Discussion of Olgerd's Map
Original Source ↗How do you know in which quadrant a dream occurs?
Vlad: Generally, in some dreams, you feel where a certain place is located relative to your home – that is, afterwards, upon waking, you can say that, for example, you were lower and to the left of your house – even though you didn't see the house. This is in addition to the feeling of an arrow. (when you imagine a compass with an arrow or simply an arrow pointing north in a dream – editor's note) IMHO, if you think about this every time (where the house was; where the arrow would point) and strongly desire to understand – gradually, the intent to feel such things will transition into the dream; in the dream itself, you begin to ponder this – then everything will become much clearer. As I understand it, the main thing in mapping is that the intent to study places in a dream transfers into the dream. Izriga had something about intuitive map compilation (when you plot fragments onto a sheet intuitively), and that these maps turned out to be quite accurate.
Olgerd: Checking the quadrants is not difficult. I compiled the map based on two methods. The first is intuition or inspiration (as you understand, it won't work for everyone). The second is conscious visitation of specific quadrants. Regarding the latter, I can more or less vouch for C3, A1, and C2. Regarding B2: The Elemental Zone or Disaster Zone — dreams related to catastrophes and elements (the latter can be understood almost literally: for example, I stand in a river and pull a hump of water out of it, much like in the second Mummy film). Labyrinths are doom-like, plus caves. They are located inside hills. And generally, anything connected with "underground." Houses are abandoned buildings and deserted settlements. The Control-and-Trace Strip is a plowed field or a control-and-trace strip at the edge of the forest. They skillfully shoot from a crossbow there :)
Andrew Kuralekh: I once visited a corner, apparently C3. My observations: In the very corner, there is a lake, similar to Lake Seliger. An unpleasant place. The other shore is not visible. It stretches somewhere towards B3. A small river, flowing from the direction of C2, empties into the lake. Beyond the river, there's a pine forest extending to the horizon. The lake is the lowest part; from it, the terrain rises towards the city. Between the city and the lake, closer to the lake, there is an area of unfinished dachas. The quadrant was also crossed by an arc-shaped clearing, as if burnt into the forest. Between the city and the unfinished dachas, I encountered a glade with giant berries and an old woman who was in charge of this place. [Generally, in my Lucid Dreams, I either encounter old women (who either offer something or simply watch me from a distance), or wicked children (whose laughter would drive you mad).] That time, the old woman offered me to eat the berries. Nearby, there were also objects I couldn't interpret. In general, it looks like C3. ...No, perhaps I was a bit hasty with C3. Yesterday, I reviewed my notes and initial map sketches and found a couple of dreams and one Lucid Dream in C3. So: there's a large forest there, wandering through it, I came out to a small lake, which I marked on the map as "forest lake," and found no islands. Interestingly, symmetrically in A3, there is a similar small lake. In the westward direction, the forest becomes less "wild." Also in a Lucid Dream there, slightly west of the lake, in the forest, I saw "abandoned houses" (somewhere on the border of B3 and C3, slightly above). Apparently, these are your unfinished dachas. Although, further south, in C2, I have dacha settlements (border of C2 and C3).
Olgerd: The glade with the old woman – that was there, only I don't remember any berries. That's more likely the junction of B3 and C3, closer to the road. There's a slight confusion regarding two funnels/craters in the west and east. One of them definitely exists; the second might not. And there's another global problem: the landscape of one of the lower worlds is very similar to the map's landscape. Therefore, overlays are possible in some places. The City. Places like a university (school, academy, institute) and an arena (amphitheater, theater) – everyone has them. A canteen/cafeteria, I think, too, because people who never eat in cafes are few. By the way, Lenas's map is very good. And as you must have noticed, it correlates well with my version. I also liked Doris's map. With one drawback, however – the pieces are correct, but they are arranged incorrectly.