Dreams

Dreams are a powerful force in modern science and magic. They form the basis of how humans, and many humanoids, understand the world around them. As such, harvesting dreams has become an essential operation with amazing opportunities for hardworking entrepreneurials. And while dreams may be caught anywhere, the purest product can be mined and sourced at Dream City, a modern cloud-based city that has evolved to catch the fickle dream-currents to collect quality dream-stuff with specialised dream-nets and other proprietary dream catching apparatus.
Dreams are exported throughout the known world either bottled, or as oxidised powdered dreams held in creams, powders and tinctures.

For information on which dream product is right for you, please visit your local apothecary.

Properties

Geology & Geography

While dreams can be found wherever mammals congregate, some dreams are more powerful than others. Dream City is located over the most powerful atmospheric dream currents, and is capable of moving when they move. That's why Dream City deserves its reputation as the best location to set up your dream harvesting industry.

Life & Expiration

Dreams in their original form have a half life of between 5 minutes and three days, depending on storage. Oxidised dream has a half life of around a hundred years, but it must be noted that the processes of oxidation and reduction will not give you the original dream back again.

History & Usage

Everyday use

Dreams are useful in various forms, depending on the nature of the dreams

• torture
• sleep therapy
• motivational tool
• inspiration
• spell component
• building material (for beanstalk castles and other floating castles)

Dreams can be oxidized and ground into a powder as a powerful Powdered dreams are useful as a magical ingredient. Wizards and witches are both very fond of powdered dreams, and tend to avoid all other sorts of dreams as destablizing to magical spells.

Cultural Significance and Usage

Dreams are culturally significant for many peoples, with techniques to catch, neutralise and better use dreams playing an important part of early science and as one of the earliest spell notations.

Catching dreams and using dreams as spell components is well documented in oral traditions from all realms.

— oneirology expert Aida Knap

Manufacturing & Products

• Dream Sand
• Tincture of Dream
• Essence of Nightmare
• Bane
• Euphoria
• Dream Dust (manufacturing byproduct with highly addictive properties)

Sleepy Night-Night Snoozy Snooze proprietary to Craggy Island Monastery Inc Go the Fork to Sleep, proprietary to Go The Fork To Sleep Industries Inc Breeze Blocks

Hazards

Sleep walking, Dream paralysis, Haunting, Prophetic Visions, Nausea, Narcolepsy, Paranoia, Euphoria.

Meticulous handwashing is essential when working with any industrial sleep collecting apparatus.

— Dream City Health and Safety official notification

To discover more about Dream City's exciting opportunities, and the lucrative dream market, find The Dream Team and discover how Dream City can make you a whole heap of cold hard gold. The Dream Team can be found at the municipal offices, third floor. If travel is difficult for you, try dreaming about the opportunity tonight. And don't forget make your dream as explicit as possible and ask for me, Gertrude Starspell so that we can make your dreams come true.

— Gertrude Starspell of The Dream Team

by Craig Phillips

Odor

Depends on the dream. Dreams carry their own distinctive odours.

Taste

Marshmallows

Color

While some people insist dreams have an aura, pure dream-stuff appears to be colourless

Boiling / Condensation Point

-100 degrees

Melting / Freezing Point

-218.4 degrees

Density

approximately 1.225 kg/m3

Common State

gaseous

by Unknown 17th Century