2. The Book of Knowledge. 9. 5. Dreams hackers

The BOOK of KNOWLEDGE,
a novel by Alexandra Kryuchkova
in the “PLAYING ANOTHER REALITY” series

PART 2. ANOTHER REALITY

DAY 9.

CHAPTER 9.5. DREAMS HACKERS

We were sitting on the roof.

“Daphne, I hate to believe that tomorrow is our last day here.”

“Me too, Sasha, it seems that we have lived a whole life in 9 days.”

“Alice, I remember what I have dreamed today! As if I’m floating along the river somewhere, and there are birds above me. What does it mean?”

“Svetlana, you are all about your own, about girlish… I don’t know…”

“How can you not know something? You must know everything!”

“Svetlana, why does Daphne owe something that we don’t?”

“Well, tell me then, what’s the best dream book to use?”

“None… I tried to explain one simple thing that you didn’t understand: each of us has to choose the right keys to the locks of our own Door. As many people in the world, as many Doors. But the owner of the bunch of keys is the person himself. You have to find the key you need. That’s it.”

“Me?”

“The Door is yours, not mine. I can look at the bunch and at the lock to give you a hint: that key is too big to fit into the keyhole, and this key is new, so it won’t work either, because the lock to be opened is ancient. So it’s worth trying another one.”

“Daphne, tell us, what is a dream in general?”

“A small Death, a Way, a Door, a Conversation.”

“Death?”

“The astral body, or Soul, leaves the physical body, as if dying for the Earthly Reality for a while and goes for a walk. Of course it can take a walk in the Earthly Reality, but, as a rule, it’s drawn to Another Reality. The same situation is observed at the moment of death. The only difference is that the Silver Thread doesn’t break during sleep, so the astral body, having walked up to the fullest, returns to its house”.

“Well, Daphne, some returns after up to the fullest, but some after the alarm clock.”

“Alice, why did you say a Way?”

“It’s not me, it was Freud who said that sleep is the Royal Path to the Unconscious, or the Subconscious. We have there, in the Black Box, or in the Chest, or in the Closet, something alive locked. It tries to break through the tightly closed Door to tell us something. During the day we don’t hear the knocking on the Door, because the Consciousness takes us as far as possible from the Chest for our safety. And at night, when we fall asleep, the Consciousness reduces its vigilant control, the Door of the Chest opens slightly, and something jumps out of it, like a devil from a snuffbox, and appears before us in all its glory.”

“And what does this devil look like?”

“Sasha, everyone has different devils in the Chest. Some of them are small, but with long tails, some are big, but have smaller tails. Some of them like sweet cakes, someone – pickles. Some are fond of fighting, some – of biting, of kissing. Some are gray-brown-crimson speckled. Others are just black as soot, without any special signs. In fact, it’s difficult to classify them. Especially because in a dream we see images of what we have once seen in the Earthly Reality, even if only for a second. In the twenty-fifth frame, for example. We cannot see something that, completely or in fragments, like a mosaic, being divided into its components, would not be an element of something or someone previously perceived by us. Therefore, people who are blind from birth don’t see visual images in their dreams. Everyone has their own symbols and images, as well as filters in their heads. So, everyone needs to interpret dreams on their own. If I see in my dream a black furry monster with a lot of paws and a cross on its back, sitting in the center of a large net woven by it, this is one thing. If Sasha sees the same monster, it’s his own sign, which doesn’t have my semantic meaning. And if it appears in your dream, Svetlana, it’ll have the third interpretation.”

“So what to do then, Alice? How to understand dreams?”

“Listen to yourself. Explore the world of your dreams. Learn to distinguish delusional fantasies from the cry of the Soul and its visions There, in Another Reality.”

“You say that a dream is a conversation. With whom?”

“With yourself, only from the other side. A dream can be explained not only by devils jumping out of a snuffbox. The Subconscious is trying to tell us something important, to talk to us about the problems that bother it. To let us understand the Subconscious, the language of the Soul, it looks for some imprinted image in ourselves, with which we associate information or a situation corresponding to the problem. So, in a dream we see pictures, images with the help of which the Subconscious tells us something. Then each of us tries to decode the message.”

“And what might be in it?”

“Anything. For example, an unfinished story or a hanging over us problem, something left uncompleted. In a dream, we try to relieve tension and, finally, once and for all solve the problem hanging in the Subconscious. For example, you badly parted with a person or left without saying goodbye or something important. A sense of guilt prevails over you, even if unconsciously. In a dream, you will see that person and try to tell him the unsaid, ask for forgiveness, something like that. If it seems to you that something has already left in the past forever and the page has been successfully turned, but it is shown to you in a dream, it means that it still lives in the Subconscious and continues to act, influencing your present.”

“Alice, have we been dreaming since childhood?”

“Daphne, I read somewhere that two months before the birth, the child is already dreaming, the same dreams as his mom. They are somehow united in the Unconscious, so the child already knows everything, understands, feels the same as she does.”

“Maybe, Sasha. Children up to a certain age don’t distinguish the difference between dream and reality. They connect to Another Reality and to the Information Field with almost no restrictions. Parents form filters and templates of the World Description in children, thus building the partition between the Consciousness and the Subconscious.”

“Alice, so a dream as a Door is what?”

“It’s the exit through the Subconscious to the Transcendental. That is, you can watch dreams about your problems, or go to the Higher Spheres to receive information that doesn’t concern you personally, for example. Or you can look into the Sphere of Creativity, if, of course, they let you in. Or you can meet there someone who has left for Another Reality.”

“How to get there, Alice?”

“Straight ahead, the first turn to the left, then to the right, then left again… You have to be a bright person, first of all. The law of attraction of like to like applies everywhere. Who will clean up dirt and dust of the impure people in the Higher Spheres? What if they tear up a book in the Library of the Universe? And it’s dangerous to go there, Svetlana, for the same reason. After all, in the Lower Astral there are a lot of all sorts of mental images, thought-forms, Evil Essences, which are like… DAC! And… bool-bool-bool… In a dream, a person is extremely vulnerable, because the Consciousness is dormant. Sweet-sweet voices will lure you into a dark corner, or make a direct attack from behind that very corner. You’ll wake up, Svetlana, as if from suffocation, completely exhausted. You can feel the astral prick, like a burn on the astral body.”

“This can happen to anyone!”

“It won’t happen to the light ones.”

“What should the not light ones do?”

“Pray.”

“Before falling asleep?”

“No, always. The more often, the better. And especially before falling asleep. Turn to the Forces of Light. Set your mind up for light thoughts. Think of good and kind things. Remember the day you’ve lived and cross out its negative events. If your aura is light, that is, you have a pure Soul, the Spirit is your Guardian. Nothing bad will happen, and none of the Unclean ones will be able to even come close to you. Neither there, in Another Reality, nor here, in the Earthly.”

“But while the Soul is walking There, what is here to be guarded?”

“Your body peacefully sleeping in the bed. God knows what kind of invisible guests can suddenly move in it.”

“Listen, Daphne, I won’t sleep at all now! You tell us such horror bedtime stories!”

“Sasha, it’s necessary to sleep, since it’s given from Above by the same God. Do you remember, I told you the legend about the poppy flower? It appeared on the Earth to let people rest from work and gain strength. You still have to finish your second cottage. We must try to be Light not only to see good dreams, but to be Light always in life. An Orthodox book says that God tells us something in the Earthly Reality, and if we don’t hear Him, repeats it once more in a dream. There are many examples in the Lives of the Saints when the Higher Forces communicated information exactly in dreams. True, in dreams, the Unclean ones like to pass off their own as Pure.”

“Alice, if I have nightmares, does it mean I’m visiting the Lower Astral?”

“It means a painful process running in your Subconscious, anyway, regardless of whether you are visiting the Lower Astral or not. Heavy dreams and nightmares take a lot of energy, a person wakes up exhausted, as if energetically broken. But sometimes it’s due to problems with breathing or heart function. If you sleep on your left side, you may dream that you are falling into an abyss.”

“What about insomnia?”

“Insomnia is the result of a problematic situation for a person. It can also be a natural defense if a person is in danger while sleeping. Most likely both at the same time. It happened to me. As a child, I used to hang out in the Lower Astral and was shown nightmares. It resulted in a panic fear of falling asleep and dreaming, so I stopped sleeping at all. It lasted about a year.”

“Alice, is the lethargy due to beautiful dreams?”

“To the unwillingness of the Soul to return, or it wants to but can’t for some reason. For example, the Spirit doesn’t let it back. The same happens to a person in intensive care in a coma.”

“Daphne, I don’t have dreams while sleeping. Does the Spirit organize lapses in my memory?”

“There are several phases of sleep, they replace each other: fast one, called REM, lasts for 10–20 minutes, and slow one – about an hour and a half. There are 4–5 periods of REM sleep phase per night. It’s during this phase that we see our dreams. Scientists who are fond of experiments say that a person deprived of REM phase doesn’t rest while sleeping, but loses strength. The brain in this phase works more intensively than during wakefulness. For example, a mouse deprived of REM phase died after 40 days of such a regime, and a mouse deprived of the other phase continued to live peacefully.”

“Alice, why does Sasha has no dreams while sleeping? Has he no REM phase?”

“If it had been so… But let’s not talk about sad things. He has this phase. Consciousness is either dormant at this moment, or asleep. If it’s dozing, we remember dreams, if it’s asleep, we don’t. But there is another explanation why it seems to a person that he didn’t see anything in a dream. People of a high level of spiritual development have access to the Higher Spheres. Option A: the vibrations of these Spheres are too high, so the information won’t be able to reach the level of Consciousness, being stored in the Subconscious. Option B: in the Highest Spheres, there are no longer any images or forms, there is an area of ;;pure Spirit, so it’s impossible to see something – only to feel or to cognize it. Maybe the Subconscious will encode it into images that are familiar to your Consciousness, so you will have to decode it.”

“Am I highly spiritual? Daphne, you flatter me! To go there, to the Higher Spheres, and not to return, it’s romantic!”

“Some never came back. Some of them on their own will, having planned it in advance, someone not. They walked too far away, or it was so interesting that they completely flowed There with all the fibers of the Soul. In this case it’s declared here as death in a dream. The physical body, as a rule, remains in the Earthly Reality, but sometimes it disappears without a trace. It’s especially dangerous to get into the realized sector in a conscious dream.”

“Where to get?”

“Well… I told you that the future is multivariate. As soon as we take another step, it’s registered as implemented in reality. Everything already realized in the Earthly Reality is kept in a separate sector. It’s very dangerous to get there.”

“It seems to me, Daphne, that you walked there with your Moon Cat!”

“Alice, what about getting into the future?”

“No problem. But which one? There are thousands, millions of options for the development of events.”

“So, if I saw a dream about my tomorrow, doesn’t it mean my tomorrow?”

“No guarantee. You leave your cottage an hour later, and your tomorrow will be completely different.”

“Then, how to understand, Daphne, where I am?”

“Feel it… They say, you have to find a mirror there and look at yourself, beloved one. So it’ll become clear where you are. Well, at least roughly.”

“Alice, is it possible to get into the future together for two people?”

“Anywhere. Make an appointment and get in.”

“Kidding again, aren’t you?”

“I’m serious. Magicians used to dream together like this. And they passed into Another Reality in pairs or even groups. The Dreams Hackers call it SCD, Shared Conscious Dreaming. Everyone is aware of what is happening in a dream, sees the others. I told you, it was like that with my French grandmother, and not only. And there are ordinary CD.”

“What CD, Daphne?”

“Conscious Dreams, when you are aware in a dream that you are dreaming. Then you can learn to control everything that happens in a dream, and even change the future. Almost like in Medici Solitaire. Just do not confuse CD with lucid ones.”

“Alice, translate us all immediately, please.”

“Lucid dream is when you seem to be aware of something there, but not completely. And you can’t control your dream. It’s a transparent but ghostly dream.”

“Daphne, so, do we need CD?”

“Yes. You can even learn how to catch them.”

“How?”

“With the alarm clock, for example.”

“Alice, stop kidding!”

“I’m not kidding, Svetlana, I’m sharing my own experience. I’m practicing it all the time, all my life. Nobody even taught me. I just didn’t like getting out of bed immediately after the alarm rang. On weekdays, for example. I didn’t know that this is one of the ways to catch CD. I set my alarm an hour earlier than I really need to wake up. I wake up on the alarm and fall back to sleep. Almost 100% guarantee to catch CD after an artificially induced pro-sleep!”

“Daphne, we don’t have a dictionary with us.”

“Pro-sleep is a state of Consciousness when sleep and wakefulness are intertwined together. You are there and here at the same time. You can even switch back and forth a little. It usually happens when falling asleep and when waking up. If you don’t jump out of bed immediately after the ring of your alarm clock. At this moment, the Door is ajar, the REM phase goes into your hands by itself. It’s preferably to practice before waking up, since it’s in the morning or between the 6th and 8th hour of sleep that the REM phase lasts longer and is remembered better.”

“And how can I check whether I caught CD or am awake in the Earthly Reality?”

“Some jump out the window, but it’s dangerous, what if you are still in real life…”

“What do you mean?”

“Try to turn on the light. First, find the switch. Once I couldn’t find it in my Temple of the Soul. The light was so dim. Very, very dim. There was only one bulb in the right corridor for the entire Temple. So, Another Reality has problems with electricity. That is, if you found a switch there, the options are: the light doesn’t turn on at all, it turns on, but it’s dim, or it’s light enough, but doesn’t turn off. You can try to break through the wall with your hand. In real life it hurts, but there it doesn’t. And, again, use a mirror. Look into it. If you are a copy of what you see in the bath in the morning, try to modify the reflection. In Another Reality it will always change, but here, in the Earthly, it will not. You can ask the Emissary where you are.”

“Who is he?”

“It’s a Voice that can advise the dreamers there. It helps those who are not sprites.”

“Who is not what?!”

“Sprites are those who are in a dream, but don’t realize themselves. They are foggy ghosts in a lucid dream. I have already told you about the Voice. It taught me about the structure of the Universe in my dreams. As well as sacred geometry and algebra.”

“What if you and I, Daphne, for example, catch the same CD, what will we do?”

“Say hello. You’ll tell me buzzing, ‘Oz-z-z’, and I’ll answer you, if I am in CD, too, not in a lucid dream. Otherwise, I won’t answer you.”

“What’s that buzzing?”

“It’s like hello in the dreaming language. They say that the buzzing came from the Zoroastrians and Druids. One of the Enigma’s songs has the correct pronounces.”

“Listen, Alice… What is Enigma?”

“A musical group. In general, Enigma is a riddle, a rebus. When I found the figurine of the Girl with the Moon Cat in a souvenir shop, I read on the label, ‘Enigma. Girl with a Cat’. Isn’t it cool?”

“If I hadn’t seen this figurine at your house with my own eyes, I’d have never believed it!”

“Oh, Svetlana, I believe Daphne, even though I haven’t seen the figurine. I don’t know why, but I believe.”

“Alice, are sleepwalkers walking in CD?”

“Lunatics, they practice sleep-walking and sleep-talking. They wander around doing their usual activities. Then they wake up, and get the complete amnesia. The information about their actions at night, although it also happens during daytime sleep, doesn’t reach the Consciousness, remains in the Subconscious. That is, their Consciousness is sleeping while their body is walking, therefore they are not in CD. They are in a deep trance, as in hypnosis, there’s no difference in general, but lunatics have a spontaneous natural trance, and a hypnosis trance is induced artificially. Spontaneous trance happens in epilepsy, hysterical neurosis. This is what happens to ordinary people in CD: we dream that we are walking, while the body is lying in bed. Sleepwalkers go and do what their Subconscious shows them. True, I read somewhere that, according to the latest data, sleepwalking occurs against the backdrop of a slow phase, when dreams are usually not watched. Anyhow, the Subconscious is always working.”

“So is the sleepwalker sleeping or not?”

“He is in a deep trance, seems to be sleeping, but behaves as we do when we are awake. Sleepwalkers correctly analyze incoming information, draw conclusions and make logical decisions. But they don’t pay attention to what is not part of their program. For example, they are walking somewhere. You’ll be a step away from them and greet them, but they won’t even notice or hear you, they’ll pass you by with their eyes open.”

“Daphne, what if I stand right in front of the lunatic, blocking his way?”

“He’ll go around, but won’t notice you, won’t hear you. He is completely immersed in his vision and performs only the program known only to himself. He can see what you don’t and not see you.”

“What if I put a wall in his way?”


“Has it ever happened to you, Alice?”

“No, they didn’t notice me sleepwalking. I like to walk There much more than here.”

“Listen, Daphne, what do we need to walk There like you do?”

“It will come itself. Moreover, Sasha, you almost never watch dreams. Maybe you are already walking There, and even higher than me.”

“But you know from your own experience how and what to do in order to…?”

“To dream consciously?”

“Alice, you said that even the future can be changed There!”

“It’s possible if you act consciously in a dream, that is, controlling dreams and managing them. Dreams can be planned in advance. It’s all about attention and Willpower. To begin with, imagine when you are awake that everything around you is a dream. It’s simple, but you need to do it constantly.”

“But how to do it?”

“Our dreams are a continuation of the habitual tendencies of the day. Look at everything around you, asking yourself, ‘is it real?’ And as often as possible repeat, ‘it’s just a dream’. In the Earthly Reality, you should imagine that everything is possible here, including flying through the air and changing objects at will.”

“Alice, what is it for?”

“Remember, I told you about the table, the template of the World Description of the Earthly Reality. Nobody installed it in me, although, of course, I have it, too, but mine is much weaker than yours. So, for most people it’s written there that a person cannot fly here. There is the second table, the template for the World Description of Another Reality, including dreams, where it’s written that everything is possible. To manage dreams, especially if you want to do or change something there, you should set yourself some goal in advance, and then achieve it in a dream. To fly, for example, or to do something that theoretically is possible in a dream, because everything is possible there, and here, according to your table, it’s impossible. As soon as you find yourself in a dream and concentrate on the goal, the dormant Consciousness will start checking the goal with the parameters of the table of the Earthly Reality. But the goal is contrary to the table. Your Consciousness will immediately throw you out of the dream, and you will either wake up or fall into the Void between Here and There. The Dreams Hackers call this a space created by the mind to correct the default programs of the Consciousness.”

“Daphne, what are you getting at? Wouldn’t we be able to fly in a dream?”

“Breaking into CD and fulfilling the goal to take off and fly planned before sleep is more difficult than flying as a sprite in a lucid dream. That’s why the most important task is to make the table of the World Description of Another Reality become a priority over the table of the World Description of the Earthly Reality. Whoever copes with this automatically turns into a Magician, because his table that exists in the Consciousness says that everything is possible here. So the Consciousness will stop putting sticks in your wheels. There’ll be a union of Consciousness and Subconscious. It’s just very dangerous and very few people actually succeed. You can rewrite some statements of the table, but not all of them at once.”

“And what to do to increase the priority?”

“Don’t think about the result, concentrate on the process. That is, set the task to take off and fly in CD. Relax and forget about it. If it happens, it’s good, if not, let it be next time.”

“Okay, Alice, we set a goal for ourselves, forgot about it and just felt asleep?”

“You can try some exercises. For example, in yoga it’s advised to fall asleep in the position of the Buddha entered Nirvana. Lie on your right side, right hand under your head or under the pillow, left hand along your body, knees bent. You won’t believe it, but since childhood I have always fallen asleep just like that, having no idea about either the Buddha or Nirvana.”

“Daphne, I would be surprised if it were any other way!”

“Then you feel numbness at the point between the eyes. You can pre-select the topic of sleep. That’s what I usually do when I need to get something out There. You can stop the inner dialogue and keep the image in your mind, for example, the image of the person you need to see. I practice another thing. At the moment when the Door opens a little, that is, in pro-sleep, I clearly say mentally in an imperative tone what I need to do today in my dream: whom to see, where to go, what problem to solve, what question to get an answer to, and so on. And I forget about it. I fall asleep, and in the morning I already know everything.”

“Do they show it to you?”

“Sometimes yes, sometimes I just know. You can try another exercise for entering sleep. I tried it once myself, but I no longer need it. Imagine a corridor with many doors. Go to the end of the corridor, there are three doors left. Men should enter exactly the door right in front of their eyes, that is, the central one. Women enter either the left one or the right one. Always enter the same door, it’s the entry point to the Dreamland, the Door between the Worlds. Visualize it for yourself: by color, finishing, type of material, what kind of handle it has. Well, the more details, the better.”

“It’s easy for you, Alice, you have worked with doors in the Earthly Reality!”

“How many doors in the Earthly Reality do you open and close every day? So, behind the Door there is a tunnel leading to the Light. Having got out into That World, you can listen to the sounds. One of them will be different from the others. Try to find its source. You can use the sound as a transit, that is, merge with it and move with the help of the sound. Let it draw you to its source. In the Earthly Reality, there is an exercise to stop the inner dialogue: one week we concentrate on the sound, the second week – on a visual object, the third week – on a sensation, after that you can stop the world. Don’t describe it constantly with your inner voice, just feel it.”

“Do we need to look at our hands?”

“It’s one of the elementary and generally accepted ways to become conscious in a dream. Not only at your hands, but at any object. You can select it in advance before going to bed and find it There and look at it.”

“You dragged your magic ring There, didn’t you, Alice?”

“Right. Any small item can be taken There. Choose in advance. Comb, pen, lighter, chain…”

“Glasses by Salvatore Ferragamo?”

“Yes, Sasha. Everything that you can carry on yourself or in your pocket. As soon as you remember that you have a pen in your pocket, try to fish it out. If you get it, it’s great. Praise yourself, fix the result. For example, shout out something uplifting. Jump, dance. By the way, staying in front of the Door, check virtually that the pen is still in your pocket. It’s easier. Any object transferred from Here to There or from There to Here in this way has magical power.”

“Daphne, does everyone really manage to carry objects back and forth?”

“I read an amazing phrase in the book by the Dreams Hackers, I wrote it out and learnt it by heart, because, well, I like it very much and feel it dear to my Soul. It said, ‘And then I found my object, one unit more, and its color was not the same as in reality, but eureka! – it was exactly as I imagined it in the Mental World when I carried it out in the Beyond!”

“Wow, Daphne!”

“I agree, Sasha. In fact, the point is not what you are looking at there, hand or an object. The task is to hold on the image, because it’s constantly transforming and changing There. You can make a lot of object just out of one, and one out of a lot, make turn something terrible into something beautiful, and vice versa. Metamorphoses state the fact: all images are only an illusion. Sooner or later you will begin to understand what is behind them. When you consciously see many objects around you, try to practice their transformation. Move them in places, increase and decrease them in size, change their shape.”

“Daphne, wait, you did it with a cloud on the mountain, didn’t you?”

“Well, I played with the cloud, what’s so strange about this? When your table of Another Reality becomes more important than the Earthly ones, you will flirt not only with the clouds.”

“Alice, don’t get distracted by flirting. I mean with clouds.”

“Okay, back to our flights. Be aware and remember the goal: to take off. As a rule, we fly unconsciously, or first we fly, and then we become aware of it. It has to be done in another order: we should realize that we are sleeping, remember that we have to take off, and to turn our intention into action. The Voice taught me levitation There. It said I had to concentrate my Self on the goal to take off. That is, we take off with the Power of our Will. Help yourself with gestures – with your hands, as when jumping.”

“How high should we jump?”

“No need to jump. You’ll take off by yourself. The height doesn’t matter. At first, I got at twenty centimeters, and then I chose the height I wanted. Next, you must learn to move in space to familiar places. For starters, it’s better to go to a Place of Power. It was easy for me. Then complicate the task – to dream in specific places at a specific time of the day. It’s more correct if you sleep at daytime, it should be daytime there, and, accordingly, if at night – night. Of course, in case of the time zones match.”

“After visiting the Place of Power, where to move?”

“For example, in the Library. The Dreams Hackers say the Library of Alexandria is the best one. It contains about a million papyrus scrolls…”

“In Egypt?”

“Exactly. But you are looking for it There, in a dream, not in Egypt. According to the description of the Dreams Hackers, it’s somewhere outside the city, in the abandoned lands, to the north, and the railway passes it to the east. There is a heap of rocks, and behind them, there is the entrance to the Library. It’s often confused with the Aztec Pyramid, but you don’t need to go there, there is something negative. You can ask one of the sprites how to get to the Library.”

“Hey, girl, how to get to the Library at one o’clock in the morning? Daphne, what a prankster you are!”

“There are other ways to get there. It’s underground. You need to find your book there.”

“Alice, it’s like at RAM’s seminar, right? She told us to try to get to the Library of the Universe.”

“Exactly. Then you have to memorize what you have read. And transfer the information from your dream to reality.”

“Is there anything else that can be transferred besides information?”

“I didn’t succeed. I got the Moonstone from the bottom of the lake, but I couldn’t transfer it to reality. But an abbot pulled out three apples. He had asked to show him Paradise. In that dream he saw also a monk from his monastery, still living in the Earthly Reality. The monk gave the abbot three apples from Paradise. The abbot woke up and found apples in his cell. He came to the liturgy in the morning and hid them. Then he approached the monk and asked where he had been at night. The monk said where the abbot had seen him, and where he had given the abbot those three apples.”

“Alice, can you take out there three apples for us tonight?”

“Svetlana, you are all about your own, about girlish. I’m not a Saint to be allowed into the Garden of Eden so easily.”

“Daphne, I think, you are just in this category, and therefore you don’t want to take a bite of the apple from some tree, as Eve did in her time!”

“Sasha, leave Alice alone! She will tell us everything, and you’ll see, she will immediately gnaw the whole apple, with the core in addition! Alice, what else can we do in the Dreamland?”

“Two more things are possible, as average and aerobatics. The first is to try to build a Bridge from your Dream to Reality. It’s easy to do from here to There, but it’s harder from There to here.”

“The Silver Bridge, you wrote about in your poems all the time?”

“Yes. It’s in the fog, that’s why I call it silver. The bridge to run back and forth. Staying There, quietly return to yourself, sleeping on the bed, then again go There without losing awareness. The easiest way to jump back and forth is to do it in pro-sleep. At least for me personally. You’ll feel to be both There and Here at the same time. At will, you can instantly move and look at yourself from the outside. It happened to me for the first time when during RAM meditation in the hall I went to the Monastery on the Hill. I moved my Consciousness here and there back into the hall, without losing myself either There or here. I looked from There at myself in the hall, and from the hall at myself There. This feeling is exciting, especially the first time. Then you get used to it and react calmly. And at first, it’s as if a new toy given to a child.”

“What screen do you see all this on?”

“The same one the dreams are shown on. The inner one. By the way, without touching the screen, you can move the picture ‘My Self There’, which you are looking at from ‘My Self Here’, forming an angle of 45 degrees to the plane of the screen. So what was right in front of you will shift at this angle. And see what happens.”

“So what will happen?”

“A Wall of Fog will appear.”

“And the second of the aerobatics?”

“The last step is to look at the sleeping self from the outside.”

“Why the last one?”

“The last one before making a choice.”

“Which one, Daphne?”

“Where to go next. You can become a Magician and practice developing magical skills, or a Rescuer, to lead people out of labyrinths by creating chains of events, similar to Medici Solitaire. The third option is the Way of Solomon, to get access to the Akasha Records, aka the Tablets of Astral Light, the Information Field, the Universal Computer… Where would you go, Svetlana?”

“Come on, Alice, is it possible to go further on? I didn’t get anything about those 45 degrees.”

“Neither did I, Daphne. About back and forth, at least some analogies appear in my mind. Perhaps if you told us about 40 degrees, it would have been much easier!”

“Well, you don’t need to understand. I’ve just managed today to deal with these 45 degrees, while entering the Looking Glass. I had no idea before what it was like. And today I didn’t even touch the image, it moved itself, and out of the fog appeared … However, it doesn’t matter. Each of us has our own way of catching dreams. All the practices were invented only in order to let us understand something more.”

“What, Alice?”

“Daphne, wait, don’t answer, let me guess it!”

“Guess…”

“That everyone is the Creator of their own Reality, right?”

“You are a capable student, Sasha.”

We fell silent and at the same time looked up into the sky. I found the brightest stars and tried to assemble them into a beautiful pattern.

“Are you flirting with the stars, Daphne? Was the cloud on the mountain not enough for you?”

“I’m drawing…”

“What are you drawing?”

“Alice, wait, don’t answer! Let me guess this time! It was always Sasha a capable student, but… you’re drawing a heart out of stars, aren’t you?”

“Wow, Svetlana, finally, you get it,” I sighed with relief.

We had one more day left at the Fairy Tale’s guesthouse.