Waking World

The waking world is our everyday universe. It is a home of dreamers.
The time in Dreamlands flows differently from the waking world. Generally a dreamer will be in the Dreamlands a week for every hour his waking body remains asleep.
The usual way to enter Dreamlands from the waking world is by the Seventy Steps of Lighter Slumber through the Cavern of Flame. Besides it, there are several alternative ways:
* Using a Silver Key
* Using the White Ship
* Using the Lamp of Alhazred
*Using the Clock of Dreams
*Using a Keep of the First Ones
*Using a certain magic ritual. The rare first edition of The Dream Journal of Arpan the Elder contains a spell that can be used to enter the Dreamlands physically
*Secret paths of the ghouls. Scattered through caverns and tunnels of the Underworld were their routes into the graveyards, dead-fields, and necropolises of a hundred worlds. One of these ways is hidden somewhere beneath Sarkomand
* A forbidden cave in Tanarian Hills
* According to the legend, in Rinar there is an unnamed alley with a secret door; if certain words are spoken into a star-shaped aperture cut into this door, it would be opened. In the room behind, the fourth opening to the left leads to the waking world
* The Plateau of Leng under the shadow of Kadath was rumored to cross the boundaries of all worlds
* It was alleged that one might cross into the waking world by traversing shattered regolith of the Moon, though there were no written cases of anyone who's done that
* It is believed that cats can transfer people between worlds, with the exception that they can't bring native residents of Dreamlands to the waking world.
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