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This chapter details Castaneda and la Gorda’s renewed attempts at “dreaming together,” leading them to a shared, barren landscape between the “parallel lines.” This experience unlocks a complete memory for Castaneda of a past event where he, la Gorda, the Nagual woman, and Silvio Manuel were taken to this same desolate place, which Don Juan called “limbo,” with their physical bodies. He recalls the terrifying ordeal of nearly dying from an overwhelming pressure and fear, a trial designed to force him to surrender his attachments. The chapter culminates in Castaneda and la Gorda’s profound realization about their own nature: that their past experiences were split between the awareness of the “right side” (the *tonal*) and the “left side” (the *nagual*). They conclude that their task of “remembering” is actually the warrior’s work of bridging these two sides by rearranging the non-linear “intensity” of the left side’s perception into a linear sequence their right side can comprehend.