01-14-2014, 10:15 AM
I wanted to make this thread to see if a certain aspect of my dreaming is shared by anyone else.
Many times, when I dream about my city, over my entire life, I have always revisited the same dreamscape of Montreal. That is; something that is created in one dream, is still present and visit-able in other dreams unrelated to the first.
Some examples: (If you have no idea what im talking about, but are curious, check out a map of Montreal)
- The Mercier Bridge is a multilevel span, with a harbour to the east of it, along the canal.
- On the Island side of the span, Lasalle is a hilly area with run down, ruined buildings (where I once met a dream guy for some fun while still closeted )
- Saint Constant, on the south shore, is a larger city, with an area of high-rise apartments and great parks, but one area, behind a library is a series of alleyways, filled with filth, and an insane, cannabalistic zealot who captures and eats people who try to pass through (he's caught me before)
- Further along, heading Brossard and Longueuil, there is a freeway that has a lot of rising parts, and steep decents, with a long promenade along the river. This is a beautiful area, and I tend to go here whenever I enter a lucid dream state in one of these dreams.
- there is a wonderous indoor mall complex in this part, with so many interconnected shops that I've spent seemingly hours wandering the halls. One stretch of the complex is a curving hallway, with restaurant kiosks, but they are full restaurants, just open to the hallway. Another memorable feature is a multilevel Sear store (3 floors), and an arcade that becomes a space museum behind the arcade machines.
- the Champlain Bridge is much larger, but the south shore side of the span has been under construction forever, with huge road segments suspended form cranes waiting to finish construction. The water below the bridge is scummy, and the only part along the river people avoid.
- St Helen's Island is home to a large construction, but is very dangerous because dark things haunt it.
- there is also a floating pyramid/eiffel tower sturcture covered in glass just off the shore
- Montreal itself is much denser then in real life. Very orderly, and the center of commerce is still St Catherine Street. If you go up from St Catherines to Maisonneuve, around where place des arts is, there is a large greenspace. In the center is a small building, which opens into an underground university.
- the subway system is much more complex, with stations to every conceivable part of Montreal and its surroundings. Its used by everyone, but is dangerously haunted by vampires if you aren't careful
- Mont Royale is an actual mountain, with three peaks surrounding a wooded valley, with no human construction.
- there is also a large skyscraper, which is the heart of Montreal. This place has been under construction forever, and has elevators that are seriously hazardous to use. Sometimes they work fine. other times, they fall apart as the ascend, until they plummet back down.
- The industrial park of Montreal is also a slum of sorts. Safe during the day, but dangerous at night.
- From the north side of montreal, looking northward, there is a huge tree, reminiscent of the Lifa tree in FF9, but I've never been there.
- Laval is an area that is very orderly, with buildings that don't rise higher then three floors. There is a church here that holds a dark secret in the crypts: A gate to some hell dimension where creatures inside try to convince others to open the gate and let them out
- there is also an vehicle overpass here, beside which is a rickety old rope bridge, which beckons as the more logical span to use to cross.
All these places, I've been to in hundreds of disconnected dreams. Some of which, I enter into a lucid state, and decide to abandon whatever is happening and visit my favorite places and people. Sometimes, the areas seem dead when i get there, like my mind wasnt ready to populate it with events, since I was focused on another place. Other times, I've met with nameless characters who greet me warmly.
Once, montreal was the setting for a zombie apocalypse dream, where the subways were held by living people, and we would leave the tunnels to kill zombies in an effort to retake the city.
Other times, there was a terrible something happening to the city, and I was taking refuge in the Heart of the city skyscraper, trying to solve the the problem. Another time, I was enrolled in the university, but never seemed to have any classes.
Anyways...
Tl;Dr - I seem to have created a dreamscape version of Montreal and its surroundings, and was wondering if anyone else has a similar dreamscape that they would like to share, with as much or as little detail as they can recall
Many times, when I dream about my city, over my entire life, I have always revisited the same dreamscape of Montreal. That is; something that is created in one dream, is still present and visit-able in other dreams unrelated to the first.
Some examples: (If you have no idea what im talking about, but are curious, check out a map of Montreal)
- The Mercier Bridge is a multilevel span, with a harbour to the east of it, along the canal.
- On the Island side of the span, Lasalle is a hilly area with run down, ruined buildings (where I once met a dream guy for some fun while still closeted )
- Saint Constant, on the south shore, is a larger city, with an area of high-rise apartments and great parks, but one area, behind a library is a series of alleyways, filled with filth, and an insane, cannabalistic zealot who captures and eats people who try to pass through (he's caught me before)
- Further along, heading Brossard and Longueuil, there is a freeway that has a lot of rising parts, and steep decents, with a long promenade along the river. This is a beautiful area, and I tend to go here whenever I enter a lucid dream state in one of these dreams.
- there is a wonderous indoor mall complex in this part, with so many interconnected shops that I've spent seemingly hours wandering the halls. One stretch of the complex is a curving hallway, with restaurant kiosks, but they are full restaurants, just open to the hallway. Another memorable feature is a multilevel Sear store (3 floors), and an arcade that becomes a space museum behind the arcade machines.
- the Champlain Bridge is much larger, but the south shore side of the span has been under construction forever, with huge road segments suspended form cranes waiting to finish construction. The water below the bridge is scummy, and the only part along the river people avoid.
- St Helen's Island is home to a large construction, but is very dangerous because dark things haunt it.
- there is also a floating pyramid/eiffel tower sturcture covered in glass just off the shore
- Montreal itself is much denser then in real life. Very orderly, and the center of commerce is still St Catherine Street. If you go up from St Catherines to Maisonneuve, around where place des arts is, there is a large greenspace. In the center is a small building, which opens into an underground university.
- the subway system is much more complex, with stations to every conceivable part of Montreal and its surroundings. Its used by everyone, but is dangerously haunted by vampires if you aren't careful
- Mont Royale is an actual mountain, with three peaks surrounding a wooded valley, with no human construction.
- there is also a large skyscraper, which is the heart of Montreal. This place has been under construction forever, and has elevators that are seriously hazardous to use. Sometimes they work fine. other times, they fall apart as the ascend, until they plummet back down.
- The industrial park of Montreal is also a slum of sorts. Safe during the day, but dangerous at night.
- From the north side of montreal, looking northward, there is a huge tree, reminiscent of the Lifa tree in FF9, but I've never been there.
- Laval is an area that is very orderly, with buildings that don't rise higher then three floors. There is a church here that holds a dark secret in the crypts: A gate to some hell dimension where creatures inside try to convince others to open the gate and let them out
- there is also an vehicle overpass here, beside which is a rickety old rope bridge, which beckons as the more logical span to use to cross.
All these places, I've been to in hundreds of disconnected dreams. Some of which, I enter into a lucid state, and decide to abandon whatever is happening and visit my favorite places and people. Sometimes, the areas seem dead when i get there, like my mind wasnt ready to populate it with events, since I was focused on another place. Other times, I've met with nameless characters who greet me warmly.
Once, montreal was the setting for a zombie apocalypse dream, where the subways were held by living people, and we would leave the tunnels to kill zombies in an effort to retake the city.
Other times, there was a terrible something happening to the city, and I was taking refuge in the Heart of the city skyscraper, trying to solve the the problem. Another time, I was enrolled in the university, but never seemed to have any classes.
Anyways...
Tl;Dr - I seem to have created a dreamscape version of Montreal and its surroundings, and was wondering if anyone else has a similar dreamscape that they would like to share, with as much or as little detail as they can recall