Map of the Dreaming World from Childhood

In childhood, I had a huge number of Lucid Dreams, which at times, apparently, transitioned into full-fledged Dreaming. I believe this is characteristic of all people and is related to the natural mobility of the Assemblage Point in children. So, what do you think, at about eight years old, such a thought occurred to me: to draw a map of the dreaming world. And this despite the fact that I cannot call that period of my life particularly favorable for the development of my awareness, just as the state of the latter was far from ideal then. ;-) In short, after several particularly vivid dreams, I came up with such a thing and made this very map. After which, the aforementioned event was safely forgotten, until I stumbled upon the practices of the Dream Hackers. I read about mapping, and some time later, a thought struck me: oh my, I remember drawing such a map in childhood! Moreover, as a child, I was very open at that time, and naturally, the map was shown to my parents and such. I even remember happily going to sleep to continue exploring in this world — something like a hacker's "cartographic fever," I suppose. And, naturally, after a couple of days, awareness in dreams faded. I remember being very disappointed then. ;-))) I also thought that my entire dreaming world had transferred into this map. ;-)) Or perhaps my parents whispered it to me? They were and remain people of very orthodox views. :)

So. Let's note that since then, one peculiarity has remained in my dreams: either they are lucid and very clear, or I barely remember them, mostly delusional loops. Perhaps some of you are already thinking: why did I bring all this up, and what became of that map? 8) It's all very simple. From the moment I remembered that it existed, I could almost see it with my eyes closed, I remembered it so clearly, but I couldn't make out the details. So I decided to look for it, maybe it was tucked away somewhere, not thrown out. And what do you think — I just found it. Among all sorts of paper debris dated '93. Such are the things. And, of course, I immediately rushed to compare it with the Dream Hackers' template map.

Here's where the problems began.

It is quite understandable that we all grow and develop ;-), and an eight-year-old child's Tonal will differ significantly from my current state, for instance. Moreover, this map, firstly, clearly represents only one subtle "slice" of the reality being mapped. Just the transits, for example, that carry you between levels, are something else. I remember it now: you enter your kitchen, and there, under the table, in the floor, is a hole, you know, with melted edges, leading into some thickets below. Or you walk down the street, summer, sun, green trees, cars parked ;), turn right into an alley — bang, evening, winter, huge snowdrifts... Many of them are fixed, and you often pass through them. They said the map was multilayered... Secondly, if the house on the template map is right in the center, then on this old map of mine, it's in the center of the lower boundary. And in general, the city, as such, is practically not represented — whereas currently, it is quite developed for me. Thirdly, confusion arises with the cardinal directions. It has been mentioned repeatedly that orientation is a subtle and subjective matter. On this map of mine, a "wind rose" is drawn (well, just a cross with letters ;-)), but I have a feeling that as a child, when creating it, I didn't understand orientation and cardinal directions very well and put them there "just for show" — moreover, the inscriptions on the map are arranged such that if you orient it by the rose, it's impossible to read. If comparing it to the Dream Hackers' map, to superimpose, say, my sea onto the Dream Hackers' sea while keeping the forest in place, the Dream Hackers' map needs to be flipped and mirrored. Well, there are also a bunch of other discrepancies, from the course of rivers to the fact that a "field" is located where "mountains" should be. Many places can only be recognized by the feelings associated with them.

In any case, this little template has now been added to the current work of fixing Perception Bubbles. I'll have to review this map again... :-) If anyone is interested, I can try to make some electronic sketches of the map for further investigation, though in my opinion, one should be careful with this. And so, this is a story-from-life.

Iveta's Comment:

Regarding the map's orientation, here's the thing. Imagine your map is at the base of a triangular pyramid. Reflect it with a 180-degree rotation, so that the vertices align, and the base of the reflected pyramid is on top. This would be a scheme for information request. The response scheme is the same, but with another 180-degree rotation.