Making a Dream Map

Blessed be Wildlings! Today we're going to be doing a bit of dream space talk. Dreams are a tool I use spiritually and emotionally to help make progress in healing, and towards becoming a better person, and dream maps help me make the most of my dreams. Anyone who has learned to take control of their dream spaces can also tell you how rewarding and fun these freeing, purely spiritual experiences can be.

Of course, the first first step to dream work is being able to remember our dreams well enough to record information about them after we wake up. I will be doing a piece later on which will detail out some ways to get started on improving dream recollection for those who have only very minor recollection of their dreams. If you cannot dream or do not remember your dreams at all, I actually recommend talking to your family doctor about any potential vitamins and minerals, or any potential traumas and trauma related therapies, that they think would assist you in producing more vivid dreams. A lack of dreams very often has a medical cause, and I am definitely not a doctor!

Okay, so, assuming you can remember your dreams at least a little bit, the first step to being able to move around in dream space at will or with a measure of understanding, in my opinion, is coming up with what I personally call a dream map. A dream map is a visual representation of the various reoccurring spaces in your dream worlds, and their orientation to one another.

Dream maps are excellent ways to help improve dream recollection, as well. As we become more sure of and familiar with these reoccurring or usual spaces, more details are available for notice and study, as we are actively having to process and remember less about where we are and what is ongoing in the dream space. Keeping an up to date and detailed dream map is one of the many ways I have helped improve my ability to actively dream, and remember them, as well.

Sound like something you'd be into? Let's get started!

1. Reoccurring Spaces

Dream maps are built around reoccurring dream spaces. Think about the spaces you go to over and over again in your dreams, and write them down in a brief list.

Can you think of any ways these spaces correlate with one another? For instance, in my dream spaces, I have a central town area that is composed of a wide variety of public spaces that are important to me, are composed of various psychological symbols or meanings, or in which important things have happened to me in my past. In this town are a variety of very specific buildings or spaces that I can directly correlate as existing in the town space, though the dream itself is not centered in the town as a whole. I can also directly link some of the roads in and out of this town with some of the other spaces I go to relatively often in the dream world.

That's all important information. Keep working on your list of dream spaces until you're pretty sure you have most to all of them, and most to all of them have correlations to one another. Don't worry if one or two spaces seem to be odd men out - we'll talk about them towards the end of the article.

2. Research Symbols

Breaking down these reoccurring spaces into their most basic symbols and psychological meaning can be very helpful for a lot of reasons. Like most dream work, learning about our reoccurring spaces can teach us a lot about ourselves, from our current psychological condition to our hidden desires and deepest wants. Reoccurring spaces, especially, are important, because they very often make up the core or foundational components of our personality. By understanding the symbolism of these spaces and the things in them, we can not only understand the messages of our dreams more clearly, but can often come up with more correlations between the various spaces in our dream map.

This process can be time consuming, especially if we have a large number of dream spaces, or those spaces are complex and interesting, but is very rewarding and well worth the effort. It is one of the primary ways I help differentiate between dream spaces that belong in my dream map, those that have been generated to help me process information or events, and those that are actual astral interactions in spaces that belong to others.

Don't forget, as you discover new details about your spaces, or details change all together, to upkeep and look into these meanings. It can help pinpoint the psychological impact of various life changes, and can help affirm whether or not our inner work and outer efforts are having real pay off. By having a very firm and thorough understanding of ourselves, especially our dream and inner self, we can make a lot of progress in a lot of different aspects of our life that we would not be able to accomplish in a disconnected state.

3. Make a Map

Our central dream space is most often a house or homestead location. The house is sometimes a cave or other primitive dwelling, but it is usually composed of various rooms, objects, and situations which are familiar to our inner child and higher self. The condition of this house, and the things in it, are indicative of the current condition we are in, and are highly symbolic to who we are as individuals. This is why the house or home is the center or starting point of the map, and we will call it Home.

Moving around your Home, begin to connect the various spaces on your reoccurring spaces list, especially those that have correlations that you know exist from your dream experiences. As you begin to draw out the map, you may intuitively discover with some measure of surprise (I know I did!) that new links and obvious hook ups between the dream spaces you continually turn to fall into place. Where certain things are in correlation to one another, even some of those that you couldn't seem to find correlation to before, sort of begin to fall together like puzzle pieces.

By this point, the amount of work, time, and effort you have spent in dream space has hopefully paid off enough that you can investigate these connections a little bit. By attempting to move from one dream location to another using one of the correlations (which are not always obvious or even "rational"), I've discovered that I have a lot more control over where I am in my dream worlds when I am lucid dreaming.

4. Remainder Locations

Locations that are not actively on my dream map or connected to it are what I call remainder locations. The most common of these locations is what I call Central, which is how my psyche presents the human collective consciousness to me in dream space. The best way to describe how I get to Central from Home is that I just go up. Central is over where Home is, through some sort of veil-like door.

Welcome to lucid dreaming. Sound weird? It is.

Back to the point, however! Over time, these remainder locations become something we can map, too. Some spaces I have come to understand belong to our collective thought. Other spaces I have gone to are those that belong to my friends or family. Deities and other energy beings have dream spaces, too. The actual number of and type of spaces is actually somewhat incalculable - that would be why I've focused on the reoccurring ones, for the most part, with the exception of very special and magickal locations I'd rather not forget, or couldn't help but know more about.

Don't worry about them too much, though! Aside from the collective spaces or spaces that belong to those we are close to, the most common remainder locations I go to seem to be amalgamations made up by my subconscious to help puzzle through some conundrum or another. Like with real world signs, not all dreams mean something!

5. Use the Map

The more you use and improve your dream map, and the symbolism your brain often uses in these spaces, the better at lucid dreaming you get. It also greatly improves your map over time. Being able to efficiently move through and to different spaces allows for the maximum use of the information and time being allotted in the dream space.

Some of the rewards I have personally experienced through the use of my dream map are the ability to recognize soul mates and important people to me (as well as why they are important), meeting with my spirit guides and deities to receive important insights, receiving psychic insight when those I love and care about are in emotional duress, being able to finding more inner stability and confidence, and being able to access the Akashic or collective records, which is the library of spirit. I am also able to gather a lot of information about the world I live in from some of these spaces, and to work on my inner spiritual being using purely spiritual tools and energies.

If you have any questions or comments, please share below! I'd love to hear from you.