The best thriller dreams are never random. They are deliberate, coded messages that bridge the visible world and the unseen. Think of them as mirrors — not of reality, but of the characters’ fears, guilt, and desires.

The frame narrative structure intensifies this battle by letting one narrator control the way another’s story is told. A frame narrative is not just a storytelling trick—it is a battlefield for control. The storyteller in the outer frame decides what parts of the inner story you get to see. In many cases, this creates conflict because the storyteller might be unreliable, biased, or withholding information.