Thread: Dream cartography. Is it so powerful?

I didn't really know what to do but I tried this. I drew places in my dreams that I live or have lived in, place that I go in my dreams that exist in the real world, places that don't exist in the real world etc... Just make a map of all your dreams however you feel is best.

I did this and I have to say I noticed results right away with dream recall, vividness and lucidity. You can write pages and pages of your dreams in a dream journal but you cant read them all in a few seconds. With the dream map I can look at all the pictures and recall almost every one of my major dreams I have had in the past month or so. Just look at that before you sleep/nap and remember all the seems.

This helped me make A LOT of progress right away. I recommend doing this.

Originally Posted by AD0123

I didn't really know what to do but I tried this. I drew places in my dreams that I live or have lived in, place that I go in my dreams that exist in the real world, places that don't exist in the real world etc... Just make a map of all your dreams however you feel is best.

I did this and I have to say I noticed results right away with dream recall, vividness and lucidity. You can write pages and pages of your dreams in a dream journal but you cant read them all in a few seconds. With the dream map I can look at all the pictures and recall almost every one of my major dreams I have had in the past month or so. Just look at that before you sleep/nap and remember all the seems.

This helped me make A LOT of progress right away. I recommend doing this.

I'm glad to hear a success story. Would you say that you need to journal at all now that you've been keeping this map?

Originally Posted by Vertebrate

I'm glad to hear a success story. Would you say that you need to journal at all now that you've been keeping this map?

I don't think it's a good idea to only keep a map...What good would it do if you only remember the place without the actual plot?

So, basically one of the aspects of doing this is that it allows you to structure all of the dreams you have. It's like this technique for memory when you go to the street you know very well and "put" a piece of information on the object. Then when it's done - the only thing that you need to do is visualize the street again in your mind and you will remember everything. That's a really great technique - we were taught to use it in school. I guess the map works the same - you look at it and instantly remember everything.

Ok, I'm getting down to making it again today. Hopefully this time I'll manage to actually complete a part

Well I always kept a Journal even before I was into lucid dreaming and once in a while I would write my dreams down. I was writing my dreams down the first couple of weeks when I started but I only do it a few times a week now. I always try to remember them even if I don't write them down. The thing about dreams is you can have an image in your mind of where you were and it could takes pages and pages to write it all down. If you just sketch out a picture that represents that dream you can always go back just by looking at the drawing (at least for me).

If you don't want to keep a dream journal and just draw them I think that is fine, this is the type of thing that is totally subjective. Everyone is different. I know I am more of a visual person as most males are. I think if you just drew a figure/place on a continuous map every time you had a dream instead of write them down that would work just the same. I might actually start doing this in place of a dream journal, just draw my important dreams instead of write them down. I am not the best at drawing though lol.

I don't know if it's because of the cartography or not, but I am experiencing the best time I've ever had. I suddenly remember dream I had. let me explain. Regularly, I remember 3 dreams per night, but now I remember at least 5, because of the sudden "vision" I get during the day. For example, yesterday I was walking past tennis court, when I remembered the dream I had about tennis the other night. Same thing happened today and day before yesterday. It's powerful and it keeps getting better.

Sounds interesting!
I'll probably read the long tutorial when I have the time.

My friend regularly (3 per week) has serial WILDs that happen in a war in a fictional universe, he has layed out the calendar (2019), the weapons (plasma gun shooting hydrogen gas at 10000 K), the technology (Star Wars + Stargate + LotR), the governments (USA with occupied territories), everything. And of course he knows exactly which states of the US are under enemy control, the locations of the bases, the newest battle strategic plan, and the map of the reconstructed Cape Canaveral spaceport. However he doesn't actually draw a map, but instead follows along the fictional story in his head. I'm encouraging him to write his dreams into a TV series script, since he purposefully leaves out "unilngopyu powers" such as summoning DCs or making things explode, instead trying his best to follow real-life rules.

^ Whoa... AWESOME!!!
Star Wars + StarGate + LotR, would be Epic. Especially stargate technology..! xD

Plus some inventions of his own. He personally says that the best way to defeat Star Wars droids is to use plain Earth A-10s and machine guns - blaster rounds travel too slowly and leave conspicuous trails in the sky, and plasma grenades just suck. What about shooting down starships with flak guns? Shields don't work against physical projectiles! whoo!

Anyway he doesn't even go to LD websites or even learn LD, he just did that naturally.