Dreamwalking

Cael Waring spent twenty years running magical practice the way most people do — on conviction, without a record. Then he began applying the discipline of his working life, forensic failure analysis, to his own notebook.

A quarter of what he was doing turned out to be doing nothing at all. Two techniques he had nearly abandoned were carrying almost everything.

Dreamwalking is what survived. A complete method for waking up inside the dream — and, rare in a book like this, one rule applied to every part of it: test everything, keep what works.

What is inside

• Recall, reality testing and the wake-back-to-bed stack, with the numbers — five hours, twenty to forty-five minutes, fifteen checks a day, not “plenty of them”
• How to find your own dream signs by sorting your own journal, rather than inheriting somebody else’s list
• Building a dream temple that persists between visits
• The planetary hours, the seven kameas, and sigils constructed awake and charged asleep
• The seven ways this practice fails, how to tell which one you are in, and what to change
• Sleep paralysis: what it is, and a four-step protocol for the moment you cannot move
• Thirty nights of tracking, and how to read the page back honestly

Illustrated with thirty-two mezzotint plates, several of them working tools meant to be consulted in use: the hypnogram, the four reality checks, the planetary hours wheel, the seven kameas, and a thirty-night tracker.

A note on what is claimed

The audio companion

A guided induction of twenty-four minutes with a cue paired into it, a two-hour track for the REM window, and five pages on the protocol. Free, and gated behind nothing.