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* Navarone learns how to do this from Luna in ''Fanfic/DiariesOfAMadman'', and becomes quite talented at it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''/''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' crossover fic ''Fanfic/HushNowLittleOne'', Bruno visits Tae-young's mind during a nightmare.

* Luna enlists Scootaloo's help for this in ''Fanfic/{{Moonlight|JasonTheHuman}}'' to combat the nightmares induced by their mysterious opponent. Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom later join her to help.

* ''Fanfic/PastSins'': ''Glimpses 2'': "Dreams": Involves Twilight travelling into Nyx's dreams.

--> She wondered why Luna never visited her in those nightmares... or even if she could.
* ''FanFic/TantabusMarkII'': Combined with DreamWeaver; as in canon, Luna travels the dreams of her subjects to help them with their nightmares. The fic starts because Luna decided she needed some backup and repurposed her old Tantabus project to help. Then [[CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen it started calling her Mom]], and after an initial FreakOut she was happy to have a child with her own powers and purpose. The Tantabus ends up teaching a couple other ponies how to use dream magic.

* Dream-walking is a part of Literature/{{Discworld}} magic, as both Wizards and Witches know. Unseen University even teaches how to do it to suitably inclined student Wizards and describes it as Walking The Astral Planes. Witches tend to pick it up informally and call it Stepping Out. Ponder Stibbons has to do it [[Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation to rescue Sheldon Cooper from a trap]] set by a lurking multi-dimensional peril. In a later tale, he has to rescue a daughter from the Dungeon Dimensions. [[note]]He discovers his Witch daughter is perfectly capable of extracting herself.[[/note]] Later, his Witch-daughter meets [[SpiritAdvisor a deceased Ancestor]] in a dream, who takes advantage of being outside time to show her some History. Bekki uses this knowledge to annoy her History teacher.

Sometimes characters do this for malevolent reasons, seeking to terrify and/or harm the dreamer for their own purposes (like [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]); others devote their abilities to protect dreamers from such threats (like Comicbook/DoctorStrange). If a shared DreamLand exists that dreaming minds are drawn to, Dream Walkers will typically be the ones to be consciously able to head to this dreamland, seek out places within it, or move between different dreaming worlds.

Sometimes characters do this for malevolent reasons, seeking to terrify and/or harm the dreamer for their own purposes (like [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]); others devote their abilities to protect dreamers from such threats (like Comicbook/DoctorStrange).

* Plot of the movie ''Film/{{Dreamscape}}''.

* In the universe of ''Film/{{Inception}}'', this is something technically any one can do if they have access to the technology. However, the film is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, so the technology is limited to mostly military and those lucky few who can get their hands on it.
* In ''Film/TheKnightBeforeChristmas'' the mysterious [[QuestGiver quest giving]] "[[SolitarySorceress Old Crone]]" who send Sir Cole [[TimeTravel from 1334 to 2019]] is also able to reach into his dreams to remind him that he needs to complete his quest, though she still only [[CrypticConversation drops hints in riddles]].
* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'', Chloe is one of rare witches gifted with this skill. It's considered a [[BlackMagic Dark]] gift and Kaulder tells her that the dreamwalkers used to be the Witch Queen's deadliest assassins (YourMindMakesItReal is in effect), but Chloe uses it for the light side.
* ''Film/TheMatrix'' is a variant on this.

* One of the powers of Green Men in ''Literature/OneHundredCupboards'' - Henry is particularly good at it. At one point Henry and Monmouth dreamwalk to [[MundaneUtility have a conversation]] despite being in the same room, because Monmouth's [[TapOnTheHead head injury]] won't hurt in a dream...until Henry notices it isn't there and can't imagine it away again.
* ''Literature/AShadowBrightAndBurning'': Magicians have the ability to enter the dreams of others. [[spoiler:Jenkins Hargrove visits Henrietta this way after she fends off [[EldritchAbomination Korozoth]]'s attack on UsefulNotes/{{London}}.]]
** [[spoiler:R'hlem, one of the Ancients, has this ability as well, as he visits one of Henrietta's dreams this way too.]]
* Caspian is quite the dream walker early on in ''Literature/AstralDawn''. Caspian literally walks through his dream on a bridge made of glass within a cloud where he soon meets Ixchel, the Mayan goddess of the moon. Caspian later follows her beyond the mortal plane into the astral plane, taking his {{dream sequence}} to an unprecedented level.

* This is common in ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'':

* In N. R. Eccles-Smith's HighFantasy series, ''Literature/{{DragonCalling}}'' the mysterious boy, known only as Opal Eyes, enters [[TheHero Laeka'Draeon's]] mind in dreams as a way to communicate with him.

* The dreamrovers in Literature/DreamRovers can visit and manipulate others' dreams. It becomes unpopular to say the least when other people realize how the power could be abused
* Literature/JessicaChrist gets visits from her half-brother Jesus ([[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} yes, that one]]) in her dreams... specifically, in her [[EroticDream sex dreams]], since she drops her mental defenses when having those and that's the only way he can get in touch with her to deliver instructions for her divine destiny. Neither of them is especially pleased with the arrangement, needless to say. [[spoiler:She later learns that she can pull an angel into her dream at will, which becomes useful for getting around [[{{God}} her father's]] ban on premarital relations between Jessica and her angelic boyfriend...]]
* Creator/HPLovecraft's Dreamlands can be accessed by anybody who knows how, and you can actually meet other dreaming people there.

%% * The Japanese novel ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'', and the anime film based on it.
* In Creator/JamesHerbert's ''Literature/{{Portent}}'', numerous psychically buoyant children project their minds to a vast, lush garden, watched over by the similarly psychic "Dream Man."
* In ''Literature/RachelGriffin'', classmate Zoe has the power to enter people's dreams as well as travel to their physical location, a useful talent if someone is [[DemonicPossession possessed]]: she can FlashStep up behind them and belt them with a war club.
* Lizbeth, from the WebSerialNovel ''Literature/RaisingAngels'', seems to be capable of this.
* Played with in ''Literature/TheRavenCycle,'' and the premise for the second book in the series, ''The Dream Thieves''.
* ''Literature/{{Ravenor}}'s'' psychic powers let him enter people's dreams, and he can take a dreaming person with him into another person's dream. He visits most of his companions this way near the start of the second book in order to ask them an important question.
* In the ''Literature/SonjaBlue'' series, this is one of the powers of vampires. When Sonja is in an insane asylum, and her human side is being suppressed by anti-psychotic drugs and sedatives, her vampire side goes dream-walking at night, making the other inmates even more insane than they were to start with.
* Adrian Ivashkov from ''Literature/VampireAcademy'' has the ability to visit the dreams of other people.
* Janet The Bunny Queen from Creator/RosemaryWells's ''Voyage To The Bunny Planet'' series has the ability to visit to any sleeping bunny's dreams. Mainly to comfort them after having a bad or rough day. She would usually bring them to her home planet and show them a dream where the bunny she brings is having a very happy and peaceful day time.
* In ''[[Literature/WarriorCats Warriors]]'' Jayfeather had the ability to enter other cats' dreams, as do the members of [=StarClan=] and the Place of No Stars. This ability is revealed to have been revoked in ''Bramblestar's Storm'' after the spiritual battle between [=StarClan=] and the Dark Forest had been concluded.
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', Dreamwalkers can, among many other things, visit the dreams of others if they are so inclined. However, they are generally careful not to as once inside the dream they are subject to the dreamer's will and may be unable to escape. Also, if a Dreamwalker feels intense love or hatred for a given individual, they may be drawn into that person's dreams. Dreamwalkers spend most of their time in the DreamLand.

* In ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' ghoul Richard Jameson possesses this as one of his abilities. John eventually develops the power himself. The Dreamlands are one of the rare places humans have an advantage over the Great Old Ones and similar beings as whoever has the strongest imagination triumphs.
* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'': In the novel "Ghost Machine", River steps into the characters' dreams attempting to wake them before their ship crashes.

* In ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Animal Crossing: New Leaf]]'', this is implied to be an ability of your character as you can share your town and enter the towns of others via the Dream Suite. And these shared towns are explicitly stated to be dreams.

* In the Website/GoAnimate video ''Dora's 2nd Nightmare'', WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} enters [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]]'s dream to find out why she's scared. He finds that she is in a nightmare where she is uncontrollably floating around a black void where [[VanityPlate logos]] play from out of nowhere. Eventually, Caillou gets scared and leaves the dream when an edited Feature Presentation bumper shows up. Later, in the video ''Dora's 3rd Nighmare'', we see that some guys, including the AuthorAvatar, are giving Dora the same kind of nightmare on purpose. They use some kind of dream computer system, which ends up getting hacked by a demonic [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]].

Compare/contrast DreamWeaver and DreamStealer, which can overlap. Also compare/contrast with SharedDream, where characters all have a shared, collective dream. Not to be confused with DreamSpying. See also TalkingInYourDreams. If a Dream Walker is able to take objects bacl into the waking world, see also TakenFromADream.

* ''VideoGame/{{Dreamkiller}}'' have the player character, Alice Drake, who has the ability to enter and exit dreams at will, and she uses her powers to infiltrate her clients' nightmares to purge them of their phobias by destroying the monsters inside their dreams.

Compare/contrast DreamWeaver and DreamStealer, which can overlap. Also compare/contrast with SharedDream, where characters all have a shared, collective dream. Not to be confused with DreamSpying. See also TalkingInYourDreams.

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has Solas, an expert on the Fade who regularly visits it just to hang out with spirits. He doesn't appear to be a Somniari, but at one point has a lengthy conversation with the Inquisitor while they're both dreaming.

Compare/contrast DreamWeaver and DreamStealer, which can overlap. Dream Weaver can be a subtrope at times. Also compare/contrast with SharedDream, where characters all have a shared, collective dream. Not to be confused with DreamSpying. See also TalkingInYourDreams.

* ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'': One First Edition supplement introduced the rare "Dreamborn" Prometheans; rather than being made in the traditional way (i.e. digging up corpses and bringing them BackFromTheDead) these Prometheans were instead created from people's ''dreams'' of doing that, sometimes intentionally, sometimes by accident. They consequently have a Bestowment that allows them to enter the dreams of people nearby (whether they want to or not) and their Wasteland effect causes a plague of nightmares, with the Dreamborn Promethean as the boogeyman they all share.

* ''TabletopGames/PrometheanTheCreated'': One First Edition supplement introduced the rare "Dreamborn" Prometheans; rather than being made in the traditional way (i.e. digging up corpses and bringing them BackFromTheDead) these Prometheans were instead created from people's ''dreams'' of doing that, sometimes intentionally, sometimes by accident. They consequently have a Bestowment that allows them to enter the dreams of people nearby (whether they want to or not) and their Wasteland effect causes a plague of nightmares, with the Dreamborn Promethean as the boogeyman they all share.

* ''Series/Charmed1998'': One of the only non-magical threats the sisters faced was the Dream Sorcerer, a human scientist who found a way to enter and control women's dreams. He used it to terrorize and murder (a la [[Film/NightmareOnElmStreet Freddie Kruger]]) women who rejected him.