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NiGHTS into Dreams is a video game released by Sega in 1996 for the Sega Saturn video game system. The game's story follows two children entering a dream world, where they are aided by a being called Nights. Nights was developed by Sonic Team, with Yuji Naka as producer and lead programmer, and Naoto Oshima as director and designer of the titular character. The developers' intention was to make the sensation of flight the central gameplay element,[1] achieved through 3D graphics and a combination of both 2D and 3D gameplay.


Every night, when humans go to sleep, their consciousness unknowingly travel dream world. Though their physical bodies don't travel, their consciousness does and goes into a dreams. What gives power to a dreamer's dream is powered by luminouse colored spheres called Ideya, which are powered by distinct aspects of dreamers' personalities. However, the evil ruler of Nightmare, Wizeman the Wicked, is stealing the Ideya from sleeping visitors, in order to gather power to take control of Nightopia and eventually the real world. To achieve this, he creates numerous beings called "Nightmaren", including three main Nightmaren, acrobatic jester-like, flight-capable beings called NiGHTS, Reala, and Jackle. However, NiGHTS is good and rebels against Wizeman's plans, and is punished by being imprisoned inside an Ideya palace, the machine like containers for the Ideya of dreamers, in the center of all Nightopia.
One day, Elliot Edwards and Claris Sinclair, a boy and girl from the city of Twin Seeds, go through failures. Elliot likes to play basketball, but is challenged by kids from another grade and loses. Claris wants to sing in a play but is overcome by stage-fright in front of the judges. That night, the two of them arrive in the dreamworld and dream about their failures. The dreams turn into nightmares as they escape into Nightopia and find that they each possess the rare red Ideya of courage, the only type Wizeman cannot steal. They release NiGHTS, who tells them about dreams, and Wizeman and his plans, and the three begin on a journey to stop Wizeman's plans in order to restore peace to Nightopia.