IV Insanity and Dreams The Dreamlands When a creature dreams, its mind passes into one life A beggar in the real world may be a princess of of two stages of dreaming The first stage is normal the Dreamlands or vice versa Inklings of Dreamlands’ dreaming, which may be lucid and crystal-clear, or may events sometimes seep through: for example, upon be a confused distortion of the previous day’s worries It awakening from dreams in which one was in love with is through these dreams that gods and cosmic entities someone who is a complete stranger in the material sometimes send visions to mortals world, there may be a trace of a Dreamlands romance The second stage of dreaming is entry into the In the way of dreams, when most people awaken from Dreamlands, a fully-real plane of existence apart from slumber, they forget everything about their lives in the fleeting normal dreams It exists alongside the material Dreamlands universe much like the Astral Plane or the Plane of In parallel, when a non-Dreamer awakens in the Shadow The Dreamlands seems unreal to people of Dreamlands, her dream form knows nothing about the material world who have only glimpsed it because her life in the waking world: she only remembers the material dreamers are there in a temporary dream- Dreamlands and events there Unlike a physical body, a body similar to that created by an astral projection spell dream form doesn't exist while the creature is awake in The Dreamlands obeys natural laws and has the material world: the dream form (including its worn oceans, cities, and inhabitants Most of its features and carried gear) vanishes entirely upon awakening are larger-than-life exaggerations of real geography physically The dream form reappears in the same state that resemble their material counterparts in only the and with the same gear when the physical character most general fashion (if they are recognizable at all) dreams again However, a dream form can sleep The Dreamlands is generally far more magical than without awakening in the physical world and indeed its material counterpart and can be gradually warped might sleep many times before physically awakening, by powerful imaginations into shapes that reflect the due to the way time distorts between the Dreamlands desires or fears of sleepers By contrast, the first stage and the physical universe (see below) Although a of dreaming is specific to a particular dreamer: it is dream form must rest separately to heal and to restore intermediate between the Dreamlands and the waking limited-use abilities (such as spells), this stretching of world, often containing elements of both time means that such rest rarely monopolizes time It is almost impossible to travel between the spent in the Dreamlands Dreamlands and other planes of existence except by A sleeper always emerges in the same spot in the dreaming Most spells such as plane shift and gate Dreamlands This spot varies from person to person automatically fail Wishes to transport there can result but is almost always in a part of the Dreamlands where in confusing distortions of time for the traveler if they the dreamer is relatively safe and can survive, such as work at all a human-controlled town rather than a zoog forest A Normal Dreaming Every material creature visits the Dreamlands, but most not remember it While asleep, one's dream form inhabits the Dreamlands and has an independent 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 (such as by traveling to another planet) 103