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* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVII'': There is a location called Dreamland. It is basically a cloudy area consisting of a broken clock, giant skull, cactus, and a column. A sea and island are nearby. Dreamland can only be accessed by using dream silk while falling asleep.

* The magic system in ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' is based around tapping into the world of Dream Land, which in this case is a "Force"-like alternate world that permeates everything and everyone.

** The ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' setting has Dal Quor, filled with nightmarish [[PsychicPowers psionic]] creatures called quori. Peoples' minds go there when they dream, and the [[PathOfInspiration Dreaming Dark]] are quori that learned to do this in reverse. The kalashtar are the descendants of humans who merged with [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch rebel quori]] long ago to escape the Dreaming Dark. It used to be possible to get there physically, but an ancient race of giants managed to force the dimensions apart with magic. In the aftermath, they descended into savagery.
** The Wall of Color between [[TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} Deep and Border Ethereal]] is also the Veil of Sleep. Walking ''into'' the thing that resembles an infinite soap bubble wall instead of ''through'' it is the only way to visit bodily a dreamscape of whatever world's border is beyond this part of curtain. Not that it's easy, of course.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' has ''The Nightmare Lands'', where reality is mixed with dream stuff so that even the terrain is malleable and masters of nightmares keep little dreamscape cells for the victims they drive nuts with private nightly horror shows.
* The Marches of ''TabletopGame/InNomine'' are created by the dreams of humans and animals. Angels of Dreams and Demons of Nightmares periodically watch over the sleepers, and the native ethereal spirits are actually dream elements or imaginary figures come to life. [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve The more belief or worship these spirits gather, the more powerful they can become,]] and some of them actually reached the status of pagan gods back in the day.

** In ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'', all dreams are connected and there are a few specially-gifted individuals (called ''yumemi'', or [[DreamWeaver "dreamseers"]]) who can travel among them and use the Dreamscape to view the future. It's here, in example, that [[spoiler: Kakyou Kuzuki meets his beloved Hokuto Sumeragi, and years later strikes an IntergenerationalFriendship with his fellow ''yumemi'' Kotori.]]

** In ''LightNovel/{{Yumegari}}'', the ''yumegari'' and ''yumemori'' work together to keep order in people's dreams.

* In The ''Game of Thrones'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ABalladOfTheDragonAndSheWolf'' Arya can use her warging ability to enter the Dream Lands. The [[AlienSky strange sky]] filled with [[AirWhale flying sea creatures]] and [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld strang flying machines]] and animals can talk. Many of the scenes are similar to medieval manuscript art with rabbit bandits, snail jousts, and such.
* In ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel'', the [=dreamland=] is devoured like in the source material ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'', but since its still getting digested, the mages of the Special Services, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial which doesn't exist]], certainly didn't perform a special ritual to summon Moloch using special properties of the [=dreamlands=], and most certainly were not killed in process.
* After dying and ending up [[DeadPersonConversation in Taylor's head]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10286919/1/Recoil Recoil,]]'' Lisa is able to create entire landscapes for Taylor to visit while dreaming, or in self-hypnotic trances.
* In ''Fanfic/WhenTheColdWindIsACallin'', as a magi [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Merida]] can enter the Dreamlands, with help from [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians North and the Sandman]].

* In ''Dreambuilders'' dreams are soundstages floating in the air, connected by tracks, with the leftover props from a finished dream getting dumped to the ground.

* The Dreaming in DC's ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]''.

** As it turns out, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', [[spoiler:The Zanarkand that main character Tidus is from is merely a simulated, thought-manifested recreation of a long gone civilisation, otherwise known as "the dream of the fayth". As such, when the fayth awaken, it disappears.]]

** As it turns out, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', [[spoiler:The Zanarkand that main character Tidus is from is merely a simulated, thought-manifested recreation of a real-world version of the same place, otherwise known as "the dream of the fayth". As such, when the fayth awaken, it disappears.]]

** As it turns out, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', [[spoiler:The Zanarkand that main character Tidus is from is merely a simulated, thought-manifested version of a real-world version of the same place, otherwise known as "the dream of the fayth". As such, when the fayth awaken, it disappears.]]

** As it turns out, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', [[spoiler:Zanarkand is merely the "dream of the fayth" - when they awaken, it disappears.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1655 where the cat and dog meet while dreaming.]]
* ''Webcomic/WoodenRose''. [[http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/chapter4/91.html Which doesn't mean it's not real.]]

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** A famous case of ExecutiveMeddling- they thought that audiences would reject an actual fantasy land as being too unrealistic.

* ''VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator''.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSimpsons'' arcade game, the family ended up inside Homer's dream, and had to fight a giant bowling ball. Bafflingly, this was the entire premise of another Simpsons' game, ''Bart's Nightmare''.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E10DreamALittleDreamOfMe Dream a Little Dream of Me]]" features African Dream Root, which allows the villain of the week to drink it to enter another person's dream and even kill them if he so desires/ Sam and Dean pursue the villain in Bobby's dream, where they learn of Bobby's tragic past. Later, Sam enters Dean's dream where he defeats the villain of the week while Dean confronts his EvilTwin.

* John Henry Booth has a number of journeys here in the ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' series. It is depicted as a place that now has become intristically interwoven with the Earth after the Great Old Ones rise. As such physics are more like suggestions and the world is impossibly weird. It still exists as a separate dimension, though.

** ''Comicbook/{{Multiversity}}'' seperates the Dreaming into "Dream" and "Nightmare" to fit with the other paired realms in the Sphere of the Gods ({{Heaven}} and {{Hell}}; [[HomeOfTheGods Skyland]] and [[TheUnderworld Underworld]]; and [[Comicbook/NewGods New Genesis and Apokalips]]). Unlike those realms, however, they're not said to be opposed to each other, just different aspects of the same force. Also, since Morrison needs to tie ''everything'' into this cosmology, the LandOfFaerie and the realms of the other Endless are said to be part of Dream, while the Land of Comicbook/{{Nightshade}}s is part of Nightmare. The Area, surprisingly, doesn't get mentioned, but is probably part of Nightmare as well.

* The Dreaming in DC's ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]''. This place ''has'' a huge red-light district, but most stories don't go there. There are also individual characters who are {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of particular kinds of nightmares (the Corinthian, Brute, Glob), or wet dreams (Quivering Mary) or even lovely [[HappyPlace dream places]] (Fiddler's Green). The ''Area'' in Peter Milligan's ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan, another Vertigo title, was originally called 'The Area of Madness', but as more entities started coming out of it, the definition was expanded to the land of dreams, the land of the dead, the place where all human consciousness gravitates.

* ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'': This trope is a primary premise of the work, in which the titular character uses a [[AppliedPhlebotinum portable device]] that allows her to enter the dreams of others, where she serves as a kind of intimate counselor and [[Spirit advisor guide]] as they explore the person's subconscious together to confront sources of emotional turmoil. Initially everyone's dream world is separate, until [[spoiler:the technology falls into the wrong hands and a nefarious RealityWarper begins to merge all of the dreams together until they then invade the real world--though the question of how this is done is largely [[HandWave hand waved]] to allow the MagicRealism finale to run wild]].

A MagicalLand or AnotherDimension made up of dreams. Can be [[SharedDream a collective dream]], or the dream of a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind specific person]]. Generally surreal, nonsensical, and psychologically symbolic. Alternatively, just [[SugarBowl adorable]] randomness. Usually divided into two halves or factions — [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind nightmares]] and [[HappyPlace good dreams]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode "Boogey-Mania" has Sonic and Tails traveling to Dreamsville thanks to an invention of their scientist ally, Professor Von Schlemmer.