In 1991, Vincent Cardoza, an unconventional university researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, unlocked the key to dream manipulation using various psychotropic drugs. Using these drugs along with a form of hypnosis allowed so-called “Dream Masters” to attack someone mentally. The process was banned and its followers outcast.
The Dream Masters plagued the west side of Los Angeles for about five years until their skills were thwarted by the simple fact that a dream actually can’t hurt you. The whole phenomenon never really made much of a dent globally; the only mention found in magazines and newspapers was a refutation of the story in Marilyn vos Savant’s column in Parade. Urban legend sources laughed at it, as should you.