Comments on: So I have elected not to sleep

By: eb

eb — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:02:07 +0000

I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of recurring dreams (or recurring dream imagery) but not sure that I’ve ever had them. When I was really young I dreamt that I was falling multiple times, but each time I woke up on the floor, so I figured there was no deeper explanation. (I used to toss and turn a lot; I finally cured the problem by placing a chair at the edge of the bed which meant I’d touch it and wake up before falling.)

For a short while when I was a teenager I had - or, during my waking moments I convinced myself that I had - a number of dreams set in the same sort of landscape. I never identified it as any particular existing place, but sort of a combination of mountains, city, and river that may or may not correspond to some actual location. But now I wonder if it was just one dream that happened to be so unusually vivid that I became convinced that the only way I could remember its images so clearly was by dreaming them more than once.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:59:25 +0000

I’ve had recurring dreams, though only one anymore. But the recurring imagery is quite different. I can tell that my city is in fact supposed to be London or Paris or whatever — but it always looks the same, and actually sort of like Amsterdam (nothing like London, despite having been there, my dreams of it are of this half-real city). I am sure they mean something, or stand for something — this is often the only interesting thing in my dreams, this weird set that I have, as if my unconscious could not afford to build more than a few.

I used to dream of drowning and suffocating, but it turns out it was because my 30lb cat slept on my chest.

By: yami

yami — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:13:21 +0000

I have a dream-house with a particularly intricate dream-attic full of wacky crawl space (for nightmares), though I haven’t dreamt anything in it lately.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:29:29 +0000

That’s very handy, I suppose. Does the layout move around too so you can get trapped? That happened in my dream-university.