The Cuckoo was able to send out agents into the waking world, and while Barbie didn't know the children of the Cuckoo, they knew all about her. This caught the attention of Thessaly, a witch who held no objection to entering Barbie's dreams to teach the Cuckoo a lesson. The Cuckoo, meanwhile, captured Barbie in the Dreaming, and told her that her dreams of the Land were nothing more than delusions of self-importance, and that she had trapped the Cuckoo in the Land by dreaming about it.