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A dream is a wish your heart makes; this is real life. But sometimes real life spills over into [[Dream Land]]. Sometimes there's someone who can shape his dreams into whatever he wants -- orwants—or shape ''your'' dreams, for that matter. They can send you into [[Your Worst Nightmare]]. They can trap you in a [[Dream Within a Dream]], or help you resolve something in a [[Vision Quest]]. They can be villains or heroes, but dreams are their domain. They are a Dream Weaver.

Sometimes can give [[Dreaming of Things to Come|prophetic dreams]]. Sometimes [[Talking in Your Dreams|a means of communication]]. Those who bring their dreams into the physical world are either [[Master of Illusion|Masters Of Illusion]] or [[Reality Warper|Reality Warpers]]s, depending on whether they actually change things or just make it look like so.

* ''[[Inner Demons]]'' has Twilight become one of these after her [[Face Heel Turn]] -- by—by [[Astral Projection|projecting]] into another pony's mind while they're sleeping, she's able to shape their dreams in order to [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulate]] them. First, she does this to Trixie in order win her over, and then she does it Fluttershy as part of a particularly cruel [[Kick the Dog]] moment.

** 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 continue on the next night. Naturally, his descendants remained over-enthusiastic and prepared "just in case" for the sake of tradition, even long after there was no need in such service.

* [[Telepath|Telepaths]]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.

* Feynriel in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'': As a dreamer, or "somniari," he can enter the Fade without Lyrium and exercise a certain degree of control over it -- toit—to the point that he can kill people in their dreams. This is an extremely rare power, and makes him an irresistible target for demons looking to posses him. {{spoiler|If you ''let'' him get possessed, he becomes Freddy Krueger and starts driving people insane.}} If you encourage him to master his powers, he uses his gifts to help people, at one point making a bunch of would-be rapists kill each other. While they were still awake. ''From a different continent''.

* Dreamweaving is a skillset available to mages in ''[[Lusternia]]''. In the [[Backstory|histories]], [[The Emperor|Emperor Ladantine]] was an accomplished [[Dream Weaver]], and used the skill for purposes of espionage and reconnaissance following his [[Face Heel Turn]].