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dolariOriginally, 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....
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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Date: 2007-10-30 01:58 am (UTC)Like this latest one, again occured at the old house I lived at (a common theme.)
It's like almost half take place in an alternate version of where I used to live, and the other half take place in alternate vancouver... even before I ever lived here. A handful of dreams between the two locations reflect past jobs or people I knew.
Though I should also point out it seems some of the more vivid dreams are induced by eating before sleeping, which I theorize is simply the act of not getting as much deep sleep.