Side-Stepping is the act of shifting between realms, the Materiel (Real) Realm and the Spiritual (Dead) Realm, when you Side-Step the environment changes and warps around you. Your health meter changes shape too!. What is not accessible in one realm might be accessible in the other. In the Dead realm time in the real realm is stationary, use this to your advantage (Ambush enemies, make it through quickly closing doors, e.c.t)
 

You need to use the Side-stepping Glyph to Side-step to the Dead Realm, but to shift to the Real realm you need a full energy meter and a portal and the Side-Step glyph. Fortunately you require no glyph points to use this picticular glyph and you start the game with this glyph and you can't loose your Glyphs either.

In the Real realm Raz's (The guy you play as[I sometimes call him Raz for short]) energy meter slowly receeds unless you feed on souls or have the Soul Reaver.
In the Dead Realm Raz's energy meter slowly grows.
This coupled with the fact that time in the real realm is stationary when in the dead realm, is very beneficial.

The Dead realm is a very scary, cold and twisted shadow of the real realm, however the enemies in the Dead realm are weak as anything and your energy is constantly recovering so the Dead realm is good.

You can't move anything in the Dead realm either.

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