Dream dimensions
In this writing, I aim to present as clearly as I can, both my own research and that of others to explore the concept of dream dimensions.
I intend to examine more deeply the idea that we are connected to a dimension accessible only through a specific frequency / state of consciousness we transition into during sleep.
The main objection here is to define the concept of dream dimensions more precisely and support a deeper exploration of the recurring landscapes within these dreams, as well as how and why we drop into them.
These “dimensions” (dream locations ) appear to me and others a vast and seemingly alive patchwork of interconnected places building up over time.
upon waking, we often experience vivid recollections of adventures and activities we’ve just had within a dream, followed by the amazing realization that these events took place in one of those familiar dream-world locations we’ve visited repeatedly over the years.
These locations are so hauntingly familiar, the activities and encounters your dream self has within are always so different, alive and unique, yet the locations are always the same and can be explored in such an organic detail ,each time revealing more.
I would like to point out, it feels this “dream self” has a separate ego and perspective to one’s own waking self and that they are unaware they are living in a “dream world” The memories I have the next day, feel as though I’m remembering someone else’s experiences. Yet that somebody is, and at that moment during sleep, was “me”, so it seems almost as though we have two realities, the waking reality and our dream realities.
It’s important to note before moving forward that I do not believe all dreams take place within a single, defined dimension—particularly not always the one this work is focused on examining. As Human beings we fall into different types of sleep, a deep REM sleep (rapid eye movement) would most likely result in the recollection of an experience in the dream dimension, profound and rich with you feeling a deep connection and sense of familiarity to the location you are exploring.
Yet we can also have random or nightmarish dreams in this state, with no familiar or profound significance to them,they often present themselves as fragmented and lack any profound experience or familiarity, Its safe to say a certain level of discernment is needed when studying these types of things.
nightmares and dreams connected to the ego are, like ones perception when too connected to their ego, distorted.
To me, these dreams and there settings feel unique, and so consistently familiar in there abstract yet seemingly terrestrial locations, that they can’t be simply recycled synapsis playing from the brain during sleep, none of these places are exact mirrors of scenes I and others inhabit in waking life, nor are they a jumbled ensemble of recycled experiences.
It’s encouraging and exciting reading other peoples accounts and discovering they too, frequently remember their dreams taking place in very specific types of places, and that they too wake up with a feeling that they have been there before time and time again.
Even more thrilling is noticing the similarities not only in people’s perceptions of the experience but also the striking similarities in the visual details their worlds present to them.
It really is as though this is a collective phenomenon.
SCIENTIFIC REASON WE DONT REMEMBER DREAMS
In this text I will describe my own personal locations in these dream worlds, I haven’t had the need for a dream journal because the memories from these places from countless other dreams within them previously, are so recognisable and familiar to me now, and to my excitement a lot of other people, that they stay in our mind and we remember how to navigate them just like we know our own town or city in waking reality.
Common types of locations, shared by many, yet experienced from a personal (dream self ) perspective include
Forest area’s
You can get to the forest areas through large rolling fields and hills the Forests, withl large lakes within, there are lots of boats and floaty things in the lakes, there are islands on the lake with wooden houses built upon them,the lake has an artificial beach complete with jetties and equipment. The forests contain wooden cabins and buildings, other forests contain concrete bridges above long still rivers that spiral and line the floors, these rivers eventually flow into concrete runs, usually leading to the towns and cities. Open grass areas, and rolling hills with large stone block castle ramparts yet these ramparts are built into part of a hill above the trees. Large wooden climbing frames and rope bridges connecting different types of platforms together, essentially giant play areas with rope swings and massive wooden structures.
Large abandoned quarry areas
Big rocks
Cycle paths, essentially many muddy and rocky footpaths, holiday/ summer camp style sites.
Eventually the forest will take you to either the high up outskirts of a city.
A large hill with a car park at the bottom just over the road from the hill
Water park/ theme park Area
The water park / theme park
The car park for the park is based in a part of the forest area.
Upon entry you are surrounded by shops, these shops are hut like buildings
Yet big and established, inside are many toys or food and drinks
The water park is massive, the main area for that before you enter the seemingly infinite locker rooms/ bathroom areas with very damp and rundown shower rooms Still all very large Is a big circular dome, there are balconies and palm trees inside, dotted with cafes and shops. Elevators too, very reminiscent of the department store location I will get to.
The pool is very big and I remember it mostly from an outside pool part of the park, the park is surrounded by mountains and forests. There are different pools at alternating levels around the area, giant pool / lazy rivers that take you floating on a ride under the open sky and trees and down very large slides, then back inside, usually through a cave, The cave-like aesthetic of the water park is striking, there are water slides inside, which one usually climbs cave-like ramps to get to and around. In the basement of the water park are big pool rooms with cave ceilings and ambient lights.
The theme park, features roller coasters and rides layed out in a town/pier like fashion, the rides are inside wooden saloon like buildings all different colors and wooden fronted, most of the time I am just in que waiting to get on a ride, the line goes inside the building and through many rooms before you can board. the big fairground rides tall and mechanical. The rollercoasters are complex and make little sense in there layout, high up stations to board the rides, tiki bar style cafes and shops dot the outskirts of the park. There are photo booths with bathrooms inside and again more shops selling anything you could imagine. Tents like attractions that you walk through to enter, and many market stalls selling flags and other cheap novelties.
Childhood town / Neighborhood and shopping centers
In between the theme parks and cities, with large and fences fields separating the forests, is my hometown, my childhood home, friends houses and town center, however they are not the same, although upon recollection I can pinpoint areas to areas, they look fundamentally different in their detail, my friends houses garden is much bigger and has strange treehouse style sheds with top and bottom floors in there as well, an old workplace of mine is in the same general area, however it looks different inside, very rundown and sometimes dripping with water and flashing with failing electricity. There are large cobbled streets with arches and hills of shooting with tunnels leading to dark backstreets and underground shops and cellars,these shops sell random collectibles and often strange ceramic objects. These shops are placed in labyrinthian corridors under the Main Street. The suburbs are fascinatingly familiar, housing estates that seem to go on infinitely and make it easy to become lost, with squares of grass for the houses around to use and brickwork archways and alleys with asphalt paths. . There are clubs and pubs all thriving each time I go inside, however frequent they are in my dreaming I’ve never been to similar ones in waking life.
There are big green parks with large play equipment, very large rope climbing frames, strange slides that don’t slope, you just climb a ladder and enter a metal tower, large wooden climbing frames. tennis courts and trees separated by neat bushes and flower patches. There are large cycle paths that lead you to other areas in the park, cut grassy hills roll down into children’s play parks and ponds
And a large path with a corrugated fence will take me from the parks right into the town center, through a very busy trading estate / construction site, you usually have to be stealthy in the building site as it’s filled with workmen, whom you don’t actually see.
My old school with sports center feel so familiar when dreaming, yet bear no obvious similarities with the real thing, as it’s a mixture of my Middle school and high school in one, rooms are always much bigger inside, with very long dark corridors and shiny floors taking you past old empty classrooms. Occasionally I am learning things but as of right now I cannot remember what exactly.
Outside are trees and grass banks to sit on, imagine a school campus placed in the middle of a forest.
On the outskirts of town is a large supermarket, frequently I am in the car park and eventually park my car to go inside, the isles are extremely tall, the shop again has a different layout to the waking thing however I am familiar with this layout, there is a technology section at the back left of the store, in the middle there is camping equipment and plants, with escalators going up to higher levels, the higher levels sell clothes.
An extremely notable and common thing with these accounts is the transportation around the town, there is a bus that can take me from place to place, the seating is very unorthodox, some seats are in a circular formation Others line the sides of the bus, and then form a more conventional lay out, you could say it’s all very futuristic. The busses will take me around town, usually into a busy nighttime center with revellers and clubs open Airplane
And in the day time through small villages with stone bridges and streams, connected to the many forests, winding roads up hills into the forest with bring you to the city. Rivers and concrete bridges and walkways With underpass
Nature center and arcade
There is an arcade inside the biggest shopping mall area Inside the arcade
Wooden fort walls
Inside a tv vhs
Fish tanks
Old toys I remembered from a previous life or childhood within dream
Seaside area
With large cave and pool inside it More of a Cove that you can sail around
Seaside coves on from large fields Pirate style wooden posts on the beach
To small coves with crazy waves A lot of fun to play in the waves
I must say though I personally feel these places are fundamentally very personal in their perceived
Now personally most of these settings and worlds seem to have been almost inspired by my waking world, yet actually in their detail, bear no match at all to the place in the waking world. The reason for this is that waking recollection brings only the feeling of similarity when compared with potential real world inspirations.
They are in there own personal way very unique and mystical to ponder on and dream within
I feel lots of people as a society seem to write off dreams, more specifically their possibly unique and divine origins, as “only dreams” or go with the idea that they are just a tangled display, replaying the many experiences of the days before. I think to understand the subject of dream dimensions this will require your inquisitive imagination, an open mind. And the knowledge that not all the dreams we have are special in this way, in fact a lot of dreams are indeed very abstract and random in their nature, or even sometimes nightmares, in my eyes these are very separate occurrences.
Asda supermarket layout Dark isle Ice cream Closed off cafe bit