Places in dreams ... revisited

I wasnt sure where to post this. Sometimes which I wonder if anyone else has experienced. That is, dreaming of places that seem like very real places, and continually revisiting them over several dreams.

Sometimes I will dream of places and have a memory of them only that Ive never been to these place in waking. When I was younger I would dream of a town that I could make a map of that was how many times I would return to places there that always felt familiar. And with time they would change as anything changes over the years.

And then there are times I will dream of a place and trying to find it, that it feels like a place I have been to before. And usually they are focused around a house.

One place I call it the House of Stairs and there were memories there and I would keep returning to try and find this place and the memories.

Another place I called it "the wheat fields" and another place was a house in the Bayou, Louisiana. And each had memories... but not my memories.

Its something I cant seem to understand. though lately I havent had these dreams as often.

Christine

I can say that this has happened to me. I visited a 'new world' or a future world in my dreams twice. I didn't remember the first dream until I dreamt about it again, though. After that I remembered everything about the first time, even how I felt after I woke up. Which was very dissappointed it was just a dream. You can read about it under Spicefiend's Dreamjournal if you'd like.

I've also had 'deja vu' in dreams too. :)

I always visit some house in my dreams that I have never seen irl.
It's kinda amusing since it seems like I know the place so well yet I actually don't. :)

Christine,
I know what you mean. I have also experienced dreams like that where you revisit a place, usually a house. I have two explanations. First, it might be a town or a house that you visited when you were two young now to remember, and it was saved in your subconciousness. The other explanations, my favorite, is that you lived there in a previous life. Some people belive that when you are in a lucid dream, you can access memories from past lives.
-DM

Yes, I have indeed had this happen a number of times. Some dreams I have revisted places from a long time ago. From other dreams.
I wonder if through a concious effort if you could visit these place on purpose? I wish I had become Lucid when I have had these reacuring places.

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I've also had 'deja vu' in dreams too.

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That is cool. Does it feel like a 'deja vu' because you have been there before or do you get the 'deja vu' as a precurser to the dream that you enter?

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Does it feel like a 'deja vu' because you have been there before or do you get the 'deja vu' as a precurser to the dream that you enter?[/b]

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Hi Howetzer!

There was a couple times I had deja vu when I dreamt of some houses which I cannot recall from my waking life. Deja vu... or 'total recall' when I dreamt of the other world a second time. Then miscellaneous dreams here and there....

Hmm... I should make deja vu a dream sign/reality check. I feel it often enough when I'm awake. :D

Hi Spicefiend :D

You know what is cool about 'de javus'? For me, When I am having one it is like I am one second behind what is going to happen next. It is so cool. One of these days (It would freak me out) I am going to catch up with my thoughts and know what is going to happen.

Do you think that is possible?
I don't think I have them as often as you. Do you get that feeling?

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Do you think that is possible?
I don't think I have them as often as you. Do you get that feeling? [/b]

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Sorry I'm late responding to this. I can't say that its ever happened to me. I get dejavu at my workplace frequently and I don't know why. I just kinda shrug and say outloud, 'whoa deja vu! There must be a glitch in the matrix.'

Then once in a while when I meet someone for the first time and experience deja vu. They don't have a return feeling of course, but they always laugh when I say "Hey, I have dejavu! I think I must have met you on the Mother ship."

I'm not sure what it is exactly, but I often feel a sort of deja vu in some dreams. I'll enter a building and then say "Oh, I've been here before!" or "Hey, I've had this dream before!" (what really stinks though, is I don't become lucid after that :roll: ), but when I wake up I realize that I haven't been there, or had that dream. Odd...

There may be more to de javues than we think. But most probable in my opinion is that your brain stores up so many memories and throughout the coarse of your life there are bound to be very similar instenses that will accur. When it does your brain has a quick flashback glicth that leads you to believe you have had or will have that specific occurance.
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Interesting topic - I wanted to ask the same question (about dream places revisited). I frequently go to certain places that are amalgams of several places I have visited. But now I've dreamt them so often that they begin to have their own memories and a separate reality. There's a school which is a combination of three from childhood (its very confusing - I keep getting lost which can become a dream sign). There's a whole section of London with underground train stations and canals. There's a part of Amsterdam, and a part of India with some awesome archaeology which I have never seen. I have wondered if this is past/ future/ parallel lives especially the last.

Similar to the deja vu stuff - I sometimes get this feeling that I'm recognising everyone I see - kind of a permanent deja vu. I know the brain is good at facial recognition and its likely that I have seen some of them before - but not all - even also considering people often have very similar facial types. Perhaps I'm just over generalising, or there's the past life thing - if we're all one at some level then this would explain it.

Deja-Vu is an very interesting topic. I've heard a theory which states that your internal clock slows down and gets behind your sense of time involved with percieving events. This, in turn, creates the sensation of experiencing an event twice as your internal clock catches up again.

But hey, what the hell do I know? The idea of past lives is a lot more fun to think about.

As for recurring dream setting, I have this type of experience very frequently. There are about 4 or 5 settings that I seem to return to quite often in my dreams:

1) A couple of towns I've never been to.
2) A large swamp area that has alot of open water and a paved road winding through it.
3) A neighbourhood that I dont recogzize with a long straight road leading to a huge cottage.
4) A school that seems like a bit like my old high school...but is very different.

I'd say that about 50% of my dreams occur in these locations. But only very rarely am I able to use these locations as dream signs to realize that I'm dreaming. Hopepfully in the future I can get better at that.

I dream a lot that I am back at my Great Grandmother's house and property. It seems to be a recurring theme or something like that...

I definetly think that it is possible to dream of places that you have never been before.

Confession: When I read the Harry Potter books I had this complete visual picture of what Hogwart's looked like (I even dreamt it)....and then when I saw the movie I was really disapointed. :-P

In my 32 years of Lding I have created many places that I visit on a frequent basis. I know the layout of the place and the people I have created there by the "feel" of the dream when I wake up there.

I had a 45 minute LD where Id always re-awaken in this room on a sofa. And its not a real place, I knwo that much. It became my "dream room" for a night.

One of the places I re-visit is my own bedroom. When I dream that I am in my own bed it leads to some of my most powerful lucid dreams. Don Juan suggests that we try to find our sleeping bodies in our dreams.....I haven't been able to find my bedroom in my dreams but sometimes they just begin there.
In one of my first lucid dreams, I dreamed I was in my bed and looked at my hands to see if I was dreaming. There were eyeballs in the palms of both of my hands looking back at me! I sat up in bed and looked around, everything seemed the same as in waking. I got up and looked at my bedside table. "If this is a dream I should be able to stick my hand thru this table". I did it.
Then I walked over to a wall and did the same thing. I leaned over and closely examined the wall to see what it was made of. Instead of being solid it was made up of millions of tiny light particles, all vibrating together to make it look solid.