The shaping of dreams has evolved further to emulate the alien plant the Black Mercy. This evolution has turned your dreams from mere fantasies you can inflict into entire realities.
The primary feature of the Black Mercy is that by probing the pleasure centers of the target’s mind, a nearly perfect world is created for the victim while their psychic energy is harvested and pulled back to you. During this the victim is entirely paralyzed while they’re transported into the reality, and can only escape after noting small inconsistencies and actively willing themselves awake.
The true power of the Black Mercy however, is that these are not illusions, not Dreams, but full realities that are created and projected from the victim’s desires. Every wife, child, street cleaner, cat or tree, all created and real as the ‘waking’ world. By waking up they ultimately doom this reality to nothingness.