Is Mapping Dangerous?

Halex:

The idea of dream mapping reminded me of Castaneda's fourth gate of dreaming (about defying death), where, for example, one constructs their own limited dream world, into which objects from reality can be transferred, into which acquaintances can be invited, and into which one can relocate permanently and live there (like some ancient seers, according to Castaneda). How do you assess the connection between mapping and the fourth gate? And if such a connection exists, isn't it too complex a task for beginners?

As I understand it, the state of insight occurs a year or several years after starting mapping, but what about the time it takes for regular Lucid Dreams to begin? If Lucid Dreams also appear a year or several years later, then the mapping method can hardly be called effective. Of course, the daily searching for hands in dreams can frustrate an impatient person in a couple of weeks, and in this, the mapping method greatly differs from Castaneda's proposed practices. With mapping, results can be achieved playfully, without making special efforts for a qualitative change in one's life, be it stalking or impeccability. In this regard, the mapping method can indeed be called hacker-like, as it proposes to deceive everyone and penetrate into the second attention by tunneling beneath various gates of dreaming. All would be well, except that one has to deceive not a hypothetical reality computer, but oneself, one's energy body, and by entering the second attention unprepared, one simultaneously falls into a risk group for energetic depletion, which often leads to tragic consequences.

Sergey Izrigi:

Regarding the fourth gate of dreaming and cartography (mapping). Here I disagree with Halex. The mapping method was created for novice dreamers, as a "hack" of the first gate of dreaming. This method is analogous to searching for hands in dreams — the same hacker program designed to intercept control in dreaming subroutines. Dream Hackers and CC asserted that worlds are created by description. That is, we interact with the reality of the everyday and dreamed worlds through "text files." How does one enter the program of consciousness using these text files? Through macros, compiled according to special rules. "Worms" can be various microprograms – searching for hands in dreams, mapping, or finding inconsistencies and infiltrators.

When mapping, a beginner user receives a developed and proven method. In the process of practice (in the initial stages), they will not go insane or acquire pathological dependencies. Thousands of people have tested the method on themselves. Some achieved results, others didn't like the method. But no one became disabled. This is the main point.

With practice, the user understands the essence of the method. They find wonderful parallels with what CC described. This gives them confidence. They understand that they can trust the method's developers. And then they begin to restore their luminosity. This is an exciting quest. Such practice gives the user knowledge, experience, and power. When they master Lucid Dreams, they find a way to contact "hackers." Such ways can include private forums, meetings in dreams, and joyful gatherings in various parts of Russia. During these contacts, the young "hacker" is given first-level danger information — namely, working with Chains of Events (a type of "hacker" stalking) and the methods we use Lucid Dreams.

As for creating artificial spaces where the dreamer indulges in aesthetic and egoistic plans, I confess honestly — for me, this is some kind of nonsense. Perhaps I have not yet understood the necessity of such energy expenditures.