Thread: Persistent Worlds?

I have a recurring dream about my old elementary and high school. I'm always doing different things while I'm there, though. Only a handful of the dreams have been lucid - most are non-lucid, which I don't quite understand since that school is a major dreamsign of mine. You'd think as soon as I entered the school, I'd be lucid, but nope.

I had to switch schools in my junior year of high school, after growing up in the school I mentioned above. So I think the preoccupation about that school in my dreams is a longing for closure - even though it's been over 9 years since I stepped foot in it. I dunno.

I've been thinking about this quite a lot recently, actually. And there are a few settings that just seem to keep coming back, but as for the answer to why, I am not sure of.

The most common settings in my dreams are my Grandmother's home, an old house I used to live in, my aunt's home, Elementary and both my high schools. Sometimes I'd simply return to a place that I'd remember from a previously similar dream.

All three homes seem to hold a mystery beyond its exterior, that and the fact that I also used to live with my grandmother is the only special importance I can place upon them. Except life at my grandmother's was frankly beyond hell. And school is simply a place I love, even if crowds make me feel a bit uneasy.

Maybe having repetitive settings holds a meaning--I think I heard it somewhere, anyway. It had something to do with unfinished business of some sort.

I keep having recurring civil war era dreams where I am behind the scenes. I can sense the tension as I am at a family's home, but away from the war. I tend not to feel comfortable in these, but I do sense the hospitality.

In my first few lucid dreams I would always be standing underneath a streetlight at night time near my house when I'd realize that I was dreaming. Now, whenever I am at my streetlight I become instantly lucid. It is the only place that reoccurs in my dreams and it is the only place that I will definately go lucid at.

I know a few people that have either persistent worlds or dreams that continue over several months.

These are very vivid and interesting dreams. But they don't seem to be true lucids.

A friend of mine has a dream home set in the tropics where she goes and hangs out and decorates it. It seems likes its a great restoring place for her, so she's not too interested in messing with it with lucidity.

Mine are always totally random. Even when I dream of real locations they tend to be different. They even change in the same dream. Could walk around a corner stop and go back and the stuff behind me has changed.

The only dreams I seem to recall of late are re-occuring ones.

One I am in Amsterdam, looking for somewhere to buy some green from, without much luck. In amserdam, yeah right! I have only been there once around 5 yrs ago.

This is the most frequent: I am in a holiday resort, hot and sunny. Often it is an all inclusive where you can eat and drink as much as you want, there is always a swimming pool in the dream and often a fight of some sort.