Thread: Dream Locations?

Originally Posted by citizennumber3

Have you ever had a dream where you've been in a strange environment that somehow feels familiar? You've never been in this building or park or city or forest, but somehow you feel connected to it. You've dreamt about it more than once. Yet, you've never been there in waking life. I suppose you could wonder if it were a real place you've been through an OBE / Astral Projection, something like that. But what if you meet people and do things that could never be possible in real life? When you wake up you realize the dream conversation you were having with a dream character was ridiculous and made no sense, or maybe you had seven finers on one hand, or the trees were purple...? You'd have to rule out that the place truly exists...or you'd have to rule out that you (by that I mean: your spirit) has been there. So how do you explain dreaming of this place so often?

I don't know about you, but I tend to visit dream locations on more than one occasion. Places I've never been in real life. Places I know can't be trulying visiting.

So, I suppose what I'm asking is "how are we able to recreate the same environment so many times when we have no real world model to base it on?" Or perhaps that's a lame question. Maybe this is a lame topic to be discussing. But I find it very eerie to have that sense of "deja vu" in a dream. Sometimes our mind is simply giving us the illusion that we've dreamt about that place before, but we haven't...but other times I know for a fact that I've been there more than once in a dream.

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Thoughts? Anybody?
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Materialists have endless problems trying to reconcile Dream and Astral Experiences with the notion that it all must source exclusively from personal memory.

But the moment you concede that there may be a Collective Consciousness, and a solid emperical basis for allowing for the reality of ESP, then suddenly all of these external and foreign percptions and references begin to make sense.

But while you must still insist that everything must arise out of a purely solipsistic 'subconscious' you will be at a loss to explain nearly all of your subjective experiences.

You Materialists will eventually have to allow for the apparent Paradox of reasoning whereby you can only hope to explain your subjective experiences by admitting to the Reality of the Spiritual.

I don't usually have dreams that take place in the same place. But I still sometimes get that feeling of de ju vu. I think that’s because even thought its a new place my mind pieces together different scenes I thought about or been in real life. I remember one dream it was a dirt road leading to a forest and there was this fence there and then a forest with brownish leaves and gray trunks. But I remembered that fence was exactly like this one I know years ago from a park. I think that one fence caused the de ju vu on the whole scene. Maybe instead of looking at your dream scenes as a whole try and look at it part by part and then see if anything is familiar.

Yup this has happened to me also and Justme has a good point. My outlook is slighty different I've realized that they are places that I've been to before but pieces of different locations from different dream enviroments. So When I have that sense of DeJa Vue in my dream I tend to look at the pieces also and try to place them in the dreams I can associate with.

Yes, I've also had this experience. Like I was dreaming about a haunted castle, but in the dream I was sure that I had been there before - I recognized it from another dream I had previously.

But when I checked back in my DJ, there was no mention of this castle. Unless I didn't remember the dream before so I didn't write it down, or the other explanation would be that I really didn't dream about it before and my mind was just playing tricks on me. Both scenarios seem pretty likely.

I have done this countless times, often repeating the same dream I had before in the same location.

yes I've had dreams like that and then I get a dejavu feeling later in real life when I actually am in That specific spot.