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No, but every once in a while I'll visit a place in a dream which isn't real, but which I'm pretty sure I've seen in an old dream. That's kind of the same.
Very interesting!
I also sometimes recognise places and situations from previous dreams, or at least I dream that I recognise them..
It's like those dreams that feels like a hours/days/years even if you only had a 5 minute nap. It's impossible to know if time actually passed or if you just dreamt a memory of a long time passing.
A few times I have been certain that the place in the dream was the same as I have dreamt of before, but other times I am equally convinced that I've never actually dreamt about it before, even if it felt so in the dream.
I’ve had a couple of dreams that were impossibly longer than the time I was asleep.
Once I lived months a single night. Woke up disoriented and took a long time looking around confused before I remembered who I was.
The other dream was at least many weeks, and in real time it was only three minutes! It was a sort of detective/bounty hunter thing with me chasing a guy. It ended with a sci fi battle in a first that was utterly terrifying, and I woke up in a cold sweat. Literally three minutes since I’d last looked at my phone. Body drenched in sweat that was actually cold, my heart pounding. The dream had been so real.
Both of those dreams ended with me dying.
My usual dream location I've returned to so often that I know where places are in relation to each other. It is a patchwork of my home area but with nearby areas that I can't remember ever having seen IRL. Almost all my dreams, since I was a kid, takes place in this personal dream realm.
It has expanded with new places as I've grown though. Latest addition is a cruise ship, with extremely many decks, and a single one-person elevator. I had a room at 58th floor of 85 floors(!) in my dream a few weeks ago. And I had some trouble getting the elevator to the right floor, of course. I always have trouble getting places in dreams.
Another strange quality is that sometimes events of a dream triggers my memory of an older and often forgotten dream. Not as old as OPs, but usually weeks or months back.
That's pretty neat!
Ayy same.
Oh yes! I have a few places that recur in dreams.
One is a huge cave that descends down into the earth. There’s a little city down in the cave, more like a village. Carved into the rock and built up in little shacks. In the place where the cave opens to the surface world, there are nicer little farm places.
There’s another one that is a city on a peninsula. Huge like manhattan. It often gets slowly submerged beneath rising water.
I know there are some others but I can’t think of them right now.
Same! I've been wondering what this could mean. A couple of nights ago I was at one of such places and thought "here it is! this is the place I dream of sometimes!" I was pretty disappointed when I woke up