Belerin's Codex Of The Planes 4
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4 While the ability to see reflections of the physical world proved of great use to the early dream walkers, it still suffered from limitations. Nothing found in the Dream could be brought back to the mortal world by the dreamer. And, while dreamers have the powers of their mortal selves, it was apparent that powerful residents of the dream had some ability to simply ignore such effects. (A possible explanation for this is that dreamers have an incorporeal, illusion-like existence there, so its most powerful denizens can simply "disbelieve" in their existence!) Finally, dreamers were limited by the odd nature of the flow of time while sleeping. Sometimes, their trip to the Dream would seem to last months -- others, merely a few breaths. There is some evidence the alatharya had an interest in the Dream as well, and brought back a plant native to the Dream to Avendar. This plant, a mushroom known as 'ketsari fungus', has a wide variety of unusual properties, most relating to the Dream. It is an open question whether the alatharya used the fungus in the way that we moderns do, but I am of the opinion that they did not, in fact, intend it for the use we put it to, for reasons we shall discuss shortly. Ketsari fungus tends to grow in unusual places. Oddly, there appears to be neither rhyme nor reason to the conditions under which it will flourish. Those who tend it claim that they can sense where it will grow, and plant accordingly. Other scholars, of whom I am one, believe that ketsari fungus thrives in places who have some correspondence to the places in the Dream where ketsari fungus thrives. Thus, if ketsari fungus grows only in a two feet plot of soil on the edge of a forest, perhaps this is because in the Dream, the same spot is a rotting stump covered by wild ketsari.
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