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I think you're right on the money. Dethl would have been the original nightmare with not much to work with, because even if the residents of the Island existed before Link arrived, their purity as beings that aren't self-conscious of their own reality would leave him with nothing to work with...

The final nightmare encounter has the nightmare morphing into various bosses Link saw, like Moldorm, Agahnim, Ganon, Lanmola, and like you said, Dethl. I forgot about it being implied during that encounter that they were already on the Island before Link arrived, but you are correct. My...

The nightmares in LA probably came from Link, since they manifest as bosses he fought in the past. The whole game imo is an allegory of breaking out of a shell, to be less socially recluse. I don't subscribe to Nintendo franchises being part of a connected universe, but it's an interesting theory.

I voted no. Link's Awakening was a dream world anyway, and all the Mario nods felt merely like easter eggs and not a way to tie the lands together. Plus, aside from LA, I can't recall any other reference to Mario games aside from in OoT, but again, those were clearly easter eggs.