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* The premise in ''DragonQuestVI'' where you correct problems in the real world and the dream world.

* ''DoctorWho'': The Doctor, Amy, and Rory are trapped in a dream. The man keeping them there introduces himself thus: "If you're the Time Lord, then you can call me the...Dream Lord." [[spoiler:Of course, both the dream and the 'real world' are AllJustADream, and it was simply a manifestation of the Doctor's darker side, [[SubvertedTrope but it looks like this for the first half.]]]]

* ''{{Inception}}'' is basically this.

* A number of people in ''TheWheelOfTime'' do this.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' featured a mysterious boy who could travel through Mohinder's dreams and gave him cryptic messages.

** Uhhm, there is also the guy who can manipulate people's dreams... Matt's father (and, it is implied, Matt, if he learns [[HowDoIShotWeb to harness it]]) can induce waking dreams, hallucinations, whatever you want to call them, and Molly accordingly dubs him The Nightmare Man.
* An episode of the tv series version of ''Honey I Shrunk The Kids'' had the daughter use her father's dream portal to enter a dream dimension and help her get over school anxieties that were manifesting as her nightmares. Morpheus gets pissy about mortals messing with dreams and attempts to trap the entire family in an endless nightmare. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The daughter responds by dreaming up a giant magic alarm clock, taking it back into the real world, and waking up everyone on earth all at once, grievously wounding Morpheus and freeing her family.]]

** Particularly Adrienne, whose job was [[spoiler: to build intricate mazes and settings into the dream in order to confuse Fischer's subconscious.]]

Sometimes can give [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic dreams]]. Sometimes [[TalkingInYourDreams a means of communication]]. Those who bring their dreams into the physical world are either [[MasterOfIllusion Masters Of Illusion]] or {{Reality Warper}}s, depnding on whether they actually change things or just make it look like so.

* Dream/Morpheus from ''TheSandman'', of course. He once trapped an enemy in an ''everlasting'' DreamWithinADream, so you don't want to piss him off. The Norse gods even call him by this particular title.
** Well, it really only lasted [[spoiler: [[NoOntologicalInertia till he died.]]]]
*** It would have lasted past that if [[spoiler: Dream's new incarnation Daniel, a more forgiving person, hadn't put an end to it.]]

* The title of a class of people in the ''AgeOfFive'' trilogy is "Dreamweaver." Interestingly, while they [[ArtifactTitle have the power to influence dreams, their primary function is healing]].

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* In ''Labyrinths of Echo'' by Max Frei it's a widespread magic. There's a guild of "Masters of the Perfect Dreams", for a modest price preparing limited-use pillows with the specific dream client wanted; it was legal even during the strictest limitations on the magic. The protagonist was visited by a few mages this way, including being acquainted with and hired by [[TheAce his chief]], ex-CareerKiller who personally slain about a half of King's enemies during the civil war and reminisced a royal habit to give such [[strike:secret decrees]] ''friendly requests'' in dream visits:

** The psionic power [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/dreamTravel.htm Dream Travel]], the epic spell [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spells/lordOfNightmares.htm Lord of Nightmares]], and similar abilities.

* Dream Catcher from the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' coulc manipulate dreams and bring them out of a person's head and into reality.

* John Dee or Doctor Destiny, an enemy of the JusticeLeague. The device that allowed him to manipulate dreams, the Materioptikon, was later shown to have been based on Dream's ruby.

* ''DoctorWho'': The Doctor, Amy, and her fiance are trapped in a dream. The man keeping them there introduces himself thus: "If you're the Time Lord, then you can call me the...Dream Lord." [[spoiler:Of course, both the dream and the 'real world' are AllJustADream, and it was simply a manifestation of the Doctor's darker side, [[SubvertedTrope but it looks like this for the first half.]]]]

** Did not turn out well in deed. The people trapped in this world eventually lost their sanity and will attack anyone who approaches them on sight. The only people who managed to stay sane were absorbed into their [[EmpathicWeapon empathic weapons]]. On top of all of that, the drop rates are terrible even after being upped, meaning that even normal players can go insane if they do enough Dynamis. (Square apparently takes their tropes seriously.)

* The Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion Mask of the Betrayer features Gann of Dreams, who can walk in and influence the dreams of others. The player can gain this power themselves later in the game.

* In ''[[TheWorldOfDarkness Changeling: the Lost]]'', all changelings have the ability to willingly enter their own dreams or the dreams of others they have a pact with, perceive the dream with perfect clarity, and even alter its contents. The [[TheFairFolk True Fae]] also have this quality, and... well, it's not [[NightmareFuel pretty]].
* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons and Dragons]]'' has arcane spell ''Dream'' and its variant ''Nightmare''--first allows to send a message the recipient will remember upon waking, second causes restless sleep and some damage.