Feb 3, 2002 • by Sergey Izrigi

Transits and the Fusion of Bubbles

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Q:

Should the bubbles (a conventional designation for a dreaming bubble - editor's note) touch each other? I understood that they cannot intersect, right? But, on the other hand, it turns out there will be gaps between them. Is this consistent with the description of the world?

A:

Yes, let the bubbles embodying our dreamings first touch each other. They cannot intersect. They gradually merge, like soap bubbles. You observed that correctly. The clearer your description of a particular area of the dreaming world, the thinner the "barriers" between the bubbles of individual dreamings. This means that when you enter this place at a later stage, three or four past fragment-bubbles can form a single area. We have the same "collapsing" pattern in the real world. Recall your acquaintance with a city. First, you gather fragments: the airport, the train station, the routes to a hotel or a friend's house. Then these individual Perception Bubbles merge with intermediate areas, and a "sense" of the city gradually forms. Its integrity emerges, allowing you to orient yourself within the street network, etc.

Q:

Regarding transits: if the above statement is true, will these membranes be transits? That is, I want to ask if it's true that in the dreaming world, transits operate on adjacent bubbles in the same way as in reality?

A:

No, the statement is incorrect. In dreamings, we do not move from one adjacent bubble to another. Transits carry us to distant places. The fact that the bubbles later merge is due to our advanced world-description—it is a credit to our mind. Thus, a completely different process is at play here, unrelated to the displacement of consciousness and, consequently, the Assemblage Point. The fusion of bubbles is an aspect of space fixation, while a transit is an aspect of the displacement of the Assemblage Point.