Dream Worlds

[SylverStar]

I was wondering if anyone else experienced this.

My dreams seem to be a place of there own. I have an apartment and several other familar places in my dreams that don't exsist in the real world. My dreams will tend to correlate with one another. One dreamm can be a somewhat continuation of a dream from years ago. It seems almost as I'm living in another place and having another life in my dreams.

Just curious if anyone else experienced this?

[angelbaby]

Hi,
I think I know what you're talking about but I'm still really new and may mix up some stuff...so if I'm mistaken please correct me so that I know...but I believe what you've experienced is some type of astral projection. I have had a few conscience ones myself but have not learned how to control them. I'm still learning on how to control them. The last one I had was spontaneous and it occured almost 2 weeks ago. But anyways, I was doing some reading on them to learn more and I read that you can live a completly seperate life in astral projection, so maybe that's what could be happening, I'm not totally 100% sure but I'm still doing reading and trying to completly understand them myself. Hopefully someone can take what I've written and expand to make it make some sort of better sense :D and enlighten us. Hope this makes some sort of sense and sorry for rambling....LOL

[indigo rain]

i thought i was the only person who did this. i have several houses in my dreams, and when i'm in them, i know i'm dreaming and can begin to control the dreams, so it really helps in lucid dreaming. i'll know immediately the home isn't my real house but i'll recognize it from other dreams, or it will just seem strangely familiar. my favorite was this huge two story that was like a maze to me, it was like hogwarts in harry potter, the staircases would move around and you could use one route once to get to one room and the next time you went that way you'd end up somewhere totally different.

[angelbaby]

I remember that my first astral projection occured when I was about 11. I didn't even realize what it was until the other day after I began doing my readings and have a better understanding (I'm 20 now). But I was staying at my grandmothers house and I was in teh back bedroom. To set the scence a little that room has no windows and has one doorway. I had got out of bed, and noticed a small light shining on the wall to my left (the door is towards the foot of the bed so it wasn't from the door). But i walked towards it and entered and when i went through I had entered my grandmothers closet (which is what would be there if there wasn't a wall). I looked around and everything was pretty much as it would be, I saw my parents sleeping in my grandparents bed (grandparents were on vacation). I walked around the room a bit and went over to the shelf next to the door and everything was pretty normal, went down the hall turned on some lights, looked around, and finally had went back to bed. That was my first conscious experience. I have had a few more recently but when i first started as soon as I felt the vibrations and my body rising, I would freak out and scream no (not a verbal scream, but you know what i mean). Finally I decided to just let it happen. I haven't yet been able to control it yet, but I'm practicing. Oh, and there were 2 other times when I've had a partial one, were I didn't completly leave, but I would "roll around" if you know what i am talking about and one other when I only lifted my upper body and look down and saw my hands and stuff. But glad to know other people know what i'm talking about....need to stop writing, rambled on way way to much. If anyone wants to talk more about this my aol sn is sunflwr0412 and my yahoo is sunflwr0414.

[SylverStar]

I pretty sure it's not Astral Projection. Everythings familiar when I lucid Dream too. Which is really helpful. I feel pretty grounded when I wake up and I can be aware of my physical surrondings when I'm dreaming.

[Xander67]

well i seem to find myself working in a department store, and the odd thing about it is, the managers are usually people of authority in my life, bosses, teachers etc, its really neat

[cokeanasmoke]

I do this too...lots of houses with crazy rooms and a wonderful cozy feeling, victorian, and it is like a different life. But I agree, I have never astral projected, but I don't think that's it....I would say more of a parallel life than astral

[indigo rain]

i've also astral projected and yes, it's different. when i astral project i'm in the same house i'm sleeping in, except there's always some stuff out of place, doors where there shouldn't be any, etc...

[Tarbh Nathroch]

I have many dreamscapes as well. Places I like going to, places I know as well as any in the waking world. I know how to get to these places, but the way to get to them just isn’t right when awake. Most of mine are more like additions to real places than a whole new place. An extra field, a river, or a store that aren’t really there even though I’ve been to those places many, many times. I sometimes get disappointed when I’ll be a place adjacent to a dreamscape and realize I can’t go until I’m asleep.

[SylverStar]

My apartment in my dream world is right behind over behind where one of are main streets are. It's not there in reality and dissapoints me because it's really a fabulous complex set with tiers of little hills, a nice pool and courtyard and many fountains. It disapoints me that I can not just go over to my dream place and chill during the day. It's soo cool.

[IvyCeltress]

Yeah I have a couple of ongoing dreams of places I've never been.

One of them seems to have me living in an old house that that was made into apartments. It's kind of nice actually because there a is door from the bedroom that leads out to a set of wooden steps to a small grassy area that leads out to a beach. There are french doors in both the master bedroom and the living room the lead out to a nice patio. All the rooms seem pretty cluttered but with really beautiful antique furniture, some of it already refinished and some of them needing a little work and TLC, so I can't bear to get rid of any of them so spend part of my dream time trying to arrange things so they look nice.

The sort of negative part of the dream is that in the wall between mine and my neighbor's apartment is a door that is supposed to to be locked. I guess sometime in the past someone who could afford it could rent both apartments and unlock the door. Anyway somehow the door keeps on getting unlocked and I don't seem to be able to lock it myself. The neighbors are very social people, so people visiting their apartment come in to my apartment through the door and wander around or pound on my door wanting to get in, thinking it's my neighbor's door. I spend a lot of time telling my neighbors to keep the door locked and they say they will but it keeps on happening. Haven't the faintest idea whether it's a message, out of the body experience or what.

The other strong place dream I get is an area sort of Georgetown in Washington, DC, which was built along a canal, and has lots of interesting restaurants and shops and pretty townhouse. I go there regularly with friends at least, they are friends in the dream but I don't recognise them in real life. We are wondering around, and wind up in a wharf (which isn't like Georgetown) where there is a restored clipper ship which is used as a pirate themed restaurant. The wait staff are all unemployed actors and actresses and between waiting tables, they are all Errol Flynn wannabees, swinging from chandeliers, dueling on empty, etc. It's great fun, but I've never been to or heard of any such restaurant.

[Jenne]

Wow...can't believe I'm not alone in this. But it makes sense. I do this alot. I have several places that are "familiar" to me in my dream state, and I've known them since I was little. I've even gotten to where I recognize them as such in the dreams "Oh, this is such-and-such a place from such-and-such a dream." These "dreamscapes" occur in all my recurring dreams as well...

[Chrystiona]

I don't have a dream "house" that I can go IN to. But I have a dream place - a few blocks of neighborhood.(SO STRANGE that you mentioned that ... a few blocks....) I have a drawn a map of it a few times... it's around water - a coast somewhere. And I know where a few landmarks are...my dream house WAS an apartment building and it's a few streets up from a park.(but in my dream I am aware that I no longer reside there) At different times of the day the park is filled with crazy people - because I have been frightened walking through the park... to get to the street that my "old" apartment is on.

strangely similar.

xoxo chrys