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[[Maester Aemon]] tells [[Samwell Tarly]]:
 
[[Maester Aemon]] tells [[Samwell Tarly]]:
 
{{Quote|I see them in my dreams, Sam.  I see a [[Red Comet|red star]] bleeding in the sky.  I still remember red.  I see their shadows on the snow, hear the crack of leathern wings, feel their hot breath.  My brothers dreamed of [[dragons]] too, and their dreams killed them, every one. {{Ref|aFfC|26}}}}
 
{{Quote|I see them in my dreams, Sam.  I see a [[Red Comet|red star]] bleeding in the sky.  I still remember red.  I see their shadows on the snow, hear the crack of leathern wings, feel their hot breath.  My brothers dreamed of [[dragons]] too, and their dreams killed them, every one. {{Ref|aFfC|26}}}}
As he weakens he spends more time sleeping. Sometimes he would call for Sam, insisting that he had to tell him something, but oft as not he would forget what he meant to say by the time Sam arrived. Even when he did recall his talk was all a jumble.  He spoke of dreams and never named the dreamer, of a [[glass candle]] that could not be lit and eggs that would not hatch.  He said the [[sphinx]] was the riddle, not the riddler. He asked Sam to read for him from a book by Septon [[Barth]], whose writings had been burned during the reign of [[Baelor the Blessed]].  Once he woke up weeping, wailing:
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As he weakens he spends more time sleeping. Sometimes he would call for Sam, insisting that he had to tell him something, but oft as not he would forget what he meant to say by the time Sam arrived. Even when he did recall his talk was all a jumble.  He spoke of dreams and never named the dreamer, of a [[glass candle]] that could not be lit and eggs that would not hatch.  He said the [[sphinx]] was the [[Alleras|riddle]], not the riddler. He asked Sam to read for him from a book by Septon [[Barth]], whose writings had been burned during the reign of [[Baelor the Blessed]].  Once he woke up weeping, wailing:
 
{{Quote|the dragon must have three heads…but I am too old to be one of them.  I should be with her, showing her the way, but my body has betrayed me. {{Ref|aFfC|35}}}}
 
{{Quote|the dragon must have three heads…but I am too old to be one of them.  I should be with her, showing her the way, but my body has betrayed me. {{Ref|aFfC|35}}}}
 
He mentions the prophecy and his brother’s dream to Sam - but does not mention what prophecy or which brother to Sam, or what the dream entailed. {{Ref|aFfC|35}}
 
He mentions the prophecy and his brother’s dream to Sam - but does not mention what prophecy or which brother to Sam, or what the dream entailed. {{Ref|aFfC|35}}

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Dragon dreams affect those with the blood of the dragon, who are known to have premonition-like dream ability - they are no ordinary dreams. They often involve dragons but not always.

The Targaryens had these dreams as well as the Blackfyres.

Daenerys Targaryen

Daenerys has dragon dreams proceeding to the birth of her three dragons. She dreams of a dragon prior to her wedding day:

Viserys was hitting her, hurting her. She was naked, clumsy with fear. She ran from him, but her body seemed thick and ungainly. He struck her again. She stumbled and fell. He struck her again. She stumbled and fell. “You woke the dragon,” he screamed as he kicked her. “You woke the dragon, you woke the dragon.” Her thighs were slick with blood. She closed her eyes and whimpered. As if in answer, there was a hideous ripping sound and the crackling of some great fire. When she looked again Viserys was gone, great columns of flame rose all around, and in the midst of them was the dragon. It turned its great head slowly. When its molten eyes found hers, she woke, shaking and covered with a fine sweat.

Newly wedded, when she is despairing in the Dothraki Sea, and feeling that she cannot go on, she dreams of a black dragon again.

There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma, and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her. She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce.

Later as Queen of Meereen she is vexed by nightmares, her dreams have changed:

Beneath her coverlets she tossed and turned, dreaming that Hizdahr was kissing her … but his lips were blue and bruised, and when he thrust himself inside her, his manhood was cold as ice.[1]

Maester Aemon

Maester Aemon tells Samwell Tarly:

I see them in my dreams, Sam. I see a red star bleeding in the sky. I still remember red. I see their shadows on the snow, hear the crack of leathern wings, feel their hot breath. My brothers dreamed of dragons too, and their dreams killed them, every one. [2]

As he weakens he spends more time sleeping. Sometimes he would call for Sam, insisting that he had to tell him something, but oft as not he would forget what he meant to say by the time Sam arrived. Even when he did recall his talk was all a jumble. He spoke of dreams and never named the dreamer, of a glass candle that could not be lit and eggs that would not hatch. He said the sphinx was the riddle, not the riddler. He asked Sam to read for him from a book by Septon Barth, whose writings had been burned during the reign of Baelor the Blessed. Once he woke up weeping, wailing:

the dragon must have three heads…but I am too old to be one of them. I should be with her, showing her the way, but my body has betrayed me. [3]

He mentions the prophecy and his brother’s dream to Sam - but does not mention what prophecy or which brother to Sam, or what the dream entailed. [3]

Daeron Targaryen

Daeron Targaryen once told Dunk about a dream he had. A great red dragon would fall on Ser Duncan, dead, but the knight would walk off alive. He said he did not know what it meant, but that his dreams came true and that he was scared of Dunk.[4]

Daemon II Blackfyre

Daemon II Blackfyre, in the guise of 'John the Fiddler', talks to Dunk saying that he recognized him on the road.

Dunk had appeared to him in a dream in which Duncan wore the all-white armor of the Kingsguard. The Fiddler says his dreams always come true, as he dreamt his brothers dead once and also a dragon hatching from an egg at Whitewalls.[5]

References and Notes

  1. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 43, Daenerys VII.
  2. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 26, Samwell III.
  3. 3.0 3.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 35, Samwell IV.
  4. The Hedge Knight, Legends, ISBN 0-312-86787-5, pages 461 and 513 of 457-533.
  5. The Mystery Knight, Warriors 1, ISBN 978-0-7653-6026-7, page 306 of 251-394.