Is this amount of fictional locations normal?

[vonklammo]

I have a suspicion that I have an unusual number of (non-lucid) dreams that take place in completely fictional locations. I have made a list of the locations I have encountered and divided them up into real and non-real locations. The real locations are most often distorted, wrong and warped in some way, but theyare RECOGNIZED as real places in the dream. The non-real places are not recognized as anywhere I have ever been before. I simply find myself there and accept it. Would be a cool dream sign if I could learn to recognize it. Anyway, here's the list from my dreams January 1st-January 18th. (I started my dream journal January 1st). Number of dreams in total: 31 Average number of dreams recalled: 1.7 Most number of dreams per night: 4 Least number of dreams per night: 0 REAL LOCATIONS: Classroom at school x2 Current home My son’s riding school The street my house is on Chemistry Department, Århus University Childhood home x5 Auntie’s home Stansted Airport NON-REAL LOCATIONS Raft on the ocean Dirty room Hotel room and on public transport in London Nondescript house with tiny basement Large dark cave with long chains from the ceiling Fictional waterfront in London Strange kid’s room at my school Courtyard of highrise blocks Alchemic-style laboratory Large children’s play land Hotel Mall Shoe Store Multicoloured youth hostel Huge, Grand-Theft-Auto style computerized cityscape Indoor parking garage 1930s high society dining room Police training grounds A waterfront Rolling hills Quaint hotel courtyard Victorian Press conference chinese apartment in high-rise block dark recording studio large dinner party multi-teared music pactice room Restaurant

[Mercen_505]

The overwhelming majority of my dreams take place in locations that are totally fictional. If I had to put some numbers to it, I'd peg it around a ratio of 1:75 for real/unreal locations. Real locations for me usually result in a mundane dream, so I'd rather have the setting be as trippy as possible. From the people I've spoken to, it's not unusual to have a bunch of dreams one way or the other. I have a relative whose dreams are almost exclusively related to daily activities such as work or shopping, and virtually nothing fantastic or otherwise fictional. I just happen to be the exact opposite

[WarriorQueen]

The location matter is very interesting to me... the most of my dreams (lucid and non lucid) are placed in the following fictional locations: Shining Parfum and clothes Supermarket Unknown medieval village fields and hill roads by night (during my flying experiences) dark and empty big Garage room...something like a Bunker.. a foggy promenade in a sea-side place each of these places gives me a specifical emotions and are linked to specifical situations.All these locations are something i've never been ;showing details, objects and people i've never seen before...

[Techno]

Perfectly normal. Though I don't see why you'd count them to begin with. They are just dream scenes, after all.

[O'nus]

The overwhelming majority of my dreams take place in locations that are totally fictional. If I had to put some numbers to it, I'd peg it around a ratio of 1:75 for real/unreal locations. Real locations for me usually result in a mundane dream, so I'd rather have the setting be as trippy as possible. From the people I've spoken to, it's not unusual to have a bunch of dreams one way or the other. I have a relative whose dreams are almost exclusively related to daily activities such as work or shopping, and virtually nothing fantastic or otherwise fictional. I just happen to be the exact opposite Seconded. ~

[Abra]

NON-REAL LOCATIONS Raft on the ocean Dirty room Hotel room and on public transport in London Nondescript house with tiny basement Large dark cave with long chains from the ceiling Fictional waterfront in London Strange kid’s room at my school Courtyard of highrise blocks Alchemic-style laboratory Large children’s play land Hotel Mall Shoe Store Multicoloured youth hostel Huge, Grand-Theft-Auto style computerized cityscape Indoor parking garage 1930s high society dining room Police training grounds A waterfront Rolling hills Quaint hotel courtyard Victorian Press conference chinese apartment in high-rise block dark recording studio large dinner party multi-teared music pactice room Restaurant It was clever of you to notice this. I categorized them a bit further (though some of it is just a guess). Underlined=Places that were probably constructed from bits and mixes of places you have been. Italics=Places that were probably introduced to you via books, television, etc. Again, mixed around and altered. I'm sure it's not all completely fictional, in that it has an origin. Maybe you can see more patterns here? (Maybe you could even predict what you'll dream about tonight--a good way to get lucid.)

[vonklammo]

Thanks very much for this! You probably got a few classifications wrong, but that is obviously inevitable - but the idea of distinguishing between real locations, mashed-up amalgams of real life and mash-ups of mental images gleaned from books, films (and also simple waking imagination) is very interesting to me. It gives me a solid sense of how I construct dream scenes. However, I am nowhere near being able to predict what my dream tonight will be. I suspect it may be difficult - trying to connect the dream scenes with when I first took in the impression that moulded them seems almost impossible. For instance, yesterday I had a dream involving a (warped) scene from the movie "The Terminator" - a movie I haven't seen or thought about in years. Something obviously reminded me of it subconsciously, but what that was is very hard to say. Thanks for the help,though!!

[Neko-san]

Like 90% of my dreams are in fictional locations. But something I have noticed is that if I "look" closer into the locations I can tell that most of them have something in common with the places I have been before, but they are not that much alike.

[WarriorQueen]

Of course,we often find in our dreams something that belongs to our memories of places and people...But there are some dreams where you discover places and meet people that (you clearly know!!)don't belong to anything you've lived before...And sometimes,it cuold happend that you recognize those places and those people years later during your holydays in the other art of the world..._It's rather clear,for me, that dreams are created by something more than only our "reality" influence....

[WarriorQueen]

It was clever of you to notice this. I categorized them a bit further (though some of it is just a guess). Underlined=Places that were probably constructed from bits and mixes of places you have been. Italics=Places that were probably introduced to you via books, television, etc. Again, mixed around and altered. I'm sure it's not all completely fictional, in that it has an origin. Maybe you can see more patterns here? (Maybe you could even predict what you'll dream about tonight--a good way to get lucid.) It's true that in our dreams we often find part of memories of places we've been and people we've met before...But sometimes our dreams take us in places and show us faces that WE CLEARLY KNOW we've never seen before and it could happend that years later we recognize right that place or that people during our holydays in the other side of the world!!! It's rather clear that our dreams are made not only by "reality"influences and hidden memories...but maybe they simply come from another source far from our mind...

[WarriorQueen]

Sorry for the double post...

[vonklammo]

It's rather clear that our dreams are made not only by "reality"influences and hidden memories...but maybe they simply come from another source far from our mind... I don't think that's clear at all that such an external source exists. If you dream of hundreds, if not thousands, of fictional people that your mind just constructs randomly (or from faces of strangers seen in passing) you are bound to one day meet someone that resembles one of these imaginary people. Selective memory does the rest. I am a solid opponent of incorporating mysticism and any kind of paranormal claims into the field of dreaming. I think that this is the kind of habit that ensures that the scientific discipline that is lucid dreaming research is seen as new age garbage by the general public. I know this is off-topic, so I'll shut up now :-)

[WarriorQueen]

I don't think that's clear at all that such an external source exists. If you dream of hundreds, if not thousands, of fictional people that your mind just constructs randomly (or from faces of strangers seen in passing) you are bound to one day meet someone that resembles one of these imaginary people. Selective memory does the rest. I am a solid opponent of incorporating mysticism and any kind of paranormal claims into the field of dreaming. I think that this is the kind of habit that ensures that the scientific discipline that is lucid dreaming research is seen as new age garbage by the general public. I know this is off-topic, so I'll shut up now :-) No problem...We only have different opinion about it... But onestly i can't ignore my past experiences, and i think that in my place you'd feel the same too...I respect you, anyway!!

[vonklammo]

No problem...We only have different opinion about it... But onestly i can't ignore my past experiences, and i think that in my place you'd feel the same too...I respect you, anyway!! And likewise, of course