Oh yes, certainly.
I’ve had a few, but the longest running group of sequel-dreams I’ve had follows a single dream character, who is vaguely related to the character of Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks.
The first dream had a plot of a killer who infiltrated dreams and murdered them, and traveled from person to person via a cursed video tape (essentially a combination of Nightmare on Elm Street and The Ring). The local police were attempting to solve the murders, with FBI Agent Dale Cooper running his own investigation, and two Croatian spies using the false names of “Hans” and “Stevie” on their own investigation as well, seeking to claim the dream-infiltration powers of the villain for the glory of Croatia. This dream was notably the first time I even THOUGHT about the nation of Croatia, so I have no idea where that aspect of the dream came from.
The dream resolved with Cooper engaging the demon-dream-murderer in mental combat, eventually defeating the enemy and locking him into a “mind-prison”, intending to interrogate the demon to learn its powers. The two Croatian Spies confronted Cooper, only for Cooper to then reveal that he had ALSO been a Croatian spy all along, and was, in fact, the "grandmaster" of the Croatian Spies.
The second dream took place in Milwaukee, where Cooper was now undercover in the local “Baha’i Mafia”. Cooper’s interests here were not the Mafia itself, but he was after an undercover policewoman who had also infiltrated the Mafia. She, for whatever reason, had the “ironskin” ability of Chinese Wuxia novels or movies. Cooper and the policewoman had a series of interactions that ended up with Cooper (I think) ultimately victorious. His goals in this dream were unclear, I’m not sure why he was after the policewoman. Once again, though, his explicit allegiance to Croatia of all places was made clear in the dream.
Third dream I only remembered pieces, Cooper was after some sort of arms and high explosives dealer in Southeast Asia, as well as some other persons. He inexplicably had also gained some supernatural powers, he could phase through walls and destroy things by “denying reality”, whatever that means. In part of this dream, he murdered a man and escaped through a wall in this way, denying the murder weapon out of existence to cover his tracks. He also appeared to have the Wuxia-policewoman’s ironskin from the last dream.
Because of this, and the fact that the character seems to have more and more abilities every time I see him, I came up with a metanarrative to explain his actions. He seems to primarily target persons or entities with supernatural abilities, and seems to be trying to learn their secrets. The Croatian Spies of my dreams are, it seems, collecting and hoarding supernatural powers for the glory of the Croatian State.
My theory on trying to explain why the dream character was acting this way seems to have concretely established that this is what he is doing, as in all future dreams trying to hunt down the supernatural for the purposes of adding their abilities to an ever-expanding list of ridiculous superpowers is EXACTLY what Cooper is explicitly doing. It’s like whenever I dream of the Twin Peaks character, my subconscious remembers not only the former dreams, but my interpretations of the motives of the character, and then projects it back into the dream itself, ensuring that every time I dream of Dale Cooper he is inexplicably Croatian.
In the Fourth Dream he used a phone call to summon another person, who he recruited on his current mission. In addition to phone-aportation, he now had shape-shifting abilities as well. This mission involved tracking down a spirit who could possess multiple persons, and was hiding in a group of children. At some point in time he also made a phone call to David Bowie, or a version of David Bowie with a rotting face and exposed skull (I think the dream merged the skull-mask he wore in Labyrinth with his regular face to create a horrifying apparition).
The Fifth Dream (months apart from the last) seemed to follow even more closely to the Fourth, and featured Cooper trying to track down David Bowie, who was on the fourteenth-floor of a hotel and had some strange sort of time/space warping abilities. The dream featured a time travel plot that actually managed to maintain flow and continuity… but perhaps I’d need a bigger post to describe what I mean by that.
Given that there are five of these dreams that followed the same plot I am, of course, leaving out quite a bit of detail and general dream weirdness to all of this, as well as a few other dreams I think are “canon” with these ones, though not following the same character.
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