Take 2! Except this time I’m writing it in a doc first! So the other day I was scrolling through my Youtube suggestions, as one does. I often get many clip channel suggestions just because I enjoy watching them since I don’t often watch streams, and I ended up watching one where Eryn broke into the prison and built a shrine for Dream inside it. And that’s where this theory comes from! Right, so, throughout the DSMP, new members are often added, the newest ones being Boomer, Eryn, and Tina. Before them, Michael joined, before him it was Charlie, then Hannah and Foolish, then Ranboo, then Vikk and Lazar, then Puffy, then Connor, then Philza. Everyone before that was there for the Manbug vs Pogtopia War (I know Philza technically was, but he showed up at the very end). Let's go back to that clip video. During that clip video I noticed a common theme between new members, one that didn’t start till after the Manburg vs Pogtopia War, and that’s that they all want to help Dream, or at least most of them do. With some of the earlier “new” members, Dream directly manipulated them to get what he wanted. He used Techno to blow up L’Manburg, using Philza in the process. He manipulated Puffy into giving him obsidian. He commanded Ranboo while he was in his enderwalk so he’d do whatever he told him. He directly manipulated these people into giving him what he wants, but every other circumstance happened after Dream went to prison. Let's look at the first instance of somebody wanting to see/help Dream while he was in prison. When Charlie first joined the server, he claimed that he wanted to meet Dream, though Tommy shut this down and said that he shouldn’t (If I remember correctly). It didn’t lead to anything other than that he wanted to meet him. It was nothing. I think it was a fluke. Well, more of that it was the first time that Dream’s doing whatever he’s doing and he just wasn’t fully sure on how it worked. The next time something like this happens would be with Michael. Unlike Charlie, he tried to break Dream out of prison. He was fully prepared to do this and was ready for the consequences. He would have done it too, except Sam stopped him, threatening to kill him. What’s interesting about Michael is that he heard Dream. He was speaking to him, or at least thought he was. The voice Michael heard wasn’t acting like Dream. He was calling him his hero and was pleading for help. It wasn’t the Dream we know. We will get back to that later. The next time this happened was with Foolish. He too tried to break Dream out of prison and only stopped because Quackity made him. He was claiming that Dream would help them, though he didn’t seem to have a reason as to why breaking him out would. Not only that, but he didn’t plug up the hole completely. Next was Tina. She, like Charlie, didn’t try anything, but Sapnap quickly told her that Dream had to stay in prison. Last we’ve got Eryn. He successfully broke into the prison. It seemed like he was simply messing around until he almost blew up the prison. Yeah, he held up tnt and something told him to do it. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the first, and only, instance of somebody refusing this urge to help Dream on their own. After this urge to blow up the prison, allowing Dream to escape, he quickly put the tnt back into his ender chest and left the prison. So we’ve got two questions now. Why is Dream doing this and more importantly, how is he doing this? Let's start with why. It’s quite simple really. The first person to help Dream would be Puffy when she gave him obsidian. This happened on December 9th I believe. On December 6th, only three days before, George, Sapnap, and Punz, all of whom are Dream’s allies, declared independence for El Rapids. This wasn’t very long after the Manburg vs Pogtopia War where Schlatt lost all his allies, causing him to lose the war. So why is Dream going after new members rather than trying to win back people like Sapnap and George? Well Schlatt originally ruled most people on the server, and those he didn’t he was still allies with. It was when everyone realized how terrible a person he is that they gradually began to help Pogtopia. At this point in time, very few people trust Dream. Anyone who’s a part of L’Manburg doesn’t trust him. El Rapids was just created, who are allies with L’Manburg and multiple people are citizens of both. He has Technoblade, but his anarchist views are bound to conflict with Dream’s. Who doesn’t know Dream well enough to know what he has done? Who can help him? Puffy, one of the newest members of the server. Phil ended up being a bonus with Techno and he made use of Ranboo’s enderwalk after learning about it. So he begins bringing people to the server. He already has Vikk and Lazar, two anarchists who he may have hoped were a bit more similar to Techno rather than just wanting to live out their days in peace. He brought Foolish, a demigod, and Hannah, someone who surely has some abilities from the flowers she absorbs. Charlie, an immortal slime who knows literally everything, even if he doesn’t understand it. Michael because… idk ig he’s easily manipulated. I haven’t seen his lore yet. Eryn, somebody who just wants to kill. Boomer, who has somehow taken over both Hannah’s and Sam’s bodies, one of whom is the warden of the prison he is held in, and Tina, who I don’t know much about. He’s bringing in an army of people who will help him. But how? He doesn’t have access to the outside world. He can’t visit anybody. And all of these circumstances seem to just be people having urges to help him for no particular reason. I have three theories. First is simply Ranboo. Ranboo, or rather his enderwalk side, is somehow manipulating these people to assist Dream. I don’t find this likely though since he wasn’t there for most of these and as far as we know, the enderwalk state doesn’t give him telekinesis (that’s the word, right? Wait, or is it telepathy… You know what I mean). Second theory is the one thing all theorists go back to, dreamons. The dreamon in Dream is manipulating people to get him out of prison. It would explain why Michael heard Dream’s voice, though Sam didn’t acknowledge it at all. What doesn’t make sense with this theory though is why Eryn was able to resist it on his own if he was being possessed, though we don’t know Eryn’s lore yet. Last theory, and of course my favorite theory, is DreamXD. I have this theory that DreamXD made Dream that way he could control the Overworld without having to interact since people use gods and try to get stuff out of them, as seen with how people treat DreamXD and Drista. With Dream being in prison, he can’t control the Overworld at all. Multiple ‘Dreams’ are seen throughout history, which is why many people in Tales of the SMP look exactly like Dream and DreamXD. Because DreamXD makes them all look like himself! DreamXD is simply telling new members to help Dream, but since he doesn’t possess them, other people can simply snap them back into reality. Eryn even managed to snap himself back into reality. Perhaps it’s because he already listened to the voice and broke into the prison to build the shrine, or maybe he just has strong willpower. Maybe it’s even future lore we haven’t seen yet. Who knows! The reason Dream was acting so weird to Michael was because it wasn’t Dream. It was DreamXD telling him to do that. He improved his methods later to where people don’t realize that it’s not their idea. Charlie told people that Dream brought him to the SMP, but nobody else did. That’s because DreamXD improved his methods over time. But DreamXD eventually realized that his methods aren’t working that well. Anytime he gets close, somebody stops that person from getting Dream out. So he gets in touch with Foolish, somebody who constantly wants shulkers and other illegal items. He’s using Foolish to get people to join the ‘DreamXD Club.’ Aka getting people to do whatever DreamXD says, including breaking Dream out of prison. And that’s the theory. I hope you enjoyed it. State your opinions in the comments. This took me like an hour and a half to write, and this is the second time I wrote it. Fun times. Glad I finally got this done. Anyways, thx for reading!