A lot of my dreams take place in my childhood apartment (2-11yo). When I was ~8, we swapped the parents' room with the kids room; the setting of most of my dreams take place *after* the swap, making me think 8-11yo was real formative for... something subconscious somewhere?
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and lots of those dreams take place centered around the bathroom attached to the post-swap bedroom, and I'm not sure why it's the bathroom specifically. There's no overarching valence to those dreams, it's a wide variety of tones, just happens to be centered around that bathroom.
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i dream about parties at large houses a lot. places ive never been with a lot of wandering going on, and sometimes alligators. never had an orgasm in a dream.
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Place, rarely people or plot is often the central focus in my dreams. And the place is often a fusion a a few places, but always understood as one place in the logic of the dream.
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I always have paid attention to this! In my old dreams anytime I'm at "home" it was my childhood house (and I moved a lot), until I got to live in a house where it felt I was always meant to be, and my dreams swapped to that house, even my housemates are in there and all
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I'm 40 and something like 90% of my dreams are of me as a high-school age kid. I don't have the recurring location thing as much though, just recurring people.
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I still dream randomly of my ifb church from that age. Building long gone, people long gone, but it’s weird how many dreams take place in that space
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Same, my childhood home (including surroundings) is often the background theatre for my dreams.
I don't regularly dream of other real places, most of my other dreams are complete fantasy. In fact, I myself am often not even in my own dreams, it's more like watching a movie.
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Same. Many of my dreams are in the town we left when I was 14. I haven't been back since.
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I think frequent settings usually reflect what we lack in daily life.
Your purpose since then may have been to lead a contrastingly free, unstructured life – but we return to the childhood room for the comfort we used to find in schedule, rules and routine.