A warrior choses a topic by deliberately holding an image in his mind while he shuts off his internal dialogue. In other words, if he is capable of not talking to himself for a moment and then holds the image or the thought of what he wants in dreaming, even if only for an instant, then the desired topic will come to him.

He then added that judging by my production in dreaming I must have learned how to stop my internal dialogue at will. I told him that I had. (Power, 12)

Three techniques that help dreaming: disrupting the routines of life, the gait of power, and not doing. (Power, 249)

…avenues for learning new ways of preceiving the world, and that they gave a warrior an inkling of incredible possibilities of action…knowledge of a separate and pragmatic world of ‘dreaming’ was made possible through the use of these techniques…training yourself to let go without losing your marbles…dreaming, of course, is the crown use of the sorcerers’ efforts, the ultimate use of the nagual. (Power, 250)