 The song was covered on the "Glee" episode "Dream On" by Shelby Corcoran and Rachel Berry, portrayed by Idina Menzel and Lea Michele respectively.This song took the place of a meeting between Shelby and Rachel, who found out during that episode that Shelby was her birth mother.At the end of that episode, Rachel met Shelby for the first time in real life (the sequence where Shelby and Rachel sang "I Dreamed a Dream" was, in fact, something akin to a dream sequence).