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I can relate. I have a handful of recurring dream worlds that I visit. Sometimes I'll have a series of dreams over a few days that all take place in the same dream world. Months or years can go by and then I'll find myself dropped back into a dream world that I had forgotten about. Sometimes the world has progressed since my last visit, and sometimes I'm put back nearly where I left off last time.

The weirdest thing for me is that I swear I have a separate set of memories in these different dream worlds; a personal history exclusive to that dream world, where once I'm in that dream world, I suddenly remember previous visits to that world, places I've visited, events that took place. It's an incredibly strange feeling that can momentarily make me question my sense of self.

I should note that I nearly always dream lucidly. Not sure if that plays a role in this phenomena.

I have a series of dreams that happen in my town, whose geography in the dreams is as I naively imagined it as a child. The map of the dream town is an exact circle. The bus route from my home (my parents' home) to my school is a straight line (in reality it is more like a spiral). As a consequence, some places exist in my dream map that do not correspond to anything in reality. Sometimes I wake up with a feeling that it is important to go to those places in real life, because something important that I forgot is there.

Across a large street from my parents' home, there are some trees that kinda look like a beginning of a forest. In reality those are just a few densely growing trees, followed by more streets and houses. As a small child I didn't know, because we rarely walked in that direction, so in my dreams, there was a forest. Now I know what is actually there, and have walked there many times. But in the dream world, there still is a forest.

The dream map refuses to update and keeps the misconceptions of my childhood. Of course, during the dreams, it is a real map containing places that I merely "forgot" and "should visit again".

I've experienced that dream memory thing too. A whole other set of memories that I hook up with when I'm in dreamland.

It makes you think.

That is fascinating. Sadly No, i never continued dreams. They are a stand-alone experience, so to speak.

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