Dreaming Existence

Background

Dreaming Existence is the ability where the users view a state as nothing more than a dream that they freely create and manipulate. With this ability, people can do things such as making dream avatars to interact with alternate universes while they sleep in theirs, create entirely new beings into reality through sleeping, make entire areas in their dreams that are real, physical places, up to making entire universes and all of the cosmology. It's noted in some fiction that people and such are formed from dreams and such, making this ability coincide with Subjective Reality to an extent.

Also Called

• Dream Creation
• Dream Reality
• Dreamworld Manifestation

Possible Applications

• Avatar Creation: The user makes a dream avatar to fight against foes.
• Reality Warping: Higher level users can dream entire realities they can freely warp.
• Subjective Reality: As things are being made from dreams, the user is essentially making their subjective ideas apply to reality for higher level users.
• Dream Manipulation: Naturally as they are dreaming things into existence, some users may be able to manipulate entire dreams.
• Spatial Manipulation: The user can shape the geography of their dream, altering landscapes and structures as they wish.
• Matter Creation: Objects, beings, and environments can be formed from the user's dreams, making them tangible.
• Time Manipulation: Some users can adjust or reverse the flow of time within their dream worlds.
• Dream Projection: The user can project their dreams into the physical world, affecting the environment around them.
• Conceptual Manipulation: In higher forms, users can create or remove concepts that exist solely because they are dreamed into existence.
• Perception Manipulation: The user may manipulate the perceptions of others, blurring the line between dreams and reality.
• Dimensional Creation: Entire pocket dimensions or separate realities may come into existence through the user's dreams.

Potential Types

• Lucid Dreaming Existence: The user is fully aware they are dreaming and can manipulate the dream to their advantage, achieving conscious control over the dream world.
• Passive Dreaming Existence: Dreams unconsciously influence reality without the user realizing it, leading to unpredictable and sometimes dangerous outcomes.
• Shared Dreaming Existence: Multiple users can coexist in a single dream, influencing it together, often leading to conflicts or collaborative manipulation.
• Constructed Dreaming Existence: Users create artificial dreamscapes to trap others, typically as a defense mechanism or for malicious intent.
• Self-Manifested Dreaming Existence: The user exists solely as a dream entity, capable of entering and manipulating the dreams of others without a physical form.

Possible Limitations

• For users that make dream realms through this, anything outside the dream shouldn't be affected by it.
• Affecting the state the user dreamed could conversely affect them, either completely destroying their mind, weakening them greatly, killing them, etcetera.
• Some users may require sleep to maintain their dream-based existence.
• If the user wakes up, the dream state may collapse, ending their influence.
• Limited influence may occur if the user's dreams are unstable or disrupted.
• Users may struggle to differentiate reality from dreams, leading to confusion and vulnerability.