characters who were independent inhabitants of Oz were transformed into dream parallels of introduced Kansas characters.

In the 1999 film The Matrix, Neo and humanity live inside a dream world, with their brains hooked up to a computer network that creates this dream world. However, some may argue that this is not a dream world, as it seems completely normal and indistinguishable from reality aside from time differences. In the 1980s, the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' series