I’m from the US but I’ve been living mostly in japan since 2006. I have a family here, a job, used to the culture and language, etc. But when i dream, It’s always in America. I see friends from high school or college. Everything is nonsequential such as everything is in dollars (i drempt a guy was handing out random $20 bills a few nights ago). I often dream that I’m working at the part time jobs i had in college or high school. I can’t recall a dream I’ve had taking place here, even a little, or involving my current family or jobs here, and I’m pretty good at recalling dreams. Then I wake up and the reality creeps in that I’m actually in Japan. Is my psyche just cemented in what I knew back then? Anyone else have a similar experience?
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Nope, for me all my dreams take place here. Had a dream the other day I was in the US but it was clear I was there as a temporary visitor.
Nope.
Funnily enough I am in my “home country” right now and had a dream last night I was in an apartment building in Tokyo which was swaying alarmingly due to an earthquake (and I was annoyed because I kept fumbling my phone and couldn’t take video).
Maybe you miss the US. My dreams are always mixed. Sometimes I’m in the US, sometimes I’m in Japan, sometimes I’m back in the Marines. The weirdest ones are when I’m dreaming about experiences in the Marines taking place in Japan.
Same boat. I guess I want to go back since I haven’t been home for 5 years
What are “dreams”?
Sounds familiar…
2010 here and nope. My dreams are all fucking weird. Like I’m in a dank and dirty room and it’s all dreary and dull. I’m always searching for the way back to where I’m supposed to be. Sometimes it gets really scary too.
Either that or it’ll be random, normal dreaming and start getting scary. By then I become aware it’s a dream and I try to wake up but I can’t. I try calling my wife’s name but it feels like my mouth is numbed and heavy. It’s horrible.
At least when scary people appear I tell them, ‘get fucked I know this is a dream’ 😂 I’m actually terrified but just acting tough.
Nah. I dream about fun stuff.
I think it’s relatively normal. I still have regular dreams that take place in the house I grew up in, even though I have lived away from it for longer than I lived there at this point.
Those formative places and experiences might always be the most common background setting for some people.
Normal for you?
My dreams are non-specific. The scenes and actions are bonkers; not rooted in any place.
I dream of idea-places more than actual places. “We we’re in an AirBnB, southern India at the sea…” (a place I’ve never been but my brain has indexed it)
((PPS. Would love recs for English-speaking resorts in India & SEA))
maybe because you are in Japan already?
brain be like: why do I need to dream about Japan? I am in fucking japan already i see Japan 24/7 hell I sleep in Nihongo
A majority of my dreams take place in locations from my teen and pre-teen years. I believe that’s just the way it is.