In speculative fiction, the line between dreams and reality may be blurred even more in the service of the story. Dreams may be psychically invaded or manipulated (the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' films, 1984–1991) or even come literally true (as in ''The Lathe of Heaven'', 1971). Such stories play to audiences’ experiences with their own dreams, which feel as real to them as the real world that inspires them. | In speculative fiction, the line between dreams and reality may be blurred even more in the service of the story. Dreams may be psychically invaded or manipulated (the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' films, 1984–1991) or even come literally true (as in ''The Lathe of Heaven'', 1971). Such stories play to audiences’ experiences with their own dreams, which feel as real to them as the real world that inspires them. |