Talking in Your Dreams/Playing With

Basic Trope: A dreaming character meets another, real character and they talk while he dreams.
 * Straight: Edwin, dreaming of a meadow, sees his old Mentor Godfrey come over it and explain to him where he is, and why Edwin must go and find the MacGuffin.
 * Exaggerated: Sleeping characters land in a Dream Land where they are always bumping into each other.
 * Downplayed: ???
 * Justified: ???
 * Inverted: Harold, a dream figure, comes out of Dream Land to warn Edwin.
 * Subverted: Edwin dreams of Godfrey and realizes that it's just a Wish Fulfillment on his part.
 * Double Subverted: Nevertheless he obeys, and Godfrey is delighted; no other student of his had obeyed, and it could have been disasterous.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: ???
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: Godfrey uses it to communicate where the Evil Sorcerer can't overhear them.
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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