The British rock group Keane based their song "A Bad Dream" (featured on the album Under the Iron Sea) on it, and a recording of the poem, read by Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy, is played before the song at live venues, explaining their reasons for the lyrics.
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Bad Kreuznach (district) | Bad Nauheim | Bad Company | Bad Religion | Dream Theater | I Dream of Jeannie | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Tangerine Dream | ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Marienberg | Bad Marienberg (Verbandsgemeinde) | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Bad Frankenhausen | Bad Brains | Bad Oeynhausen | Bad Langensalza | Breaking Bad | Bad Kissingen | Bad Segeberg | Bad Manners | Bad Hersfeld | Dream a Little Dream of Me (song) | Dream a Little Dream of Me | Dream | Bad Tölz | A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) | Bad Sulza | Bad Lauchstädt | Bad Kreuznach | Bad Gastein |
Shortly after this record was released, guitarist Dominic Scott left the band, and was Keane's last release with a guitar as part of their instrumentation until the 2007 cover b-side "She Sells Sanctuary".
"The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem" episode of The Big Bang Theory ends with Leonard having a bad dream of Sheldon procreating by splitting in two after consuming too much pad Thai.