William Shatner should NOT be coming back as woman. And not in that hat.

[dolari]

Originally, I started my dream journaling for one reason - story ideas. My dreams are more storytelling than symbolic, and some of the better stories I've got started out as a story-dream. Later there was a second reason - to chronicle "visitors" that were beginning to show up in the dreams. I've had a few. Lately, it's served a third reason.

I had a wierd dream last night about what looked to be a Family Reunion or a family party of some sort at a crystal or glass party room or cabin. My uncle showed up, and mentioned he was looking for a place...and then I mentioned an apartment I once had called Chimney Rock. I haven't lived there in years, but I still pay the rent and have the lease.

I've never ever lived in a place called Chimney Rock, or any of the and yet I've had at least three dreams there - always a matter of having an apartment I haven't lived in for a whle, but I'm paying the lease and the rent.

http://jddreamjournal.livejournal.com/64831.html

http://jddreamjournal.livejournal.com/58220.html

http://jddreamjournal.livejournal.com/47700.html

There is also anothe dream I thought I wrote down, but couldn't find, involving me trying to check my mail at the same complex, but being unable to because te patio wasn't stable.

A friend of mine had a long talk about dreams years ago. She'd had "serial" dreams, as I thought they were, I later found out that she wasn't so much having serial dreams as she was visiting specific places in her "dreamworld" repeatedly. Much much much later, she found out though another friend, that not only did this other friend have these specific-place places, she wasn't the only one, and she had visited the place my friend had done.

Me, being the skeptic I am, didn't buy it, at least for me. If other people did it, that was great, as far as I knew, I wasn't doing it. But I didn't shut out the possibility completely, and now I'm noticing these recurring places...and having a dream journal helps find common threads, such as Chimney Rock apartments. I had a previous one, as well, and it turns out my friend may have recognized that place as someplace she's been or knows about.

So, anyone else out there "commute?"

Another thing that this dream had was a "visitor," someone who's popped into the dream who seems super lucid, knows it's a dream, and is mostly "observing." What's worrisome this time was that this visitor was there specifically to talk to me. I did recognize her (and wonder if she'll pipe up when she reads this) although I'm not sure I like the fact that folks can just come in, sit down, and take part....

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[chaoticset.livejournal.com]

I've started realizing I seem to have dreams that occur in the same timestream, as if somehow I'm reliving a specific fictional event over and over, and I'm the only one who seems to remember very well that it's happening that way.

In a way, it's like the episode structure of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, because sometimes there's a past, sometimes there's not, things reappear for no obvious reason, someone will die or get a limb removed or be burned horribly or something and be completely fine the next time they show up, etc.

Of course...I'm crazy. ;D

Wow, I finally found someone else who does that!

[chrysalis.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I have dreams where I'll go through the same "plot" several times, starting at different points in time, or from different view points.


To answer jenn's post, I tend to have places I visit more than once. In the dream, I reference past dreams I've had in that particular place, or reference past events that have happened. When I awake up I'm occasionally confused because I'm remembering things that didn't really happen.

Never had any visitors, though I'd admit I've never looked for any either. I'm a mildly lucid dreamer, so I guess I'll keep watch now. :)