A private dream journal and map

The Map is Not the Territory.
It’s the Way Out.

Record what you dream, mark the places you return to, and build a map of your own. Your workspace syncs with the ThirdGate iOS app.

Colorful hexagonal dream map in the ThirdGate iOS app
ThirdGate for iOS

The Legacy of the First Gate

In the early 2000s, a collective known as the Dream Hackers began mapping the places they recognized across dreams.

They built a tool called FirstGate to log spheres, or dream locations, and the transits between them.

But the tool was lost to time. The servers went dark. The maps fragmented.

ThirdGate brings that practice back to iOS and the web. The original Dream Hackers writings are available in the archive below.

How It Works

Record a dream

Give a dream a name and write down what you remember. Add tags to find it later.

Link familiar places

Save places as bubbles. Link a bubble to each journal entry where it appears to see when you returned.

Build your map

Place your bubbles on the map, drag them when your sense of the layout changes, and paint the terrain with zones.

Archive of Original Dream Hackers

Chronicles from the first explorers

Dream Hackers

When describing the modern hacker subculture, psychologists often call us "obsessed programmers" – people who perceive the real world as a kind of "operating system of a universal supercomputer." This...
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Zero Level of Danger. Preliminary Analysis

Once, a mad hacker had the idea to "hack" the program of Dreaming. He was an eccentric fellow – a wild mix of Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, and a lucky adventurer who had easily raked in almost a mil...
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Answers

## Answers 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 cry...
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