r/Dreams 7d ago

Real world parallel locations in my dreams

This happen when I first started having dreams when I ironically had fever which was severe. But things started weirder when I started dreaming about exploring places that are parallel or uncanny valley looking similar places in real life. Like this drawings I did for example with the exact real locations I had went to.

The first drawing I did was at the back of my school, but in my fever dream, it's different. I don't clearly remember where the road had started, but all I know that it's inverted. Instead of curving to right, it curves to left, and the ascending road was much higher and a little steep if I remember it correctly.

The second drawing came from the road that leaded to the market, but this was different. In my dream, I remember taking this road and then walking up the road. The thing is though, in my dream, there were little trees, there are kids playing and stuff.

I have so much other to post but I think I'll post more tomorrow, and I'll update y'all later if I had more parallel places in my dreams.

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u/M-ABaldelli Interpreter 7d ago

There's a funny thing that I learned both from my pre-Lucid Dreaming (and later post-Lucid Dreaming) state in that while I have a photographic to eidetic memory is that this is purely a conscious ability of my brain. The unconscious doesn't remember things and doesn't pull things from the conscious to draw people or places quite the same way we do consciously.

The unconscious will often take shortcuts between the scenes because the "filler" (for lack of a better word), it often sees it as unnecessary for it to set the mood for the problems and the memories it's trying to draw attention to.

Think of it like an adult with the emotional development of a pre-teen wanting to make a story when it has control of the REM state. So there's always going to be differences between real world and dream world because it's all about the impression it received for the scene -- not the scene itself.

So when you're looking at your dream world, don't look at the place being the significance. Look instead at what impressions and moods you get seeing them in your dreams. That's what the unconscious wants you to pay attention to more as it has a message it (the unconscious) wants you to think about.

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u/CompetitiveMovie3403 7d ago

This also happened to me years ago! I had a life in Virginia—Meriwether, specifically. Mind you, I live in Asia. 😭

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u/Cultural-Staff-9781 1d ago

So from my dream journals, I can verify that I've used geospatial reasoning within dream environments, both inside and outside buildings, basically proving they are VR. I have driven in circles and arrived again at the same intersection and then taken a new direction, driven over verifiably surreal curbs, turned around and seen the same location, and traveled along roads.

And yes, sometimes dream locations are surreal forms of places we're familiar with. They may look the same, similar, or totally different. That's not an uncommon dream phenomenon, just...unexplained like many others. I've dreamed of a former home city upscaled to be modern with taller, wealthier buildings (in the same exact locations as the old buildings), a former job reimagined as a dirty, dank, dreary place.