Maybe on a type of obsession? More like the little boy playing soldier who salutes his mom and everything, but a more adult version? That could be hot. To just do it all the time or maybe an item type trigger like dogtags?

I have encountered "shared dreaming" many times. The thing that throws people, and makes it difficult to recognize and verify, is that our minds tend to auto-correct anything it doesn't think should be there. Hence the Rorschach tests. In dreams it is usually not so much what it is as how you think ...

Yes submission can have strength, even if some one is broken and reassembled, they must have strength of some kind to maintain the new self. Otherwise they would simply collapse and need to be rebuilt all over again. Never break a toy you may want to play with again after all. As to the tie in or vi...