The Map is Not the Territory.
It’s the Way Out.

Rebuilding the legendary FirstGate project for the modern era. Map your dreams, find the transitions, and uncover the shared world.

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The Legacy of the First Gate

In the early 2000s, a loose collective of explorers known as the "Dream Hackers" discovered a glitch in the matrix of our sleep. They realized that dreams were not random hallucinations, but persistent locations—stable programs running in a vast, interconnected network.

They built a tool called FirstGate. It was a primitive digital compass, a way to log "spheres" (dream locations) and the "transits" between them. For the first time, dreamers weren't just watching movies in their sleep; they were building maps.

But the tool was lost to time. The servers went dark. The maps fragmented.

ThirdGate is the resurrection of that technology. We have rebuilt the cartography engine from the ground up for iOS and the Web. The goal remains the same: to dispel the fog of war and find the borders where your personal dream world ends... and the shared reality begins.

How It Works

The Bubble (Sphere)

Every dream takes place somewhere. A house. A school. A strange, neon-lit city. In ThirdGate, these are Bubbles. Initially, they float in the void of your map, disconnected and chaotic.

The Transit

The magic happens when you move. If you walk from your Childhood Home to a Desert in a single dream, you have discovered a Transit.

The Network

Record the transit, and ThirdGate draws the line. As you connect bubbles, the random chaos snaps into a rigid structure. A map emerges. North, South, East, West—the geography of your subconscious is revealed.

Archive of Original Dream Hackers

Chronicles from the first explorers

Nov 3, 2011

History of This Site

by gm aka Keshunchick
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May 29, 2003

Flight Barrier

by Lenas
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Jan 30, 2003

Becoming Sour for the Fliers

by Lemuriets
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