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* Taen of Janny Wurts' ''[[The Cycle of Fire]]'' trilogy is actually called a "dreamweaver", but she has a myriad of psychic powers that extend beyond dreams.
* In ''[[The Shamer Chronicles]]'' by Danish author Lene Kaaberbøl, this ability is called "the Serpent's gift".
* ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' had the basics of this widespread in the World of Rod - many mages learned to control their dreams, if only to prevent unconscious spell-throwing - but few are very skilled.
** One sequel books tells about "Masters of the Perfect Dreams", who for a modest price make limited-use pillows with a dream specified by the client. It was legal in Echo even during the strictest limitations on magic and there's a whole guild for this; they are too laidback to be competitive and go on to claim they can teach anyone the same level of dream control for oneself, but almost nobody bothers to.
** Another sequel expanded into details: the level of skill necessary for "Master of the Perfect Dreams" or better is taught only in Tubur, where locals got a separate language for discussing dreams and weather, without nouns.<ref>that is, usually one can't tell for sure ''what'' exactly a phenomenon was, only describe its observable traits and general mood</ref> Dream Masters proper can [[Reality Warper|change the world in seemingly natural ways]] when they really want to - which rarely happens, what's with access at will to "realities" easier to sculpt, including "dense dream" worldlets that objectively exist (as in, can be bodily visited). Also, one Dream Master with rather warrior-like attitude became the King's dream bodyguard during the worst part of civil war. It took a concerted attack from 98 master mages to get rid of him, and even then the King survived, while apparently not enough of them got away to
* [[Telepath]]s in ''The Whole Man'', by John Brunner, can set up shared dreams in a small group. They're called catapathic groupings (a [[Portmanteau]] of "cataleptic" and "telepathy"), because nobody involved, including the telepath, is aware of what's going on in the real world, and <s>it can't be broken from the inside</s>[[Lotus Eater Machine|nobody wants to leave]]. Treatment involves another telepath forcing his way into the grouping and mucking it up so badly that the telepath has no choice but to wake everyone up.
* [[Wicked Lovely]]: Rae can do this; she's referred to as a dreamwalker but it's esencially the same thing. She has been guiding Ani through dreams since childhood, almost destroys faerie by {{spoiler|giving Sorcha a dream in which she can see her son, Seth -which causes her to make Rae ensure she never wakes}}, and it is through her visiting Devlin's dream that him and Ani are able to {{spoiler|save Sorcha and thus faerie, and form the 'shadow court' to balance Sorcha's high court}}.
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