Dream

Basic Information

Dreams are the images, thoughts and feelings experienced while asleep.

See Also

• Nightmare

• News: 'Dream centre' of the brain found
• News: Nightmares for many are very, very scary
• News: People Prone To Fantasy Remember More Dreams

Dream-related Tropes

• Dream Sequence
• All Just A Dream
• Catapult Nightmare
• Dream Land
• Dream Within A Dream
• Five More Minutes
• Or Was It A Dream

Sources

Bibliography

1. The Dream Repository - another wiki project by one of the Arcana Wiki contributors, with suitably creepy user-submitted dreams

2. The World Dream Bank

3. Wikipedia entry

Game and Story Use

• Dreams have numerous uses in gaming - as a way of conveying prophecies, as an alternate reality, or even just a way to establish the mood for an adventure.
• In some settings, characters may be able to travel into astral dimensions in their dreams.
• A psychic or magic-based villain might be able to attack the characters through their dreams
  • If the attacker is powerful enough, he may even cause phyiscal harm to the victim's body
  • Or the psychic trauma of what happens in the dream may leave emotional scars, phobias or delusions
• A less malevolent patron with psychic or magical powers might use dreams as a way of communicating with the characters.
  • Dreams are notoriously cryptic, and even if someone is trying to communicate through a dream, it should not be spelled out clearly but rather symbolically.
    • Characters may need to consult a psychic or and oracle or some form of sage to interpret a mysterious dream.