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When traveling in the Fifth Dimension, time and space are irrational, and there are dangers. Ultimately, we can be like a land animal swimming in the sea. Some who live there fear us, as they would anything unusual in their environment. Others are not aware of us, and would harm us only because we did what we shouldn’t have, like putting your finger into an anemone’s tentacles. There are other things that might find us curious, or even tasty. In the end one can get lost, or forget to return all together. This is why I recommend that if you would walk the Fifth Dimension, strive for accuracy before you strive for speed. This way, you will always have grace and experience on your side.
The only safety is a well-developed ego and a healthy Shadow (anti-ego). Being well aquatinted with your spirit guide is good as well. A spirit guide is a titular spirit that will protect you as she or he guides and teaches.
In the Fifth Dimension (that realm where the stuff that dreams consists of comes from), ideas form shapes. We can then reflect these shapes into events in the terrestrial world. I think this is how the Shamans of old called for rain and good hunting. This is how we call down good will and success, and divert fortunes both good and ill.
In the Fifth Dimension, there are conscious dangers, too. There truly are more things in this grand universe than are found in our philosophy. Not all of them are kind and generous. Just hold the first Law of the Magus as "Know yourself," then you can do as you will.
Many have gone into the Fifth Dimension, and not returned. Magic does respond well with aggression, and nature does not care that you live and another dies. Walk these realms with respect for those who live there. What can you command anything with fear? Better, it is, to have their respect for you. If you go to ask for a favor, be prepared to grant one in return. Make such contracts clear, and before doing anything. The Use of terror may get you what you want. Yet such a choice could cost you more than you expect. If the "lords" of the Fifth Dimension are afraid of you, you will be happy if they only confuse you, or send you home. Think not that they will not kill, for they can. Look to the story of Baldar, the Shining.
Upon his birth, the Norns - seers of all time and space, masters of even the gods - told his mother that he would die. His mother roamed the universe, and begged everything within not to hurt her son. She came upon the golden bough, the mistletoe, and considered it too weak to do any harm.
This became a great game among his peers, for they would throw things at him. Though they threw with all their might, the rock or arrow or spear of ice would falter, and fall at Balder’s feet.
Loki, (whom the gods hated, and who is fated to a brute pursuit of the truth in all worlds) made an arrow of mistletoe, and threw it at Balder. It struck the beloved god, and killed him.
If the gods, who rule on the Fifth Dimension, can die, then so can you, who are only a part time visitor. All beings in time-space are events within the fabric of non-being. Whether they sleep or die, non-being is unaffected, for it conserves all things.