The Dreamworld
When a material creature dreams, its mind passes into
one of two stages of dreaming.
• The first stage is normal dreaming, which may be lucid and crystal-clear, or may be a confused distortion of the previous day’s worries. It is through these dreams that gods and cosmic entities sometimes send visions to mortals. This first stage of dreaming is specific to a particular dreamer, being an intermediate between the waking world and something deeper, containing elements of both.
• The second stage of dreaming is entry into the Dreamworld, a fully-real plane of existence apart from fleeting normal dreams. The Dreamworld exist alongside the material universe much like the Ethereal Plane, and material dreamers exist there only in temporary dream-bodies similar to those created by an astral projection spell. The Dreamworld hardly seem real to material beings that visit them, but those with certain powers or preparatory items can enter and remain almost indefinitely.
The Dreamworld obey natural laws and manifest oceans, cities, and inhabitants. Most of the Dreamworld's features are larger-than-life exaggerations of waking-world geography that resemble their material counterparts in only the most general fashion (if they are recognizable at all). The Dreamworld is generally far more magical than their material counterpart and can be gradually warped by powerful imaginations into shapes that reflect the desires or fears of sleepers.
• The first stage is normal dreaming, which may be lucid and crystal-clear, or may be a confused distortion of the previous day’s worries. It is through these dreams that gods and cosmic entities sometimes send visions to mortals. This first stage of dreaming is specific to a particular dreamer, being an intermediate between the waking world and something deeper, containing elements of both.
• The second stage of dreaming is entry into the Dreamworld, a fully-real plane of existence apart from fleeting normal dreams. The Dreamworld exist alongside the material universe much like the Ethereal Plane, and material dreamers exist there only in temporary dream-bodies similar to those created by an astral projection spell. The Dreamworld hardly seem real to material beings that visit them, but those with certain powers or preparatory items can enter and remain almost indefinitely.
The Dreamworld obey natural laws and manifest oceans, cities, and inhabitants. Most of the Dreamworld's features are larger-than-life exaggerations of waking-world geography that resemble their material counterparts in only the most general fashion (if they are recognizable at all). The Dreamworld is generally far more magical than their material counterpart and can be gradually warped by powerful imaginations into shapes that reflect the desires or fears of sleepers.
Localization
Dreams
Type
Metaphysical, Astral
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