"[A]nd, as I slept, I dreamed a dream."
July 10, 2009 11:14 PM Subscribe
I have dreams about reoccurring places, but each dream itself is different.
The most common involves a house with multiple rooms and my exploration of each. The building itself is often different, but I always recognize it as mine and further, the same over-arching one.
Your opinions as to what they might mean are most welcome, but I am truly interested in hearing about your reoccurring dreams. How do they generally manifest themselves to the hive mind?
The most common involves a house with multiple rooms and my exploration of each. The building itself is often different, but I always recognize it as mine and further, the same over-arching one.
Your opinions as to what they might mean are most welcome, but I am truly interested in hearing about your reoccurring dreams. How do they generally manifest themselves to the hive mind?
This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is too broad and "now you go" to really work as non-chat. -- cortex
Whether or not it "means" anything, a common (most common?) interpretation of the exploring-rooms-in-a-house dream is that you're poking around in your subconscious.
If you'd stopped at "Your opinions as to what they might mean are most welcome." that would be fine, but the rest of the sentence makes this question feel awfully chatfiltery.
posted by rtha at 11:31 PM on July 10, 2009
If you'd stopped at "Your opinions as to what they might mean are most welcome." that would be fine, but the rest of the sentence makes this question feel awfully chatfiltery.
posted by rtha at 11:31 PM on July 10, 2009
Interpreting dreams is like tarot card readings. You may be able to make use of them as jumping off points to exploring parts of your own mind (hidden or not) but no one else would be able to do so.
But yes, I also have a couple of places that I dream of with some regularity, although the action of the dreams is different. One is (according to my subconscious) my grandmother's house, although it bears no resemblance to her actual house or to any place I've ever been before. I guess my mind just made it up one night and liked it so much it keeps going back. It is a nice house, although it has plants and trees growing through the floor.
posted by frobozz at 11:45 PM on July 10, 2009
But yes, I also have a couple of places that I dream of with some regularity, although the action of the dreams is different. One is (according to my subconscious) my grandmother's house, although it bears no resemblance to her actual house or to any place I've ever been before. I guess my mind just made it up one night and liked it so much it keeps going back. It is a nice house, although it has plants and trees growing through the floor.
posted by frobozz at 11:45 PM on July 10, 2009
I would agree with rtha's interpretation - I often dream about exploring huge abandoned warehouses, or hotels with many rooms - not "my" buildings or even ones I've seen before in real life, but somehow I'm already familiar with the places.
I wouldn't read much into it, either - just enjoy the dream.
posted by HopperFan at 11:48 PM on July 10, 2009
I wouldn't read much into it, either - just enjoy the dream.
posted by HopperFan at 11:48 PM on July 10, 2009
Hey, that's nothing. I've had entire cities and landscapes recur for decades, with roads and fields and overpasses. Plus there's an empty, cavernous school building with adjacent gym/pool that pops up every so often for some reason. The plot's different every time, though.
Often there's a stretch of shining water.
I don't particularly read anything into these recurring places, but I do enjoy them.
posted by tangerine at 11:59 PM on July 10, 2009 [1 favorite]
Often there's a stretch of shining water.
I don't particularly read anything into these recurring places, but I do enjoy them.
posted by tangerine at 11:59 PM on July 10, 2009 [1 favorite]
I wouldn't read anything into it. My most common reoccurring dream involves falling into some animal's tank at Seaworld. Usually Shamu, but in odd iterations it's also been with dolphins and otters. hopperfan is right- just enjoy the dream.
posted by kro at 12:16 AM on July 11, 2009
posted by kro at 12:16 AM on July 11, 2009
It doesn't mean anything. It's just fun brain generated entertainment to me. I've had lots of re-occurring landscapes in my dreams - it helps you to become lucid when you realize that you remember the place, which in turn makes you realize you are dreaming.
But, I did have these re-occurring dreams about re-incarnation every time I was sick as a child, it's taken many years to get past reading any meaning into them.
Write down your dreams if you'd like to remember them more, you might find other re-occurring landscapes or themes - it's fun.
posted by thylacine at 12:26 AM on July 11, 2009
But, I did have these re-occurring dreams about re-incarnation every time I was sick as a child, it's taken many years to get past reading any meaning into them.
Write down your dreams if you'd like to remember them more, you might find other re-occurring landscapes or themes - it's fun.
posted by thylacine at 12:26 AM on July 11, 2009
I also have some places I dream of repeatedly. One is a big old house on the edge of a canyon (or cliff, possibly) which I'm poking around inside. Another building I think I've only dreamt the inside of, but it hosts similar kinds of dreams. I guess it's a common dream motif.
People who assign more meaning to dreams (eg, Carl Jung, who apparently also had a recurring house dream) usually seem to think the house is a representation of your own psyche, or something along those lines. I usually feel that the house is a little more external than that; like it reflects my mental relationship with the outside (non-self) world, which is certainly a many-faceted thing that I could metaphorically explore or build on to. Or, y'know, maybe it's just a dream.
posted by hattifattener at 12:26 AM on July 11, 2009 [1 favorite]
People who assign more meaning to dreams (eg, Carl Jung, who apparently also had a recurring house dream) usually seem to think the house is a representation of your own psyche, or something along those lines. I usually feel that the house is a little more external than that; like it reflects my mental relationship with the outside (non-self) world, which is certainly a many-faceted thing that I could metaphorically explore or build on to. Or, y'know, maybe it's just a dream.
posted by hattifattener at 12:26 AM on July 11, 2009 [1 favorite]
I have dreams that I am a two man tent, then another dream where I am a much larger, almost family sized tent. It was bothering me, I went to see a shrink, he listened to my story, said with finality "You seem to have anxiety syndrome of some sort: You're two tents."
posted by dancestoblue at 1:52 AM on July 11, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by dancestoblue at 1:52 AM on July 11, 2009 [1 favorite]
The house is you--superficially different and many faceted but underneath the same.
posted by Obscure Reference at 3:43 AM on July 11, 2009
posted by Obscure Reference at 3:43 AM on July 11, 2009
It also might be relevant what emotions you feel during these drive. What are they, are they the same or different from dream to dream?
posted by shivohum at 7:35 AM on July 11, 2009
posted by shivohum at 7:35 AM on July 11, 2009
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posted by kldickson at 11:23 PM on July 10, 2009