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.

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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

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I have recurring dream locations, though, as far as I know, no extra visitors.

[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

[emilydm.livejournal.com]

I dunno about Chimney Rock, but last night you were bound and determined to show me Avery, TX. Not because it was Andrea's hometown, but because there was a little mom-and-pop restaurant with a menu consisting entirely of variations on cooked Llama.

We went inside and were seated, and while we waited for a menu, you sang "Tom's Diner" - very very well, but a bit too loudly, annoying the other patrons.

[kisai.livejournal.com]

I have very vivid dreams, with at least various recurring points that I'd say most dreams occured in at least two continuities.

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.

[fragment00.livejournal.com]

I have reoccuring locations too..
and visitors.. though I don't think any have been human so far.

[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.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

I have DREAM PERTH, which seems to be based on the time I spent living there. I do sometimes meet old friends there as well, including the dream the decided me on going to Phuket.

[http://users.livejournal.com/strangelv__/]

Given how inconsistent my dreams are I'm not sure if what I have qualifies.

I'm on a military base with a dorm room. Sometimes I've been there, sometimes I'm moving in, sometimes I'm expecting to be moving out (either PCS -- Permanent Change of Station or ETS -- End Time of Service). Sometimes I work on the flightline. When I return to a duty station it's almost always some mutated form of my first one -- AGS/EMS MSU (Aircraft Generation Squadron/Equipment Maintenance Squadron Mission Support Unit), also known simply as DASS for short (Dedicated Aircraft Supply Support).

Usually at some point things like my beard and disability finally get remembered and complicate things enormously (beards are verboten under Air Force Regulation 35-10 -- although I grew one every weekend). The same people are almost always there, even ones whose names I've long forgotten. Zweibrücken Air Base was shut down in 1991.

Sometimes in the past two years or so, this ephemeral quintessential USAF dorm takes on attributes of the apartment building I've lived in for the past 15 years.

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. :)