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The essence is this: you keep a dreaming journal (an extremely useful thing at the start of practice), but when recording your dreams, you focus on the localities. For instance: “I met cryonus on some strange street. We talked about Tibetan sharks. At that time, four raiders were robbing a jewelry store, and there was terrible gunfire.” Then you draw a plan of the street, the layout of the houses, and try to recall what lies beyond (i.e., outside the perception bubble). If you don’t remember, let it remain so. You assign the dream a number in your journal. You mark this number on the dreaming map. I will talk about orientation on the map later. After some time, the “bubbles” will begin to connect. There will be many of them; they will merge, creating a dreaming map – a Tonal island – from hundreds of fragments. Drawing the map is a way of bringing order to the Tonal.

And then one day, BANG! you begin to recall places from dreams you visited five or ten years ago. You simply draw a railway and a station you saw in a dream, and then remember how you once traveled this route to locality N. You know that this was in a dream, that such a place might not even exist in the world. But it exists in the world of dreams, and you draw it. Such dreaming memory begins to visit you more and more often. You feel something powerful, immense, unstoppable growing within you. Then, HA! it bursts into you! At that moment, you can draw almost the entire map! You know almost all the places! You burn from within with knowledge and power. You can do anything. People cling to you like flies to… Power attracts everyone. Within a few hours, your significance skyrockets.

An terribly dangerous moment. A crossroads! This way or that way! To obsession with power followed by impotence, or to calm and careful progression further. I will write about this. Hundreds of people fell away from the Dream Hackers at precisely this point. Then they became “ordinary people” – so ordinary that they even tore their hair out from longing for that period of life when the bird of knowledge carried them.

And do you know what you call the gaze of awareness? Your experience of meeting another dreamer. It so happens that when dreamers meet each other, they often perceive their colleagues as certain unearthly beings. At certain stages, I and a dozen other people had to conduct initiations – showing new friends “shared dreams.” First encounters are always like this. I was perceived very poorly. Recall how K.K. soiled himself during similar encounters with comrade S. Manuel. Everyone soils themselves or loses power from fear. These are the pranks of the first attention. Until the brain adapts to encounters with elements of the second attention, meeting colleagues is “a battle with malevolent creatures who wanted to seize my soul.” This is precisely how one acquaintance described her experience of meeting me.