Dreamer

A Dreamer is an individual who is capable of visiting the Dreamlands in his dreams.
Earlier in life, most people can enter the Dreamlands at will, but as adulthood approaches, this gateway closes for the majority of these dreamers. The ability to dream usually begins with the onset of puberty or in rare cases even earlier. Only a few adults have been able to enter this land again, through the use of certain drugs, magical rituals or simply by searching the Seventy Steps of Light Slumber. Some physical portals between the Dreamlands and the waking world do exist, but these gateways are few and often found in dangerous locales in both realms.
== Entering the Dreamlands ==
A journey to the Dreamlands typically begins with the dreamer descending the Seventy Steps of Light Slumber to the Cavern of Flame, where they will meet the high priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah. If the two priests find the dreamer worthy, they may then continue down the Seven Hundred Steps of Deeper Slumber to the Enchanted Wood. After avoiding the dangers of this wood, the dreamer is free to roam the lands of dream at his leisure. 
== Dreamer's lifestyle ==
Dreamers generally remain within the Dreamlands for as long as they are asleep in the waking world. Time in the Dreamlands is fluid, but generally a dreamer will be in the Dreamlands a week for every hour his waking body remains asleep.
Dreamers live fairly normal lives in the Dreamlands, even those who become adventurers. They must eat, drink, and sleep just as in the waking world. They must have clothing and shelter, all the material goods needed to furnish their home, and armor and weapons if they plan to go adventuring or take up mercenary work. And for all this, they must have money. Many dreamers become adventurers as the quickest means of acquiring wealth they can turn into money, but there is also every sort of professional and craftsman in the Dreamworld that one can think of.
Many dreamers use the Dreamlands as a refuge from a disappointing or hard life, and many more use the Dreamworld as an opportunity to start over or live the lives they want. Some will even marry and start families, and because of the fluidity of time, many can live for many decades or even centuries. However, the Dreamlands is far from a paradise; The presence of criminals, monsters, and wicked beings makes it a dangerous place. 
Dreamers can be injured and become sick, they will grow old - if at a slower rate - and all die at one point or another. A dreamer whose dream body dies can never return to the Dreamlands again. Still, one advantage is that the reverse is not true - a dreamer whose waking body dies can elect to live on in the Dreamlands for the remainder of his life, provided his dream body remains whole and unharmed. 
Some dreamers are the Dreamlands' greatest heroes. Among such famous names are King Kuranes, who dreamt of the timeless city of Celephaïs, Etienne-Laurent de Marigny, the New Orleans mystic, and Randolph Carter, whose quest to Kadath is one of the Dreamlands' greatest saga’s of adventure and wonder.
== List of famous dreamers ==
* Kuranes, the greatest of all dreamers to have ever lived. 
* Randolph Carter, whose quest for Far Kadath is legend in the Dreamlands.
* Etienne-Laurent de Marigny, whose gift for dreaming has allowed him to ascend beyond the Dreamlands of Earth entirely.
* Basil Elton, a Lighthouse keeper whose journeys across the far seas of the Dreamlands are chronicled in The White Ship.
* Grant Enderby
* David Hero
* Eldin the Wanderer
* Ward Phillips