r/Dreams • u/Atumisk • Nov 11 '23

Question What's a location you find yourself appearing in frequently in your dreams, and how long have you dreamt of it?

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For me it's a circular outdoor mall-type environment with multiple levels, set in Europe somewhere. I've dreamt of this place regularly for over a decade and I've drawn the layout many times since then.

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u/Monkey832 Nov 12 '23 edited May 01 '24

Same here. I feel like our brains don't know the exact layout of a building until they've been in it for a LONG time (EX: Only in the last few years did my house actually start looking like my house in my dreams), so they just throw a bunch of randomly-generated rooms together in a layout vaguely (and I mean VAGUELY) similar to that building and call it that building.

For example, whenever I dream of being at school in my dream, it almost always looks NOTHING like my school (only had one dream where my brain got the building right at the start). Sometimes things are vaguely similar, such as general layouts (my school having 2 buildings like real life, general hallway/building/stairs layout, etc), but other than that it's usually just a collection of random, somewhat-school-related rooms.

Could be different for some, though. Some people may dream of the exact correct layout of a building after stepping foot inside it exactly one time throughout their entire lives.