More dream info
Going back to my previous dream post, I decided to log the various locations I put myself when I have brain weasel dreams. These are the most common -- I've "lived" in these multiple times; that is, I've moving back into these locations where I've previously "lived."
a. A squalid motel-like setting, low, one-story, two or three buildings all lined up end-to-end in a kind of hidden area in a cranky part of town. For some reason it feels like a seriously old Holiday Inn, except all one level, and not the place you want to rent if you can help it.
b. An older building on the edge of an old downtown. It feels like a kind of grungy Victorian, but with a basement that connects to a series of caves that may or may not have electricity (in some versions, there's a tunnel that runs down a hill toward a street that gets you to a highway out of downtown). One basement room is the general storage area for all of the tenants in the house. One of the recurring themes in dreams involving this location is that I had stored stuff from my previous time, but was too uncomfortable to go back down and get it out of the room after I had moved back into the place. Some kind of violence has definitely happened in the basement area.
c. A corner multiple-story building that has a row-house-like facade, but is very deep. There may be a separate building that's been connected to the main building via a second or third story walkway. The inside looks a little like the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles in terms of the ironwork. I'm usually alone in this location and the building itself has very few people, although it could potentially hold several apartment-type rooms. Often there's not much going on, but it usually has a mild menacing feeling. Sometimes that feeling bothers me, sometimes not. But it's a place where others do not feel comfortable.
d. A slightly more traditional apartment building, built probably mid-1940s in a suburb. This building is surrounded by open space with some parking, but the cars aren't seen. This seems to be the least threatening of the four and when I'm in this building I usually have the calmest dreams, relatively speaking.
Very occasionally I've had dreams being in a tall rectangular dormitory at a university, similar to the old towers at Iowa State more than the two tall ones at UIowa. It's full of students, so obviously during a semester. That location also has some discomfort, but some of that is because I'm closer to age 30 (dream age) than a traditional student age. This location usually pops up when I'm having full immersion college-related dreams. Option d above is also a college dream location and c sometimes can be as well. Options a and b are usually more all-purpose.
I also have an apartment setting in Kansas City that I never actually lived in, but for some reason I visit in dreamland to potentially rent. It's a very long narrow living room with huge 20x20 bedroom in the back. I've "seen" it often enough that I sometimes wonder if the place is actually real and I did step through it once upon a time.
a. A squalid motel-like setting, low, one-story, two or three buildings all lined up end-to-end in a kind of hidden area in a cranky part of town. For some reason it feels like a seriously old Holiday Inn, except all one level, and not the place you want to rent if you can help it.
b. An older building on the edge of an old downtown. It feels like a kind of grungy Victorian, but with a basement that connects to a series of caves that may or may not have electricity (in some versions, there's a tunnel that runs down a hill toward a street that gets you to a highway out of downtown). One basement room is the general storage area for all of the tenants in the house. One of the recurring themes in dreams involving this location is that I had stored stuff from my previous time, but was too uncomfortable to go back down and get it out of the room after I had moved back into the place. Some kind of violence has definitely happened in the basement area.
c. A corner multiple-story building that has a row-house-like facade, but is very deep. There may be a separate building that's been connected to the main building via a second or third story walkway. The inside looks a little like the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles in terms of the ironwork. I'm usually alone in this location and the building itself has very few people, although it could potentially hold several apartment-type rooms. Often there's not much going on, but it usually has a mild menacing feeling. Sometimes that feeling bothers me, sometimes not. But it's a place where others do not feel comfortable.
d. A slightly more traditional apartment building, built probably mid-1940s in a suburb. This building is surrounded by open space with some parking, but the cars aren't seen. This seems to be the least threatening of the four and when I'm in this building I usually have the calmest dreams, relatively speaking.
Very occasionally I've had dreams being in a tall rectangular dormitory at a university, similar to the old towers at Iowa State more than the two tall ones at UIowa. It's full of students, so obviously during a semester. That location also has some discomfort, but some of that is because I'm closer to age 30 (dream age) than a traditional student age. This location usually pops up when I'm having full immersion college-related dreams. Option d above is also a college dream location and c sometimes can be as well. Options a and b are usually more all-purpose.
I also have an apartment setting in Kansas City that I never actually lived in, but for some reason I visit in dreamland to potentially rent. It's a very long narrow living room with huge 20x20 bedroom in the back. I've "seen" it often enough that I sometimes wonder if the place is actually real and I did step through it once upon a time.