Nightmare Manipulation

Nightmare Manipulation
Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) can enter the dreams of others and control them to terrifying effect.
Power/Ability to:	Access and manipulate nightmares.

"It was a dark and stormy nightmare..."

― Dream/Morpheus (DC Comics)

The power to enter and manipulate nightmares. Sub-power of Sleep Manipulation. Variation of Dream Manipulation.

Also Called

• Efialtiskinesis
• Nightmare Alteration

Capabilities

The user can create, shape, enter and manipulate the nightmares of oneself and others, including modifying, suppressing, fabricating, influencing, manifesting, sensing, observing nightmares and turning dreams into nightmares. The overwhelming shock, fear, anxiety and terror can prove too suffocating for the victim in which their hearts might explode or brains might die.

In some cases, the user's power extends to the real world, such as wounds inflicted on a sleeping victim and even pulling someone from the waking world into the dream world.

Applications

• Dream Absorption
• Dream Walking
• Fear Energy Manipulation
  • Fear Manipulation
• Mental Inducement
• Nightmare Imprisonment
• Nightmare Inducement
• Oneiric Slaying
• Phobia-Initiated Ability Manifestation

Techniques

• Dream Recall
• Fear Manifestation
• Nightmare Empowerment
• Oneiric Physiology

Variations

• Nightmare Embodiment

Associations

• Dream Manipulation
• Fear Embodiment
• Illusion Manipulation
• Madness Aspect Manifestation
• Mental Manipulation
• Nightmare Magic
• Oneiric Omniscience
• Oneiric Reality Manipulation
• Sleep Manipulation
• Subconscious Manipulation
• Supernatural Vision Manipulation
• Sympathetic Magic

Limitations

• Oneiric Immunity
• If the target does not have anything to be afraid of, then the user cannot control their nightmares.
• The user can only affect sleeping subjects.
  • Due to this, User has a limited amount of time while their target is asleep unless the user also has Sleep Inducement.
• Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant), Psychic Immunity (impervious) and Indomitable Will.
• May be limited to only putting a person in a Nightmare, not fully controlling their dream
• As it is their dreams, targets may also be able to manipulate the dreams against the user via lucid dreaming.

Known Users

See Also: Nightmare Weaver.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Enmu (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Mannish Boy (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders)
• Nightmare Centaurs (Monster Musume)
  • Rem Nighdrem

Cartoons

• Nemuinas (Ben 10: Omniverse)
• Experiment 276 "Remmy" (Lilo and Stitch)
• Nightmare Moon, Tantabus (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Sandboy (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Lessay (Sendokai Champions)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Creepy Eddie (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 TV series)
• Dream Beavers (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
• Oropo (Wakfu)
• Scary Terry (Rick and Morty)
• Groundskeeper Willie (The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror)
• Eddy Cougar (Tiny Toon Adventures)
• Misterioso Grande (Mucha Lucha)
• Vertigo (Winx Club)

Comics

• Doctor Destiny (DC Comics)
• Dream of the Endless (DC Comics/Vertigo)
• Nightmare (Marvel Comics)
• Barbatos (DC Comics)

Movies

• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• Pitch Black/The Bogeyman (Rise of the Guardians)
• Nightmare King (Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland)
• Nightmare Shark (Nightmare Shark)

Literature

• Night Mares (Xanth)
• The Night Stallion/Trojan (Xanth)

Live Television

• Iris (Ángel o Demonio)

Video Games

• The Baker (Cookie Clicker); via alchemy lab
• Fade (VALORANT)
• Ezizh (AFK Arena)
• Great Ones (Bloodborne)
• Bane (Dota 2)
• Nocturne (League of Legends)
• Darkrai, any Pokémon who can use "Nightmare" (Pokémon)
• Wizeman the Wicked (NiGHTS into Dreams)
• Nightmare (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Nightmare (Kirby)
• Erebus Shajad (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
• Nezarec (Destiny)

Other

• The Architects (NAP RAP - The Warp Zone feat. Smosh)
• Dark King Vita (Mushoku Tensei)
• Thriller (Michael Jackson's Thriller)
• The Grotesque (Fear Mythos)

Known Objects

• Alchemy lab (Cookie Clicker)
• Shadow of Fear (Xiaolin Showdown)

Gallery

Dream of the Endless (DC Comics/Vertigo) is the ruler and embodiment of Dreams, both good and bad.

Doctor Destiny (DC Comics)

Barbatos (DC Comics)

Pitch Black (Rise of the Guardians) and his army of Nightmares.

Nightmare Moon (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Darkrai (Pokémon) is known for its ability to make others see nightmares.

Antasma (Mario and Luigi: Dream Team)

Wizeman the Wicked (NiGHTS into Dreams)

Nightmare (Valkyrie Crusade)

Manishu Booi/Mannish Boy's Stand, Death 13 (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt. 3: Stardust Crusaders)

Nightmare (Marvel Comics)

The Thriller (Michael Jackson's Thriller) can change forms to scare people.

Erebus Shajad (Anima: Beyond Fantasy), lord of the shadows, embody the supernatural, occult, fear, dreams and wonders.

Dream Beavers (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)

Creepy Eddie (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987)

Groundskeeper Willie (The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror)

Eddy Cougar (Tiny Toon Adventures)

Nightmare Shark (Nightmare Shark)

Misterioso Grande (Mucha Lucha)

Nezarec (Destiny) Final God of Pain is a powerful manipulator of Nightmares and can even kill people in their dreams. Can summon incorporeal manifestations of individual traumas as well.

Videos

Michael Jackson - Thriller (Official Video)

Polnareff and kakyoin encounter death 13-2