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* Shiki has lots of dreams in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' but as you get into the farther routes, at one point SHIKI becomes aware he is being watched and starts screaming for Shiki to leave. Throughout lots of the dreams there's also a sort of not-quite communication going on. [[spoiler:This is exclusive to these two characters (and maybe Akiha) apparently as the two of them each have one quarter the life of Akiha and therefore are linked, sharing energy, some traits, dreams and mental influence.]]
* Aerith has a conversation with Cloud in his dream in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' after she's left the party, to tell him about her plan to stop Sephiroth and to reassure him that everything will be okay. Unfortunately, Sephiroth was also in the dream and, after she's left, he pops in to remark to Cloud that that's interesting to know. Cloud immediately wakes up, and the race for the heroes to find her first is on.

* In the Warden's Keep DLC for ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', the mage/Grey Warden Avernus reached out to Levi Dryden in his dreams, encouraging him to explore the haunted fortress that was the resting place of his great-great-grandmother, [[BrokenPedestal Sophia Dryden]]. Fearful of the danger (and rightfully so), Levi contacted the Grey Wardens to help him search the keep for evidence that would
** In-game, viewing the dreams of others and actually entering them is stated to be one of the powers granted by BloodMagic.
*** While they don't exactly have a conversation with it, both the Warden and Alistair wake up from a nightmare involving the Archdemon with the feeling that it actually "saw" them somehow. It's a prelude to an attack by a squad of shrieks.
*** A Warden's dreams will always be filled with the whispers of the Old Gods after the Joining though he/she can eventually suppress them. The return of the dreams is the first sign that the Taint will soon overwhelm a Warden turning him/her into just another ghoul.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' Feynriel is a ''somniari'' (dreamer), a very rare kind of mage who can manipulate the Fade and enter the dreams of others without resorting to BloodMagic or piles of lyrium. If Hawke helps him survive the demons constantly assaulting him (a dreamer is a ''very'' appealing target to demons), Feynriel will go to Tevinter and learn to control his powers. In Act III he saves a young noblewoman from a gang of rapists by ''entering their dreams and forcing them to kill each other'', then comforts the girl by speaking to her in her dreams. [[RescueRomance The girl becomes smitten with Feynriel]] and looks forward to when she falls asleep again so she can be with him in her dreams.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', Solas (an apostate mage who's spent his life studying the Fade) has a conversation with the Inquisitor in a shared dream. Apparently, they sought him out rather than vice versa - their Anchor allows them to dream with unusual focus, whether or not they're a mage.

* Ribbon the telepathic unicorn from ''MyLittlePony'' could talk to people in their dreams.

* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''

* In ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'', ComicBook/{{Raven}} formed the new team by appearing in the dreams of former members and some new young heroes to help her fight her father, after the Justice League wouldn't trust her.

* Subverted in ''Literature/TheBFG'' in that the BFG and Sophie create a dream for the Queen of England about the man-eating giants, since she would never believe them if they simply told her. To make the "dream come true", the dream includes Sophie sitting on the Queen's window sill, which the Queen then sees in real life when she wakes.

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[[caption-width-right:280:Or rather, teaching in your dreams.]]

** This turns out to be embarrassing in "The Song Remains The Same" when Dean is having an EroticDream involving two strippers in [[AngelicBeauty angel]] and [[HotAsHell devil]] costumes, and [[FallenAngel Anna]] turns up in his head. ** Dean and Castiel are also seen regularly conversing this way, often with Dean not realizing at first that it is a dream. Castiel even unnerves Dean by telling him his dreams aren't secure and other angels could be listening.

Dreams that are secretly (or openly) a form of two-way interaction. (The other person may or may not be asleep.) Harm can only come to the dreamer through [[YourMindMakesItReal psycho-somatic effects, or as mental damage]].

* As in Literature/TheBible, angels on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' use dreams to communicate with humans. This turns out to be embarrassing in "The Song Remains The Same" when Dean is having an EroticDream involving two strippers in [[AngelicBeauty angel]] and [[HotAsHell devil]] costumes, and [[FallenAngel Anna]] turns up in his head.

* In ''Series/Barney Miller'', The two parter, "Quarantine", the are stuck overnight sleeping in the squad room, and Harris has a soliloquy during dreaming, waking up each member of the squad, as he rants in his dreams about Yemana's bad coffee, Fish running to the bathroom all the time, Barney's 'human compassion', finally waking himself to find everyone staring at him - Barney says it's 'coincidence'.

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** In "Amends" the , as he First is trying to turn Angel evil or drive him to suicide, so sends him dreams of his past crimes as Angelus. To further torment him, [[ForcedToWatch Buffy also shares these dreams]]. Then because having sex with Buffy will turn him evil, they start having shared {{Erotic Dream}}s as well.

** ''Restless'' is an episode of this trope, with the primeval doing the communicating.
** In "Graduation Day" after Buffy puts Faith in a coma, then ends up in hospital herself, she has a dream in which Faith appears to reconcile with her, giving a clue on how to defeat the Mayor.

** In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' spin-off, Faith defeats Angelus by shooting up with a FantasticDrug and letting him feed on her. They both fall into a coma and end up reliving Angel's life, with both providing appropriate snarks and jibes.

* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' "Night Terrors" has the ship trapped in a NegativeSpaceWedgie, with most of the crew hallucinating and slowly going insane due to lack of REM sleep, while Troi, TheEmpath, is going just as mad from nightmares about twin moons and voices whispering "eyes in the dark, one moon circling". It turns out [[spoiler: there's an alien ship trapped in the same wedgie, and they're using telepathy to try to communicate through the crew's dreams and suggest an escape plan]].

** The Borg Queen communicates with Seven of Nine while she's dreaming in "Dark Frontier" and "Endgame."
** In "Tinker Tenor, Doctor Spy," an alien hijacks the Doctor's daydream program and speaks with him to warn him of an impending attack on ''Voyager''.
** In "Waking Moments," the whole crew gets trapped in a communal dream by telepathic aliens, with [[MagicalNativeAmerican Chakotay]] the only one who can escape.
** "Unimatrix Zero" is about a dream realm that some drones enter while regenerating.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Sting," Leela has recurring dreams about speaking to the dead Fry and becomes convinced that he's alive and communicating with her somehow. [[spoiler:[[RightForTheWrongReasons Which he is]]: [[AdventuresInComaland Leela is in a coma]] after receiving the brunt of the injury that she imagines killed Fry, responding to the very alive Fry's [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious attempts to wake her up]].]]

* In Creator/JosephaSherman's ''Literature/TheShiningFalcon'', Finist appears in Alexi's dreams, posing as a BadDreams.

** In Creator/SandyMitchell's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Literature/CiaphasCain novel ''The Traitor's Hand'', Cain ''thinks'' he's just having [[RecurringDreams yet another]] FlashbackNightmare about [[spoiler:a Slaaneshi cultist he killed after she tried to suck out his soul. Turns out she's BackFromTheDead and can "caress your mind"...]]

* In Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/EqualRites'', Esk dreams about the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions and interacts with them. They even tell her the word "psychosomatic" and assure her she can die because of her dreams.

* This is a mid-level spell in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', although the communication is only one-way from the caster to the recipient.

* "Series/Barney Miller", The two parter, "Quarantine", the are stuck overnight sleeping in the squad room, and Harris has a soliloquy during dreaming, waking up each member of the squad, as he rants in his dreams about Yemana's bad coffee, Fish running to the bathroom all the time, Barney's 'human compassion', finally waking himself to find everyone staring at him - Barney says it's 'coincidence'.

** In "Amends" the First is trying to turn Angel evil or drive him to suicide, so sends him dreams of his past crimes as Angelus. To further torment him, [[ForcedToWatch Buffy also shares these dreams]]. Then because having sex with Buffy will turn him evil, they start having shared {{Erotic Dream}}s as well.

* Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse:

* Creator/JRRTolkien:
** In ''[[TheLordOfTheRings The Return Of The King]]'', Frodo's dreams are filled with the Eye of Sauron, who fortunately has less ability to reach him than in most instances of this trope.

* ''WebComic/MagickChicks'': Melissa first began seeing [[TheNameless "fade-out girl"]] [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/tis_but_a_trifle in her dreams]], shortly after being transferred to Artemis Academy. Then met her in person on her way to school, where she staged her CatUpATree routine as a test of Melissa's character. While the first attempt failed, the second succeeded. Then, in chapter 15, she made an unexpected appearance [[spoiler: [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/not_a_person in Faith's subconsciousness]]]].

* Paula uses her psychic abilities to call Ness, and later Jeff in Videogame/{{Earthbound}}.