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TheDukeofAlba's avatar

I dream a lot of houses and places generally. One common thing is that the places I dream of are often places I’ve been in real life - I know specifically in the dream that this is my house, or this is a base I was at, etc - but the places as dreamt of bear no actual resemblance to the places they are supposed to correspond to. They are usually much larger and grander, even fantastic. For example, the military college I went to crops up in dreams a lot, but the dream version of it has been a gigantic gothic style complex carved into a mountain, sort of like the city in the Lord of the Rings movies.

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Alyssa Polizzi's avatar

That's an interesting detail! Do you find this to be true with other dreams as well? Do they appear more fantasy-like?

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TheDukeofAlba's avatar

Yes, rarely are the environments in my dreams mundane, they’re almost always fantastic. In the dream though I have no awareness of that; only after waking do I realize the strangeness of the places. There is also a sort of dream geography I have, in my dreams I am often traveling north. And a whole fantastic geography of the North that bears little resemblance to the real world, but which has become familiar to me over time.

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Alyssa Polizzi's avatar

What do you think north represents to you? Is the landscape growing more sparse, cold weather, etc? Perhaps north carries something more unique to you and the hints are in the geography of your dreams. Another idea is perhaps traveling north is like following the north star, a compass, a way to orient?

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