>>21756826Jonah and the whale style with it swallowing the characters, taking them to dream realm. Just give it multiple yet hard to reach entrances, through sleep, through meditation, through hypnosis.
I've actually been thinking of a monk-inspired fighting gym leader whose fixated on balance. Feng-shui gym, sand garden, symmetry, all that. You challenge him while he's meditating underneath a small waterfall in the gym, and subplot wise he tells you he meditates to reach dream time because he
became blind years ago.
I actually was thinking for something new we have the gym leaders interact with each other at some point. Perhaps use their Pokemon together to help retrieve the MC during bad-guy shit? Have the psychic gym leader put them in a trance to go and find them in the dream realm post E4?