Recurring themes and places in my dreams
I can't see this being interesting for anyone other than me. I just felt like writing it out, and will probably add to it over time.
Common themes: Underground passageways, weird little malls, islands in any large body of water, confusing streets, places all blurring together. I have a terrible sense of direction and it shows :) Also my subconscious has barely noticed any changes in my life since the nineties. I often only remember the existence of Cam halfway through the dream and then shoehorn him into the plot.
I spent my early childhood in Fremantle then moved to Willagee until my late teens, and these places (and the south of the metro area in general) show up a lot given how rarely I go there now. I pretty much never dream about Hamilton Hill, where I lived with my parents from around 17-20, and don't dream that much about the north eastern metro area where I've lived from 21-34. I do dream about Perth a fair bit, I've never lived there but have always visited a lot.
Perth is either smaller or larger and combined with Melbourne. There is an under ground chinese food court which is a hard to find but is accessed by going downstairs from a little mall (based on a mixture of singapore and the Carillion food court?) Going there is a really positive experience.
I also dream a lot about western style buffets, often going there with my friends from highschool (who are often with me at Swancon, the main place I go to buffets these days) The buffet is nice but I get tired navigating it.
My illness comes up sometimes, but half the time I can fly or control things with my mind or whatever, so it's not really relevant :)
My family are all as they were about 20 years ago, my 17 year old brother is thus absent. But there is an extra baby cousin around his age (all my cousins were born in the mid 80s) who I suddenly remember mid dream and feel guilty about forgetting. I never seem to remember my real little brother though /o\
My parents either live in the house we had in Willagee when I was a kid or in their "new house" which is in a suburb I'm unfamiliar with (nb they have not moved house since I left home). I often find myself moving back in with them (and the two siblings I remember exist >.>) for unspecified reasons. It's been so long since I explored Willagee that I'm not sure if my mental map of the way to my primary school is accurate, but it's fairly consistent. My primary school is kind of like it actually was (I think!), I'm sometimes there as a student but mostly just passing through.
At their house I often find a Box Of Cool Old Clothes, sometimes I remember that they wouldn't fit but more often I am really happy and then annoyed when I wake up.
My high school and uni are merged, I feel weird/panicky about not wearing my uniform (I may have to navigate barriers to the uniform shop) and self conscious about being there as an adult. Often I'm back at school (and/or uni) to do one or two extra units to fill in the gaps of my degree, and I feel a mixtue of "OH GOD HOW DO I PHYSICS" and "pfft, none of this matters, I already have a Phd". There will often be some barrier/difficulty/cliff on stirling highway (the street both my school and uni came off) making it difficult to get in or out.
There is a large garden to the side/front of any school/uni which combines all the actual gardens/ovals around those schools with complicated pathways that may connect to the zoo or other parks and gardens.
The Guild building at uni is merged with the Queensgate complex in Fremantle, complete with Myers and other little shops, sometimes even a multistory hotel. Cameron Hall (where I spent much of my free time at the scifi club as a student, but which is completely inaccessible to me in a wheelchair) is hard to get into, the door is locked or the steps are crumbling. Behind Cameron Hall, where the river is in real life, there are shops similar to Fairway etc which are actually on the other side of uni. They may merge into the Royal Show. To the right, facing the river, is the verandah of my primary school, in which I have my highschool tutor group (like home room) I am always late.
The Royal Show is massive and on at all times of year, and is connected to other places in weird ways. Rather than being packed to the fences it peters out at the edges, and the unpopulated edges are good places to sneak in.
The north-south bridge across the Swan river (which had a train line in my dreams even when the actual bridge to Perth didn't yet ;)) goes straight from Fremantle to Perth. The coast by the bridge is a mixture of all the parks along the river, especially Kings Park and Point Walter. There are swampy islands, and the road towards the north east (Herrison Island etc) goes off into swampland indefinitely.
There are lots of islands between the coast and Rottnest, some small but others inhabited or with old colonial era buildings. If you go north up the coast road from Fremantle it is pretty much all bushland/forest, ending in semi tropical islands and reefs. But if you go north up the train line from Fremantle (which follows the road!) you go through all the actual (not very bushlandy) suburbs.
Perth train station has no roof (Maybe a memory of before the current building?) and is a huge old open structure filled with heaps of complicated cross-crossing train lines and powerlines (which came AFTER the roof in real life) It's confusing, especially when I navigate it when flying.
Fremantle train station is RIGHT on the beach, and is often underground and flooded. There is sometimes a museum nearby, and a short walk south to the Esplanade. Woolstores is directly to the north. To the north east are the docks connected to tall rocky cliffs you can walk/drive along and end up in any number of places.
Fremantle markets are huge, full of passageways and hidden entrances and shops selling almost everything, including small trees. There is often the Old Building and the New Building, the new building is a shiny glass and steel multi level mall. They sit by a big hill and carpark and maybe some parkland, and sometimes there are long passageways through the hill which may connect to the train station. There is a big central eating area similar to the one at the real Subiaco Markets.
There are other markets, some small and suburban, some huge and sprawling and bleeding into other places at the edges. But I think the only real life market I dream about is the Fremantle one.
High street and Canning Highway (two big roads out of Fremantle), especially their shops and bus stops, show up a lot. There's also The Big Busport At a Far Away Train Station, mostly based on Glendalough, which shows up when I get lost on the Joondalup and Armadale lines. There's also the Industrial Area In The Middle of Nowhere where I'm either being shown a specific shop or am horribly lost by myself.
The Zoo, like the royal show, is bigger and stranger and connects to other places in odd ways, especially anywhere with paths through gardens.
There is a shop-lined road heading north from Perth (based on Northbridge mixed with Stirling Highway? There are much larger shopping centres than you actually get much to the immediate north of Perth) It is lit up at night, with many food stalls. It sometimes leads to the labyrinth, a MASSIVE place selling mostly household things like towels in towering shelves many metres high that has to be traversed in it's entirety to escape (it's not a threatening place, but I often get stuck in it trying to run away from people. On the plus side sometimes I can use it to lose my pursuers. I think it's based on Spotlight)
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Common themes: Underground passageways, weird little malls, islands in any large body of water, confusing streets, places all blurring together. I have a terrible sense of direction and it shows :) Also my subconscious has barely noticed any changes in my life since the nineties. I often only remember the existence of Cam halfway through the dream and then shoehorn him into the plot.
I spent my early childhood in Fremantle then moved to Willagee until my late teens, and these places (and the south of the metro area in general) show up a lot given how rarely I go there now. I pretty much never dream about Hamilton Hill, where I lived with my parents from around 17-20, and don't dream that much about the north eastern metro area where I've lived from 21-34. I do dream about Perth a fair bit, I've never lived there but have always visited a lot.
Perth is either smaller or larger and combined with Melbourne. There is an under ground chinese food court which is a hard to find but is accessed by going downstairs from a little mall (based on a mixture of singapore and the Carillion food court?) Going there is a really positive experience.
I also dream a lot about western style buffets, often going there with my friends from highschool (who are often with me at Swancon, the main place I go to buffets these days) The buffet is nice but I get tired navigating it.
My illness comes up sometimes, but half the time I can fly or control things with my mind or whatever, so it's not really relevant :)
My family are all as they were about 20 years ago, my 17 year old brother is thus absent. But there is an extra baby cousin around his age (all my cousins were born in the mid 80s) who I suddenly remember mid dream and feel guilty about forgetting. I never seem to remember my real little brother though /o\
My parents either live in the house we had in Willagee when I was a kid or in their "new house" which is in a suburb I'm unfamiliar with (nb they have not moved house since I left home). I often find myself moving back in with them (and the two siblings I remember exist >.>) for unspecified reasons. It's been so long since I explored Willagee that I'm not sure if my mental map of the way to my primary school is accurate, but it's fairly consistent. My primary school is kind of like it actually was (I think!), I'm sometimes there as a student but mostly just passing through.
At their house I often find a Box Of Cool Old Clothes, sometimes I remember that they wouldn't fit but more often I am really happy and then annoyed when I wake up.
My high school and uni are merged, I feel weird/panicky about not wearing my uniform (I may have to navigate barriers to the uniform shop) and self conscious about being there as an adult. Often I'm back at school (and/or uni) to do one or two extra units to fill in the gaps of my degree, and I feel a mixtue of "OH GOD HOW DO I PHYSICS" and "pfft, none of this matters, I already have a Phd". There will often be some barrier/difficulty/cliff on stirling highway (the street both my school and uni came off) making it difficult to get in or out.
There is a large garden to the side/front of any school/uni which combines all the actual gardens/ovals around those schools with complicated pathways that may connect to the zoo or other parks and gardens.
The Guild building at uni is merged with the Queensgate complex in Fremantle, complete with Myers and other little shops, sometimes even a multistory hotel. Cameron Hall (where I spent much of my free time at the scifi club as a student, but which is completely inaccessible to me in a wheelchair) is hard to get into, the door is locked or the steps are crumbling. Behind Cameron Hall, where the river is in real life, there are shops similar to Fairway etc which are actually on the other side of uni. They may merge into the Royal Show. To the right, facing the river, is the verandah of my primary school, in which I have my highschool tutor group (like home room) I am always late.
The Royal Show is massive and on at all times of year, and is connected to other places in weird ways. Rather than being packed to the fences it peters out at the edges, and the unpopulated edges are good places to sneak in.
The north-south bridge across the Swan river (which had a train line in my dreams even when the actual bridge to Perth didn't yet ;)) goes straight from Fremantle to Perth. The coast by the bridge is a mixture of all the parks along the river, especially Kings Park and Point Walter. There are swampy islands, and the road towards the north east (Herrison Island etc) goes off into swampland indefinitely.
There are lots of islands between the coast and Rottnest, some small but others inhabited or with old colonial era buildings. If you go north up the coast road from Fremantle it is pretty much all bushland/forest, ending in semi tropical islands and reefs. But if you go north up the train line from Fremantle (which follows the road!) you go through all the actual (not very bushlandy) suburbs.
Perth train station has no roof (Maybe a memory of before the current building?) and is a huge old open structure filled with heaps of complicated cross-crossing train lines and powerlines (which came AFTER the roof in real life) It's confusing, especially when I navigate it when flying.
Fremantle train station is RIGHT on the beach, and is often underground and flooded. There is sometimes a museum nearby, and a short walk south to the Esplanade. Woolstores is directly to the north. To the north east are the docks connected to tall rocky cliffs you can walk/drive along and end up in any number of places.
Fremantle markets are huge, full of passageways and hidden entrances and shops selling almost everything, including small trees. There is often the Old Building and the New Building, the new building is a shiny glass and steel multi level mall. They sit by a big hill and carpark and maybe some parkland, and sometimes there are long passageways through the hill which may connect to the train station. There is a big central eating area similar to the one at the real Subiaco Markets.
There are other markets, some small and suburban, some huge and sprawling and bleeding into other places at the edges. But I think the only real life market I dream about is the Fremantle one.
High street and Canning Highway (two big roads out of Fremantle), especially their shops and bus stops, show up a lot. There's also The Big Busport At a Far Away Train Station, mostly based on Glendalough, which shows up when I get lost on the Joondalup and Armadale lines. There's also the Industrial Area In The Middle of Nowhere where I'm either being shown a specific shop or am horribly lost by myself.
The Zoo, like the royal show, is bigger and stranger and connects to other places in odd ways, especially anywhere with paths through gardens.
There is a shop-lined road heading north from Perth (based on Northbridge mixed with Stirling Highway? There are much larger shopping centres than you actually get much to the immediate north of Perth) It is lit up at night, with many food stalls. It sometimes leads to the labyrinth, a MASSIVE place selling mostly household things like towels in towering shelves many metres high that has to be traversed in it's entirety to escape (it's not a threatening place, but I often get stuck in it trying to run away from people. On the plus side sometimes I can use it to lose my pursuers. I think it's based on Spotlight)
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comments.