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Most of my dreams take place in similar places. Often though they are falling apart — like leaking ceilings, etc. Always they are labyrinthian, almost always it

Most of my dreams take place in similar places. Often though they are falling apart — like leaking ceilings, etc. Always they are labyrinthian, almost always it is night time (although the frequent windowlessness of the places would not make that obvious). They are often populated though — maybe college-age students, sometimes more like a mall. I've always been fascinated by the place of my dreams. I have asked around but haven't had anyone confirm having similar dreams. When I was a teen (and a bit younger) I had night terrors. I did not know the name of them at the time (no internet yet). But sometimes they featured a room that extended so far in every direction that you could not see the walls. Something like an all-white parking garage, I suppose. I feel like a family friend a little older than me tried once to hypnotize me when I was young — they might have used a similar description: a room white that extends to far that you cannot see the walls. Perhaps that was the source of the imagery in the night terror dreams. I wrote a game decades ago where you (well, a paper airplane) wander a seemingly endless house trying to escape. I am not sure which came first though — the dreams of an endless space or the game.

jwells89 2y ago
Wonky spaces seem to be a fairly common thing in dreams. One that I used to have every so often was walking around inside what at first seemed like a normal room, then looking up to see that the ceiling was several tens of stories high, as if the building were a skyscraper with only a single tall and narrow room inside. The unexpected height of the ceiling always caused an intense sensation of vertigo, causing me to fall backwards in my dream (and sometimes wake up IRL).
all2 2y ago
> I have asked around but haven't had anyone confirm having similar dreams. Well. I dream of several specific places that I have never been. One is a group of buildings featuring 3 or 4 bay garages in the desert, think New Mexico flatlands. The buildings are typical corrugated steel siding and roofing, painted in a light grey and surrounded by 10 foot barbed wire chain-link fences. It is always sunny and the heat is near unbearable. Sometimes there are men with large trucks outfitted in a post-apocalyptic manner. Sometimes there is no one at all. I always have the sense that the undead are nearby and that I need to be very, very careful. This is one place that I come back to regularly. There are others that I don't recall as clearly.
Aerbil313 2y ago
I frequently have dreams where buildings from my past have rooms which have doors opening to corridors opening to rooms endlessly like a labyrinth. Also often populated, mostly some sort of school or shelter building. They spark fascination and a sense of infinite exploration rather than terror. I vaguely remember I knew the source of them (some sort of escape fantasy?) in my childhood.

jwells89 2y ago

Wonky spaces seem to be a fairly common thing in dreams. One that I used to have every so often was walking around inside what at first seemed like a normal room, then looking up to see that the ceiling was several tens of stories high, as if the building were a skyscraper with only a single tall and narrow room inside. The unexpected height of the ceiling always caused an intense sensation of vertigo, causing me to fall backwards in my dream (and sometimes wake up IRL).

all2 2y ago

> I have asked around but haven't had anyone confirm having similar dreams. Well. I dream of several specific places that I have never been. One is a group of buildings featuring 3 or 4 bay garages in the desert, think New Mexico flatlands. The buildings are typical corrugated steel siding and roofing, painted in a light grey and surrounded by 10 foot barbed wire chain-link fences. It is always sunny and the heat is near unbearable. Sometimes there are men with large trucks outfitted in a post-apocalyptic manner. Sometimes there is no one at all. I always have the sense that the undead are nearby and that I need to be very, very careful. This is one place that I come back to regularly. There are others that I don't recall as clearly.

Aerbil313 2y ago

I frequently have dreams where buildings from my past have rooms which have doors opening to corridors opening to rooms endlessly like a labyrinth. Also often populated, mostly some sort of school or shelter building. They spark fascination and a sense of infinite exploration rather than terror. I vaguely remember I knew the source of them (some sort of escape fantasy?) in my childhood.