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Why didn't you wake up from that dangerous Lucid Dream? I, for example, always save myself that way, although sometimes it's problematic — "the bees stung and wouldn't let Winnie-the-Pooh shift his Assemblage Point back to its usual position." :)) And CC (presumably Carlos Castaneda) seemed to do the same.

Everything happened very unexpectedly. In Lucid Dreaming, our attention is vulnerable in that it literally "sticks" to any power-charged narratives. How many times have you seen oddities in Lucid Dreams (intruders) and how many times have you "taken" them at face value? For example, you yourself described landscape changes – but does that surprise you? Very rarely do we manage to catch a discrepancy (even in a Lucid Dream). In the labyrinth scene, I was first a witness, then a participant. This transition was so overwhelming, and the subsequent events so rapid, that the thought of "waking up" didn't even cross my mind. Rather, there was anger at having fallen into a trap. And it also seems to me that I was lured (hypnotized) by the crystals of the labyrinth themselves – an astonishing texture that my brain (or its aesthetic part) savored. Everything was eerie, yet strikingly beautiful.

What do you think, if a part of your luminosity is somewhere, then it is a part of yourself (we are luminosity). But then you must feel a certain duality or as if you are not entirely here, as if a part of you is somewhere else (sometimes you even know where). What do you think?

Each of us deep down realizes that we are an "incomplete" being. And achieving wholeness is the primary goal of working with the Tonal. That is, particles of ourselves are lost but remain within reach. We simply need to overcome something within ourselves, or accept it, or understand it. The task is purely psychological, but in dreamings, it takes form as images. It seems to me that my island with the sanctuary is an expression of fear of the unknown, the forbidden, the distant from you (by whom? why? when?). To penetrate such a 'sanctuary' signifies for our mind the first step towards accepting the Nagual – and, consequently, the Nagual entering you, with its power and new possibilities that generate a more expansive luminosity of consciousness in a person. Your Assemblage Point begins to encompass a greater number of consciousness Emanations.

Did the other members of your group also get caught like that? And what happened to Alla from Zaslavl?

To be honest, each of us got our share. The Dream Hackers weren't around; we learned from our mistakes. Fortunately, Doc sometimes helped out (with minor things). Alla was a brilliant programmer, which is very rare among women. Her workday consisted of listings, debuggers, tables, and diagrams, so it's not surprising that her Lucid Dreams were marked by the same specificity. One day she found a giant computer in a Lucid Dream. We were then "obsessed" with the idea of hacking the Dreaming program. Alla decided that programs should be sought in a computer (where else?). She was an ace at her craft. And one can only guess what complex program this woman encountered in the Lucid Dream. In Lucid Dreams, fixation is important (hands, map, etc.), but any excessive fixation leads either to phobia or a nervous breakdown. Heaven knows what her computer actually represented. What power. What a phenomenon of the universe. Perhaps the Eagle? It was an element of the unknowable. And the Dream Hackers said that the unknowable devours a person. Alla fought with the dreaming program. In the Lucid Dream, she understood it perfectly, getting closer and closer to the operating system's core, but in daily life, she couldn't recall all this knowledge and nearly tore her hair out. She 'lost her mind'. Doc and I used a trick; we said that her computer was an element many call a 'prison,' another place where a piece of our luminosity is stored. We tried to trick her into breaking her fixation on this dreaming position. But we had no experience! Small but clear psychological deviations were followed by bronchial asthma. The attacks were so severe that Alla lost consciousness, and when she came to, she remembered her wanderings in the giant computer. It was like a labyrinth, but no one else had encountered such an element on their maps. Alla is still alive. We help her as best we can. She is a warrior and endures her situation stoically. And she also knows that her case is not the worst. That is, there were worse ones.

You say the map is small. How many bodies of water are on it? I, for example, have a large number of different bodies of water, especially lakes. Various ones. I explored the surroundings quite a bit there. Everything is very nice, no villains, everything is quite decent, nobody interferes with going anywhere. :) But also no hints of anything that could return luminosity.

Try to remember this advice in your next Lucid Dream. Look at the sky and wait for the appearance of heralds – these are usually birds. They always arrive when expected. Let them show you the direction to a place where you can regain part of your luminosity. And perhaps they will take you with them, show you your dreaming world, and teach you some wisdom.

What you're describing sounds a lot like a computer game plot or a children's movie (dragons protecting the entrance to a cave, you break through and take the treasure :)

Usually, it's not dragons, but the presence of some evil and dangerous being. When it's chasing you, you know everything about it. And you know that encountering it will be unpleasant for you (sometimes fatal). This is usually not a children's movie, but a mind-blowing nightmare from which you want to escape but cannot. And regarding computer games, you are right. It seems to me that all computer game plots are taken from the world of dreamings.