Feb 19, 2001 • by Sergey Izrigi

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The Question

"I would still like to receive an answer to the question: 'How does one map the dreaming world if everything in it is constantly changing?' - This is the question I asked in Zest."

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The Answer

When compiling a dreaming map, you will discover that not all areas of this artificial space are continuously changing. What you currently call the dreaming world is an illusion. It is a description of a real phenomenon that eludes our attention. To describe it more accurately, we introduce an artificial substitute.

Example: An unknown criminal committed a robbery and drove away in a car in an unknown direction. That is, we have an unknown squared. A forensic expert uses an "artificial substitute" and obtains (a) a plaster cast from a tire print; (b) the criminal's fingerprint. A day later, the traffic police establishes the car's make, and the Interior Ministry's Information Center issues a bulletin for a certain Kuzkin, whose fingerprints matched those at the crime scene.

Conclusion: By introducing an artificial replacement (a map of dreams), we can learn much about that unknowable phenomenon you call the dreaming world. A map is not the dreaming world. A globe is not the Earth.

By compiling a map, you will discover that there are zones of transmutation - zones of continuous changes.

Furthermore, bear in mind that power is necessary for the fixation of attention in dreaming. Much power – the world is fixed and immutable like everyday reality. Little power – you are carried along by the dream's narratives. The entire science of the dream practitioner consists of two tricks: the introduction of attention into dreaming and the fixation of what you perceive.