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3	The Seventh Doctor, Ace and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest new companion Hex]] land on a rock in space, which turns out to have a deserted city on it... as well as Uluru. The three are soon beset by creatures from Australian mythology. Realising that they're sensitive to sound, the Doctor tries to sonic them, but is drawn into the aboriginal dream world.
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5	While Ace hangs out with human miners and a bunch of [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho037TheSandman Galyari merchants]] and Hex tries to contact the Doctor (and freaks out a bit), the Doctor goes on a sort of drowsy spiritual journey. He gets his body copied in the process, but eventually breaks free with Hex' help and finds out that modernisation disrupted the natural terraforming dreaming powers of aboriginal Australians. When Uluru was detached from Earth and turned into a space colony, the land's ties with the dream world were broken, and the Doctor helps restore them using sound and a whole lot of MindScrew.
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7	!!Tropes
8	* AlienSky: Colour shifting stars as they travel across the night sky.
9	* AnotherDimension: The Dreaming seem to be in this. Where one's focus on your own identity keeps your essence coherent (otherwise you are deprived of your senses, and fall into a AndIMustScream like state)
10	* ArtificialGravity
11	* ContinuityNod: The Galyari wonder if the Doctor is the same Doctor as [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho037TheSandman their Sandman]].
12	* CurseCutShort
13	* DoingInTheWizard: An unusual occasion where this does ''not'' happen in Doctor Who. The Doctor seems to take all the Dreamtime mythology at face value, and never tries to give it a scientific explanation through psychic powers or somesuch.
14	* {{Doppelganger}}
15	* ForeShadowing: Hex says it'll be a miracle if he lives to become a time travel veteran. As we find out in later episodes, he doesn't.
16	* GhostTown / GhostPlanet (Though it's just an asteroid)
17	* HollywoodDreamtime: The Dreamtime is portrayed as an alternate dimension taught to the Aboriginal people by aliens.
18	* HistoryRepeats
19	* MindScrew: Yeah.
20	* NaiveNewcomer: Hex.
21	* ShoutOut: See also TheWorldIsJustAwesome.
22	** Ace mentions some "Creator/DavidAttenborough program".
23	* TakenForGranite: The asteroid the three land on. Later the Doctor.
24	* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Hex has a lot of fun with spaceships and aliens, though he expected the whole thing to be a bit more ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
25	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Inverted. The Doctor's double gives himself away by calling Ace "[=McShane=]".
26	* TitleDrop
27	* VisionQuest: Tying into the Australian myth this adventure has.
28	* YourMindMakesItReal: Seems to be the case in the Dreamtime.

Context Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho067Dreamtime