Originally Posted by
Phantasos
Dream cartography is a modification of DJ technique when one emphasize place over plot. By keeping regular DJ main task is to remember what had happend in the dream, who were in the dream, about what they talked and so on. The ultimate goal of dream cartography is to create the map of your own dream world.
This approach have some advantages over traditional one.
1) It is more fun because it is about researching and exploring and not about gossips of old-aged DCs :lol:.
2) Plots are limitless, but the number of places (in non-lucid dreams) is not. Actually, most of dreams happen in relatively small number of places, so after a while one starts to remember another dreams connected to this place.
3) The goal to explore dream world gradually creeps to dream state, so dream alter-ego also starts to think about researching surroundings :).
4) Dream maps can be shared and discussed. One of most cool features of dream cartography is that some elements of dream maps are shared by a lot of people (well, it looks like dream world is a projection of our psyche or "subconciousness" - whichever term you like more, so it makes sense as we are one species :lol:).
5) After a while you can get a precise map of your personal subway system! :lol: (if you have it, probably if you never lived in the big city, you may have something other instead of it).
The main problem for starting dream map is the starting point, so it is recommended to place home at the center of the map.