In November 2021, I visited DayDream Believer, a region design by Janna Daydream (Janna Blackwood), and found it to be an setting ready for winter and elegantly eye-catching (see here for more). Since then, the setting has relocated to a new homestead region, and at the time of my latest visit offered more of a summer setting with the focus very much on daydreams and the freedom of the mind has for wandering as we sit within that state mid-way between sleep and being fully awake.
Welcome to Daydream Believer
the place between sleeping and waking up
the place that let you keep dreaming– DayDream Believer About Land description
The new design is a collaboration between Jenna and Trisha Devotion (Trisha Blinker), and takes the form of a group of five roughly-cut islands sitting within a ring of tall mountains under a sky lit by a westering Sun. The largest of these islands runs along the north side of the region and feature’s Janna’s pose store located at it’s eastern end. A water garden helps soften the bulk of the store building and blend it into the rest of the setting.
The Landing Point sits a little further along this northern island from the store and close to a tongue of water that licks its way inland. hills to either side of the Landing Point encourage visitors to set out southwards to where an arched wall tries to span the narrow passage between the hills, a clock neatly nestled into the arch over the gap to inform people of the time as they pass beneath it. However, a turn to the north before setting out along the path will reveal a ribbon of beach running westward, palm trees given it a slightly tropical feel.
Thus, visitors have a number of routes of exploration – the store; the beach; the path through the clock arch or up over the hills. All have their own merits and offer things to see. Going south provides access to two of the remaining islands, for example. Both are much small than the main island and lie to the east and south of the region, daisy-chained to one another and the main island by bridges spanning the narrow channels of water separating them.
The first of these two smaller islands offers a quiet retreat focused around a gazebo-like pavilion sitting on the shoreline, bursts of colour provided by flowers breaking up the grass. A fountain and water feature on which to rest together with additional places to sit and pass the time, a wishing well and pair of white doves adding a sense of romantic. It’s an island which encourages sitting and relaxing, a dance system (one of several scattered across the islands) allowing couples to express themselves.
The second island in the chain is hilly in nature. No human-made structures here; instead one of the setting’s caves awaits visitors. Perhaps a little bare as one walks through it, it nevertheless offers a sanctuary-like retreat in its depths, the entrance watched over by unicorns. For those who prefer to remain outdoors, the top of the hill into which the cave bores offers more seating and dancing.
Two more caves are to be found back on the large island, one seated atop the ridge of hills running west with the beach on one side and the waters splitting the region on the other. The other sits below it and forms more of a rock chamber carved into the hillside more than an actual cave. With comfortable chairs within it, it looks southwards towards the second largest of this group of islands.
This is, for me, the most attractive of the islands. Sculpted into rounded hills climbing to the west, its focal point is a windmill with sails turning slowly and the land before it divided into a large working field shared by cereal and cows. An open field of flowers splashes colour beyond the windmill, pointing the way to where a stone causeway bridges the waters separating this island from the smallest in the group.
The latter is a small crescent topped by a large and comfortably furnished deck and gazebo forming another retreat. The fact that this sits with its back towards the rest of the setting and is partially hidden by the flank of the neighbour island’s hills gives it a nice sense of privacy and detachment.
As the hills march away from the windmill and turn north, they broaden into a flat-topped plateau, home to a water garden with its own cosy feature in what might have once been a cavern, but which now lacks a roof and so stares up at the sky. Adjoining this is a meadow with more places to sit and a bridge reaching out to the western headland of the main island.
Overlooking the beach mentioned earlier, this headland is dominated by the ruins of a huge cylindrical temple with a distinctive Grecian style to it. Missing most of its domed roof and section of its walls, and with some of the columns which once supported the roof looking the worse for wear, it is nevertheless an attractive retreat, complete with furnishings.
I would point out that the region is rated Adult and some of the seating does have adult-themed couples poses; there is therefore a risk of some visiting getting up to naughties. However, to avoid the region because of this would be a mistake; it offers a lot that is photogenic. Rezzing rights can be obtained by joining the local group, so I assume that the use of props for photos is allowed but – as ever – do please clean up behind you!
A charming region, easy to visit and explore, whether on foot or via a horse from the available rezzer or, if you feel like it, on the water via the Nessie boats (auto-rezzing what the current one is in use). Enjoy!
SLurl Details
- DayDream Believer (Lucky Star Ranch, rated Adult)
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