wakes with the memory of the dream lingering.
 * Justified: Truth in Television.
 * Inverted: ???
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 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: Esmeralda reminds Hortensia of the massacre before she sleeps, so she will not sleep well and so not be good at the compeition the next day.
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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