What makes you a Dreamwalker is the ability to enter Tel'aran'rhiod at your own will. Amys and Egwene both have this ability.
The general population sometimes briefly touches TAR, and those brief moments in which they enter can be fatal. We've witnessed a man falling from the sky in TAR, only to leave right before he hit the ground--had he remained in TAR for one more second, he'd be dead as a doornail in real life. These people accidentally enter. We even saw Elaida accidentally enter TAR one time, when Egwene (I think it was?) was snooping around the Amyrlin's study.
Being a Dreamer is somewhat connected to the ability to Dreamwalk--its a different skill that lets you enter another's dreams, or briefly touch them and communicate with the person who's asleep. Entering someone's Dream can be very dangerous because the Dreamer loses a great deal of control over the events.
The general population sometimes briefly touches TAR, and those brief moments in which they enter can be fatal. We've witnessed a man falling from the sky in TAR, only to leave right before he hit the ground--had he remained in TAR for one more second, he'd be dead as a doornail in real life. These people accidentally enter. We even saw Elaida accidentally enter TAR one time, when Egwene (I think it was?) was snooping around the Amyrlin's study.
Being a Dreamer is somewhat connected to the ability to Dreamwalk--its a different skill that lets you enter another's dreams, or briefly touch them and communicate with the person who's asleep. Entering someone's Dream can be very dangerous because the Dreamer loses a great deal of control over the events.
You got the first half dead on. Being a dreamer/dreamwalker means that you can enter T'A'R at will without a ter'angreal or channeling. You also can enter T'A'R if you are a channeler, but only by channeling a weave similar to the Traveling weave. Rand does this upon occaison, at which point he is there in the flesh.
However being a Dreamer is the same as being a dreamwalker. It is two names for the same thing, tho dreamwalker usually refers to actions in T'A'R and dreamer usually refers to having and interpreting prophetic dreams. But a dreamer dreamwalks, and a dreamwalker has prophetic dreams
NaCl(Dreamer and Dreamwalker are synonyms)H2O
about TAR
- 04/10/2009 11:45:57 PM
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Only a few can enter it willingly, on purpose
- 05/10/2009 12:07:12 AM
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Close but not quite
- 05/10/2009 01:17:07 AM
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