Dreamscape

A dreamscape is a unique mental space that is used to perform magic - half a mind palace, half a mental pocket dimension. By exploring, expressing and advancing this space in their sleep (or in whatever state of consciousness that allows them access the Deep Dreaming) a caster can impose their dreams upon the world while awake.

No Two Alike
A Dreamscape can be anything, so long as it is related to the individual's magic. A druid might dream of floating islands covered with plants and animals, which they explore to uncover new spaces, representing new spells. A bard might wander an entire town inside their mind, where puzzles can be solved to unlock new areas and magics. Even if two dreamers study the same methodology from the same school, their individual minds will always make differences. Each Dreamscape is unique to the caster.



Dreamscapes and Deep Dreaming
Casters create their Dreamscape by entering the Deep Dreaming, which might be best imagined as a plane of thought accessed while one dreams. It is typically depicted as nebulae or neurons arcing over clouds of pink and purple, representing the purest essences of the mind. Supposedly, all knowledge can be found here – all that is, has been, and will ever be. Naturally, it is a tantalising prospect for would-be loremasters.

While attempting to take in the entirety of the Deep Dreaming - all knowledge - would be a fool's errand, spellcasters succeed in grasping at tiny portions. Through their Dreamscape, a spellcaster accesses a pocket of the Deep Dreaming and calls it their own, fixing ideas into their head. Once these ideas, expressed in the form of ​​​​​spells, are brought into reality, they lose their clarity, disappearing into foggy memory. Hence why a spellcaster must sleep to recover their magic: to fix their spells in their mind once again.

In most circumstances, a mind will return to the Deep Dreaming after death.