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DRX2

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Hi all, first time posting here. I've been looking for other people to talk to about dream-related things, and tonight I finally did a search for a forum...and here I am. :)
I'm not sure exactly where to start, and don't want to bore anyone with too much detail, but I'll try to get the basics out and go from there.
Picture a boring looking single story brick-faced house in an unremarkable suburban area. Nothing special about it, everything about these dreams is new to me, don't recognize anything in them (aside from my old car that's been gone for a decade...and never seem to find the keys for when it's time to leave). No familiar faces initially, but when the dream continues a few weeks later, I do recognize a few faces from the last time I was there. They seem to recognize me too.
I enter the house, which has an open livingroom as wide as the house, but heading back into the house it has a hallway on each outer wall, with all the rooms located in the middle...bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms etc. And it goes on for a lonnng ways, basically repeating...kitchen area, then doorways off the hall to various bedrooms, bathrooms, then another livingroom area. It's like this the whole depth of the house, which seems to go on for as long as I keep walking. Many people are living there, couples, singles, a few kids, but nobody older than their 30's maybe. (I'm 60, if that matters...how did THAT happen???).
Nobody speaks a word. A television is usually on in the livingroom areas, and a lot of the people are walking back and forth like they have things to do. Others are sleeping, kicked back on sofas, cooking food...all in silence. I keep walking, some glance up at me but then back to whatever they're doing. I don't know anyone there.
Most times a girl will come up to me as if to lead me somewhere, or hoping to talk, but still nothing is said. We hang together as we walk through this wierd house with all these people, but nothing spoken. There's a connection with her, but I don't know what it is. The next time the dream happens..maybe a day, week, or month later, it's the same situation, but I run into the same girl and we're glad to see each other, we remember. We continue as before, but nothing seems to go anywhere. Don't know who she is, or where we're going.
After a few similar dreams, it starts over..a little different house, different people, but basically the same thing happens. I end up 'knowing' these people and recognizing them from previous dreams. It's as if they're going through the same wierd experience I am, and I'm the same to them as they are to me. Always a woman, 30's, somewhat different each time, but we recognize each other. A few times there were a small group of us, 3 or 4, all somehow connected. Bizarre.
I know that most dreams are just leftover scraps of distorted memories and experiences recently had, but this has a totally different vibe to it than the usual, nonsensical dreams, and it's sticking with me hard. Just wish I could figure at least some of it out. Any ideas?
I look forward to some interesting convos here, hopefully that's how it goes. Thanks for reading, any thoughts you have will be appreciated.
 

Harvey

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Hi DRX, I have an idea what your dream is about, but before I'll take my time laying it out extensively, I ask you to write down a dream from way back in time in contrast with this series that has stick to you because you have never forgotten it, or had even repeated itself, ... to be sure just that my idea' is wright or not an maybe for you to see' the differance in advance
 

DRX2

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There are a few that were repeated several times years ago, but they seemed to be a jumble of familiar-ish places mixed together. I guess I dismissed them as regular nonsense dreams but they did happen 3 or 4 times, then went away. There are two others that happened only once each, but they were beyond just dreams...they were 'experiences'. I remember those with extreme clarity, and both were life changing. The current dreams I'm talking about aren't as intense, but something is different about them, as if there's more behind them than I realize, or maybe a message of some sort. Enough that it grabbed my curiosity to the point that I decided to focus on them and see if anything can be sorted out. Thanks for the response, I tried to describe as accurate as possible without blabbing on for paragraphs. The really odd thing about these is that there's a strong feeling I know the people that interact with me, yet no one in real life resembles them.
 

Harvey

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Okey, this, your answer, is part of the solution, but I have tried to ask you just for one or two dreams SaparatE, written down with all details as they
are in your memory. Just that. The two experiences may be the best. Write them down just like that. They may be very short!
 

PaulKH

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Hi all, first time posting here. I've been looking for other people to talk to about dream-related things, and tonight I finally did a search for a forum...and here I am. :)
I'm not sure exactly where to start, and don't want to bore anyone with too much detail, but I'll try to get the basics out and go from there.
Picture a boring looking single story brick-faced house in an unremarkable suburban area. Nothing special about it, everything about these dreams is new to me, don't recognize anything in them (aside from my old car that's been gone for a decade...and never seem to find the keys for when it's time to leave). No familiar faces initially, but when the dream continues a few weeks later, I do recognize a few faces from the last time I was there. They seem to recognize me too.
I enter the house, which has an open livingroom as wide as the house, but heading back into the house it has a hallway on each outer wall, with all the rooms located in the middle...bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms etc. And it goes on for a lonnng ways, basically repeating...kitchen area, then doorways off the hall to various bedrooms, bathrooms, then another livingroom area. It's like this the whole depth of the house, which seems to go on for as long as I keep walking. Many people are living there, couples, singles, a few kids, but nobody older than their 30's maybe. (I'm 60, if that matters...how did THAT happen???).
Nobody speaks a word. A television is usually on in the livingroom areas, and a lot of the people are walking back and forth like they have things to do. Others are sleeping, kicked back on sofas, cooking food...all in silence. I keep walking, some glance up at me but then back to whatever they're doing. I don't know anyone there.
Most times a girl will come up to me as if to lead me somewhere, or hoping to talk, but still nothing is said. We hang together as we walk through this wierd house with all these people, but nothing spoken. There's a connection with her, but I don't know what it is. The next time the dream happens..maybe a day, week, or month later, it's the same situation, but I run into the same girl and we're glad to see each other, we remember. We continue as before, but nothing seems to go anywhere. Don't know who she is, or where we're going.
After a few similar dreams, it starts over..a little different house, different people, but basically the same thing happens. I end up 'knowing' these people and recognizing them from previous dreams. It's as if they're going through the same wierd experience I am, and I'm the same to them as they are to me. Always a woman, 30's, somewhat different each time, but we recognize each other. A few times there were a small group of us, 3 or 4, all somehow connected. Bizarre.
I know that most dreams are just leftover scraps of distorted memories and experiences recently had, but this has a totally different vibe to it than the usual, nonsensical dreams, and it's sticking with me hard. Just wish I could figure at least some of it out. Any ideas?
I look forward to some interesting convos here, hopefully that's how it goes. Thanks for reading, any thoughts you have will be appreciated.

Hi, DRX2, glad you found the site. At its best, this place can be like a comfortable/discussion group, a stimulation place to help increase the meaningfulness of dreams (which are, at their very least, great mind stimulation and some seem to be much more than that -- gloriously more).

I understand it's difficult for many to get very specific in this place, to open and trust, yet it's true that the more honest details we share, the more interesting and potentially helpful the space becomes (and certainly training yourself to recall more details is possible and often rewarding on its own, if nothing else comes of it). So welcome, and yes, age happens whether or not we pay attention to it. :D The hope is that increased perspective and wisdom (the benevolent application of that increasing perspective) is a fair trade-off for youthful energy.

For this particular dream, I suggest looking at it as more of a continuance than repetition -- there is recognition, after all, so this isn't some dream equivalent to Groundhog Day, heh (and most "repetitive" dreams are not true repetitions more than they are trying to reinforce or expand on something important; it is our over-simplification of them that makes us label them as repetitive). Details aren't boring; they matter, along with any sets of emotions they made you feel (clues are often embedded in them because of the way emotions can be triggered, vs the more standard cause-and-effect of the waking world). Try to prompt for more information, fully embrace the concept of *progression*, and then see what new information you can find. I look forward to hearing more about it.
 

DRX2

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Okey, this, your answer, is part of the solution, but I have tried to ask you just for one or two dreams SaparatE, written down with all details as they
are in your memory. Just that. The two experiences may be the best. Write them down just like that. They may be very short!
Apologies for going quiet, it's been a busy week here and just now catching up. Also, it's not too often I'm online and awake enough to cobble together responses at the same time. i don't mean to seem lazy or slow, but.....I can be slow. :rolleyes:
I rarely go as far as writing the dreams down, the occurrences worthy of remembering stick like glue. Just don't ask what I had for breakfast 3 days ago. Strange how that works. The two 'experiences' I had will be a bit tough to put into accurate wording. I'm sure of what they meant, no question there, but they are not connected to the 'dreams' I've had about what I described above. Most other dreams I could describe would probably easily fall into the 'average' or 'usual' category....snippets of recent real life experiences mixed with scraps of gibberish that are obviously nonsense, pretty sure there isn't much meaning to them. At least not enough for me to be concerned with. It's these recent handful that piqued my curiosity, because there is an obvious (to me) difference to them.
Hi, DRX2, glad you found the site. At its best, this place can be like a comfortable/discussion group, a stimulation place to help increase the meaningfulness of dreams (which are, at their very least, great mind stimulation and some seem to be much more than that -- gloriously more).

I understand it's difficult for many to get very specific in this place, to open and trust, yet it's true that the more honest details we share, the more interesting and potentially helpful the space becomes (and certainly training yourself to recall more details is possible and often rewarding on its own, if nothing else comes of it). So welcome, and yes, age happens whether or not we pay attention to it. :D The hope is that increased perspective and wisdom (the benevolent application of that increasing perspective) is a fair trade-off for youthful energy.

For this particular dream, I suggest looking at it as more of a continuance than repetition -- there is recognition, after all, so this isn't some dream equivalent to Groundhog Day, heh (and most "repetitive" dreams are not true repetitions more than they are trying to reinforce or expand on something important; it is our over-simplification of them that makes us label them as repetitive). Details aren't boring; they matter, along with any sets of emotions they made you feel (clues are often embedded in them because of the way emotions can be triggered, vs the more standard cause-and-effect of the waking world). Try to prompt for more information, fully embrace the concept of *progression*, and then see what new information you can find. I look forward to hearing more about it.
'Continuance' is a good descriptor, I'll take it. That's what is so bizarre to me, I've never had dreams like that before. I 'meet' these individuals there, then in subsequent follow-up dreams (usually 2 or 3 episodes is as far as they go) we meet again, somewhat different surroundings - small details different, maybe the house is in a different area, or looks different outside, etc. But we remember each other. There's a connection there somewhere. We're strangers that meet, and remember each other the next few dream episodes. I'm the new one there, and they usually offer to help guide me through the maze of that house (again, without anything spoken at all), yet at the same time, they're in the same situation I am....wondering what's going on. This series of events will re-start every few recurrences of the dream. Different people, but same premise. We're wondering where we are, why we're there, and quietly, patiently looking for a way to continue on elsewhere. Almost sounds like a variation on pergatory, just no suffering or 'penance' of any type is going on. A few times I've managed to leave, and either can't find my car (as stated before) or my keys, and end up walking. Heading home, but I have no idea where I am...totally different city. At that point it will go back to the nonsensical dream stuff. That part of it doesn't surprise me, it's the connection with the other people that flips me out. We recognize each other from previous dreams and continue on doing whatever we're doing in that house. The other 'bit players' in the background look like they've been living there for months, just chugging along, mostly laying around sleeping or watching tv with no interest in doing anything about it.
If only it were possible to jam a USB cord into my ear and download the video...would explain it much clearer than I'm able to otherwise. And no, I'm not about to try that. :)
Thank you both for the responses, I'm curious to see where this leads. - Dan
 

DammitDog

Member
My immediate thought is that your mind is picking up on repeating patterns in your waking life. Do your relationships with people generally take the same path, reach the same depth, end up in the same place?
 

supertonman20

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I'm in processing finding patterns in my life right now, I'm getting through this situation For this particular dream I actually found few dollars in searching for the things I thought was priceless, writing the dreams down, the occurrences worthy of remembering stick like glue. Just don't ask what I had or I don't have It's metaphor of life's experiment. The experience is always catching up with me. That's all I left things behind or things getting removed. I'm okay today just doing my thing.
 

Polyethelene

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A few times I've managed to leave, and either can't find my car (as stated before) or my keys, and end up walking. Heading home, but I have no idea where I am...totally different city.
I feel like this is a notable aspect that others are glossing over- being in a house, spending time there with others, but not being home. The sense of the house extending nonsensically as though it's trying to keep you there- not as some sort of malevolent force though.
it's interesting how the dream clearly does not want you to leave and stray far from the structure, taking away the means of transport. normally, trying to go out of the 'boundaries' that a dream wants you in seems to be responded with some sort of sheer, undefeatable obstacle or a threat to scare you off. But this seems unwilling to confront you in that way- it will let you walk off if you insist. it's as though its committed to maintain a certain tone above all else, and adding in dangers or explicitly trapping you would break from that tone.
 
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