Dream

Dream

male

he/him

Dre, Homeless Teletubby, Green boy, Duckling, Green Bastard, Dream from Manhunt (by Slimecicle)

Has been killed and revived by Punz before while experimenting on the Revival Book. The exact timeframe of when the experiments were done is unknown.[4] Killed twice by TommyInnit in Dream's vault on January 20, 2021.[5] Killed by Tubbo on November 11, 2022.[6] Resurrected by Punz November 11, 2022.

Dream is the founder of the Dream SMP, the server's owner, and its first member. He joined on April 24, 2020. He was previously the leader of the Dream SMP faction before being deposed during the Disc Confrontation.

He opposed TommyInnit and Wilbur Soot in the Dream Team SMP vs. L'Manberg War and the Manberg vs Pogtopia War, instigated Tommy's exile, allied with Technoblade and Ph1LzA during the Doomsday War, and instigated some of the key conflicts of the Disc Saga. Dream is arguably known as the server's best duelist, the other top contender being Technoblade.

Dream planned his later defeat during the Disc Confrontation by Tommy and the rest of the server, and was imprisoned in Pandora's Vault under the eye of its warden, Awesamdude. Dream, along with Punz, currently possesses the only known method of resurrection, given to him by Schlatt, and was being tortured for the information by Quackity until his eventual escape.

On November 28, 2021, Dream was broken out of Pandora's Vault by Technoblade and The Syndicate. He later took the abandoned prison as his base, where he planned his revenge and did testing to find out all the knowledge of the world.

Dream's in-game appearance is a white smiley-face blob on a light green background. However, DreamXD called Dream a human,[2] and Dream confirmed while talking to Tommy in Pandora's Vault that he wears a mask in canon.

Dream is an excellent strategist, and is incredibly well-composed most of the time. Nonetheless, emotions do play a large role especially when it comes to quick decisions.[11] Dream is a natural leader, seasoned in the art of military combat and is often never seen without fully enchanted armor and several weapons. He is mysterious by nature, taking care to mask his true intentions and hide behind his composed persona.[12]

Towards most server members, Dream is generally reserved, misleading others into believing he has certain goals and characteristics.[12] This was especially apparent during the Disc Confrontation, when he made almost the entire server think that he wanted to use others' attachments to control them, even though this was never true.[13][14][15] After reviving Tommy, he acted surprised that he was able to do so and claimed that he was a god.[16] In reality, Dream and Punz had extensively tested the Revival Book before, and Dream already knew that it worked.[17] Dream only shows his true personality and motives when it suits him, but frequently does so around allies like Punz and Technoblade.

Above all else, Dream used to hope to unite the server as "one big happy family", where no nations existed and everyone was part of the Dream SMP.[18][19] He was willing to use violence in the past to achieve this, such as when he denied L'Manberg their independence.[20] Dream still tried to further this goal during the Manberg Rebellion. It was during this time that Dream became more involved in destruction and chaos, aiming to disrupt the status quo.[21][22][23] This was all in the hope that in the end, neither Manberg or Pogtopia would exist and everyone would just be part of the Dream SMP.[24] In a discussion with Punz later on, they both agreed that the goal was always to have one united server.[18] In his heart, Dream wants everyone to be friends again.[25] However, he lost track of this idea as his hatred of nations and infighting grew, and Dream eventually concluded that they just needed to restart.[26][27]

Dream's greatest fear is being alone.[25][28] After obtaining the Revival Book, Dream and Punz's main goal became to learn all the mysteries of the world.[29] They wanted to figure out everything that was unknown, what life was and how death worked. Dream sees knowledge as something beautiful, and aims to live forever with Punz to have time to learn everything.[30] Dream intends to know everything so that everyone can be invincible and live together forever.[31] That way, Dream would never be alone.[25] As he and Punz learned more about the world, Dream realized the seperation of knowledge between them and the other server members, and began to see them as simple-minded people who barely knew anything.[32]

Having power and control is something that Dream enjoys, as he can use this for his plans. He liked the feeling of power and control that he got when he forced Tubbo to exile his friend Tommy.[33] When he gets the opportunity, Dream tries to have other people be in his debt. Through this debt, he can have control and power over them. This was the primary reason that Dream saved Technoblade during the latter's execution. It was also part of his motivation for reviving Wilbur. Wilbur was alive because of Dream and would forever be in his debt, which Dream could use in the future. Dream does not want to lose this feeling of power and would go far to retain it.

Dream has a complicated view on morality, in particular on the notion of good and evil. He believes there is a fine line between good and evil and that it is hard to separate them. Dream is bitter about how most server members never consider whether he has reasons for any of his actions. They think that he has always been "pure evil", pushing him into the role of a villain again and again. He started lashing out when everything and everybody he cared about was attacked and taken from him. Now that he has nothing left, he will not stop lashing out until he is killed.[34] Dream does not think of himself as evil, regarding a truly evil person as somebody that does terrible things without reason or just because they enjoy them.[35]

To accomplish his goal of obtaining knowledge, Dream is pragmatic and utterly ruthless to both others and himself. Dream has an "ends justify the means" attitude. He believes that anyone's pain and suffering is only temporary and will not matter in the end. Due to this, he does not care about his own pain or anyone else's pain.[31] This can be seen in how he and Punz experimented on Vikkstar and LazarBeam for months to test the Revival Book.[17][36] Dream was also willing to kill himself to learn about what limbo was like.[37] To make it seem like Punz had betrayed him, Dream let Tommy take two of his canon lives and let himself get locked up in Pandora's Vault.[38][18][14][39] However, Dream is protective of his allies, taking the blame for Ranboo blowing up the Community House and asking Punz to pretend to betray him to keep Punz safe.[40][41][42]

In the past, Dream considered himself to be a peacekeeper who tried to solve every problem on the server.[43] While he has not taken this role in a while now, he still believes that he has good reasons for even the bad things that he does.[44] Dream sees most bad actions as being a matter of perspective. Somebody can be a good person in some people's perspectives and a bad person in others'. Dream believes that nobody is a good person and that everyone on the server has done bad things. He sees himself as a bad person, because he thinks it is necessary to be one in order to not get killed.[45][46] Dream often tries to make others understand that he did everything for a good reason, with varying degrees of success.

While in prison, Dream was tortured every day for months by Quackity to force him to give up the Revival Book,[49] and was starved and isolated by Sam for nearly a year.[50] This had a lasting impact on Dream's health.

Dream generally acts like nothing that happened in the prison had any effect on him, brushing his experiences off or using them to achieve specific goals. Dream told Sapnap about the torture to make himself seem reasonable and make Sapnap understand why he had to escape from prison.[51] He told Foolish about it to make it clear that Quackity could not be trusted and that Dream was capable and competent for not breaking from the torture.[52] When telling the other person does not have the desired effect, Dream quickly moves past it and drops the topic.[53] However, Dream told Punz that Quackity had done "unspeakable things" to him in the prison,[54] and BadBoyHalo heard him screaming and saw Dream shaking and being unwilling to talk while in prison.[55] When Foolish asked Dream about giving the Revival Book away, Dream immediately backed away from him and went quiet.[56]

Ever since he escaped prison, Dream has become terrified for his safety. He let Punz talk to Purpled to secure his help in taking revenge on Quackity, even though this risked Punz's cover.[57] Dream also secretly started living in the prison again because he feels that this is the only place where he can be safe,[58] as he is afraid that people will kill him in his sleep.[59] Despite that, he let the prison decay and deteriorate and kept living in the prison even after multiple other people found out that it is his base.[60][61]

Dream uses his old role as "the villain" to show everyone that he is still powerful and should not be messed with. He did this when he encountered Tommy in Logstedshire,[62] as well as with Sam when Sam was locked in prison, calling himself the evil that was released from Pandora's Box.[63] While Dream dislikes how others dehumanize him and do not even see him as a person,[64][65] he has partially internalized this. He compares himself to a "pure evil" snake that bites without reason,[66] and disagreed with Tommy after Tommy said he realized that Dream was not the villain.[67]

There are several physical problems that Dream was left with as well. He has memory issues, finding it hard to remember what happened while he was imprisoned.[68][69] He cannot remember some details from before the prison either, such as how he obtained the Axe of Peace during the Disc Confrontation.[70] Tommy and Tubbo noticed that Dream seemed slow and out of practice while fighting him in the prison,[71] and they thought he was not mentally well for choosing to live in his own hell.

Pre disc saga: Dream created the SMP with George on April 24, 2020.[80] He is one of the eight original SMP members, along with George, Sapnap, Callahan, Alyssa, Awesamdude, Ponk & BadBoyHalo. Along with the other original seven members of the server, he built the Community House.[81] In addition, Dream built the wooden path from the Community House, now known as the Prime Path, and a room under the house to live in.[82] He had a pet horse, Spirit, who died to mobs while Sapnap was riding them.[83] During this time, the SMP was in a peaceful and carefree era, as most problems were taken care of in the Courthouse. Dream exiled Tommy from the SMP for repeatedly breaking the rules when he first joined, but later allowed Tommy back onto the server. The Disc Saga began with Tommy and Sapnap getting into a conflict with Ponk and Alyssa.[85] Dream tried to defuse the conflict, but was killed (non-canonically) instead.[86] In order to gain leverage, he stole Tommy's music discs, Cat and Mellohi, starting the whole saga.[87] Over a long period of time, lots of items were stolen from Dream and Tommy by each other in order to regain the discs.

Socializing Club Conflict Main article: The Socializing Club Conflict Dream fell into the trap that Purpled had set outside the Socializing Club during the Socializing Club Conflict, causing his sword to end up in Tommy's hands.[88] However, through an agreement, he got his sword back after the conflict.[89]

L'Manberg Independence Arc Escalation See also: L'Manberg Dream did not do many things before the war to increase tensions between him and members of what would eventually become L'Manberg. From the content-creator vantage, he banned villager breeding and iron golem farms after Tubbo built farms for them because they were too overpowered.[90] Dream was not present when other server members stopped the drug empire that Wilbur Soot and Tommy were attempting to create which led directly to the creation of L'Manberg.

Dream was the commander of the Dream SMP side during the Dream Team SMP vs. L'Manberg War. As the creator and figurehead of the lands, Dream refused to allow L'Manberg to declare themselves independent of the Dream SMP. As a result, he, with George, Sapnap and Punz, declared war, bombing their land and using Eret's help to backstab them.[92][93] After the final duel by Dream and Tommy was won by Dream, Tommy surrendered his discs, Cat and Mellohi. Dream accepted them in exchange for technical independence, meaning Dream SMP would not recognize them, but would not attack L'Manberg unless there was very good reason to do so.[94] Despite that, Dream had already planned on granting L'Manberg technical independence even before the start of the war.[95]

Post-war After the war, Dream was involved in many small side stories.

Jack Manifold joined the server, and Dream attempted to sway Jack's allegiance towards the Dream SMP through bribery. However, Jack ultimately chose L'Manberg and was given the job as ambassador.[96] Wilbur and Tommy built a park in L'Manberg to attract tourists (mainly drug dealers). The only attractions were a drug pond and a bent stone alleyway (the Pufferfish Alleyway), which they used in an attempt to scam Dream out of diamonds.[97] Wilbur and Dream competed in a pub quiz made by Tubbo to figure out who has a higher IQ (although it was more of a trivia) and Wilbur won.[98] Fundy and Niki pranked Tommy's base (L'Manberg Embassy) by giving it a Nether makeover. Dream fixed this in a later stream.[99] Through trade with Skeppy, Dream obtained Spirit's (his dead horse) leather in exchange for one of Tommy's prized music discs.[100] Tommy accidentally ran over Dream with a minecart causing a series of events that led to the Railway Skirmish.[101] Dream, George, and Sapnap added onto Tommy's spawn trap in an effort to trap Ponk.[102] Dream hosted a $5000 Deal or No Deal event on the server.[103] Dream, Tommy, Quackity and Tubbo started a new religion dedicated to Twitch Prime. Church Prime and The Vape Tower are built within a new district of the Dream SMP called "The Subs/The Holy Land." The burnt remains of Tubbo's old house are included within the border of this district and act as a heritage site.[104] Dream got scammed by Tommy. Through the scam, Tommy got his Mellohi disc back, as well as Spirit, the leather of Dream's most favored and dead horse. Dream received Beckerson, one of the oldest pets on the server.[105] Dream remodeled the Community House.

When Schlatt joined and announced his own campaign, Dream immediately took a stance by providing Schlatt with his bow. The two began hunting down the two POG2020 candidates though it was more comedical. After the election, Dream quietly supported Pogtopia after realizing that he disliked Schlatt. He gave them many supplies, including his crossbow, "Definitely Not Penis." His reasoning was that Schlatt was a ruler with ambition, unlike Wilbur, and wanted to keep expanding beyond the walls of L'Manberg.[108] As a result, he had an active fighting role in the War of the Burning Eiffel Tower and also provided Wilbur with TNT for his plan to blow up Manberg.[109][110] However, he switched sides after the Manberg Festival due to an agreement with Schlatt where he received the Revival Book.[111]

Manberg vs Pogtopia War Main article: Manberg vs Pogtopia War Dream met with Eret just before the war started, and told Eret that they were just a figurehead so they must remain neutral in the war. He explained to Eret that all he wished was a land undivided; no Pogtopia, no Manberg, only Dream SMP. He also described how Eret only had power because of the members of the Dream SMP backing them, protecting them and giving them power.[112] After Dream got word of Eret's wish to fight with Pogtopia, Dream dethroned them and crowned George as the new king of the Dream SMP, with Callahan as his squire.[113]

When the war started, Dream fought against Pogtopia. He eventually turned against Schlatt and revealed Schlatt's location to Pogtopia. After Schlatt's death, Dream sided with Technoblade to help him destroy Manberg with withers and TNT.[114] Dream revealed that he had an agreement with Wilbur, and that Wilbur would have destroyed Manberg no matter the outcome of the war.

Soon after Tommy and Ranboo burned and robbed George's house, Dream built a four-block high obsidian wall around L'Manberg. Since George was the king and his best friend, he took the burning very seriously and wanted Tommy to be punished. He did not agree with Tubbo's decision to only put Tommy on probation and suggested that Tommy should be exiled. He gave Tubbo three days to decide the fate of Tommy, after which they would have a meeting to discuss the issue.[116]

The meeting took place in the Holy Land, where they all agreed to put Tommy on probation for three weeks. However, Tommy claimed that Dream had no power over him, as Dream did not have any of Tommy's discs. Tommy showed that he still had the leather of Spirit, Dream's dead horse, and threatened to burn it if Dream did not take down the obsidian walls. Dream was conflicted and was forced to comply, if only for a few minutes as the L'Manbergians humiliated him. Snapping and realizing that Tommy could forever hold Spirit over his head, Dream then retorted that he did not care about Spirit anymore. All he cared about was Tommy's discs since they gave him power over Tommy. Dream then provided an ultimatum: exile Tommy within three days or he would "build [the walls] until they've reached the block limit."[117]

The L'Manberg cabinet later complied, giving in to his demands, and Dream escorted Tommy out.[118] Dream rewarded L'Manberg by officially recognizing them as an independent nation for the first time and even offering them support from his faction.[119]

Dethronement of George Main article: Dethronement Fallout Dream proposed that George step down as king because he was constantly being attacked by members of the SMP. He said that the king must be a neutral figure, and that George had instigated conflicts by destroying L'Mantree and by helping build Mexican L'Manberg. George refused, and was supported by Quackity and Sapnap. Sapnap claimed that Dream did not care about him and George anymore, which Dream denied. Dream went through with crowning Eret as king, stating that he did it to protect George.[120] During an argument with Quackity, Dream debated that he had caused no conflict on the SMP, and that Tommy was the instigator of most of the conflicts. Dream painted himself as a peacekeeping figure of the SMP, but Quackity accused Dream of involving himself in every conflict. Dream said that Quackity was not part of the Dream SMP and should not get involved in the dethronement.

Some time after Dream got into possession of the Revival Book, he became paranoid that there might be other people who also had the means of revival. This meant that it might not be possible to stop a powerful person by killing them, since they could just come back. To counter this, Dream came up with the idea of building a prison so that he could lock this potential person up instead.[121] On December 4, 2020,[122] Dream contacted Sam and paid him 64 diamond blocks to build him an inescapable prison.[123] Sam and Dream spent the rest of the month planning and constructing the prison together.[124][125] They decided to name the prison Pandora's Vault after Pandora's box, as it would be a vault that "contained evil."[126]

Mexican L'Manberg Conflict Main article: Mexican L'Manberg-Dream SMP conflict On December 6, 2020, Dream found out that the members of Mexican L'Manberg had stolen Eret's throne and attacked their castle. Dream helped the Knights of Eret destroy a large part of Mexican L'Manberg with TNT in retaliation.[127] As a result, Quackity, Sapnap, and Karl fled to the Holy Land. Dream joined them there for negotiations and accused them of terrorism for attacking Eret's castle. Quackity denied this and said they just wanted their country to be recognized by Dream. Dream said that he had already recognized it and that there was no need for violence to accomplish this. The conflict was resolved with Quackity promising to change Mexican L'Manberg's name so they could start with a clean slate. Dream was the only one to consistently visit Tommy during his exile, eventually causing Tommy to believe that Dream was his only friend.[129] Dream's treatment of Tommy in exile was abusive, with Dream doing things such as forcing Tommy to give up all of his items every day, and making Tommy feel as though he had to comply with everything Dream said.[130] Eventually, after finding out Tommy had been keeping a secret stash of items from him, Dream blew the items and all of Logstedshire up, and then forbade him from entering the Nether and left.[131]

Tommy then left Logstedshire upon an epiphany that Dream had been manipulating him and had never been his friend.[132] However, Dream quickly found him after Tommy moved in with Technoblade in his cabin. Dream expressed that he did not care where Tommy lived as long as he knew of his whereabouts.[133] Even though Tommy was caught by Dream visiting the main server area on multiple occasions, Dream did not take action against him.

Dream played an important role in assisting Technoblade with his escape from his execution.

Having caught wind of the Butcher Army's plan to execute Technoblade, Dream told Technoblade to meet atop the mountain where they previously met in the SMP for the first time. Although there was initially some tension between the two, this subsided, and Dream warned Technoblade that there were bounty hunters after him. He gave him a map that led Technoblade to a woodland mansion where he managed to collect two Totems of Undying.[135]

The next day, during Technoblade's execution, Dream and Punz assisted Techno with his escape. Dream led Techno and his horse Carl to the Final Control Room, where he had left some items for Techno to help him escape and fight off enemies. Due to this, Technoblade owed Dream a favor. he visited Technoblade's cabin multiple times, sometimes even when Technoblade was not at home. One day, Technoblade once again rose the issue of trespassing, stating that Dream should stop entering his property without his permission. He then proceeded to question Dream's residence, even asking if he was actually homeless, which was met with strong defense. Later, as Technoblade went to follow after Dream, it could be seen that he was building a house made of a mixture of cobblestone and wood (temporarily changed into diamond blocks), which he would deem "Dream's evil lair."

On December 17, 2020, Dream called Punz to go for a walk with him. Punz was the only one loyal to Dream throughout the history of the SMP, often acting as his right hand man. Although this loyalty was achieved through a mercenary agreement, with Dream paying Punz vast amounts of wealth for his allegiance, both parties admitted that it had grown to more than just a money contract. Punz noted that they had formed a strong friendship and that he would still be loyal to Dream even if not for the money. During the walk, Dream proposed that Punz should appear to turn against him, as Dream feared that Punz would not be safe while on Dream's side. Dream suggested that they could plan a scripted event, where Dream would do something hurtful to Punz, and Punz would pretend to be hurt and leave his side. That way, Punz would not get targeted but could still provide intel for Dream.[139]

The walk reached its end at Pandora's Vault. Dream explained to Punz that the vault, at the time, was only known by a few trusted members of the SMP, and explained its usage. Dream confirmed that no one in L'Manberg, except for Quackity, knew about the prison, and Quackity did not suspect or know the true intentions and purpose of it. He reminded Punz that the goal was always for "one united server," or "one giant family"; everyone followed the same rules, and there were no countries. He said that there was something he would do soon that no one would like him for, then named Punz as leader of the Dream SMP, as he did not want his faction to start crumbling. The Green Festival was a festival that was planned by the Butcher Army as a secret plot to kill Dream. It was believed that Dream would respect the L'Manberg law and show up at the Green Festival without any armor. However, as the L'Manberg festival was ongoing with festival games, Dream started to build obsidian walls around the country, something that he only did when punishing the country. As the citizens swarmed to question his actions, Dream said that Tommy had messed up, before leading the citizens to the Community House. It was revealed that the Community House was blown up and destroyed, something Dream accused Tommy of doing. After being told to do so by Tommy, Tubbo gave Tommy's Mellohi disc to Dream. Tommy then betrayed Technoblade to be on Tubbo's side. This led to Dream asking Techno to join him in destroying L'Manberg. The duo declared war on L'Manberg, announcing that they would destroy the country the next day.

Prior to the war, Dream set up an obsidian grid above L'Manberg as per his wish to blow up the country with duplicate TNT in a TNT system. However, as he knew the redstone contraption and redstone could be easily removed and destroyed, he decided not to place the needed dispensers, redstone and repeaters just yet. Instead, he asked Technoblade to help him stall for time for around 20 minutes as he set up the TNT above L'Manberg.

After Technoblade and Philza had managed to stall the opposing side with the Hound Army, strong armor, weapons and even withers, TNT started to rain from the sky in multiple areas of L'Manberg. Dream had finished his contraption and started his mission to create "chunk errors" through explosions. He used repeaters and redstone, along with dispensers, to create a continuous flow of lit TNT raining down into the country. The TNT would continue falling down for around 10 minutes, before they would slow down, with duplicate TNT only falling from one station to another, as Dream would go back and forth refilling dispensers. In the end, L'Manberg was successfully blown up, declaring victory for his side.[142]

Moving far As the battle finally started to die down, Dream would fire TNT into L'Manberg once again. When Tubbo and Tommy climbed up to the obsidian platform to destroy the circuits once again, Dream joined their call. He activated the dispenser nearest to them, taunting the duo with the constant falling of TNT. Nevertheless, he told Tommy that he was not done with him, and that while L'Manberg's story was over, his story with Tommy was not. At an unknown point before the Disc Confrontation, Dream met with Punz to discuss the Revival Book. Since they had no way to tell if the book actually worked, Dream proposed that they should test it on Vikkstar and LazarBeam, as they were one of the few people whose deaths would go unnoticed. Dream and Punz forcefully brought Vikk and Lazar to a secret lab where they were both killed multiple times. The Revival Book was able to successfully revive them and bring them back.[17] They performed tests for months, killing Vikk and Lazar in any way they could think of.[36] When they were done with the experiments, Punz and Dream permanently killed Vikk and Lazar to keep anyone from finding out about the Revival Book.

The Disc Confrontation was an event staged by Dream and Punz to get the other server members to lock Dream in Pandora's Vault, making them believe that Punz had betrayed Dream.[14] After the Doomsday War, Dream turned Tommy's house into burning netherrack. He also left signs and a lodestone compass there. The signs indicated that Tommy and Tubbo were to follow the compass and meet Dream alone if Tommy wanted his discs back.[144] Tommy and Tubbo fought Dream and got Mellohi, but Dream threatened to kill Tubbo if Tommy did not return the disc. Tommy did so and Dream told him it was a fake the entire time. Dream then took Tommy and Tubbo down an elevator to a large blackstone vault, which contained Tommy's real discs. In a corridor of the vault, Dream showed them a collection of all the "attachments" that the Dream SMP members had. Dream claimed that his ambition was to take possession of everything which the Dream SMP members had attachment towards, so that he could control everyone. Unlike the others, Dream supposedly separated himself from attachments, leaving him without any vulnerabilities. He said that Tommy was necessary so that he could continue bringing attachment to the server, and that this was essential to his future plans. Dream revealed that he had built a prison and that he supposedly planned to lock Tommy up in there.[146]

Dream told Tommy that he intended to kill Tubbo since he no longer needed him, and gave Tommy and Tubbo a chance to say their final goodbyes. While they were saying their goodbyes, several Dream SMP members arrived at Dream's vault - with Punz, Sapnap, Eret, Callahan, Awesamdude, Nihachu, BadBoyHalo, CaptainPuffy, Antfrost, Jack Manifold, HBomb, Quackity, Ranboo, and Ponk all present - to assist Tommy and Tubbo. Dream was forced by Tommy to drop his armor, weapons and potions. Tommy then canonically killed Dream twice, and was about to kill him again when Dream revealed the existence of the Revival Book. Instead of death, Dream was thus sent to Pandora's Vault, just like he and Punz had planned.

Inside the prison, the only thing Dream had access to was a chest full of book and quills, a lectern, a cauldron, and a clock in an item frame. Tommy was the first to visit, and planned to visit again three days later.[148] However, it was not until a month later when Tommy visited again. Dream's more frequent visitor was Ranboo, who visited Dream almost exclusively while in his enderwalk state.[149] BadBoyHalo later visited Dream, who showed Bad that he only had a clock for entertainment and that Sam sometimes gave him less food when he burned the clock. Bad left the cell feeling that the conditions in Dream's cell were horrible and wanted to improve them by becoming a prison guard.[150] Ranboo tried visiting again later, but was banned from visiting when he could not remember any of his previous visits.[151] Sapnap also visited, during which Dream refused to speak and instead used a book to communicate. Sapnap warned Dream that if he broke out of prison early, it would be him that would take Dream's final life.

Tommy visited the prison again exactly one month later. During the visit, Tommy proclaimed that he would never visit him again. However, there were explosions during Tommy's visit, so the prison was put into lockdown. During the prison lockdown, Tommy consistently attempted to annoy Dream.[153] On the eighth day of lockdown, Tommy killed his cat when Dream said he cared about it, and stated that he did not believe that the Revival Book was real. Dream then insisted that Tommy should ask Schlatt himself about the book, and proceeded to beat Tommy to death in the cell, causing Tommy to lose his final canon life.[154][155] Sam later claimed when talking to Ranboo that Dream laughed after he killed Tommy. Sam told Ranboo that he did not expect Dream to kill Tommy, as Dream said he needed Tommy and kept talking about Tommy all time.[156]

Dream resurrected Tommy on March 4, 2021. Dream asked Tommy what the Afterlife was like, which Tommy told Dream in detail about. Tommy went on to beg Dream not to revive Wilbur and to burn the Revival Book. Dream said he could not burn the book since it was just knowledge in his head. Tommy then wanted to kill Dream, but realized he could not do this because Sam would think Dream had escaped. This would leave Tommy stuck in the cell because of the waivers he had signed at the start. Dream told Tommy that he had killed him to prove that the Revival Book was real, which Tommy felt was the most evil thing Dream had ever done. Dream promised he would call for Sam to let Tommy out, but that he would bring back Wilbur at some point to help Dream escape.

After Tommy's revival, Quackity intended to obtain the Revival Book. He went to the prison and made a deal with Sam to get the Revival Book from Dream. Sam gave him access to the "tools" of the Warden, and allowed Quackity to bring them into the main cell. After Quackity got into the prison, he went to the main cell and insisted to Dream that he needed the knowledge of how to revive people. Dream screamed for Sam when he noticed that Quackity had weapons. Quackity vowed that he would visit Dream every day to torture him until he gave him the knowledge of what was inside the Revival Book. When Dream refused to give him knowledge of the book, Quackity went through with his promise.[158]

On April 29, 2021, Tommy went invisibly to the prison with Ghostbur with the intention of killing Dream. Sam spotted Tommy with the Axe of Peace at the cell and made Tommy go on the bridge, leaving Ghostbur behind. Dream started threatening Sam and Tommy to either let him out or he was going to revive Wilbur. Since Sam would not let him out and would not let Ghostbur cross the bridge, Dream then used the Revival Book to revive Wilbur.[159]

Imprisoned with Technoblade A while later, Quackity demanded that Dream write a note asking Technoblade to visit him. Dream, reluctant to betray one of his only allies, resisted against it. However, he folded and agreed to write the note following more torture from Quackity. In exchange, Quackity promised not to torture Dream for the following week

When Techno visited Dream on June 6, 2021, Dream shouted for him to turn around, saying that it was a trap and that Sam and Quackity were working together. As Sam trapped Techno in the same cell, Dream was despondent, citing that Techno was his only way out of the prison. Techno, however, asserted that things would be fine. Unlike Dream, Techno had options since he had friends now. Techno asked Dream for all of the information he had on the prison, and Dream started writing his knowledge down for his new roommate.[161]

A few weeks later, Dream and Techno decided to test the Revival Book on a living person. Techno thought that perhaps they could get an army of Technoblades to fight against Sam and Quackity. Dream used the book on Techno, but this summoned DreamXD to the cell. DreamXD gave them one wish, which Techno used to get a bell. Dream was initially angry at Techno for wasting their wish, but accepted that there was nothing they could do after it became clear that DreamXD would not return. Dream and Techno eventually came up with a plan to try to escape the prison by slowly breaking the obsidian blocks below the toilet.[162]

After three months in prison, Dream and Technoblade had become closer and got along well. They did not make much progress on punching the obsidian as somebody would enter the cell every few hours. On September 14th, 2021, Quackity visited them. Quackity demanded that Dream hand over the Revival Book, or else he would kill Techno. When Dream did not agree, Quackity tried to kill Techno with a pickaxe. Before he could do so, Techno disappeared.[163] Quackity left the cell in an attempt to search for Techno with Sam. During this time, Dream hid in the tunnel that he dug under the toilet of the cell, tricking Quackity into believing he too had escaped the prison.

When Quackity had left the prison, Sam went back to the cell to investigate. He found Dream hiding in the tunnel below the water. Dream begged Sam not to tell Quackity that he was still in the prison, as he was scared that Quackity would kill him. Dream pointed out that Sam's job was to keep him alive in the prison. After Dream kept pleading with him, Sam eventually agreed not to tell Quackity that Dream did not escape. When Dream asked Sam if he could go to the courtyard and get better food, Sam refused and blamed Dream for all of the prison's bad conditions. Sam said that Dream deserved everything and should be thankful. He threatened that next time, it might be him who would torture Dream instead of Quackity doing it.[165]

Legacy Arc Freedom Main article: Pandora's Vault jailbreak At some point, Awesamdude put in a new alarm system outside Dream's cell, so that if only a block was broken, the alarm would instantly go off and the guards would be summoned immediately. This was to prevent any escape attempts. On November 28, 2021, Technoblade decided to free Ranboo and Dream from prison. He swam through the lava pool with fire resistance, reaching Dream's cell. Dream was surprised, and told Technoblade about the new alarm system. Techno then put down a piece of TNT, and ignited it. This blew up some of the redstone, but set off the alarm anyways. Techno put down an ender chest and gave weapons and armor to Dream, along with some ender pearls and golden apples. They then both swam through the lava pool with fire resistance, trying to find Ranboo.[166]

Soon after, they ran into Sam and BadBoyHalo, who were running towards the cell to see what happened. They ender pearled through the lava tunnel, and put up a short fight that ended with BadBoyHalo being killed several times. Sam then ran back to the guard's prison room to plan out their next move. Meanwhile, Techno used milk and TNT to break in one of the cells, which surprisingly contained Connor. Techno decided to bring Connor with them and also broke Ranboo out. However, Dream did not care about Ranboo, and suggested several times to Techno to just get out of here before any more guards reached them. The group eventually escaped the prison using the tunnel that Techno dug earlier on.[167]

After they got out, however, they were instantly attacked by most of the SMP's members. They had heard the alarm sound and Sam had warned them that Dream had escaped, so they had come near the prison to investigate. While Dream was fighting most of the SMP's members, Sam threatened Techno. He told him that if Dream did not return to the prison, he would take Ranboo's last canon life. Techno did not know what to do, and Ranboo ended up being killed by Sam. Meanwhile, Niki spawned some withers in to distract everyone. While fighting Sam, Techno decided to make a run for it with Niki, Philza, Connor, and Dream.[168]

The group was able to outrun their pursuers and escaped through the Nether. When they arrived at Technoblade's cabin, Dream asked Techno what the hiding plan was. Techno replied that he was not hiding and that he was going after Sam. He demanded that Dream gave him his armor back, pointing out that the favor was to break Dream out, not to give him a full set of armor. Dream was shocked but gave all of his armor back to Techno. Techno did allow him to keep his sword and shield, but Dream would owe him a favor in return. Dream left because he was afraid that without his armor, others would kill him.[1Now with full gear, Dream went to Logstedshire to get the Axe of Peace which was buried below the cross next to Tnret. Tommy also arrived at Logstedshire to prevent Dream from retrieving the Axe of Peace. However, Dream had already taken it from the chest. Dream taunted Tommy, welcoming him back to exile. He claimed that he would kill Tommy again and then revive him and kill him in an endless cycle. Dream said that Tommy had messed him up, making him get tortured in prison by Quackity. He accused Tommy of knowing about this and wanting it to happen. Dream told him he would make every day a living hell for him and started chasing Tommy. Tommy tried to run away from him and said that people would know what Dream had done. As Dream was chasing Tommy, he boasted that he could have easily killed Tommy already and that he was just toying with him now. Tommy ended up taking refuge at Phil's house, after which Dream left for Snowchester.

HistoryDream went to Snowchester where Tubbo had kept his armor, Nightmare. Sapnap was waiting for him there and had taken the armor. Dream wanted him to give it back, but Sapnap refused. When Sapnap asked him why he got out of prison, Dream told him that Quackity was torturing him to get the Revival Book. As they were arguing, Technoblade and Tubbo were in the hallway leading to the room. To repay the favor that he owed Techno, Dream returned the Axe of Peace to him.[170] Dream then blocked the entrance so he could talk to Sapnap. He said that if Sapnap gave him his armor and weapons back, his plan was to leave and get away from everyone. However, Sapnap was suspicious that he would actually do that, to which Dream conceded that he would still live in the SMP but that he would be peaceful. Sapnap did not believe that, and still refused to give the armor after Dream said he did not want to fight Sapnap.[171] As Dream wondered what Sapnap had been up to for the past year, Sapnap explained that he was working on Kinoko Kingdom with Karl and George. Dream used an enderpearl to get out of the room, telling Sapnap he would figure out Kinoko’s location for himself. As he was running and Sapnap chased him, Dream threatened Sapnap, saying he would get his reserves of TNT. After a short chase, Dream disappeared and Sapnap lost track of him.

Following his escape, Dream took refuge in the Pandora's Vault, since it was fortified but abandoned. On January 30th, 2022, Dream found Sam in his old cell. Sam had been locked up there by Techno, Eret, and Tubbo as punishment for killing Ranboo. Dream exclaimed that this was the best day of his life, that Sam was an idiot and that it was karma that he ended up in the prison. Dream said that Sam was evil for letting Dream get tortured and that he might as well have held the knife himself. Sam eventually ended up admitting that he looked forward to Quackity coming in every day to torture Dream, because then they would finally get the Revival Book and could kill Dream.[173]

Dream asked Sam if he had heard the story of Pandora's box. Sam explained that the box was opened up and then evil was released into the world. Dream replied that Sam locked him up and made him very angry. He was tortured, betrayed, and lied to. Every person that did those things to him was now going to face his wrath. Dream told Sam that he would figure out how the prison worked and how to get into every guard area. He planned to keep Sam in the prison for a year and then kill him. Dream promised Sam that he would come in every day to give him food and ask questions.[174]

The next day, Dream came to visit Sam. Dream asked Sam if he was a good person. Sam said that he knew he was a good person, and that he did things for the greater good and that made them not bad. Dream requested that Sam list all the bad things that he did, which Sam proceeded to do. However, Sam did not list the fact that he had locked up Dream and had let Quackity torture him, which made Dream angry. Dream said that even he had not done all the bad things that Sam had done. He thought that Sam was similar to him, except Dream was able to admit that he was a bad person, while Sam lacked self-reflection.[175]

Changing his mind from the previous day, Dream told Sam that he might not kill him after a year if he was able to realize his wrongs and rights. Sam then went on to say that the torture was just a means to an end, and that he would have let Dream go if he had just given them the Revival Book. This made Dream very mad because Sam was lying to him. Dream pointed out that Sam had admitted the previous day that he would have Quackity kill Dream once they got the book. Dream gave Sam steak and proceeded to leave the cell. A few days later, Dream visited Sam once again. Sam immediately begged Dream for food, upon which Dream gave him steak and a cake that he had made himself. Dream asked Sam if he had time to think about himself and his past. Sam said that he had and that Dream was right about some things. Dream then asked what made Sam a good person and himself a bad person. Sam proceeded to list everything Dream had done, but Dream kept explaining that he had good reasons for doing those things. He admitted that the attachments that he had shown to Tommy during the Disc Confrontation were just theater and for show. He also said that he had never planned on actually killing Tubbo.[177]

After considering this, Sam said that maybe what Dream had done was not all that bad. Dream explained that he viewed everything as a matter of perspective. Everyone was a good person in some people's stories and a bad person in other people’s stories. Dream said he was not evil but that he believed he was a bad guy, as you had to be one to stay alive. Sam tentatively agreed with this point of view. Dream told Sam that as long as Sam admitted that he was a bad guy and gave Dream the keys to the prison, that he would let him out. Dream just wanted to live in the prison and only keep an actually evil person locked up there. He believed an evil person to be somebody who does bad things without reason. Dream let Sam think about this proposal until the next day.[178]

The following day, Dream went over to Sam and asked if he thought about the proposal. Sam wondered if Dream would lock anyone else up in the prison. Dream replied that he would only lock a truly evil person in prison, but that he had nobody in mind right now. Dream just wanted a safe place to keep his things so they would not get stolen. The prison would be his base and he did not want Sam to have access to it. Sam said he just wanted to get out of prison and that he accepted Dream's proposal. Sam proceeded to follow Dream out of the cell and showed him how the prison worked.

When they were at the entrance room, Sam asked if he could go now. Dream replied that Sam had kept him locked up in prison forever, had fed him potatoes and had him tortured. Dream said he would have mercy on Sam and let him walk out, but only after Dream had killed him. However, Sam threatened to tell people what had happened if he died. Dream laughed and said that he would know that Sam told them and that he would hunt Sam down and take every single one of his lives. Dream decided to kill Sam with a pickaxe to give him a matching scar with Quackity. Sam begged Dream to let him go. Dream said he would let Sam go, but only after he died. He then proceeded to take Sam's first canon life.[180]

Confrontation with Wilbur and Tommy On June 6, 2022, Wilbur and Tommy arrived at Pandora's Vault. Wilbur wanted Tommy to start the alarm to lure Dream out to confront him. Tommy started the alarm and both were suprised to see that Dream appeared almost immediately. Dream disabled the exit portal, trapping Wilbur and Tommy inside. Wilbur thanked Dream for reviving him but said that he would no longer be in Dream's debt. He called himself Dream's "project", telling Dream that he was going to kill himself with a lava bucket if Dream did not do what he said.[181]

Wilbur threw a book at Dream and ordered him to write that L'Manberg was always a sovereign nation. Additionally, he had to write that Wilbur was a legitimate leader and that Dream was and always would be a terrorist to L'Manberg. Dream complied and gave Tommy the signed book. Wilbur then gave Tommy’s discs to Dream and told him to burn them within 20 seconds or he would kill himself. At the last second, Dream burned the discs in lava. Wilbur said that Dream no longer had power over him or Tommy. Following this, Tommy and Wilbur both went through the nether portal and left the prison.[182]

Visiting Foolish Later on June 6, 2022, Dream visited Foolish's summer house after noticing the upgraded portal in the nether. Dream encountered Foolish there and assured him that he was just a simple tourist looking around. Foolish asked Dream about the Revival Book, wondering what would happen to it if Dream died. Dream said he had some insurances in place if that happened. While Foolish told Dream that he thought Dream was meant to be his enemy, he gave Dream a golden carrot as a token of peace.[183]Sam showed up suddenly while the two were talking. Foolish felt that there was tension between Dream and Sam and kept asking if they were enemies. Dream said they were old friends and that they had resolved their differences. Dream explained that Sam had recently done some home improvements for him. Sam appeared nervous and constantly agreed with whatever Dream said.[184]

Dream kept telling Foolish that everyone on the server had done bad things and that Foolish should not simply assume and believe everything he heard. Dream asked Foolish where Quackity was. Foolish and Sam answered they had not seen him and did not know where he was. When Dream inquired about the nature of Foolish's relationship with Quackity, Foolish said that he was just doing some jobs for Quackity. Dream explained to Foolish that he did not understand how somebody as rich and powerful as Foolish would just be working for somebody like Quackity. Dream revealed to Foolish that Quackity had been torturing him every day in prison to get the Revival Book out of him. Foolish was surprised by this, but Sam reluctantly confirmed it was true.[185]

Dream told Foolish he would double whatever Quackity paid him for a five-minute warning if Quackity decided to go to Foolish's summer home. Foolish was hesitant and Dream gave him the golden carrot back, calling it the carrot of trust. Dream sent Sam away to get wheat for him so he and Foolish could talk in private.[186]

Foolish said that if he agreed to give Dream a heads-up on Quackity, that he wanted Dream to kill people for him. Dream could choose who to kill and it might even be fine if Dream revived them afterwards. Dream said that all he knew was that he wanted Quackity dead. The second person who he would kill would be Sapnap, since he was hunting Dream and had taken his armor. Foolish said he preferred Sapnap alive since he still had plans with him. Dream assured Foolish that if he told Dream about Quackity, that Dream would give Foolish as much death as he wanted.[187]

After Sam came back, Dream told Foolish it was nice to formally meet him. He also asked how close Sam's island was and said he might drop by one day and say hello. Dream then left after complimenting Foolish on his summer house again.[188]

At some point, Dream asked Punz to relay a message to Purpled, asking for his assistance to take revenge on Quackity. Purpled had captured Slimecicle, Quackity's best friend, and Dream wanted to have Slimecicle kill Quackity. Purpled agreed to the plan, turning Slimecicle into his project and making him hate Quackity.[57] Following this, Dream, Purpled, and Slimecicle went over to Las Nevadas to confront Quackity. Quackity panicked and ran into a building, upon which Dream explained that they were there to make Quackity pay for everything he had done to Dream and everyone else. Dream showed him the keycard of the prison and claimed that he wanted to torture Quackity in the prison, with Purpled being in charge of Las Nevadas.[189Quackity flipped a lever which set off fireworks above Las Nevadas, but Purpled and Dream laughed about this. Quackity said that all his actions had valid reasons which Dream understood, and that Dream was not a good person. Dream told Quackity that he wanted him to die abandoned by everything and everyone that he loved, with his city in ruins and ran by the person who betrayed him. Slimecicle then threatened to kill Quackity for what he did to him. However, Quackity denied that he had done anything to him and pointed out that Purpled had killed Slime.[190]

In the meantime, Foolish had seen the fireworks and released an army of slimes. The slimes broke into the building they were all in and started to attack Dream and Purpled. Dream drew all the slimes away from Purpled and blew them up with TNT. He blew up parts of Las Nevadas as he let Purpled follow Slime and Quackity. The encounter ended with both Purpled and Quackity losing a canon life.

"Tommy... I've never been on your team." —Dream after betraying Pogtopia during the Manberg vs Pogtopia War[444] "There wasn't a traitor, Wilbur. I lied." —after Schlatt's death in the Camarvan during the Manberg vs Pogtopia War[445] "Because in the end... chaos wins!"—explaining why he surrendered during the Manberg vs Pogtopia war[446] "I don't give a fuck about Spirit, okay? I don't give a fuck about anything actually. I care about your discs! I care more about your discs than you do! That's the only thing I care about in the server, actually. [...] Don't try and threaten me! I don't care! I have lost all care for anything on this server!" —to Tommy during the Exile Conflict[447] "L'Manberg can be independent, but L'Manberg can't be free." —to the L'Manbergians during the Exile Conflict[448] "You're like a little annoying bug in my room, and it's— you piss me off! So I take you and I put you outside... and that's what I did... and now I'm just making sure you stay outside." —to Tommy during exile[449] "Always the goal has just been that it's all one united server. That everybody follows the same rules. There's no countries, there's no any of this. It's just one giant, like, family, right?" —discussing his goals with Punz[