I've heard "once upon a time" a lot, but not "once upon a dream". What does that mean?

Native speaker’s answer
Rebecca
"Once upon a dream" is not as common as "once upon a time," but it means that something happened in a dream or a fantasy. So It didn't actually happen, but she dreamed it did! Ex: I met Selena Gomez once upon a dream. Ex: I don't think I actually went to Europe. It was just once upon a dream.