You call them dreams because you have no power. A warrior, being a man who seeks power, doesn’t call them dreams he calls them real.

Dreaming is real for a warrior because in it he can act deliberately, he can choose and reject, he can select from a variety of items, those which lead to power, and then he can manipulate and use them, while an ordinary dream he cannot act deliberately, (Ixtlan, 119)

Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands. (Ixtlan, 126)

A man hunting power has almost no limits in his dreaming.

The trick to learning to set up dreaming is obvious not just to look at things, but to sustain the sight of them. Dreaming is real when one has succeeded bringing everything into focus. Then there is no difference between what you do when you are asleep and what you do when you are not sleeping. (Ixtlan, 127)

Carlos’ experience of looking at his hands

[On details] he said that to follow them was a waste of time, because details and vividness were in no way important. (Ixtlan, 141)

Dreaming techniques [long] (Ixtlan, 142)

You must wear a headband to sleep [long]. (Ixtlan, 163)

When they (your hands) begin to change shape you must move your sight away from them you must move your sight away from them and pick up something else, then look at your hands again. (Ixtlan, 128)

He said that what one experiences in dreaming has to be congruous with the time of the day when dreaming was taking place; otherwise the visions one might have were not dreaming but ordinary dreams. (Ixtlan, 186)

Long (Ixtlan, 187)