Reoccuring Dreamscapes

[ElliotGain]

I have several dreams that are sort of reoccurring, however the same things aren't happening in the dream, but the dreams take place at the same LOCATION.  These are places I have never visited but the location usually have the same PEOPLE in them and they usually have the same feeling-tones associated with them...does anyone else experience this and have any insights or ideas about them?  Are they real places and realities, or just personal mind constructs?

[Selski]

ElliotGain

I also have these.  Something happened recently that I'll share with you (but I'll keep it brief).  I can't claim to know what it is or what it means, but my emotions were interesting.

All my life, I've dreamt of a place.  I've never been lucid in any of these dreams.  They're not very regular, but regular enough.  It's not even a place I dream about - it's the way to the place .  Perhaps I do dream about the final destination - but that part I don't remember.

Anyway, I know vague "signposts" like the track is on a bend in the road and it goes up a hill.  About a quarter of the way up the hill there is a turning to the right past some tennis courts.  That is "my way".  Every time I'm in the dream and come across either the road, the track etc., I start to walk the same way to my destination.

I haven't dreamt about this for a while now.  Within the last month or so, glimpses and snippets of this "journey" have been flashing into my mind while I've been going about my waking life.  I've tried to grab hold of the images and study them, but they come and go too fast.

Anyway, recently I was meditating.  I had an amazing experience in itself (which is too long and personal to be adding here), but during the meditation I was talking to a non-physical friend/guide/my higher self/whatever* and I told him about these snatches of memory of a journey I had during dreams.  He started sketching it while I described it.  Then he said to me, "Why don't you continue walking up the hill rather than go off to the right, and see what's over the top?"

I'd never thought of doing that, because that was going a different way to what I knew.  

So I did.  And when I got to the top of the hill and looked out at the view, tears rolled silently down my face.  And lots of other snatches/memories of other dreams came flooding back.  I knew that view.  I've seen that view many many times.  The emotion was unexpected.  Some of the jigsaw pieces fell into place.  I felt I was somewhere extremely familiar.  No, it was stronger than that.  I KNEW the place.  It was home.  

At the top of the hill, I was on some sort of plateau/crest looking out onto gentle rolling hills.  A few trees, some sheep here and there, stone-walls and buildings (farms), but all very gentle.

In this physical life, my favourite scenes are the views one gets in Derbyshire - the gentle rolling hills, the sheep, etc., - exactly the same as I experienced over the hill in my dreams.  Whilst there are more "spectacular" views to be had, the Derbyshire countryside is No.1 for me, and always has been.

So my loosely-based theory is that I've seen that scenery before I was physical.  In fact I lived nearby.  And it confirmed to me why I love the Derbyshire countryside.  

Elliot - what feelings do you have when you are there?  Familiarity?  A sense of contentment?  Explore your emotions.  You may be experiencing somewhere that you have lived.  Do you interact with the people?  Are they friendly?  Do they know you?  Try and get hold of the memories of the dreams.  I find it very difficult, but the more I think about them, the easier the jigsaw gets    

Sarah

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[Stookie]

Throughout my life I've had recurring dream-scapes. And like said, different things happen every time. These places include:

A beach
An amusement park
A futuristic sci-fi city, complete with domes and hover-trains
An awful school/jail (a school that feels like a jail?)

Lately it's been mostly the beach. I had one dream where I was on the beach with thousands of people, looking out over the ocean, waiting for something.  The same dream happened about a week later.  Then, about a week after that I had it again, but this time 3 huge dragons flew out from the horizon and flew down the beach in line. They were made out of either a polished metal or polished stone (like marble) because they were glistening in the sunlight, yet very realistic and vivid.

Many of those dreams also start with me in a car driving there, with some kind of accident or something happening along the way. I know I've read that a car in your dream can represent your body. I had my first lucid dream last week, and I realized I was dreaming after I had sold my car for $400, which I knew was a terrible mistake and thought "this HAS to be a dream".

[Jo'ogn]

@elliot - maybe in your dreamstate you peep into/contact others of your lives. Sounds reasonable enough. I believe that those lives are all Now. That also includes the future.

Like perhaps Stookie's "sci-fi city". The beach could be perhaps in a different dimension and the dragons were in fact real, but your mind - adjusted to this dimension - did not accept them as "real".

Like they showed in the movie "What the *bleep* do we know?" that the Indians shall have not even seen the ships of Columbus, for they didn't believe ships to be existant.

[mactombs]

I have a lot of familiar dreamscapes - so many I started a list a while ago. It's very interesting when you start a dream log (I did a while ago, and since I remember my hours of dreams virtually every night it seemed like it would supply plenty of content). You begin to see that dreams aren't nearly as random or meaningless as people believe.

My guess is that some of these areas might be training grounds. Like Peterson talks about in his book, flying in dreams seems to be a theme - learning to fly (Pink Floyd started playing in my mind just then) has been popular with my dreams. I seem to have people in my dreams who give me clues and kind of nudge me in certain directions.

Another really popular dream for me was that I never graduated from school. I had to go back and complete it for my diploma. I've had this dream for many years. It was always a nightmare, tedious, back under the social pressure and pressure to conform. Lately, I graduated from dream school! Now, whenever I dream I'm in school, I'm having so much fun, no worries, passing classes easily and on my own terms, talking to teachers. It's a good time.

I'd suggest keeping a journal of common themes and places - you'll discover that dreaming is a whole other life with meaning and purpose.

[Gandalf]

A bit like Selski, I have recurring lucid dreams where I travel to a green field like region, full of gently rolling green hills, under a blue sky and bright, hazy sun.

However this is no precise place on earth. What's more, twice now I have come across a bunch of people there whom I instantly recognise and feel a deep emotional connection with; it's like a homecoming, even although my mind tells me that I can't ever recall meeting these people before.

Soon after this, Frank reported that this kind of meeting with familiar and yet seemingly unknown people is quite common and felt the enviroment I described matched very well to the area of F27 known as 'The Park' by Monroe and others. These people are members of my 'astral family', a group which i know little about, although they seem to know a lot about me! Apparantly those who have more experience of travelling around F27 locales say that these encounters are quite common.


Doug

[FuM]

i was just about to psot this topic in here w/o knowing this one was already made i too have had reoccuring dreamscapes but not always the same characters sometimes like a few are different but its always the same place and the same concept like last night i had 2 of them was it because  i was trying to astral project? cause like i remember everytime i try it the same dreamscape happens