I’ve had recurring lucid dreams almost every night for the past week or so about a city. It remains internally consistent in the dreams and the same characters and locations tend to show up.
In one of the dreams, I was the owner of a casino in the downtown area. It was decorated with overstuffed leather seats that overlooked the gaming floor itself. I remember walking around the casino talking to different people who were all sipping martinis.
Another one of the dreams involved me walking through an old cemetery across the street from the city hall. I climbed through a rusty fence and ran through some alleys and found myself in an alley where an artist collective had set up a ramshackle studio.
In another dream, I was running up a dirty stairwell in a tall elementary school chasing after a guy who was wearing a shiny black outfit. I got to the roof and stood and marveled at the city lights and I realized “I created all this” at that moment, so I sat down with a friend who was with me. We saw some of my other friends down by the city hall, so we climbed down and joined them, but we were yelled at by cops. I told them “don’t you know who I am, I own the casino down the street!” and they left us alone.
In the last dream, I was in a bar near the art collective and I was with a black-haired girl who was trying to buy cigarettes. Some ugly guy stole her cigarettes, and he became belligerent when I asked for him to give them back, so I bashed his head in on the floor, took the girl by the hand, and ran past the art collective, the graveyard, town hall, the casino, and all the other buildings until downtown turned into a residential area and then turned into country side. The sun was starting to rise, and I was about to climb a mountain to get a view of what was on the other side when I woke up.
I’ve dreamed about this city many times before, and it is always laid out in the same way, and the characters are really dynamic as though the city actually existed. I’ve never dreamed about it so much as I have this week, and my lucidity gave me the opportunity to really observe the city layout. So much so, that I was able to draw a map in MS paint. There are some other locations marked on the map that I have dreamed about in the past, but not in this week’s dream spree.
Dreaming is awesome, especially when you have a super gnarly imagination.