About phantom edifices in recurring dreams....

[Inhuman Q]

Say you have a recurring dream about a familiar location. This could be your neighbourhood, a park you visit regularly or something as small as your backyard. This is pretty much exactly the same as in real life except that something is different. It's like there's a landmark or building where there isn't in real life, and every time you dream of this place the object is there. What could it possibly mean?

I'll give an example: say you live in a cottage by the beach. You dream of this beach on more than one occasion. Everytime you dream of it, there's a tower standing alone out in the water. This tower doesn't exist at the real beach, only in your dreams. You either ignore this tower or try swimming out to it, but you never make it there.

Now that was just a hypothetical dream, but it helps illustrate this discussion. What would the building you can't reach or object you can't grab mean? Would there be something special about that location in the real world? What should happen if you finally do reach that landmark?

Just a concern I've had for a long while.
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[Hyraxylos]

Um... if I had that example I'd interpret it as telling me "you can try to swim out to that tower but you'll never reach it and you'll never reach it because it doesn't exist, mwahahahaha etc." Randomness is a recurring theme in whatever drifts around in my head whether I'm asleep or awake.
In someone else's case it could represent something you think SHOULD be there, or WILL be there eventually, or... bleh. I forgot what else. Finally there's the possibility that exists in all dreams: that there is no meaning. That becomes harder to consider though when dreams start repeating themselves.
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[Celtore]

Well, in dreams like the tower in the water, it might represent something that is currently unattainable. Could be something you want, but can't find a way to get, or it could be a goal that you believe yourself to have fallen off the path toward.

Just my take on it, though. I could be totally off, depending on the circumstances.
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[Inhuman Q]

Thanks! It's still hard to explain exactly what my dream's like because the actual dream is kind of personal. So I guess it's up to me to work out.

There's another question I have about dreams, a question that only surfaced last night. I had this dream which is even more personal than my phantom edifice dream, so I won't go into detail with it. What I can say is that throughout the dream there was this sense that I was really onto something, like I was just discovering the next step I'm supposed to take in life. I had this feeling that I was starting to understand what was going to happen in life, and I can't really explain what I knew, but it made sense in the dream.

Then I woke up, and lying in bed trying to fall back asleep, my demented between sleep mind could vaguely understand how I felt in the dream. I guess what I'm asking is: when you have a dream like that are you really discovering something, or is it just an illusional trick of the mind like Deja Vu? Have you stumbled onto something special that you'll forget when you wake up, simply because dreams never remain perfectly in your memory, or does your brain just trick you into thinking you're onto something, just like it makes you think you have a logical reason for doing something stupid in a bizarre dream?
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[DragonMancer]

I reckon that what you felt was real, be it from a memory of a past life or existence or simply you literally discovering something. I have had dreams like that before but have not been able to remember the details so unfortunately I am unable to decipher them.
I think you did discover something and I believe if you can work it out it will help you with some small aspect of your life.
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