Dream worlds & Deja Vu

Well before I begin I guess this will be my introduction, I've followed this forum a little bit a couple years ago, lost it, and recently started following it again and got really interested in dreaming again. My first vivid dreams occurred when I was 4, I still remember it(nightmare), and I have had vivid, bizarre, surreal, and sometimes even lucid dreams at least once a week since then, with occasional dry spells or lack of remembering. I'm very interesting in dreaming/meditation/related and I'm both skeptical and slow too believe but open minded and won't shoot you down.

Now onto the actual subject of this post, in many dreams I have had lately I had a strong feeling I've visited these places before in my dreams, even that I regularly visit these places in dreams I cannot remember. I started writing down all my dreams for the past couple months, something I used to do two years ago but I've been very busy and just stopped, but now that I have again I have noticed that deja vu feeling on more than one dream, while on other dreams I don't feel that at all. I was wondering if other people visit the same places in their dreams regularly or if they have ever felt this way before.

Fist off, for those nightmare you had when you were four, check out this thread. http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=29794

I dream of the same places all the time. It seems the places I haven't been to in awhile change a lot. If something happens in the dream, or some weird dream twist make the mall I'm in exit onto a beach, then the next time I dream of it, I know it has an exit to a beat. The more I dream of those places, the more those dream changes become part of my memory of the place. After awhile the place become so warped that feeling of deja vu is the only thing that lets me know where I am, because I wouldn't have recognized the place otherwise.

I tried to make a map of my dreams once, and that's why it didn't work. Places get all mixed up together.

I experience Deja Vu in my dreams pretty regularly. Odd thing is, most of the time when I wake up, I don't remember what could have triggered it (usually when I get Deja Vu I can figure out what caused it).

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Originally Posted by The Cusp

Fist off, for those nightmare you had when you were four, check out this thread. http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=29794

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Actually my early child hood dreams were normal nightmares but I have had weird dreams like that but only once or twice, but I do know someone who had those very strongly as well as hallucinations from a fever. In fact one time I moved my hand while sleeping and used to to open my eye, no idea how I did this while having a nightmare but I used to have them constantly, now I just have normal/bizarre dreams.

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Originally Posted by The Cusp

I dream of the same places all the time. It seems the places I haven't been to in awhile change a lot. If something happens in the dream, or some weird dream twist make the mall I'm in exit onto a beach, then the next time I dream of it, I know it has an exit to a beat. The more I dream of those places, the more those dream changes become part of my memory of the place. After awhile the place become so warped that feeling of deja vu is the only thing that lets me know where I am, because I wouldn't have recognized the place otherwise.

I tried to make a map of my dreams once, and that's why it didn't work. Places get all mixed up together.

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I had another deja vu dream last night. A place I was at had been destroyed in a previous dream, and was rebuild. In the dream it was going to be destroyed again in what I believe to be the same manor, and I warned the owner but he didn't listen. I ended up leaving the place without witnessing it's distruction. No idea if it was destroyed or not.

I also have not written of it in my dream diary or anything so I don't know if I am thinking I have been there, if its just similar to someplace I've been in non-dream space, or if I was there in a former dream. I do vaguely recall waking up from the dream where it was destroyed but its hard to tell if its all in my head, and for the sake of science/accuracy I'm just going to be skeptical and keep tracking my dreams.

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Originally Posted by Tobasco

I experience Deja Vu in my dreams pretty regularly. Odd thing is, most of the time when I wake up, I don't remember what could have triggered it (usually when I get Deja Vu I can figure out what caused it).

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Thats kind of what I'm experiencing, I'm trying to figure out whats happening thats why I started this thread. Will keep updating if people seem interested or if I have time.

I visited a dream place I have visited before and both recognized I had been there in the dream and after when I woke up, I didn't recognize I was in a dream which is fine because I just wanted to find out if my dream "deja vu" was founded on anything, and apparently it is. :boogie::boogie: So we (or at least I) visit surreal dream places that are both static in existence and changing. Mine seemed to be the same (it was a high school building) although I didn't explore it as much as I had in the last dream it seemed exactly the same but time had passed and the people and rules of the building had changed, it was much more authoritarian than I remembered, but I suppose thats irrelevant for this discussion. Hopefully this will be useful for someone trying to figure out why they feel that deja vu feeling in dreams/after.

I've often experienced deja vu in real life that reminds me strongly of a situation/words/event that I dreamed of years ago. It's a weird feeling and I can never really recall exactly what the dream was about. I don't believe in visions or anything supernatural regarding dreams though.

About dream worlds/places, I've often had dreams in a recurring dream place. Usually based on real buildings I'm familiar with (college/high school campuses, old houses, etc) but usually messed up/distorted in some way. Also a few times the places were completely creations of my dream mind. In my dream I will recognize the place a dream location I've visited previously, and I will know certain locations/paths and sometimes events that may happen.. although things will always change and become unexpected in my dreams (like the same road or corridor won't lead to the same place it did in the last dream). Funny thing is though, while I realize that I've visited the location in a dream and thus realize I must be dreaming, it doesn't pass control of the dream to me. I've never really been able to acheive lucid dreaming, but then I've only tried briefly when I was a kid.

In some of my dreams i know exactly where I am. Where the bank is down the street, where the best fried chicken shack is, how to get out of buildings etc.. When i wake i have no idea where this city is. the only cities i had visited in RL before recalling this one is Detroit, New York, Cleveland and Chicago. None of these cities really resemble the dream city. It's always being worked on and it's larger buildings are quite futuistic. One of them i even helped design. The previous buildings had collapsed on itself due to wind. My job was to make sure when the top fell off again a huge net would catch it and save people. And it's now constructed. When i am in this city i have not been lucid so i can;t ask the people or look at road signs. I take it i don't have to because how well i know the place. One day i hope to find out where my dreamscapes are...