The Nightmare

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The Nightmare

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The Nightmare あくむのなか Inside the Nightmare

Basic info Floors: 17 Rest stops: No Traps: Yes Monster Houses: Yes Main type: Normal Boss: None

Allowances Recruiting: No Items: 48 Money: Allowed Starting level: Current Team members: 2

Location Please upload a world map highlighting this dungeon's location.

The Nightmare (Japanese: あくむのなか Inside the Nightmare) is a dungeon that can only be visited once in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. It has 17 floors and is unlocked after clearing Mt. Travail and bringing Drowzee back to the Wigglytuff Guild to examine Azurill.

The player meets Cresselia, which is actually Darkrai disguised as such, who attempts to eliminate the player and their partner, blaming them for the distortion in space.

All Pokémon in this dungeon are unrecruitable, due to the fact that they are all manifestations of Azurill's nightmare, and not actual Pokémon. Once cleared, the dungeon cannot be returned to outside of friend rescues.

Gameplay

The floors are ranked E, ★1 and ★2, for purpose of Treasure Boxes and friend rescues.

The floors are large-sized, with varying maximum amount of rooms: 10 on floor 1, 11 on floor 2, 8 on floor 3, 13 on floor 4, 17 on floor 5 and 14 on later floors. There's 2-5 items on each floor. There's 2-3 starting enemies on floors 1 through 4, 2-4 on floors 5 through 8, and 3-5 on later floors.

The IQ Booster activates on every even floor. Turn limit is 1000. Items have 5% chance to be sticky. Enemies in floors 1 through 9 have 150IQ, and 331 on later floors. Floors 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15 and 16 feature air tiles. There is light darkness in the dungeon.

Pokémon encountered

Each time player enters a floor, only 14 of the species that can be found on a given floor will be chosen. The unpicked Pokémon's spawn rate will be added to whichever picked Pokémon is next in the National Dex order, going back to the beginning if needed.

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Meowth	B1-B11	5-7	Unrecruitable
	Spoink	B1-B11	13-15	Unrecruitable
	Clefairy	B1-B12	42-44	Unrecruitable
	Jigglypuff	B1-B12	5-7	Unrecruitable
	Cleffa	B1-B12	13-15	Unrecruitable
	Wynaut	B1-B12	14-16	Unrecruitable
	Spinda	B1-B13	48-50	Unrecruitable
	Lickitung	B1-B17	48-51	Unrecruitable
	Espeon	B1-B17	47-50	Unrecruitable
	Wobbuffet	B1-B17	48-51	Unrecruitable
	Miltank	B1-B17	47-50	Unrecruitable
	Blissey	B1-B17	47-50	Unrecruitable
	Whismur	B1-B17	16-19	Unrecruitable
	Skitty	B1-B17	5-8	Unrecruitable
	Swalot	B1-B17	47-50	Unrecruitable
	Croagunk	B1-B17	47-50	Unrecruitable
	Persian	B5-B17	47-50	Unrecruitable
	Igglybuff	B6-B17	14-16	Unrecruitable
	Lickilicky	B10-B17	49-50	Unrecruitable
	Grumpig	B12-B17	50-51	Unrecruitable
	Happiny	B12-B17	13-14	Unrecruitable
	Clefable	B13-B17	44-45	Unrecruitable
	Wigglytuff	B13-B17	44-45	Unrecruitable
	Chansey	B16-B17	45	Unrecruitable

Items

Ground

Item		Floors
	2-240TD/250S Poké	B1-17F
	4 Gravelerock	B1-17F
	5 Geo Pebble	B1-17F
	S Gone Pebble	B1-17F
	Cheri Berry	B1-17F
	Oran Berry	B1-17F
	S Oren Berry	B1-17F
	Pecha Berry	B1-17F
	S Wander Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Blinker Seed	B1-17F
	S Dough Seed	B1-17F
	S Dropeye Seed	B1-17F
	S Reviser Seed	B1-17F
	TS Quick Seed	B1-17F
	TS Sleep Seed	B1-17F
	S Slip Seed	B1-17F
	S Via Seed	B1-17F
	TS Warp Seed	B1-17F
	DS X-Eye Seed	B1-17F
	Max Elixir	B1-17F
	S Mix Elixir	B1-17F
	DS All-Hit Orb	B1-17F
	TS Blowback Orb	B1-17F
	Cleanse Orb	B1-17F
	Escape Orb	B1-17F
	TS Evasion Orb	B1-17F
	DS Foe-Fear Orb	B1-17F
	DS Foe-Seal Orb	B1-17F
	Hurl Orb	B1-17F
	TS Petrify Orb	B1-17F
	TS Pounce Orb	B1-17F
	TS Radar Orb	B1-17F
	DS Rebound Orb	B1-17F
	Rollcall Orb	B1-17F
	TS Scanner Orb	B1-17F
	TS Switcher Orb	B1-17F
	DS Trapbust Orb	B1-17F
	TS Trawl Orb	B1-17F
	TS Warp Orb	B1-17F

Monster House

Item		Floors
	2-240TD/250S Poké	B1-17F
	TS Blue Gummi	B1-17F
	TS Brown Gummi	B1-17F
	TS Grass Gummi	B1-17F
	TS Green Gummi	B1-17F
	TS Orange Gummi	B1-17F
	TS Silver Gummi	B1-17F
	TS Sky Gummi	B1-17F
	TS White Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Black Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Clear Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Gold Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Gray Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Pink Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Purple Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Red Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Royal Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Yellow Gummi	B1-17F
	DS Aerial Ace	B1-17F
	TS Attract	B1-17F
	DS Brick Break	B1-17F
	Brine	B1-17F
	TS Bullet Seed	B1-17F
	TS Calm Mind	B1-17F
	Dig	B1-17F
	DS Dive	B1-17F
	Embargo	B1-17F
	DS Energy Ball	B1-17F
	DS Explosion	B1-17F
	TS False Swipe	B1-17F
	TS Flash	B1-17F
	DS Focus Blast	B1-17F
	DS Focus Punch	B1-17F
	TS Giga Drain	B1-17F
	Giga Impact	B1-17F
	Hidden Power	B1-17F
	Hyper Beam	B1-17F
	TS Iron Tail	B1-17F
	TS Light Screen	B1-17F
	DS Natural Gift	B1-17F
	Payback	B1-17F
	Poison Jab	B1-17F
	DS Protect	B1-17F
	TS Recycle	B1-17F
	TS Reflect	B1-17F
	TS Rest	B1-17F
	TS Roar	B1-17F
	TS Rock Slide	B1-17F
	Roost	B1-17F
	Safeguard	B1-17F
	TS Shadow Claw	B1-17F
	Shock Wave	B1-17F
	TS SolarBeam	B1-17F
	Stealth Rock	B1-17F
	TS Steel Wing	B1-17F
	Swords Dance	B1-17F
	DS Taunt	B1-17F
	DS Thunder Wave	B1-17F
	Thunderbolt	B1-17F
	DS Torment	B1-17F
	Vacuum-Cut	B1-17F
	DS Water Pulse	B1-17F
	TS Wide Slash	B1-17F
	DS All-Hit Orb	B1-17F
	TS All-Mach Orb	B1-17F
	TS Blowback Orb	B1-17F
	Cleanse Orb	B1-17F
	DS Decoy Orb	B1-17F
	TS Evasion Orb	B1-17F
	DS Foe-Fear Orb	B1-17F
	TS Foe-Hold Orb	B1-17F
	DS Foe-Seal Orb	B1-17F
	Hurl Orb	B1-17F
	DS Invisify Orb	B1-17F
	TS Itemizer Orb	B1-17F
	DS Luminous Orb	B1-17F
	DS Mug Orb	B1-17F
	TS One-Shot Orb	B1-17F
	TS Petrify Orb	B1-17F
	TS Pounce Orb	B1-17F
	TS Radar Orb	B1-17F
	DS Rebound Orb	B1-17F
	TS Scanner Orb	B1-17F
	DS See-Trap Orb	B1-17F
	DS Silence Orb	B1-17F
	DS Slumber Orb	B1-17F
	DS Snatch Orb	B1-17F
	TS Spurn Orb	B1-17F
	TS Switcher Orb	B1-17F
	DS Totter Orb	B1-17F
	DS Transfer Orb	B1-17F
	DS Trapbust Orb	B1-17F
	TS Trawl Orb	B1-17F
	TS Warp Orb	B1-17F

Traps

The game will spawn 7 to 15 of these on each floor, and extra in a Monster House.

Image	Trap	B1-9F	B10-17F
	Explosion Trap	5.64%	5.22%
	Grimy Trap	8.06%	7.47%
	Gust Trap	4.03%	3.73%
	Mud Trap	24.19%	22.39%
	PP-Zero Trap	8.07%	7.47%
	Pokémon Trap	8.06%	7.46%
	Seal Trap	8.07%	7.46%
	Selfdestruct Trap	2.42%	2.24%
	Slow Trap	4.03%	3.73%
	Slumber Trap	4.03%	3.73%
	Spin Trap	7.26%	6.72%
	Sticky Trap	8.07%	14.92%
	Warp Trap	8.07%	7.46%

Other encounters

Image	Encounter	Appearance %
	Monster House	6%

Layout

Beginning	End

Trivia

• Several Pokémon encountered in this dungeon are of the same species as the NPCs in Treasure Town and the Wigglytuff Guild (e.g. Wigglytuff, Croagunk, Chansey, Spoink, Spinda, Wynaut, Wobbuffet), and therefore are Pokémon Azurill would already know, hence why they appear in his dreams.

In other languages

Language Title French Le Cauchemar German Albtraum Italian L'Incubo Korean 악몽의 꿈속 Angmong-ui Kkumsok Spanish La Pesadilla

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