Normal Dreaming

Every sleeping material creature visits the Dreamlands, but most do not remember it. While you sleep, your dream form inhabits the Dreamlands and has an independent life. A beggar in the real world may be a prince of the Dreamlands or vice versa. Inklings of Dreamlands events sometimes seep through: for example, upon awakening from dreams in which you were in love with someone who is a complete stranger in the material world, you might recall feeling not your own. In the way dreams, when most people awaken from slumber, they forget everything about about their lives in the Dreamlands.

In parallels, when you awaken in the Dreamlands, your dream form knows nothing about your waking life unless you have a special means of remembering: you only remember the dreamlands and events there. Unlike your physical body, your dream form doesn't exist while you are awake in the material world: the dream form (including its worn and carried gear) vanishes entirely upon awakening physically. For ordinary dreamers, this often coincides with falling asleep in the Dreamlands, although being rudely woken in the material universe can cause the dream form to vanish just suddenly. Your dream form reappears in the same state and with the same gear when you material body dreams again. A dream form must rest separately to heal and to restore limited use features and traits such as spells. However, time spent vanished counts as time spent resting for this purpose, and time is distorted in the Dreamlands such that time for your dream form might pass faster or slower than it does for your material body. This stretching of time means that such rest rarely monopolizes time spent in the Dreamlands. A curious aspect of awakening in the Dreamlands is that you almost always emerge in the same spot there. This spot varies from person to person but is almost always in part of the Dreaming lands where you are relatively safe and can survive. A dream form can establish a new home over the course of a long period by forming stronger relationships with a new safe place. People who dramatically shift their physical location sometimes dream themselves into the Dreamlands in the counterpart of their new location, but still in a place as safe as similar to their true Dreamlands home as possible.