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....

Comments

[amw.livejournal.com]

I definitely have recurring locations in my dreams. The actual events vary from dream to dream, but there are some common spots where things play out. I wonder, though, if they're not REALLY common spots but when you're in your dream you feel like they are. You know how sometimes you get deja vu in real life and you're sure you've been there before, but you haven't. I think dream places might be kinda like that. Because you're in your dream and it's all in your head anyway, you can't differentiate the feeling you've been there before from the actual memory.

Last night i had one of the most fucked up dreams i've had in ages... I was in a car and there was an accident up ahead. I pulled up and there were dead bodies all over the road, ambulances, flashing lights, the works. The cop just waves me on and i'm like, i can't drive over that and he's like, just GO, so i had to drive over all these dead bodies and i felt terrible.