The DreamLands

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. The 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 Dreamlands, a fully-real plane of existence apart from fleeting normal dreams. The Dreamlands exist along 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 Dreamlands hardly seem real to material beings that visit them, but those with certain powers or preparatory items can enter and remain almost indefinitely.

The Dreamlands obey natural laws and manifest oceans, cities, and inhabitants. Most of the Dreamlands 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 Dreamlands are 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.


 * Normal Dreaming
 * Dreamlands Travel
 * Dreamlands Time
 * Planar Travel
 * Death and Injury in the Dreamlands