I'll probably be posting my first updated dream map on Thursday or Friday. The combination of humidity and fans in my room has ruined my sticky note idea, so I am going to have to write things down instead.
Originally Posted by LolaTheLoner
I used to read into great depth about the Russian DreamHackers. They've always fascinated me. (Most likely because it takes so much extra work deciphering those translations. It makes it seem like I'm in an action movie or something. ) I never actually made a good map of my own though, despite several attempts. If I condense it like yours instead of trying to make a to-scale map, I'll probably have a bit more luck. I think I'll give this a go once more! (Though mine will likely not be as pretty as yours. I lack artistic talent on all but rare occasions.)
What did you read? I don't know Russian but I've been reading the translated version of "Dream Searchers," which is what inspired me to do this. It's sort of an account of the Dream Hackers, I don't know why they changed it to "searchers." On that note, I found some interesting information from that book that could be useful to this project.
Originally Posted by Dream Searchers by Andrey Reutov: page 126
"When falling asleep, a person doesn't simply get into a dream, but he finds himself in a sphere of perception. The sphere of perception is a little pierce of virtual dream space. It's a peculiar little sphere, inside of which a certain dream scenario is played for us. In an ordinary dream, man is not aware of the limits of this space, so he takes it all in good faith. Searchers managed to find out about the illusory nature of these worlds. To see it for yourself, it's enough to, in any of your dreams, walk straight ahead for some time without turning aside. During the process, every now and then, attempts will be made to distract the lucid dreamer from the set goal- all kinds of obstacles will appear on his way. But if he will remain determined, he will actually reach the end of the dream sphere of perception. He'll be literally pressing against a barrier of some kind, a curtain of the world or sorts - the border of the dream bubble."
Has anyone tried this? I did this once in a lucid dream - I just decided to walk straight forward and see where I would go. I eventually ran into a lake and got lost in a really spooky forest.
Originally Posted by Dream Searchers by Andrey Reutov: page 127
"Transfers between the spheres of perception are determined by a complex web of transits - dream portals of sorts. If one were to pay attention to transfer moments, when moving from one dream into another, one would notice that almost every time it has something to do with an element of a dream sphere. Practically any object could be an element; it simply draws the dreamer over into another sphere of perception. The knowledge about the system of transits allows you to enter any sphere of perception.
And that's where mapping emerged. While compiling the map of dream landscapes, searchers introduced an element of order to the dream world, creating certain reference points. The spheres of perception, previously uncoordinated, gradually started merging - this happened when some pierces of landscape on the dream map were put together. The most interesting part was that, in some strange way, the elements of all kinds of cities could be combined together, and some street in Moscow could, for example, lead to another street in Kiev. Basically, the dream map joined together the elements of all cities in which the dreaming person had been before. ... Hundreds upon hundreds of previously scattered/separated spheres of perception were brought together into one strange, but quite coherent picture."
Originally Posted by Dream Searchers by Andrey Reutov: page 128
"On the assumption that the dream world mirrors the real world, searchers introduced a few changes to the coordinate system. And if west and east were in place, north and south had swapped places. As it turned out, searchers were not the first ones to apply this system of orientation - that had already been done by Taoists and Northern shamans before them."
"A very special place on the dream map was allocated to the, so called, bordering limits. These were usually seas, deserts, mountains and forests. Getting beyond the bordering limits was considered to be either impossible, or very difficult."
"Somewhere in the middle of a dreamer's map was his home. The peculiarity of this place was that it was in the transmutation zone and, unlike other areas of the dream map, it was constantly changing. If the dreamer often changed his place of living, then that became even more apparent every time his home acquired new features."
"In the first stage, a person would start recognizing familiar places in his dream and at some point he'd realize that he was sleeping, and so his dream turned into a lucid dream. With time, changes would take place in the dream memory as well; the dreamer started remembered his old dreams more and more often. At first these were isolated dreams then their stream increased dramatically, turning into a real avalanche. Basically, you'd eventually remember all the dreams you've ever had, at that point you could draw a very detailed version of your dream map. This process was the main point of mapping. Searchers believed that only once an explosion of dream memory had taken place, you'd start having real lucid dreams."
There's also some stuff in the book about regaining lost energy through your dream map, and where you would find these things at but that doesn't seem relevant yet.
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