Dream
Basic Information
Dreams are the images, thoughts and feelings experienced while asleep.
See Also
- 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
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.
- 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.
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