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It's also a popular trope for music videos.

However, if done badly, expect some audience members to be seriously annoyed. An especially useful device in horror movies, where it can be used to subject the characters (and audience) to all manner of fit-inducing terrors without really affecting the narrative. Normally, this really grates on the audience, but if done properly it can be humorous and, for an individual episode, it can undo damage done if during that episode there was a Writer on Board. If other characters start acting out of character or otherwise just don't seem to be quite themselves during the dream sequence, expect lots of finger-pointing and exclamations of " And You Were There!" when the dreaming character awakens. Often, when the dreamer awakens, the really epic events (death of a major character, etc.) from the "dream season" will be reversed.

Sometimes the dream lasts longer than one episode-entire seasons have been known to turn out to be dreams. This usually will leave protagonist and audience wondering " Or Was It a Dream?", however it may also be an opening gambit in a Dream Within a Dream sequence. Sometimes, the character awakes after the dream, realises it was all "just a dream" (often actually saying this to himself, which rarely happens in real life), sighs with relief, and then sees an artifact lying next to him that was in the dream. Then the protagonist realizes, just as you do, that this has all been a dream, a really bad hallucination, or some other escape from reality. Around fifty minutes into the program, really weird stuff starts happening, like little people juggling while riding a tricycle around a bewildered protagonist.