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Message: <blockquote data-quote="random user" data-source="post: 1597486" data-attributes="member: 16581">Thank you all for those who replied.(Ignore the next three paragraphs if you don't care about the specifics of my campaign)The only people who have this group dream are my players.  Well, they recently found out that about 5000 years ago there was another group who also had shared dreams.  Unfortunately they came to a tragic end trying to create a new self-governing city.In the first dream session, they were put into a puzzle, not realizing at the time it was a dream.  Since then they've revisited that dream once.They've also had another dream session where they assumed the bodies of peoiple who lived in the aforementioned city about 5000 years ago, just months before the entire place was destroyed.  They explored a little but weren't sure what, if anything, they were supposed to do (they were unable to find the other group).So unfortunately, I think the dreaming prc's on the whole aren't going to work because 1. the characters are clueless as to how they are having this group dream and 2. there is no one around that has any clue as to why these things are happening to them.  I guess it's possible that one might become "self-taught" on such a thing, but I'm not sure how I would feel about creating a prc where only one person in the entire world is that prc.One thing IMC, the dream world, at least what they've encountered so far, is in all ways identical to the real world, except that it's not real (or is it?!).  I'm not sure that this will always be the case, and is one reason why I'd like to read more material on it.They don't seem to be able to enter other people's dreams, at least they have showed no capabilities of it so far.  I'm also not sure what I think about that idea.  Does anyone have any thoughts on whether that might be interesting or too complicated?The Dream Points thing sounds interesting.  In dreams which aren't reality, that certainly will be something that I would like to pursue.  If the dreams are reality (even perhaps an alternate reality), then Dream Points would be harder to work in (but still possible, potentially... I'll have to think about this one).If anyone has any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas on where to take this (currently these dream sessions have been popping up about 1 in 4-6 sessions, so it's not something that is constantly going on... and it also ties into the overarching plot), I'd love to hear them!I'll try and get more info on the sources listed, and would still love to hear any comments on The Nightmare Lands or Dreams and Nightmares.(PS. After taking the class, I was a teaching assistant for 3 quarters for a class called "Sleep and Dreams" and have taken a couple technical classes on sleep (one was called "The Neural Basis of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms")... sleep and dreams have always been fascintating to me!)</blockquote>

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