Dream Dimensions

Dream dimensions...

I hope to share an idea and bring to focus a clearer understanding of what myself and others mean when talking about Dream dimensions. You may not be enlightened with some profound factual realization straight away, but with some practice, instead will hopefully be able to explore deeper into your own dreams and the locations you regularly inhabit inside them, thus creating over time a stronger ability to remember these places when you awaken.

I’m going to explain in more detail about how I feel we are connected to a dimension only accessible through the type of consciousness we drop in and out of when we sleep.

These “dimensions” (dreams) appear to me and others as a seemingly vast and alive patchwork of interconnected places making up our dream world or, dream dimension.

Upon waking up we experience memories of adventures and activities we have just had within the world while dreaming, followed by the amazing realization that you’ve just had another experience because it was in one of those familiar dream world locations you’ve been to in the experiences before 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.

That is to say this isn’t just a reoccurring dream taking place; this is an experiencing of a world over years and years.

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 was, “me.”

It’s encouraging and exciting reading other people's accounts and discovering they too frequently remember their dreams taking place in very specific types of buildings, rooms, and locations connected by many long roads, cities, and forests to many other previously experienced places. It’s as though this is a collective phenomenon that takes some practice to be able to dissect and analyze when we awaken.

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 recognizable and familiar to me now, and to my excitement, a lot of other people.

To me, these dreams and their settings feel unique and so consistently familiar in their abstract yet seemingly terrestrial locations to be simply recycled synapses 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.

Now before I continue I must point out that not all dreams we have take place in these “dream dimensions.” As human beings, we do have regular random or nightmarish dreams with no familiar or profound significance to them. Those dreams, to the best of my knowledge, are visualizations of dominant feelings in our body and how our mind processes those feelings into the visuals you experience.

Common types of locations, shared by many, yet experienced from a personal (dream self) perspective include:

• Forest areas: Forests, with 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.
• 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.
• 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 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 laid 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 their 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