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Okay so this first chapter explains the rules of Dreamscape! Read this if you haven’t read the book Slumber Bunnies on Wattpad, so if your just reading Sleepy Kids for fun, you’ll understand the world :D
WORLD MAKEUP:
Dreamscape is the metaphysical plane where people (and animals) go when they sleep/dream.
In dreamscape, people can connect to each other through their minds, similar to how people connect online. Think Roblox!
Dreamscape is a whole platform made up of the dreams of dead people, so when you die, your dreams from the Canvas gravitate to Dreamscape and will appear as a place there.
The Canvas is a place of your personal dreams, imagine individual dreams are like little platforms, connecting to each other with ladders and bridges, this is the makeup of the Canvas.
Unlike the canvas, Dreamscape is a whole landscape, not a series of tied-together-fragments.
In every Canvas exists a sort of pocket realm, or inventory, where if you find something you’de like to keep in Dreamscape, you can “pocket” it, transferring it to your “inventory”, which is a pocket realm you can enter and exit as you please. Usually, the easiest way to enter you pocket realm from Dreamscape is by opening your bag, which can be any sort of bag, and diving in, which leads to your horde, an accumulation of stuff you keep in the pocket realm.
RULES OF TRAVEL:
So you may be wondering, “how does one hop from dreamscape to canvas and back?”
Well, the answer is simple.
Memory based teleportation.
When you travel around dreamscape, you can establish connections via force of will with the land, giving you the ability, if powerful enough, to teleport there. You can also teleport people you’ve established connections with, such as friends, acquaintances, siblings, and family.
So lets say Finley wants to teleport Sodapie to a carnival in Dreamscape, one of which sodapie had never been to. They would hold make contact, and Finley would teleport them there. Now that Sodapie has been to said carnival, they should be able to teleport there by themselves. Of course, they could’ve gone there by traveling by foot, but to find it would’ve taken forever :)
DUALIZATION
This is the process of coalescing minds, or fusing them. In this state, people can fuse their minds and become a greater whole. I didn’t get this idea from Steven Universe, I swear :’(
(I actually got it from my childhood video game, nIGHTS: Journey of Dreams, and no, nIGHTS is not a typo)
Doing this, they can share dreams, memories, and emotions, and LIKE in Steven universe, it can be a forced process.
Forcing someone to dualize is similar to rape in Dreamscape, and one can be severely punished for such an offense.
NPC or NDC (NON-DREAMER-CHARACTERS)
These are characters you may meet within a dream that are not dreamers. You cant tell dreamers apart from NDCs, as they both have minds and wills of their own. NDCs are often discriminated against, the excuse being that they’re not really real. The truth is, they’re more part of Dreamscape than the dreamers themselves, as they feel pain and emotion, unlike some dreamers like Finley, who don’t feel pain in Dreamscape.
Some physicists even say that Dreamscape is a world of its own, and that Dreamers are just people who get caught up in it, similar to how bugs can get caught in a spiders web without realizing it. Some even say dreamers are sub consciously drawn to it.
It is not uncommon for Dreamers to become good friends and companions with NDCs within the Canvas.
For NDCs, the skies the limit, they’re like randomly generated Original Characters.
NDCs are NOT immortals, but if the dreamer happens to dream of an NDC who IS immortal, then that NDC is immortal.
In slumber bunnies, Great Black is a great white shark (except his skin-scales-whatever are pitch black, hence the name) that Finley dreamt of as an initial Nightmare when they where a toddler. As Finley grew older, Great Black became more of a guide or a symbolic being.
CATACLYSTS
Cataclysts are Dreamers who suffer in the real world. Let’s say some random kid, Tommy, has severe depression. When he enters the Dreamscape, there’s a possibility he will become a Cataclyst, a Nightmare that wreaks havoc on Dreamscape and its inhabitants. Tommys Nightmarish form will look similar to how he feels on the inside, with symbolic characterizations showing up in the design. All his deepest fears and worried will come to the surface, literally.
QUESTIONS?
So that’s about it, I might add more if I see necessary, but as far as the rules go, you’re good and will should pass a general trivia test :)
Ask me questions in the comments below :D
Here’s my YT channel where I do animation memes regarding Slumber Bunnies!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLUmow0wuJC-LvPveE6SNA