Different times would give you different perspectives on your character's experience of their everyday world so I suppose it would depend on how you need your character to see their world in comparison to what is lived out in the dream world.
I wrote a story once based on the time just between Edo and the Meiji period (around the time when Perry brought his "black ships" to Japan). I'm a long way from expert (maybe more like passing acquaintance) but if you had any questions I might be able to help.
My story this year is doing double duty as both a NNWM novel and a "big bang" fan fic for the "Hikaru no Go" fandom. If you're familiar with the manga/anime story, you understand the Heian Kyo connection... It is a fascinating period. Imagine a woman writing the world's first novel at a time Beowulf was first being committed to manuscript form.
Sigh. Sometimes I find it too fascinating. Research is taking up more time than I thought. But then again it always does ;-)
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I wrote a story once based on the time just between Edo and the Meiji period (around the time when Perry brought his "black ships" to Japan). I'm a long way from expert (maybe more like passing acquaintance) but if you had any questions I might be able to help.
My story this year is doing double duty as both a NNWM novel and a "big bang" fan fic for the "Hikaru no Go" fandom. If you're familiar with the manga/anime story, you understand the Heian Kyo connection... It is a fascinating period. Imagine a woman writing the world's first novel at a time Beowulf was first being committed to manuscript form.
Sigh. Sometimes I find it too fascinating. Research is taking up more time than I thought. But then again it always does ;-)