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Do you have any common dream labyrinths? Recurring locations, not necessarily always exactly the same.

Some may be connected to each other, some may not. They may be large regions or they may be singular buildings or even rooms. It's all pretty unique to the individual, really, but identifying dream labyrinths is one of the biggest steps to gaining lucidity while dreaming since it allows one to better identify when they're in a dreamscape and not reality.

For me the majority of my dreams take place within large overdeveloped cities, often with skyscrapers blocking out the sky or at the very least buildings blocking out much of it. I've also noticed that it tends to be divided into three interconnected regions, which I usually can travel between. That being a central, very overdeveloped, city which is practically a concrete jungle, a more suburban area with slightly more open layouts, some areas even being open parks and campuses with the sky openly visible and a notable amount of greenery, and then finally an outskirts region where there are usually dilapidated buildings being reclaimed by nature and it's more overgrown instead of being overdeveloped. There are some recurring locations in each, but they do tend to move around a bit.

Do you have any which you're willing to share?
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SW-User
I am bookmarking this post, I have had a few over the years.
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
@SW-User Interested to hear 'em when you've got the time. 👌 I find dreams a pretty fascinating subject.
SW-User
@UndeadPrivateer OK back!

Several dreamscapes:

When I was very young there was a dark house that had a lot of secret passages within the walls. I would race through them in a nearly predefined path for several 'laps' before the dream dissipated.

Later in life, I re-entered this dreamscape but realized I was no longer a tiny kid, and worried in the dream I wouldn't fit through the very snug passages that I made it through as a kid.

There was also a city that I would be chased through until I figured out how to fly - and by that, I mean lucid dreaming fly. Then whenever I would be chased, I just flew away.

I know there's at least one more, but it escapes me at the moment.
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
@SW-User The first is a pretty classic dream labyrinth and where the nickname comes from. Very maze-like structures that are filled with many interlocking areas. The revisiting it later and worrying about fitting is an interesting one, I would think there's some kind of subconscious symbolism going on there. Feeling like you've outgrown some portion of yourself or your thought patterns or some such thing.

You've got the cityscapes too, eh? They are indeed quite fun to fly around when lucid.
SW-User
@UndeadPrivateer I would regularly fly once I figured it out. It was really a self-defense situation that allowed me to fly. Then there would be times when I wasn't even being chased, that I would sense being able to fly, and I just decided to take to the skies.
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
@SW-User Not a bad basis for training up further lucidity if you were so inclined.
SW-User
@UndeadPrivateer Sometimes I feel that what I had to fight and overcome in my dreams has been outgrown, or in some cases, overcome. The dreamscapes no longer appear, nor do I feel the need to fly. The obstacles are gone - except for the insects from time to time. But I have my 'failsafe', so even that is something I can work past.
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
@SW-User We all continually grow over our life and face different internal struggles, that's for sure. I think there's lots that all of us could learn and gain from digging into our dreams and the meanings behind them.