Dream sequence

A dream sequence is a storytelling device frequently used throughout the original series. Commonly, it's purpose is to shed light on the psychical process of the dreaming character or give the audience a glimpse into the character's state of mind, or to act as a prophecy of events that have yet to occur. A storyline known as the dream curse, involved a dream which caused terror in the dreamer until they passed it on to another by recounting it to them. The terror of the dream increased until it reached its final intended victim.
== 1 to 460 ==
 	Character 	Description
224225/226	Maggie Evans 	Her death.
266 	Elizabeth Collins Stoddard	The widows beckon her to jump from Widows' Hill.
320 	David Collins 	Barnabas is a vampire.
325326 	David Collins 	Sarah shows him a faceless woman with a medallion and Barnabas in his coffin.
346 	Victoria Winters 	Herself as a bride, she finds Burke's corpse.
376 	Naomi Collins 	Follows a tarot card card to Jeremiah and his lover.
418 	Josette DuPres Collins 	Angelique tempting her.
441 	Reverend Trask 	Abigail Collins and Maude Browning.
453454 	Victoria Winters 	Nathan strangling Daniel.
== 461 to 700 ==
 	Character 	Description
462 	Victoria Winters 	Jeremiah Collins rising from his grave, who warns her to beware of Barnabas.
465 	Victoria Winters 	Peter Bradford and Nathan Forbes.
477 	Barnabas Collins 	Angelique, who tells him about the dream curse.
478 	Maggie Evans 	Cassandra starts the dream curse, she chooses Maggie to be the first victim to experience it. Maggie then has the dream. She opens a door revealing a skull. The beckoner is Jeff.
482 	Jeff Clark 	He is the second victim to experience the dream curse. He opens two doors revealing a skull and a guillotine. The beckoner is Dr. Lang.
484 	Eric Lang 	He is the third victim to experience the dream curse. He opens three doors revealing a skull, a guillotine, and his headless creation. The beckoner is Julia.
486 	Julia Hoffman 	She is the fourth victim to experience the dream curse. She opens four doors revealing a skull, a guillotine, Dr. Lang's headless creation, and a skeleton bride. The beckoner is Mrs. Johnson.
490 	Julia Hoffman 	She again experiences the dream curse having not yet told her beckoner, Mrs. Johnson, the dream (sequence same as 486).
492 	Sarah Johnson 	She is the fifth victim to experience the dream curse. She opens four doors revealing a skull, a guillotine, a skeleton bride, and bats. The beckoner is David.
* The dream curse is supposed to go one step further for each person who has the dream, but when Mrs. Johnson has the dream, the headless creation is missing, the guillotine is in its place and the bats are behind the door where the guillotine originally was. There are only ever four doors, and instead of going one step further with each person, some of the items are replaced by different ones.
497 	David Collins 	He is the sixth victim to experience the dream curse. He opens four doors revealing a skull, a skeleton bride, bats, and a giant spider's web. The beckoner is Willie.
502 	Willie Loomis 	He is the seventh victim to experience the dream curse. He opens four doors revealing a skull, a guillotine, a skeleton bride, and a snarling wolf. The beckoner is Carolyn. This time the beckoner wasn't outside the door and appeared to be already in the room.
507 	Carolyn Stoddard 	She begins to experience the dream curse, but is able to wake herself to keep from having it.
507 	Carolyn Stoddard 	Professor Stokes plans to stop the dream curse by making himself the beckoner in her dream. Carolyn then has the dream. She is the eighth victim. She opens four doors revealing a skull, a guillotine, a skeleton bride, and her own grave. Had Stokes not added himself into the sequence, Carolyn's beckoner would have been Sam.
507 	Timothy Eliot Stokes 	He begins to experience the dream curse.
508 	Timothy Eliot Stokes 	He experiences the dream curse (continued from previous episode). He is the ninth victim. He breaks all the rules of the curse and refuses to open any of the doors, which prompts Angelique to appear to him. The beckoner is Sam. The curse is broken, prompting Cassandra to resume it in 517.
517 	Sam Evans 	Cassandra resumes the dream curse. Sam has the dream. He is the tenth victim. He opens four doors revealing a skull, a skeleton bride, a guillotine, and Maggie mourning his death. The beckoner is Victoria.
* In 518, Sam will die before he can tell Victoria the dream.
* In 530, Cassandra raises Sam's ghost and tells him he will not rest until he tells Victoria the dream.
524525	Jeff Clark 	Attempting to kill Nathan Forbes in 1796 as Peter Bradford.
531 	Victoria Winters 	She is the eleventh victim to experience the dream curse. She opens four doors revealing a skull, a guillotine, a skeleton bride, and a blazing light leading to a vision of Barnabas on the floor of the Old House bleeding at the neck. The beckoner is Barnabas.
535 	Barnabas Collins 	He is the twelfth and final victim to experience the dream curse. He opens four doors revealing a skull, a skeleton bride, a guillotine, and a blazing light. When he awakes there is three knocks on the door and a bat attacks him so he reverts to a vampire. The beckoner is Cassandra.
576 	Elizabeth Collins Stoddard	Her death.
587 	Maggie Evans 	Her abduction.
604 	Julia Hoffman 	Barnabas' murder.
617 	Roger Collins 	Victoria's wedding.
* Roger's prophecy that Victoria would die if she married Jeff was later proven to be correct. In 967, Peter Bradford's ghost, Jeff and Peter having been revealed to be one and same, states that Victoria died when Leviathan Jeb Hawkes caused her to leap to her death from Widows' Hill shortly after leaving Collinwood to start a new life with Peter. Their marriage took place previous to that in 637.
655 	Elizabeth Collins Stoddard	Cassandra, who tells her about the curse.
658 	Joe Haskell 	He is menaced by the werewolf and vampire, in the form of his cousins Chris and Tom.
678 	Amy Jennings 	Beth's ghost, who calls out to her and shows her Chris stabbed.
682 	Maggie Evans 	She is strangled by Quentin's ghost.
699 	Maggie Evans 	A passionate encounter with Quentin's ghost.
== 701 to 1060 ==
 	Character 	Description
710 	Quentin Collins 	Taunted by Edith, he then buries her.
722 	Rachel Drummond 	She searches for Jamison.
* Carl holds a giant time piece.
729 	Nora Collins 	Her mother's return.
749 	Quentin Collins 	Taunted by Magda and Sandor about Jenny's death.
767 	Jamison Collins 	Recalls his dream about the Collins family of 1969.
* This is one of only two instances, the other being in 949 where a dream sequence is shown as a flashback, with the person who experienced remembering it as they tell it to another, rather than the sequence being played out as it happens for the individual. Both episodes were written by Violet Welles.
* Events heralding Quentin's death:
*# Discovery of a silver bullet at Collinwood (occurs in this episode).
*# The person who could have helped Quentin is murdered (occurs in 796, Julianka dies).
*# The one person Quentin loves more than anyone rejects him (occurs in 836, Jamison rejects Quentin after Beth planned to commit suicide because of Quentin.)
778 	Carl Collins 	Pansy Faye.
786 	Charity Trask 	A passionate encounter with Quentin, and is then menaced by the werewolf.
805 	Evan Hanley 	Jamison asks him to take him home.
808 	Charity Trask 	Taunted by Quentin and Jamison.
811 	Quentin Collins 	Jenny, who tells him to give Lenore away.
852853 	Kitty Soames 	Herself as Josette.
872 	Pansy Faye 	A romantic encounter with Quentin, Count Petofi appears.
877 	Count Andreas Petofi 	The time he first met Aristede.
890 	Barnabas Collins 	Oberon tells him of the chosen ones.
891 	Megan Todd 	Barnabas discusses the Leviathan box with her. (Philip also has the same dream, this is not shown).
904 	Elizabeth Collins Stoddard	A bizarre Leviathan dream in which David goads her.
905 	Megan Todd 	Barnabas gives further instructions about the Leviathan child.
915 	Barnabas Collins 	Adlar taunts him.
916 	Julia Hoffman 	A bizarre Leviathan dream in which Barnabas taunts her.
945 	Carolyn Stoddard 	Jeb Hawkes.
949 	Amy Jennings 	Recalls a dream she had about Quentin's ghost. 
** This is one of only two instances, the other being in 767 where a dream sequence is shown as a flashback, with the person who experienced remembering it as they tell it to another, rather than the sequence being played out as it happens for the individual. Both episodes were written by Violet Welles.
950 	Carolyn Stoddard 	Jeb, same dream as 945 except this time she also finds a dead body.
953 	Carolyn Stoddard 	Jeb, same dream as 945 and 950 except this time she also finds Paul's grave.
966 	Carolyn Stoddard 	Her wedding to Jeb.
979 	Carolyn Stoddard 	Sky pushes Jeb off of Widows' Hill.
980 	Carolyn Stoddard 	Jeb tells her that he loves her and they will meet again.
989 	Sabrina Stuart (PT) 	Her attacker.
991 	Daniel Collins (1970 PT) 	His mother, she taunts him.
10041005	Quentin Collins (1970 PT) 	Dameon Edwards shows him that he will die by hanging.
10211022	Maggie Collins 	Angelique's murder at the hands of Quentin.
1023 	Maggie Collins 	The existence of a hidden letter in Angelique's room.
1033 	Elizabeth Stoddard (PT) 	She and Sabrina find Maggie's dead body in Cyrus' laboratory.
10511052	Maggie Collins 	Quentin accuses her of having an affair, he then strangles her.
1060 	Roxanne Drew (PT) 	She and Barnabas are separated by fire.
== 1061 to 1245 ==
 	Character 	Description
1072 	David Collins 	Hallie is wearing a strange old-fashioned dress and acting bashful.
1074 	Hallie Stokes 	David is wearing strange old-fashioned dress and accompanied by Daphne.
10761077	Quentin Collins	Daphne's ghost.
1082 	David Collins 	A birthday party at Rose Cottage.
1086 	David Collins 	Tad Collins and Carrie Stokes deaths.
1096 	David Collins 	Crying dolls.
11221123	Desmond Collins	Judah Zachery imploring to help him.
1138 	Gerard Stiles 	Judah implores him to find the mask.
1140 	Gerard Stiles 	His own head is swapped with that of Judah's.
1141 	Gerard Stiles 	Charles Dawson arrives with the head of Judah Zachery to give to him.
1145 	Lamar Trask 	Gerard causes Lamar to dream that Quentin is a practicing witchcraft.
1146 	Daphne Harridge	A passionate encounter with Gerard.
* This subplot in which Gerard forces Daphne to love him through dreams continues in 1151, 1158, 1162, 1164, 1166, 1173, 1182, 1183 and 1194; and conclude with their marriage in 1195.
1151 	Daphne Harridge	A romantic encounter with Gerard.
1158 	Daphne Harridge	Quentin in jail taunted by Mildred, and of a passionate encounter with Gerard.
1162 	Daphne Harridge	Her marriage to Gerard.
1164 	Daphne Harridge	Her marriage to Gerard.
1166 	Daphne Harridge	Happiness with Gerard and finds a wedding gown in a bridal chamber.
1173 	Daphne Harridge	A passionate encounter with Gerard.
1177 	Julia Hoffman 	Roxanne Drew, who begins to lead her to Barnabas.
1182 	Daphne Harridge	A romantic encounter with Gerard.
1183 	Daphne Harridge	Quentin and Joanna are back in love.
1194 	Daphne Harridge	A romantic encounter with Gerard.
1210 	Melanie Collins	Her death, in which she died from the plague.
== See also ==
* Dream Curse