Re: Repeated Dream Settings
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Originally posted by goldenboi24k
My name is Keenan. I've had three lucid dreams, and two of them took place at my junior high school. As a matter of fact most of my dreams take place in the same building I went to junior high school. im 17 years old soon to be 18 going on to my senior year. Why does my mind keep taking me back to my 7th and 8th grade year ?
I noticed the same phenomena and wrote that essay "The Disengaged Dream Self" regarding it. It seems that the Dream Self is more comfortable in past settings, or even simply different settings than the Waking Self, and, yes, I believe it represents a problem.
I'm an old man and my dreams are always returning to School and even the unpleasantness of Army life. In one dream I actually counted it up -- I had graduated from High School three separate times, and from University I had taken 4 separate Degrees. Then when I am not in some School or another, I am receiving new orders to report to some Army Unit somewhere. The Dream Self loves to indulge in what it has grown used to. It returns to the same Scenes and the same Scenarios.
I believe this is one area where Lucidity could be a useful tool, for when we become Lucid we could take that opportunity of the Waking Self being predominant over the Dream Self to lecture the Dream Self on the necessity of paying a great deal more attention to the Waking Self's present circumstances and to take a greater interest in the Here and Now.