It is said that a few people who fall asleep near a Musharna do not have their dreams eaten, but instead wake up disoriented from remarkably vivid and realistic dreams. The dreams are said to be a result of being caught in a Musharna's "dream mist" while sleeping, and they portray an idyllic world of nature and bizarre pokemon. Some who have experienced these dreams report befriending pokemon from faraway lands, then giving what laboratories have described as impossibly accurate descriptions of these species; others report battles with pokemon subtly different from those which exist in reality.
When these individuals wake up, they are often convinced that their dream reflected reality – and a few even find proof, in the form of strange poke balls filled with pokemon they do not remember capturing, or items they had never obtained. Most people, however, find neither; only a mournful sense that something they encountered in their dream had been ripped away from them, and the conviction that the only way back is to follow the responsible Musharna into the world of dreams. The Musharna will gladly lead these prey long distances, feasting on them along the way in a series of more and more vivid, often repeated dreams, until their journey at last concludes in a bizarre and mysterious land. This land – at times understood as the afterlife, but in truth a far stranger place – allows the dreamers to reconnect with the pokemon they have never seen when awake, who will instantly jump into their pokeballs.
When their initial dream is at last fulfilled, some will return home, but others will prefer the world Musharna had brought them to, which most can access only while asleep. From our perspective, those who remain are experiencing an eternal and wonderful dream.