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== The River of Dreams ==


The River of Dreams flows throughout the spirit world, including the spirit lands and the halls of the dead. Most travelers see the river as a clear blue or green, but some are known to see it glitter in unusual colors like red or black.
 
The River of Dreams is wide and said to impossible to cross without a bridge. But the bridges are guarded by an powerful spirit animal or ancestral who challenges the traveler to single combat.  Should the traveler win the combat, he can resume his journey with increased caution. 
 
More often, the traveller will fall into the river and begins to drift, drifting through wildly spinning dreams which flow from his past and also from his future. Fighting against the power of the current is difficult. If the mortal is unable to escape from the river, he will drift ever-faster as other streams join to swell the river. Each stream brings more dreams, and eventually becomes senseless, wrapped in his dreams and memories of all the people who have ever lived or are yet to be. 
 
But there are experienced travelers also enter the stream of dreams consciously, because drifting in the current allows them to step into myriad times and places. The mortal who masters the gates of time and place lets the stream carry himself to the common dream of all mankind, before struggling his way back to the beach. On the beach, the mortal will meet his spirit guide, who guides the mortal along a secret path into an alien time, place, and body. If a mortal fails, he will drift to the wrong time and place, and probably land in the midst of trouble.