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Sometimes I dream about a college campus that only exists in my dreams. I remember my paths to certain classes, where I usually sit, and specific buildings. It's strangely comforting and familiar.
Mar 20, 2025

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I have a very specific version of my old highschool that only appears in my dreams. On the other hand when I dream of my college it's the same irl. 🤷‍♂️
Mar 22, 2025
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i have recurring nightmares set in high schools i’ve never been to!
Mar 20, 2025
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i think a lot about this and if i had the gumption to maintain a dream log i’d archive the mythopoeia and create a universe. map of my own brain. would give me good incentive to explore further whilst dreaming too
Mar 20, 2025
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I had a dream the other night, and the place seems so familiar, but I knew that it wasn't a place that I have ever been in waking life before. It looked like an old European village, a giant fountain in the center of the square, vast rolling hills with quirky little lopsided buildings built within them. Throughout the dream I felt, I have been here before, as I floated above outdoor cafes with vines cascading off the walls, I rolled down the hills and laid in the grass, I found a small pond with large structures (sunken statues? concrete dam walls?) emerging from the water.
Apr 17, 2025
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I've read that sleep allows your brain to solidify emotion-based memories, and that dreams might basically be your brain drawing loose connections between concepts that evoke similar emotions as sort of an unconscious method of processing them.
I don't feel like I have a fully developed "dream world", but I definitely feel like I revisit specific places when I'm dealing with similar situations or emotions! For example, there's a big theme park that I think I dream about more often when I'm feeling lost or out of place in a group. I might just be overanalyzing it though! There's also this one office building and this one suburban neighborhood and I feel like I have dreams about road trips and bus rides fairly often. None of those places really feel connected physically, but I also have a really bad sense of direction in real life so maybe my brain just doesn't want to deal with maps in the dream world if it doesn't have to lol
It's crazy to think that we all might have these unique worlds that follow completely different rules based on how our brains connect certain things with specific emotions!
Jul 18, 2025
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The other night, for example, I dreamt that there was a staircase inside my apartment that led to an entire other apartment—like a set from a 70s period piece/orange with smoke-stains—and an empty room with a very dramatic window and a desk that would have been greet to write at if it weren’t so far up the stairs.
Something something about Bachelard / the attic room allegory for the brain.
IDK, I just woke up happy that my rent didn’t increase with all the extra space.

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