Thread: Building worlds/familular places in dreams

One thing I am interested in doing is constructing worlds. By worlds I mean, familular places that I can visit over the span of multiple dreams that mantaing the same properties (more or less). For example, in RL I would like to own a beach house but I dont have the means and most likely will never to actually do so. But, perhaps I can have my own private beach inside of my dreams. That is, some beach that is relatively consistent in its nature, a beach that stays pretty much the same from one dream to the next.

The challanges in doing so that I see are 1)Developing structure of world 2)Filling in details of the world 3) Inhabiting the world.

Now the first challange in having my beach house would be to envision the big picture details, or the structure of the world. I have envisioned a secluded gravely trail nestled between large trees that leads to a grassy hill that over looks my beach. From the hill I see a horeshoe shaped cove with large cliffs towering over and enscapsulating the beach. On the beach I see a small wooden cabin nestled safely away from the tides. There is trail with wooden steps that leads down to this cabin from the grassy hill.

At this point I have the general shape of the world covered. The next task is to further enumerate the details of the world. Obviously in the dream I'd imagine lots of extra detail would be added and some of what I describe would not, but it seems to me important to at least define certain hallmarks. I envision
The sun as distant dark orange half circle shape just above the horizon. Clouds roll lazily along. The air is warm and a gentle breeze rolls through making the grass wave. Standing infront of the cabin looking towards the ocean I see the sand from position gently slope downward towards the water. Turning towards the cabin, I see a small sign infront of the cabin with my name on it. The cabin is made of deep dark brown wood and green triangular roof covers the top. Etc etc.

Finally, and this might be the most difficult part, comes actually inhabiting the world once incide of a LD. I think ther are various ways to go about this. Some may be able to just start imagining the place and perhaps the dream will shape. For me, I find the idea of casting a spell that creates one of those spiraly swirling teleporation portals appealing. Upon entering the portal I would of course be dropepd off somewehre at the foot of my road. Having a clear idea of the destination, and the details that compose the destination seem of utmost importance for a succesfull teleportation.

The idea of world building is very appealing to me. To me, having worlds in my dreams would make dreams feel less chaotic. It would be like having a sort of base camp or safe place that I could use to venture out into other strange areas of the dream world. Or perhaps, just a place to relax at.

I should note I have never actually done any of this but was just attempting to theorize about how I would go about it if I were to do it. If anyone has experience in this field I would love to hear your thoughts/techniques for this type of thing.