Dreamland

[cimorene]

So I have a lot of recurring dreams that take place in some section or other of this mutated place made up of all the places I've lived smushed together, and I've been trying to draw a map of it for the past few hours and as far as I can figure it must be stretched around the surface of a Möbius strip.

Although I might be able to figure out its actual shape if I started by putting buildings and locations on index cards and trying to arrange them in relation to each other.

With magnets on a giant Möbius strip.

The actual motivation for this activity is that lately I've been stuck in the wrong parts of Dreamland a lot, when I'm there - mainly the ones related to my hometown - and I've been trying (even when I'm asleep) to figure out how to navigate back to this one really cool part that boasts, among other things, a kind of hidden folded-space gateway to this fantasy landscape place which is pretty at the best of times and one time I had a dream there that involved pirate galleons and tame dragons, a kind of Dinotopia/Temeraire thing. Understandably, I would rather get back to that part, but it's hard to remember where I was going when I'm asleep. I tend to forget that I'm dreaming and get caught up in the plot. :/

Comments

[aeslis]

Do you actually have lucid dreams? I've never had one, myself, though I've always wanted to.

[cimorene]

Not ones where I'm completely lucid and can do whatever I want. Even when I know for certain that I'm dreaming, I still have to struggle to a greater or lesser extent to direct the dream the way I want it. But I have had a lot more dreams where I become aware that I'm dreaming at some point and a lot more dreams where I am able to change what's happening since I started venlafaxin.