synthwavesquid wrote:
huh
admittedly, i'm not sure what to make of that. maybe it's normal for common/familiar environments to crop up (would make sense, actually). though i don't remember any school dreams
usually the stores are analogous to ones i've been in before
i've sometimes had weird stuff happen that i've been able to recall too. one involved talking rats (i was apparently on good terms with?) in a sewer, another was a random rewrite of a group of characters my brain came up with on a whim
(also vanished for a moment to make food. will gladly take the points [even if i could've snuck in a few more])
i generally had the same impression: amalgamations of familiar and/or unfamiliar things on the basis of what stood out to us consciously or subconsciously, sometimes indiscriminately, but sometimes based off of something strikingly personal
whether that's necessarily accurately representative of how it works, im not really sure
i distinctly have lots of dreams about malls, not just stores-- one involved me getting stalked through a warehouse-looking store/mall and i started rushing across a shallow dry concrete/marble pit that seemed to resemble a garden or a farmer's market, with some sparse tables and booths strewn along some of its edges and through the center. i remember then stepping up and scrambling out of it into increasingly dense crowds of people through increasingly narrow glossy-tile paths that were once again lined with more and more stands and booths. i caught glimpses of the person following me, but forgot their appearance. i quickly crossed over to a clothing section of that store/mall, and then found someone who resembled a very specific classmate i knew from a school i had attended... i remember standing there anxiously, trying to describe something... and then a purple shirt... but then the rest of it escaped my memory
related to rats, actually-- in one brief part of a dream i had a couple months ago, i
was a talking pet rat companion for an acquaintance/friend that seemed to be familiar to me (but i no longer remember who it was). i remember breaking into song and just pointing at a building in the distance from the bridge i scurried and stopped at, going "chapelll!!~" or something. then they started to look uncomfortable, as though it reminded them of something, and i seemed to react to that? i remember immediately stopping and gently assuring them i noticed but that i wouldnt ask about it
i haven't had many character-related dreams yet...