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Title: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Maeve anBanríon Chonnacht on May 29, 2015, 01:45:44 AM
If you had your own personal Dreamworld how frequently would you visit, and what would it look like?
Mine is a library in a forest and has internet connection.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: tabeabd on May 29, 2015, 02:28:37 AM
This is a really cool subject!

Let's see...it's really hard to choose just one type of setting, so I think mine would be really big with different regions to it. Though it would mostly be foresty and a river is a must! The places I'd visit the most, and often, would look similar to these, which also is similar to one of the countries in my original universe:

(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/194/1/e/Ohio_Scenic_Photography_18_by_SupermanGTR.jpg)
Source: http://fav.me/d2tvyo9 (http://fav.me/d2tvyo9)

(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2014/023/b/9/b9f8cbb3d17f97a881a9deb47a8f6651-d73eg4a.jpg)
Source: http://fav.me/d73eg4a (http://fav.me/d73eg4a)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Piney on May 29, 2015, 02:52:29 AM
Hmmm, that's a tough one. Somewhere resembling the Atlantic coast, probably, but less windy. And if possible it would also be within walking distance of the mountains (like, the Appalachian mountains)... and there will be dogs. An abundance of dogs. Internet connection would be nice but maybe not necessary.
I'd try to visit as often as I could; it might convince me to go to sleep earlier :D (it may or may not be 3 AM right now)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Sunflower on May 29, 2015, 02:58:51 AM
The back yard of my grandparents' house in Pebble Beach, on a sunny afternoon after the fog's blown off.  We had to sell the house about seven years and I still find myself going back there in dreams (though even then I'm somehow aware that I'm trespassing  :(). 
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: AquaAurion on May 29, 2015, 03:34:35 AM
It depends on big it is :P

There's a small mountain where I've spent a lot of my summers that probably would be it:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Omberg_Panorama.jpg)  (http://media.basetool.se/ProductImage/145217/1004/3/189820/)
The small hut would totally have a library in it ^^

With this kind of forest:
(https://susaboet.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/img_3898.jpg)

I'd go there all the time :P
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Trinka on May 29, 2015, 03:46:35 AM
Well my dreamscape would be warm and sunny, with a few clouds in the sky to provide occasional shade. It would probably look something like this.
(http://www.gjsentinel.com/blogs/images/mwm8.jpg)
I feel happiest in these kind of places. Soft grass to walk around barefoot in and take naps, boulders to hop around on (and take naps on), trees to climb in (aaaannd take naps on), and a nice slow moving river to wade in and skip rocks on. It'd be quiet, with nothing but the sounds of  nature. Some goats hopping around on said boulders would be pure bliss!

I've done quite a bit of roadtripping across america with my family, so I can safely say I've seen just about every climate there is. These kind of places are always the ones that speak most to me. I love that ethereal sense of a dreamlike state that always falls on me whenever I explore a new hidden alcove of nature by myself: I lose track of time, and of myself. So if every time I went to my dreamscape it was a little different, I would love that....

Whoop, this turned into quite a little speal didn't it? Now I want to nap on some grass (^v^) zzZz
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Trinka on May 29, 2015, 03:52:37 AM
With this kind of forest:
(https://susaboet.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/img_3898.jpg)

I'd go there all the time :P

Aqua, that little glen in the woods is so dreamy, I love it! It's like this little grassy rug covered in rocks someone rolled out in the middle of the forest and forgot to pick up when they left °o° <3 <3 <3
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Peraphelion on May 29, 2015, 03:53:26 AM
I think mine would have to be a little farm with chickens, cows, and a horse. It would vary between the chill of a foggy morning, perfect afternoon sunlight, and a warm starry night, depending on my mood. There would be a plot of various fresh veggies and a strawberry patch. The house would have a sun room, a comfy chair and some books, and a great view out the kitchen window overlooking a flowerbed. Nearby would be a modest patch of forest with a stream and a hidden tree house. Somewhere there would be a swing.
I'm sighing just thinking about it.

Maybe something like this
(http://www.vhcb.org/americorps/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Sleepy-Hollow-Farm-Woodstock-Vermont-300x193.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: AquaAurion on May 29, 2015, 04:01:22 AM
Aqua, that little glen in the woods is so dreamy, I love it! It's like this little grassy rug covered in rocks someone rolled out in the middle of the forest and forgot to pick up when they left °o° <3 <3 <3
I used to live right by a forest like this when I lived with my parents! Then the land owners decided it was time to cut down the trees in the part near our house :,( I loved that place <3
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: SeaAngel on May 29, 2015, 04:15:00 AM
Such a nice thread! :D
That would be the "forest" (I put quotation marks because in reality it was tiny, but at the time we called it a forest) of my primary school (minus all the other kiddies - I would find them tiring). Unfortunately I don't have any pictures :( but it was somelike like this:

(http://www.daphnesclub.com/media/k2/galleries/420/D_020.jpg)

Think of various Mediterranean trees, pines, eucalyptus, almond trees, sparsely spaced, sunny... With rocks and creeks and various special little things... It was not big or impressive (heck, in reallity it wasn't even a "forest", more like a "large stand of trees") and it wasn't even my favorite type of forest (I do love the alpine type), but it was the one place which I have explored till I learnt its every nook and cranny by heart, discovered its every secret, and feel completely at home... <3
And I still miss it :-/
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Trinka on May 29, 2015, 04:15:30 AM
I used to live right by a forest like this when I lived with my parents! Then the land owners decided it was time to cut down the trees in the part near our house :,( I loved that place <3
Maybe my love of grassy-watery-rocky-treeey places stems from from my childhood. The park closest to my house (that we all called "The Green Belt", because it was a long swath of grass cutting through suburbia) had a waterway for rain-runnoff going right through it. You had to go down a steep hill from the playground to get to the water, but I always loved to play there with my siblings and kids in the neighborhood. We'd feed ducks that lived there, race leaf boats on the water, dare each other to hop from one side to the other, and gross each other out by poking pond sludge. I could see the park from my backyard if I peeked over the fence. Those were such good memories, getting a little teary eyed... :)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: BarbaryLion22 on May 29, 2015, 04:26:27 AM
My dreamscape would probably resemble the terrain around my grandparent's house, like Sunflower
(http://i.imgur.com/e56cBdp.jpg)
This is pretty much it, except there's a small hill next to my grandparent's house, and a stream running through the property. And there're 3 more visible mountains, but you can't see them because the camera is at the wrong angle.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Haiz on May 29, 2015, 04:35:53 AM
I've already tried to draw my dreamworld
Spoiler: show
(http://40.media.tumblr.com/280ed7bd1048d7db2498bc247ac80c05/tumblr_nocm84hgPP1r6soqlo1_1280.png)


but since I have no clue how to really draw backgrounds and landscapes, I'll try to describe it a little better anyway. since I drew it for my magesona that hails from Hitra, I tried to base it on what it looks like there:
(http://www.visitnorway.com/ImageVaultFiles/id_4690/cf_1174/coastoftrondelag_hitra1_740.JPG)
(http://carlkjeldsberg.zenfolio.com/img/s1/v57/p1191414178-3.jpg)

honestly I'm glad I restricted myself to this, because 1) it is one of my favourite type of landscapes, and 2) i would never be able to decide otherwise. I would love to have SO MANY THINGS as my dreamscape, like deep mossy forest, or a swamp, or something mountainy, or a huge open landscape...
The favourite places I've been to are Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Finnmark, and similar; so it would be a mix-and-match of various landscape from there, AKA a huge mess.

the most important thing about my dreamworld is that the sky is always dramatic and has really cool clouds and colours.

I'm also accusing Onni of stealing my colour scheme.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Koeshi on May 29, 2015, 05:06:47 AM
Probably somewhere urban that was being reclaimed by nature.  So basically Pripyat without the radiation.

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/sparkchaser1998/TFS/Germany/2010/Chernobyl/PripyatChernobyl23225TownView.png)

Or Mediterranean woodlands, hot and dry with stunted trees.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Quercus_suber.Alentejo04.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Chizu on May 29, 2015, 05:18:58 AM
Probably somewhere urban that was being reclaimed by nature.

That!! Or An endless Library in Persian style under the water ... with no people. Perhaps for the matter a rainforest with no people. Basically desolate places with no homo sapience.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Koeshi on May 29, 2015, 05:22:27 AM
That!! Or An endless Library in Persian style under the water ... with no people. Perhaps for the matter a rainforest with no people. Basically desolate places with no homo sapience.

Well I took the no people part for granted :)  Not a rainforest though, too wet and sticky.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Pessi on May 29, 2015, 05:33:56 AM
My dreamworld would probably look like my "home forest" aka the forest we live by. Perhaps with a lake added to it. And I'd have flet in some huge tree like the elves of Lórien on which I could sleep.

Though I love reading I don't think my dreamworld would include books. The dreamworld is after all about things inside one's head, there's no need for any information to be written down outside it.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Tazzie on May 29, 2015, 06:02:34 AM
My dreamworld, would most likely be a field of poppies, with small, purple flowers surrounded by mountains. With a small, rocky, shallow stream running thought it.
The trees on the mountains and that are scattered about the valley, are different types of eucalyptus and sparse bushes.
(http://www.lifeinabruzzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/poppies-SS261.jpg)
(http://www.italianfoodforever.com/staging/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pgrande13.jpg)

A lot of birds around with, a medium herd of Red Deer.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Laufey on May 29, 2015, 07:29:47 AM
It's really interesting to see what kind of a shape everyone's dreamworlds would take! I think it says a lot about the person too how they choose theirs.

When I started to think of what mine would look like one scene popped in my mind immediately: a rocky hill with a lake down below and small pines. Sunlight and the scent of warm rocks, heather flowers and dry lichen. A chance of very relaxed adders so stomp a bit as you walk. That last part made me realize why this particular scene would be it - my dreamworld safe area is where I spent my childhood summers. I don't have any photos of that place but here's an idea of how it looks like:

(http://i.imgur.com/staOscz.jpg)
Source (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeancient/6011334972/).

(http://i.imgur.com/lT2hvr8.jpg)
Source (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sampos/187942103/).

(http://i.imgur.com/8G3zq9q.jpg)
Source (https://www.flickr.com/photos/david_e_smith/2814287002/).
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: FinnishViking on May 29, 2015, 07:41:42 AM
(http://www.satokangas.fi/blogi/wp-content/uploads/Sataa-Hangasojalla.jpg)

A bit less gloomy would suit me perfectly. Peace and quiet only the wind wawing the leafs around and playing its tricks and perhaps a few friendly wolf buddies to safe guard against hostile intrusion.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: KicknRun on May 29, 2015, 07:45:04 AM
Something like this, but a little less swampy.

http://hdnatur.com/images/db_img6/forest-lake-landscaping-hd-pictures-4.jpg (http://hdnatur.com/images/db_img6/forest-lake-landscaping-hd-pictures-4.jpg)

[IMG] tag doesn't seem to be working, so I'll have to make do.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: FinnishViking on May 29, 2015, 07:46:57 AM
Something like this, but a little less swampy.

http://hdnatur.com/images/db_img6/forest-lake-landscaping-hd-pictures-4.jpg (http://hdnatur.com/images/db_img6/forest-lake-landscaping-hd-pictures-4.jpg)

[IMG] tag doesn't seem to be working, so I'll have to make do.

Truly? Try copying this and just removing the dots [img width=300.][/img.]
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Fimbulvarg on May 29, 2015, 07:51:10 AM
Deciding is hard. I think it would be an amalgamation including elements from some Norwegian natural landscapes I think are particularly aesthetic.

The North
(http://1p6ep31f32pvjrml246jyq31.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/northern_light_above_utakleiv_lofoten_islands_by_steinliland-d72ox4h.jpg)

The Western Highlands
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/226/3/f/hardangervidda_norway__02_by_lugburzoxay-d5b3xjf.jpg)

Kelp forests
(http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34400000/-Kelp-Forest-oceans-34416311-500-334.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: OrigamiOwl on May 29, 2015, 09:13:57 AM
As much as I would pine for a pretty european dreamspace, I'd probably get something like these:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LzHZYI3AHMQ/UVgDKv0ftiI/AAAAAAAAJ3Y/fadUkv9kb2k/s1600/image_1.jpg) (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2XF7PHP1Y0Q/T21YeZ42ynI/AAAAAAAAG80/N7hpC6VcaOM/s1600/20120225_5233_MGH_5989.jpg)
or, slightly closer to my house:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Nelson_Falls.jpg) (https://cdn.superstock.com/4201/Thumb/4201-73081.jpg)
or, next to my house...something like a dream version of my actual escape hideout
(http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/7054468.jpg)
Hmmmm super tough... But maybe the old orchard idea actually...arghhh it's too hard to choose!
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Unlos on May 29, 2015, 09:51:58 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/TeeLS43.jpg)
This place. I would go there to look at the sky, watch for raptors, listen to the wind and maybe dip my toes in the water if the weather allowed (it's freezing, so I've only bathed there once). It's been years since I was there last but I was there quite a lot when I was growing up, when my parents were hiking (loong day-trip-hikes of walking and walking for 6-8-10 hours per day - I kind of miss having someone dragging me out on those trips) in the mountains.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Fimbulvarg on May 29, 2015, 09:54:53 AM
(http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/7054468.jpg)
Hmmmm super tough... But maybe the old orchard idea actually...arghhh it's too hard to choose!

Of course there would have to be apples in your dreamscape one way or another :P

(Also happy birthday)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: kjeks on May 29, 2015, 09:58:06 AM
My dreamworld would include several stages out of this book which is one of my favorites still (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Dreaming_Books).

In images spoken:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wowJDG4IXWE/U9imLUATX9I/AAAAAAAAAGA/KECoWCijGBE/s1600/20140730_094513.jpg) (http://www.lesefieber.ch/wp-content/uploads/zamonien.jpg)

It would include some nice upperworld woods, to take a stroll in from time to time, but dreamwalking in a world of books and booklings being able to open and read a bit of this and then of that might be fun.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: RandomTexanReader on May 29, 2015, 10:05:04 AM
I'm a bit of a river rat.
(http://www.forthoodsentinel.com/images/photos/1058_tn.jpg)
Hot summers... perpetually cool water... rolling hills... wildflower season https://hillcountryimages.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/wildflower_mix_fencelinetx.jpg?w=672&h=372&crop=1 (https://hillcountryimages.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/wildflower_mix_fencelinetx.jpg?w=672&h=372&crop=1) year-round... grasshoppers and cicadas... minnows and perch and the occasional cat and bass... No chiggers though. No mosquitoes or fire-ants. And DEFINITELY no moccasins.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Koeshi on May 29, 2015, 10:14:11 AM
It's really interesting to see what kind of a shape everyone's dreamworlds would take! I think it says a lot about the person too how they choose theirs.

Perhaps it does, but what exactly does it say?

(http://i.imgur.com/staOscz.jpg)

Ooh, rocky woodlands bordering a lake, I like.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: OrigamiOwl on May 29, 2015, 10:24:14 AM
Of course there would have to be apples in your dreamscape one way or another :P

(Also happy birthday)
Of course, Fim U__U
Maybe I could wake up/sleep in an apple crate XD Oh no...noooooo haha
(and thanks :3)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Emil on May 29, 2015, 10:25:37 AM
I don't have a magesona to base my dreamworld off but I'm gonna go with a waterfall-y area like this
(http://i.imgur.com/BvTMMqN.jpg)

I'm also very fond of rainforests so maybe this??

(http://i.imgur.com/B8iHj6X.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Laufey on May 29, 2015, 10:26:50 AM
Perhaps it does, but what exactly does it say?

Nothing exact, that's for sure, but I do love seeing how differently people go at it. Some select places that are familiar, usually by childhood or because they live in the area now. Some select areas they find pleasant for other reasons and some create whole new ones. And then there's some like kjeks that go entirely a different route. I guess that I meant to say is "I love to see how many different ways people approach this question".
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Fen Shen on May 29, 2015, 10:30:02 AM
I based my dreamworld on a place I've been to very often in my childhood, it is close to my parents' home.

I'd wake up under the group of trees...
(http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii580/Fen_Shen/IMG_6411_zpsn9d6hjxm.jpg)

...and then wander into the light wood you can see in the background. And of course, it is eternal summer. ;)
(http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii580/Fen_Shen/P1020131_zpssetp1ka2.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: DancingRanger on May 29, 2015, 10:33:21 AM
*scratches back of head* umm so I already a dreamworld. I was lead through guided meditation to form a unquie place for my mind to go and rest. 

So far the area I have explored is surrounded by mountains and is either grassy plains, or really old forest. There's a glacier that sources the river the flows to the lake that's in the plains. Creature wise there are tiny little dragons/drakes, fish, deer, and birds. I haven't done much but relax and build a small place to stay.

Pics kinda how it looks
(https://d2v9y0dukr6mq2.cloudfront.net/video/thumbnail/grassy-plains-and-mountains-in-national-park_-j2ytmjgh__S0000.jpg)
The plains
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQqFQFWDtLnouVfkAimCYRPqlcC8MHPpKWs00FWcCfbxMc3fFvzQw)
River through the forest, I spend a lot of time on it's banks.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Amity on May 29, 2015, 10:41:44 AM
Mine would involve a coastline.  The land would be wooded, varying greatly with the season (or the dream-season, who knows how those line up with real seasons), but mostly there would be a beach of smooth small stones and fine sand.. and boats.  Many boats, each one of which would take me somewhere, but I wouldn't know where until I got in and went.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Fimbulvarg on May 29, 2015, 10:43:41 AM
I don't have a magesona to base my dreamworld off but I'm gonna go with a waterfall-y area like this
(http://i.imgur.com/BvTMMqN.jpg)

Ah, Vøringsfossen. I was there  (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=215.msg32941#msg32941)three weeks ago. It's only that big when they empty the dam further upstream - water is liquid money after all (but that's not relevant to dreamscapes so, yeah).
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: JoB on May 29, 2015, 12:47:53 PM
If you had your own personal Dreamworld how frequently would you visit, and what would it look like?
Hmmmm. Seeing that both Lalli and Onni were sleeping in their havens this time around, I'm led to believe that they a) go there every time they RL-sleep and b) normally dream-sleep as well, likely because that's what they need to do to actually recuperate during their RL-sleep.

If so ... call me unimaginative, but my haven would be dark and silent, as I don't sleep very well when there's light or noises.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: SectoBoss on May 29, 2015, 12:50:07 PM
Ooh, dreamworlds! It’s so cool to see everyone’s choices.

I think mine would have to be the part of north-west Wales where I spent a fair bit of my childhood. Probably the headland of Mynydd Tir y Cwmwd, which I must have scrambled up and down about twenty times now:

(http://photos_00.coastradar.com/18/38/183845.jpg)

It’s a big old hunk of granite sticking out of the Llyn Peninsula, covered in gorse and great for walking on. Perfect combination of the ‘blasted heath’ and the coastal environments, with a lovely view over Cardigan Bay from the summit.

Plus, it’s got this guy on it:

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/61/9c/f3/619cf3d6bbff6f8754ba2c6b2b9ec7fc.jpg)

That’s the Tin Man statue (the third one to be put up there, the original was a wooden ship’s figurehead), supposed to represent weary travellers. I like to imagine it coming to life and beating up anything that strays into my dreamworld – although I’m sure it’d make an exception for harmless Icelandic mages.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: ParanormalAndroid on May 29, 2015, 12:53:39 PM
I'd have to base it on the Brecon Beacons, but I'd have some kind of TARDIS-hut with a library, music room, pretty much every guitar and amp I've ever lusted over, free Italian food delivered to the door, dedicated fibre-optic internet... (gah)
Right, I need to become a billionaire so I can make that exist.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Daéa Reina on May 29, 2015, 01:05:37 PM
I'm a waterfall kind of person too.

My dreamworld would probably look a lot like this place here:

(http://www.ulbra.br/guaiba/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DSC05084.jpg)

It's a place I've been to a couple of times and I love it. It's so peaceful, heavily shaded by the trees, with just enough sky showing so you don't feel trapped. You can't see it in this picture, but there are some big rocks in the middle of the water stream, so you can just sit there and take a nap if you want to.

And now I miss this place so much. I wish I could teleport there right now. :/

EDIT: Actually, you can see the rocks, they're right in front of the waterfall. For some reason, my brain decided to ignore their existence and just went "these are not the rocks you're looking for".
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Helia on May 29, 2015, 02:30:13 PM
My dreamworld would be a forest with a small stream (you can't really see the stream in this picture, but it's there),

(http://turistamagazin.hu/UserFiles/0/0706.jpg)

and a stunning view from the hilltop.
(http://www.kektura.click.hu/hattertar/kektura-nagykepek-06/06-381.JPG)

Well, pretty much like my favourite hiking place and the hills where I spent the best summers of my childhood.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Gwenno on May 29, 2015, 03:36:22 PM
Ooh, dreamworlds! It’s so cool to see everyone’s choices.

I think mine would have to be the part of north-west Wales where I spent a fair bit of my childhood. Probably the headland of Mynydd Tir y Cwmwd, which I must have scrambled up and down about twenty times now:

(http://photos_00.coastradar.com/18/38/183845.jpg)

It’s a big old hunk of granite sticking out of the Llyn Peninsula, covered in gorse and great for walking on. Perfect combination of the ‘blasted heath’ and the coastal environments, with a lovely view over Cardigan Bay from the summit.
I've been there a few times and it really is a lovely area, no wonder you want it in your dreamworld

As for my own dreamworld it would probably be an old deciduous forest, very mossy with ancient trees and older rocks all growing fluffier with green ^_^ It would probably be on a slant with a stream running down, and bluebells and wild garlic growing around the water. The picture that captures it best from google images is below, but the idea is strongly based on a woods near where I lived which used to be a pre-christian sacred spot where the tylwyth (fairies) used to appear. I don't have any good pictures of unfortunately. Anyway, this picture gives the general feel of it…
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xh1gR-R6Mks/TB9gQ1i23OI/AAAAAAAACrU/nDUc0juifKc/s400/bluebell+sparkling+river.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Ana Nymus on May 29, 2015, 11:22:05 PM
Ooh, my dreamworld would be a forest. Mostly maple trees, many of them being suitable for climbing. And sunlight would always be streaming down through the leaves to make that mottled pattern. There would be a medium-sized stream there with little silver fish in it. It would be very peaceful and calm. But underneath the surface, hidden in all the little cracks and holes, there would be secrets. Stashes of books or food. A fishing rod (because those little silver fish are probably good to eat, right?). Even booby traps to be activated should someone enter uninvited.
And now I want to try lucid dreaming again just so I can really make this place.  :)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: BarbaryLion22 on May 30, 2015, 04:46:02 AM
*scratches back of head* umm so I already a dreamworld. I was lead through guided meditation to form a unquie place for my mind to go and rest. 


I just have to say how awesome that is. That's so cool, that you can actively participate in your dreamworld. I have one (or I think I have one) but I can't interact with it like that.
You're already a mage!
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Curry on May 30, 2015, 10:55:56 AM
HmmmMMMMmmm this is a really cool thread! I'm going to assume that my dreamworld would have lots of rain and water, because I've grown up loving rain and I practically live in water (and if nobody stops global warming, I actually will be underwater) but there would probably be something like this at first sight, with a drizzly/misty rain
(http://insidebainbridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_2491.jpg)
and not to borrow pieces of Fimbulvarg's idea, but you could go underwater and it would be a mix of a coral reef and kelp forest. Also, you could breathe fine, because it's a dream and why not. Perhaps there would be a hut or house or ruins somewhere underwater around there but you'd need to explore a bit to find that :3
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Noodles on May 30, 2015, 12:42:55 PM
oooooh I like this thread
Have any of you been to Hall of Mosses and/or the Hoh Rainforest in general? Or First Beach? Trees are all covered in moss, mostly douglas-fir-ish and bigleaf maple, but with lots of ferns and huckleberries in the undergrowth. Drizzly rain a lot of the time. First Beach is mostly sandy/pebbly, with tide-pools and sea-stacks, and is separated by a cliff from the rainforest.
Have some photos! (under a spoiler because Google Images was too much for me and there are lots of them)
Spoiler: show
(http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/515/cache/hoh-rain-forest-olympic-national-park_51546_990x742.jpg) (http://www.nedfriskfineart.com/data/photos/32_1hoh_ranforest.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Hoh_Rain_Forest_Maples.JPG) (http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~asa/Albums/OlympicPeninsula/tn/hoh_rain_forest-hall_of_mosses.med.jpg) (http://cdn4.vtourist.com/19/2595587-First_Beach_La_Push.jpg) (http://withoutbaggage.com/msgs/69/69805/side_69833_Mri.jpg) (http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/first-beach-heidi-smith.jpg)(http://webcam.forkswa.com/webcam1/netcam.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Blackjazz on May 30, 2015, 02:01:23 PM
Ah, thinking this up has been way too much fun!
Like many other people here, my dreamworld would be in a forest. Actually, it would pretty much be a conglomeration of images from where I grew up. Like this area of farmland and this river:
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3618/3377300206_963fcaebaf_z.jpg)   (https://www.nationalforests.org/assets/images/_750x750_fit_center-center_80/Umpqua-NF_-North-Umpqua-River-meets-the-Little-River_wiki.jpg)
 Source (ftp://www.flickr.com/photos/snlsna/3377300206/)                                                                                             Source (ftp://www.nationalforests.org/our-forests/find-a-forest/umpqua-national-forest)

The forest would be everywhere else. :) I'd appear in the valley and then be able to run around freely. The weather would fluctuate a lot, although it would rain all the time, snow in the winter, but never be painfully cold.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: viola on May 30, 2015, 06:57:45 PM
My dreamworld would have snow. Lots of snow. There would be a little frozen pond for skating on with large trees around it. (There's a place like this in Quebec that I've been to many times, but I don't have any pictures of it on hand) I would spend a lot of time in the trees hiding and just watching everything.

And because it's a dream there would also be books (ALL the books) and they would be safe from the weather because I said so. :)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: princeofdoom on May 31, 2015, 09:34:27 AM
I don't have pictures but if you look up Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America, basically there. I went one year for New Years celebration, and I've never felt more at peace or energetic, let alone both at the same time. There's a lot of trees, a lovely river where the practitioners (and anyone who wishes to join) can take part in daily cleansing ceremonies and not too much sunlight. But I did get to see the full moon on one of the nights I was there.

I think a lot of people here tend toward forests from what I've seen.

On a side note, considering I do lucid dream and have other weird, mage-ish experiences, I almost feel like I should have made my ssssona a mage, but then I'd feel like he'd be a little too close to what we've seen of Lalli at the time I'd made Ilmari. Tho now we're getting more of Lalli's personality...
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Viisikielinenkantele on May 31, 2015, 02:24:27 PM
This is a very pretty and thought-inspiring thread!
I actually built myself a dream-space as a child inspired by bag end.  :D It was a lovely little hobbit-hole with all the rooms I wanted myself to have but I haven't visited it recently.
Nowadays it would be more like my favourite café at 8:45 AM, with me as the only visitor. I simply love the smell of coffee and cakes and the quiet bustling of the bakers in the bakery. Alone thinking about it sets me at peace.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: RaeSeddon on May 31, 2015, 03:10:44 PM
I know exactly what my dreamspace would be-- growing up I lived around a lot of farm lands and woods, and there was a long, deep gully by my house. Along the gully floor was a small spring with a huge oak right next to it. My dreamspace would be that spring, in summer specifically. I'd 'wake up' right next to the pond, with the sound of water tumbling over tree roots and dapples of light filtering down overhead. The gully would stretch out east to west from the spring and on one end would come out to a field and on the other the vastness of the dreamscape.

I spent a huge amount of my childhood in those woods, and when I think "safe" and "home" it's the first thing to come to mind on an instinctual level.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Mélusine on May 31, 2015, 07:26:50 PM
If you had your own personal Dreamworld how frequently would you visit, and what would it look like?
Mine is a library in a forest and has internet connection.
I started to think (Maybe the swamp next to my grandparents's old house ?) but I know yet what would be my personal dreamworld : it's a forest. Deep, very green forest, with moss, stones, and huge trees. It might have little cabins in the trees, and I assume there is a lake somewhere, in one or an other direction.

It seems we're numerous to have a forest :)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Keeper on May 31, 2015, 10:14:21 PM
My dreamspace wouldn't really be an existing place. The closest would be the old columns of Greece, except without any roofs. Just a platform with lots of marble columns, a couple hundred feet high, glittering in sunlight, with fallen autumn leaves blowing across the floor. This is based on the Requiem series by Daniel Arenson.
I would be all alone there, nice and quiet :). (Until Reynir comes wandering in somehow)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Fogtreader on June 01, 2015, 02:31:18 AM
My dreamworld is a place where I can get to anywhere I’d like to be at a time when I can’t. It is called the Foyer. This is the entryway to all dreams; a place where they all entwine together by their loose ends. There are paths, stairways and corridors that climb, weave and fall to countless destinations. It is made of platforms, verandas, gardens and alcoves interconnected, joining at realistic and impossible angles, and sometimes free floating in the open space between. There are plenty of archways, and portals in the Foyer, but no doors; no obstructions of any kind.
All manner of dreamers pass through here on their way to their own dreams. Some hurry up and down the gilt stairways like underclassmen who are late for a lecture. Others shuffle steadily together like a sleepwalking army, while still more might travel by kyak on meandering waterways, and off the edge of falls that come out on the other side of another part as a bursting fountain.  Some of the more lucid and powerful dreamers ignore the conventions of paths and stairs by flying or swimming through the great open spaces. Or perhaps they just lazily drift along as an otter on the bay. Then of course there are those who are not going anywhere and just stay in the Foyer to enjoy its many delights. Although this is a busy place, one can always find just the perfect spot for some alone time.
Entering dreams through the Foyer is done in every way imaginable. One may by stepping through a portal, diving off a platform into a pool, picking a dream from a tree, catching it like a carousel ring as you slide by on a banister, or by reading a book that another dreamer left behind on a bench for you.
For me the places I go to often from here include the following, mostly real world places.

Rice Lake, Eagle River WI, my childhood summer home and still is.
(http://DSCF0208)
Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, very handy when you need to properly dispose of a dangerous, evil, magic artifact.
(http://DSCF1091)
Asilomar, CA, okay, so I live right up the street from it but a shortcut is always nice.
(http://DSCF0405)

Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Sunflower on June 01, 2015, 02:38:40 AM
My dreamworld is a place where I can get to anywhere I’d like to be at a time when I can’t. It is called the Foyer. This is the entryway to all dreams; a place where they all entwine together by their loose ends.

There are paths, stairways and corridors that climb, weave and fall to countless destinations. It is made of platforms, verandas, gardens and alcoves interconnected, joining at realistic and impossible angles, and sometimes free floating in the open space between. There are plenty of archways, and portals in the Foyer, but no doors; no obstructions of any kind.

I immediately thought of this ("Relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_%28M._C._Escher%29)" by M.C. Escher)

(http://www.santarosa.edu/~mmcginni/myart/invention/superplexus/escher/RelativityESCHER-410px.jpg)

Regrettably, your links below don't work.  They don't seem complete -- did you copy just specific filenames from something like Dropbox? 
Quote
Rice Lake, Eagle River WI, my childhood summer home and still is.
(http://DSCF0208)
Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, very handy when you need to properly dispose of a dangerous, evil, magic artifact.
(http://DSCF1091)
Asilomar, CA, okay, so I live right up the street from it but a shortcut is always nice.
(http://DSCF0405)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: SugaAndSpice on June 01, 2015, 09:39:27 AM
I would have a large area, with some streams and a lot of rocks. There would be a lot of trees for me to climb in, and sometimes little knots to rest on. Really dense fog all over, and no-one there. Except cats. lots of cats. I like having time to myself, which unfortunately at this age I do not get.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Fogtreader on June 01, 2015, 01:33:51 PM
Regrettably, your links below don't work.  They don't seem complete -- did you copy just specific filenames from something like Dropbox?

Yeah, I learned that as I attempted to add the images. I'm on another SM forum that lets you upload an image from the "Attachments and other options" below. This one does not however and as I do not have my photos ready uploaded to a cloud I can't show them here. Oh well.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Dane Murgen on June 01, 2015, 03:36:49 PM
Yeah, I learned that as I attempted to add the images. I'm on another SM forum that lets you upload an image from the "Attachments and other options" below. This one does not however and as I do not have my photos ready uploaded to a cloud I can't show them here. Oh well.

Well, attachments were disabled very early on because they took up too much space.

Anyway, my dreamworld would be an island with mountains in the middle and a little bit of forest and some abandoned buildings.

Basically, it's like Myst Island without the linking books.

(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dni/images/5/58/Mystisland.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20060416162322)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Juniper on July 27, 2016, 12:47:51 AM
Right now I think my favorite place in the world is around Lake Superior, so I think my dream space would be characteristic of somewhere near Lake Superior. The shores of Lake Superior are known for being very rocky and full of jagged cliffs and something Lake Superior's pretty known for, it's "black rocks" but still plenty of trees and plant life around. Mostly pine, white birch, and oak. There'd be lots of blueberry and raspberry bushes around too, most of my fondest memories being outside in wooded areas or forests near Lake Superior are when Blueberries and Raspberries are ripe so my friends and I would snack on them while we were out hiking. Coming off of one of the rock faces would be a stream giving way to a waterfall into the lake. I've always loved waterfalls, the best hiking trips I've been on entailed seeing and spending lots of time around waterfalls, but nothing too big, just big enough to give off a bit of mist. Even though it might be out of place in this setting along the stream leading up to the waterfall would be lots of weeping willows. When I was a kid all of the rivers I spent time around had a lot of weeping willows around them, also a willow tree was planted by a family member when I was born so that tree's always kind of been "my tree" and also one of my favorite books when I was a kid had a willow tree in it that was pretty central to the plot that made me really like willow trees on top of "my tree" being a willow tree. (Buttermilk, it's a really cute book with gorgeous illustrations and has a really good lesson behind it about learning to look at your fears in a different light)

Or maybe there wouldn't be a lake around, just a river with some rapids and a waterfall but it would still be reminiscent of the area close to Lake Superior.

I think if there was any sort of building or structure around, it would be an old stone building covered in vines, maybe some ruins of some sort, with vines overgrowing it. Sometimes when out hiking by the lake we'd find the old stone remains of the foundation of a house that'd been there a century or two ago, and I've always found something to be exceptionally lovely and peaceful about old stone ruins being reclaimed by nature.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: pinkie on July 27, 2016, 01:29:38 AM
http://www.silverbayinn.com/SilverBaySlideshow/201.jpg
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Olga Veresk on July 27, 2016, 04:37:22 AM
My personal Dreamworld would be something with melted glasses, like Sagrada Familia

(http://www.travelgeekery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Inside-Sagrada-Familia-Gaudi.jpg)

Spoiler: show
(http://world-traveller.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/the-unfinished-beauty-of-barcelonas-sagrada-familia.jpg)

(http://www.espanarusa.com/files/autoupload/54/87/36/txckvtln371740.jpg)

(https://cache-graphicslib.viator.com/graphicslib/media/77/la-sagrada-familia-photo_11812983-fit468x296.jpg)

(https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2016/02/05/18/54/sagrada-familia-cathedral-1181778_960_720.jpg)

(http://www.espanarusa.com/files/autoupload/20/2/51/wzn5rwaq364860.jpg)

(http://www.solmar.es/sites/default/files/images/sagradafamiliagaleria2.jpg)


(https://cdn.clorian.com/img/clients/SagradaFamilia/galeria/2-big.jpg?v=20160725162641)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Hedge on July 27, 2016, 05:51:57 AM
I gotta say, bit lame but I think mine would be not unlike Lalli's. Open birch woods, small pools but with some more open bog/moorland area as well. Small peaty streams and mossy, granite overhangs.

(http://i.imgur.com/TeeLS43.jpg)

That's beautiful, it reminds me of the corrie at Lochnagar in the Cairngorms.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on July 27, 2016, 07:57:08 AM
You know the Cairngorms? Wonderful area. Which in turn reminds me somewhat of Callanish.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Vafhudr on July 27, 2016, 10:23:27 AM
Hmm. I think that my dreamworld would be like a lot of people's here - a place that I really enjoyed as a child. Namely, my great-aunt's cottage in northwestern Quebec.

Heavily wooded area with sandy soils - there was a sand pit just before the small road leading to the cottage, with a field full of wild raspberries and strawberries. There was a long stairway leading down to the porticoed cottage. I have always went during the hottest days of summer, so it always smelled strongly of wildgrass, flowers and a mix of pine and kerosen that always makes me think I am in the woods/or on vacation. Very mountainy region - a few of them can be seen in the immediate distance. There is an island in the middle of the lake. The lake itself is full of fish. I don't their names in english: Achigan (a very proud and fighting fish), perchaude - caught in the late afternoon. Barbotte - catfish - caught at night when they come to the shore. The brochet/pike - the patient hunter, who feels like you snag a log when he goes after your line. And then there are the old trouts, the monsters hidden in the deepest, coldest reaches of the lakes - there is a picture of my great-aunt with a fish almost as tall as her from a time where pictures were only black and white - and when they were probably the only ones around the lake. There were also chipmunks whom she fed peanuts, and raccoons came by the lake at night to feast on clams. The deck also had a small cage for crawfishes.

The house itself is a modest cottage. There is a cuckooclock from the black forest of Germany. Stain glasses of fishermen and hunters. The house smells of pine and all the covers and drapes smell of mothballs. There were rugs everywhere, as was the old fashion.

Our only contact with the outside world is a unsteady radio. The mountains break the signal. When it was really bad, it meant that a storm was approaching.

There is always something pleasant about a storm on a lake. Maybe it's the sound of water on water. The summer storms were especially violent and quite a show to watch from the portico, until we were chased inside by the rain.

I wish I could have seen it in fall and winter. She is dead now and I have not set foot there in at least a decade.

Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Solokov on July 27, 2016, 11:11:35 AM
Did some thinking on this (no I'm not hanging off the top of a tree to post today).

My personal dream haven would be a bit of an amalgom of my favorite places.

In the center would be a small pond/lake with tall grasses around it surrounded by ancient giant sequia trees, leading to the west from there a stream from the lake that rolls through a mixed conifer forest that ebbes off into coastal redwoods before hitting a rocky beach and a foggy pacific shore.

To the east from the lake would be a low granite ridge that leads into a desert area consisting of old lava flows, alluvial fans and a few crates like ubehebe out in death valley, and some decent cliff faces with deep columns. Wild cactus, sagebrush buckwheat manzanite and creosote brush would be predominat here.

From the south out of the lake would lead a ditch through simmilar woods to the west before opening up into sparse valley oaks and cottonwoods, before hitting a flat tilled plain, depending on the season it would have things ranging from cotton to summer sudan grass hay and winter wheat with dryland oat hay.

To the north a river leading into the lake would roll in from granite mountains, mixed conifers leading into more alpine firs before opening up into a high lake fed by glacial melt and eternal snow and ice capping the mountains.

I'll dig through all my photos and see if I can find examples from the places i'm drawing inspiration from.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Keeper on July 27, 2016, 11:16:55 AM
Mine would be a beach on Cape Cod Bay. One of the beaches that has small dunes with tall grass when you enter it, then a stretch of sand down to the water. And at low tide, I could walk into the water and see little creatures underneath and keep walking, into pools between sandbars, a mile or two out and still not have the water reach past my knees.

And since this is the dreamworld, if I kept walking out into the water, I'd eventually reach that in-between part. The sky would get darker as I walked further, and soon the water would be much deeper but it wouldn't feel much different because I'd be standing on top of it.  :D
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Jenny Islander on July 31, 2016, 02:07:54 AM
As it happens, I have one!  It's like my hometown, but...not.  Like, one of our road-ends (I live on an island) is actually a gate with a SEAL base beyond it; if you call ahead, they'll usually let you hike along the coast, outside the inner perimeter fence.  The base stands on a broad, flat wooded area.  There is a very nice beach and a trail through the woods overlooking a series of sheltered coves full of interesting tidepools.  (I think they let people visit all the time because they're using us for stalking practice, BTW.)  But in my dreamworld, you go down that road and it turns to gravel where the gate should be, and gets narrower and bumpier, and finally dwindles into a footpath that ends on a low ridge with narrow beaches on either side.  Beyond the end of the ridge are some steep-sided little green islands.  You can see that the islands and the ridge all used to be part of one much longer peninsula.

The whole dreamworld is like that: it's shaped generally like my home, but only generally.  I've visited it so often over 35+ years that I could almost draw a map.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: JoB on July 31, 2016, 08:37:39 AM
(I think they let people visit all the time because they're using us for stalking practice, BTW.)
(Announce a group of five and have three people go in one by one, then. >:D )
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Tr on July 31, 2016, 12:13:05 PM
As it happens, I have one!  It's like my hometown, but...not. 
....
The whole dreamworld is like that: it's shaped generally like my home, but only generally.  I've visited it so often over 35+ years that I could almost draw a map.
Okay, this is super cool! I remember my dreams a lot, but I don't have any sort of recurring place or haven. If I did though, it might look like this:
(http://www.zacktravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Watkins_Glen_State_Park_.jpg)(http://www.watkinsglenchamber.com/sites/default/files/Suits%20Watkins%20Glen%20State%20Park%20Frowning%20Cliffs%20State%20Park%20Own.JPG)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on July 31, 2016, 08:53:29 PM
Tr, where is that? It's very beautiful. Such lovely rocks!

I tend to have a lot of dreams that take place in the same area, a landscape into which I regularly dream myself. I do fairly ordinary things there. It's just a little different from anywhere I know in this world, but could quite possibly be somewhere here, it's just not a place I know. Not a Haven though, just a place, with people, towns, bush, animals.

If I had a Haven it would probably be somewhere with interesting topography - desert, mountains, water. And very well hidden!
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Tr on July 31, 2016, 09:07:54 PM
Tr, where is that? It's very beautiful. Such lovely rocks!
Watkins Glen State Park (http://nysparks.com/parks/142/), New York. I haven't been there in a while, but I remember being fairly awed by how lovely it was. I loved all the interesting nooks and crannies the water carved out of the rock. ^-^
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Jenny Islander on July 31, 2016, 11:14:32 PM
If I had a Haven, it might be like a dream I had as a child, when I was going through a very bad time whose details are not germane to this post (plus depressing).  I dreamed that I was going down a very narrow alley of brown brick like nothing in my actual hometown.  I had to negotiate a tight corner formed by a shed/shack/booth/tent that was backed almost flush against the alley's mouth and then I was in a huge bazaar in a country in some other world.  Everybody I saw looked like somebody from the southern coast of Mesopotamia/India and nobody spoke my language, but I wasn't afraid.  I wandered among booths selling all kinds of beautiful things--scarves, bells, brass trinkets, candles, sequins, ribbons, musical instruments (I heard music), incense--and a nice lady in a sari handed me first a handful of raisins, then a juicy fig, and finally a round biscuit-white fruit.  She showed me how to crack it open.  The thin shell was inedible, but the thick creamy interior tasted almost exactly like plain cheesecake.  I was visited with a powerful feeling that I was completely safe there, that I could go anywhere without harm, but it was time for me to wake up. 

I've never been back there since, but the memory of the dream carried me through some bad days.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: pinkie on August 01, 2016, 01:36:55 AM
(http://www.silverbayinn.com/SilverBaySlideshow/201.jpg)

Yaay, I made the picture work!
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Jenny Islander on August 01, 2016, 02:12:55 AM
Okay, this is super cool! I remember my dreams a lot, but I don't have any sort of recurring place or haven. If I did though, it might look like this:
(http://www.zacktravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Watkins_Glen_State_Park_.jpg)(http://www.watkinsglenchamber.com/sites/default/files/Suits%20Watkins%20Glen%20State%20Park%20Frowning%20Cliffs%20State%20Park%20Own.JPG)

...good grief, it's Rivendell.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Purple Wyrm on August 01, 2016, 03:42:08 AM
So many environments appeal to me that my Haven would have to be the size of a small country to fit them all in! High, bleak moorlands and bogs like in Scotland and Iceland. Desolate coastal flats with miles of reedbeds and the cries of seabirds. Mossy green forests with rocks and waterfalls. Impossibly neat pine groves with log cabins and snowy mountains like the pictures of the earthly paradise the Jehova's Witnesses used to hand out.

I think if the Mage authorities came to me and forced me to pick just one place though, I'd go for a strongly built wooden cabin at the end of an upland finger lake, at night, with a blizzard blowing outside. Outside it's horrible, but inside it's nice and warm with a fire blazing and the wind and snow battering ineffectually against the windows. There's plenty of books, a nice warm bed and no need to get up in the morning (since there never is a morning).
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on August 01, 2016, 05:05:38 AM
Wyrm, that sounds pretty good to me!
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Tr on August 01, 2016, 08:11:28 AM
(http://www.silverbayinn.com/SilverBaySlideshow/201.jpg)

Yaay, I made the picture work!
Ooh, lovely!
I think if the Mage authorities came to me and forced me to pick just one place though, I'd go for a strongly built wooden cabin at the end of an upland finger lake, at night, with a blizzard blowing outside. Outside it's horrible, but inside it's nice and warm with a fire blazing and the wind and snow battering ineffectually against the windows. There's plenty of books, a nice warm bed and no need to get up in the morning (since there never is a morning).
This also sounds super nice.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Hedge on August 02, 2016, 05:56:11 AM
You know the Cairngorms? Wonderful area. Which in turn reminds me somewhat of Callanish.

Yeah, I used to live about an hour's drive east of the Cairngorms so I used to go to them a fair bit.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Purple Wyrm on August 02, 2016, 04:11:09 PM
As a kid I had to ride down a chairlift in the Cairngorms in a blizzard. It was somewhat... uncomfortable   ;D
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Danskjavlar on August 02, 2016, 04:49:56 PM
A vast hub, looking like something out of an early 20th century surrealist painting, with chaotic and diverse structures of wildly incoherent styles that somehow all manage to blend in to a single organic whole, with a series of gates leading to a series of more coherent, themed areas, such as a waterfall, a dark futuristic city, an ancient lost temple being reclaimed by nature an an island floating in the depths of the sky at dusk.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: SalmonKat on September 09, 2016, 10:52:07 PM
A vast hub, looking like something out of an early 20th century surrealist painting, with chaotic and diverse structures of wildly incoherent styles that somehow all manage to blend in to a single organic whole, with a series of gates leading to a series of more coherent, themed areas, such as a waterfall, a dark futuristic city, an ancient lost temple being reclaimed by nature an an island floating in the depths of the sky at dusk.
YESSSSSSSSSSSS

But seriously, as much as I love nature and forests and all that, I don't think I could ever properly choose one biome or even forsake an urban landscape. Sooooo, my hub would be a shed of sorts, a cot to wake up on but not much else. Outside, many places. A forest of easily climbable trees, a futuristic metropolis, an open desert of windswept dunes, a grassland, a wintry plain with bare trees and powdery snow. Ideally there would be cats in all of these places. If I walked far enough, I could find even more landscapes.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: PickleChip on September 10, 2016, 01:14:29 AM
Mine would probably be Fern Canyon or something like it.
Spoiler because of a lot of pictures.
Spoiler: show
http://i.imgur.com/vK6e8aQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/h9KIayz.png
http://i.imgur.com/cwfFoV4.png
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Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on September 10, 2016, 02:12:01 AM
Pretty! Where is that?
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Buteo on September 10, 2016, 03:24:15 AM
PickleChip, that's glorious! Where is it?
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: PickleChip on September 10, 2016, 03:55:35 AM
Pretty! Where is that?
PickleChip, that's glorious! Where is it?
It's at the Northern California Coast. It's where Jurassic Park and parts Of Star Wars (the Ewok Village) were filmed.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on September 10, 2016, 05:31:40 AM
I wondered about that! Looks like some of the vegetation around Big Sur, or the wetter bits of the redwood forests?
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: PickleChip on September 10, 2016, 11:17:14 AM
I wondered about that! Looks like some of the vegetation around Big Sur, or the wetter bits of the redwood forests?
It's a lot farther north than that, almost in Oregon. But it is in the Redwoods.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Buteo on September 10, 2016, 01:14:34 PM
I wondered. It reminded me of Muir Woods, but even greener and fernier.
I  need to get out in my own neighborhood more.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: PickleChip on September 10, 2016, 02:41:49 PM
I wondered. It reminded me of Muir Woods, but even greener and fernier.
I  need to get out in my own neighborhood more.
Yeah, they do look really similar.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: VibratingText on September 10, 2016, 06:49:08 PM
This is a hard question for me, except really not. Spoiler because hueg image.
Spoiler: show
(http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/1920x1280/s_v/sunrise-old-man-of-storr-isle-of-skye-scotland-conde-nast-traveller-9sept14-alamy_.jpg)

Never actually been to Scotland though, though I am mostly of Scottish heritage.


Rugged, almost fantastical hills and jagged peaks, with a modest castle. The castle has a massive library, a few games and movies both old and new in a massive home theater, and an airfield with all manners of warplanes, each one in immaculate condition. There's also a racetrack filled with hundreds of cars and parts to modify them with. Lastly, there's a long, winding road twisting its ways through the hills and mountains, over rivers and around lakes. It moves in a wide, slow circle with the castle at one end and a small road town filled with small road town things, stores, and restaurants - this changes depending on my mood and what's happened to me recently. Or if I just want a change of pace.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on September 10, 2016, 06:54:15 PM
Ooh, nice country!
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Fall_Wolf on April 11, 2017, 04:23:57 PM
My dream world would actually look pretty creepy to most people... Have you seen one of the Salt Flats after the rain, at night? If it wasn't for the mountains in the background, it would look like nothing but night sky.
So imagine that, but with rich nebulae of various purples and blues reaching about you, and larger stars.
A lot of dreamworlds revolve around a favourite place, but when I got to thinking I thought mine would probably be more abstract. Emptiness and the night sky have always terrified/amazed me, so it seemed like the natural choice.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: thorny on April 11, 2017, 06:44:10 PM
Um, I think I'm pretty nearly living in mine?

I just hope I manage to hold on to it.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Abprallen on April 11, 2017, 07:05:19 PM
Would probably look like Bodmin Moor (http://www.bodminmoor.co.uk). Complete with the historical and archaeological sites, obvs.

Fall_Wolf, why don't you introduce yourself? (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=131.2985) :))
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on April 11, 2017, 08:14:33 PM
Fall_Wolf, that sounds like some of the country around Lake Eyre, in outback South Australia, or the salt flats out toward the Tanami desert. Amazing country, especially at night.

Thorny, I can see why you would like your land enough to make a Haven of it. I love how you talk about your farm. And yeah, keeping it.....we have a much better chance of keeping ours now that husband is finally employed again.

Abprallen, Bodmin is amazing, isn't it. Always reminds me of how Judith Wright described some of the high country here: 'full of old stories that still go walking in my sleep'. Very alive country.

Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Abprallen on April 11, 2017, 08:47:06 PM
Abprallen, Bodmin is amazing, isn't it. Always reminds me of how Judith Wright described some of the high country here: 'full of old stories that still go walking in my sleep'. Very alive country.

It's almost otherworldly there. I've driven through a few times on the way to Penzance and Landsend- it's amazing. We never stopped for too long when in that area, I think my parents were worried I'd run off and never come back. Seeing it again certainly makes me want to.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on April 11, 2017, 11:15:37 PM
Lots of folklore and songs there too, and good stones.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Fauna on May 01, 2017, 12:00:12 PM
I wonder if dream worlds aren't a little bit like... actual dreams? As in they change a little bit here and there. I've nudged a little bit on lucid dreaming and ones surroundings are... not very consistent at all as far as I've seen.

I guess if I had a dream world, it would be a little bit like that, some sort of amalgam between re-occurring dream scenes I've had as well as places that have mattered to me. But all dream world we've seen have looked like people's home areas so I guess mine would, too.

Which would make my dreamworld based around the natural reserve behind the neighborhood where I grew up. More specifically the ravine and its little creek that would run out into the Swedish archipelago with a small beach on one side, surrounded by softly rounded stone hills. On one side of this creek was a small path; on the other side was a pretty high mountain wall. In reality there is an oil cistern on the top of that little mountain, but I imagine that in my dream world, it would probably melt into the various little summerhouses that have been owned by my grandparents, much like geography in dreams doesn't actually make any sense. So that would take me to at least four different locations that... wouldn't necessarily fit together :D One lot in the Stockholm archipelago; one in the archipelago of northern Sweden; one on the mountain plains by a lake; and one to a sheep farm. In between these places would probably be filled with *actual* dream stuff that randomized and changed like dreams do, as well as at least one tree leading underground.

Anyway, that little creek had a small beach right next to it where stuff would always wash up, and I'm playing with the idea that if I were an SSSS mage and could predict the future (because I'd definitely be part of the Icelandic school of magic, I never knew much about the Finnish lore) I'd do so by paying attention to whatever washed up at that beach.

I'd make myself a small house at the bottom of that creek, if I could. It was always very overgrown and sheltering and I'd go there when I was feeling down. Something tiny and quiet with room for a fire, like this:
(http://bilder.upplevelse.com/kolarkojaps.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on May 01, 2017, 09:37:04 PM
Fauna, that looks lovely; sort of a very rustic hobbit hole. Can imagine you sitting by the fire on a stormy night, or practising arenomancy or found object divination on your beach. And your tree might have roots that lead down to the main Dreamworld, in the shamanic manner.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Kelpie on May 02, 2017, 01:09:01 AM
I thought I posted here before but apparently not. I thought this would be a hard question but really it isn't!  :haw: Mine would be somewhere in the Great Smokey Mountains. It's one of the most peaceful places I've ever been, and extremely beautiful. I'm always really, really happy whenever I get to go there, it's just wonderful. I haven't encountered anywhere else yet that I love as much as it.
(http://www.mypigeonforge.com/images/SmokyMountains/Weather/Header_Gallery/summer.jpg)
It looks like that most of the time but here's where it earns its name.
(https://www.cabinsusa.com/images/area-info/ghost-stories-smoky-mountains.jpg)
Spoiler: bonus clouds and forest • show
(https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/04/50/eb/da/clingmans-dome.jpg)
This picture is actually from someone complaining they couldn't see anything from the highest point because it was cloudy. That's what it was like when I went up there and honestly it was really cool. You don't realize how fast clouds are really moving until you're standing in them.

And here it is from the ground!
(http://williambritten.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/hightrailpano51.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on May 02, 2017, 01:36:50 AM
Jhev, that's beautiful! Reminds me of our Snowy Mountains here in Australia, or Cradle Mountain in Tasmania. I've actually worked in the Great Smokeys (seed collecting), and gone hiking and fishing there too. Lovely country....
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: MR_PLINKETT on May 07, 2017, 05:15:22 PM
(https://media.deseretdigital.com/file/76718c5322?crop=top:0|left:0|width:1260|height:670|gravity:Center&quality=55&interlace=none&resize=width:1260&order=resize,crop&c=14&a=e0f131f0)
Monument valley. Because I love deserts
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on May 07, 2017, 06:08:28 PM
And that is one beautiful desert.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Sulwyn on May 21, 2017, 04:41:19 PM
My personal dream world would be a huge forest where at some places where the forest stopped there would be a cliff outlooking beautiful mountains and a deadly drop to a huge lake. The air would NEVER be humid but always a little crisp and cool so that you always needed a light jacket. The forest would be filled with animals-a lot of them wouldn't be frightened of you and you could ride the deer sometimes. Mythological animals would also make appearances every now and then. On the other end of where the forest ends it would come to a place with rough terrain of steep hills but the whole ground is shaded by trees-some of the trees humongous.
Food would never be a problem because fruits were everywhere, and crisp clean creeks and rivers perfect distances from each other.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Glory on May 22, 2017, 04:30:53 PM
My mother's family is from Vermont, and we drive up there every year to visit for a week. We stay at a small bed and breakfast right up the road (walking distance) from my cousins - it's almost like a second home to me at this point. It's a really old house (for the US, at least - pre-Civil War with heavy modernization) filled with antique furniture, paintings, and pianos. Out back, there's woods, with plenty of trails with poems mounted on plaques and wooden benches where you can just sit and read for hours on end. The owner used to have this lovely Maine Coon cat he would leave food out for, and it would stop by to visit us all the time. Sadly, it passed away two years ago. That house and woods would definitely be my personal dreamword. Nothing else even compares.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: ZanarNaryon on July 24, 2017, 08:39:18 AM
I'd have something similar to my family hut nearby the small town of Helgeroa in southern Norway. A forest in a small valley between rocky terrain and mountains right up by a fjord

Something like this,
(http://www.imr.no/images/bildearkiv/2009/04/Fjord.jpg/en?size=wide_medium)
Or this (wihtout the city, obviously)
(http://www.gonorway.no/go/images/1_blindleia_hellesund.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Daywalker on October 22, 2017, 01:46:45 AM
I'd think mine would be in some forest of trees that you can't tell the difference of from the night sky. There'd also be some level of a stone or sandstone even obsidian? structure thats bottom floor is being flooded by water, in which is falling from the hills that surround the whole place down into a hole. Where does the hole go? I don't think anyone wants to know. It'd also be cool if it was just barely able to keep the weight of a person or two inside it, with all the plants trying to tear it down... I hope it doesn't collapse though o Ap
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on October 31, 2017, 07:51:32 AM
Dilandu, have you yet discovered the Weird Dreams Thread in the Personal board? This would fit perfectly there!
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Dilandu on October 31, 2017, 08:03:19 AM
Dilandu, have you yet discovered the Weird Dreams Thread in the Personal board? This would fit perfectly there!

Frankly, no. Thank you for the tip.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Roulietta on October 31, 2017, 12:06:25 PM
I think my dreamspace would be a place quite similar to the "pink granite" coast (aka La Côte de Granit Rose) in french Britanny/Bretagne.
I always found the sea very appeasing, and those rocks are just the best place to explore and chill on the top of it.

(http://media.routard.com/image/14/9/pt153649.1362149.w430.jpg)
(http://www.panoram-art.com/galerie/france/9562-france-Cotes-d-Armor-Ploumanac-h-Cote-de-granite-rose-panorama-sentucq.h.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: WeirdnessUnfolds on December 14, 2017, 09:59:17 AM
Hmm, this is a kinda tough one, but I have a fascination and fondness of bustling cyberpunk cities with languages that I can't understand. If it was more natural, it would be lush, green hills as far  as the eye can see with medieval ruins scattered around, and a cloud-free sky.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: refract3d on March 24, 2018, 12:46:20 AM
Is this thread dead?

If we're going off of places we have a strong bond with, it'd be the Adirondacks in upstate NY for me. Sudden summer thunderstorms whiting out the mountains across the lake, transforming everything to silver, rain pouring down and then suddenly it stops! The air is clean and smells of hemlock trees and damp earth. Feathery conifers and white peeling birch stand on a bed of honey-gold pine needles interspersed with streams and ferns and lichens and glacier-scarred boulders. The garnet sand and cold, clean water. Lying on the wooden dock at midnight, gazing up at the Milky Way and understanding just how vast the universe is and how connected we are. A hiking trail with clean rivulets falling step-by-step down their twisting stone path. The flat expanse of the marsh with its dead trees, full of life. Glorious fall colors. Rivers and rocks and wood-marked trails, bridges and steps overlooking now-peaceful stone and now-rushing whitewater.

If I had to simplify it down to a thematic place I keep coming to in my dreams, it would be a combination trail of wooden walkways and bridges through forest and over misty water, and a hill filled with old trees and worn boulders. Sometimes my dreams have a sense of urgency, but the places themselves are very lovely and seem to be what my mind pulls from over and over through the years. I don't know what it is about wooden walkways, but they are very peaceful to me.

(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/45/53/4c/45534c7e3aad4539b25c7951d47e5816.jpg)

Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on March 24, 2018, 01:34:26 AM
That forest is absolutely lovely!
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Noxyoursox on May 18, 2018, 11:32:45 PM
I feel like mine would look a lot like Xwotʼqom, which is a waterfall in the woods near where I was born with a pretty bridge in front of it. It wouldn't be nearly this sunny though XD probably raining with some thunder and lightning. My sanctuary/wake-up place would be a big tree with a hollow space under the roots. There would be a lot of huge rocks and blackberry bushes walling it off and preventing people from getting in.

(https://img00.deviantart.net/af6c/i/2016/024/b/c/whatcom_falls_park_01jan2016_009_by_skyfiredragon-d9p8idx.jpg)
(https://img00.deviantart.net/26c8/i/2014/067/a/a/whatcom_falls_park_03_07_2014_134_by_skyfiredragon-d79fw8e.jpg)
(https://img00.deviantart.net/cb75/i/2015/275/9/4/whatcom_falls_park_28sep2015_069_by_skyfiredragon-d9bms5g.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: wavewright62 on May 19, 2018, 04:18:41 AM
That's so soothing and the prettiest green.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Iceea on May 23, 2018, 04:14:29 PM
Hmm, I keep winding up in cities. Sometimes a whole series of dreams over weeks or months all in the same area. Sometimes when I'm there I'm really there. I get confused with my day to day real life. It's sort of like a reverse deja vu. Some of the cities have been sort of apocalyptic, not ruined just very empty. Sometimes I can tell they are composites of real places I've been. Some exist only in my dreams.

Maybe this should be in the Weird Dreams Thread?
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: hexdit on July 02, 2018, 12:08:48 AM
I would have a huge, rainy, foggy ocean/lake, with no land, where you just float on the storm wind. It would be like 45 farenheit, too. the water is smooth like glass, and you can skate on it. off in the distance there are really vivid rainbow-coulored mountains. and dragons live there.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: wavewright62 on July 02, 2018, 02:17:05 AM
I would have a huge, rainy, foggy ocean/lake, with no land, where you just float on the storm wind. It would be like 45 farenheit, too. the water is smooth like glass, and you can skate on it. off in the distance there are really vivid rainbow-coulored mountains. and dragons live there.
Sounds like fun.  How do you picture your boat/ vessel?
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: hexdit on July 02, 2018, 10:59:59 PM
Sounds like fun.  How do you picture your boat/ vessel?
There isn't one, and I'm just sitting/standing on the smooth water, and possibly floating.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Blackbird on February 03, 2019, 11:49:50 PM
I'd say it would probably resemble Tioman Island, as I spent a good chunk of my youth there, and it contains everything I'd actually want in a dreamland. Swimming, animal life, forests, an extinct volcano, beaches.

My version would probably have no settlements save for a lone building with a comfy bed and a good view, because screw people this is my dream world where I go to be ALONE.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: wavewright62 on February 12, 2019, 02:42:40 PM
A lot of us like to picture our haven as our happy alone place.  Maybe it's just a self-selection effect, that the subset of Minnions on the Forum who also are attracted to this concept all need copious alone time?

I wonder if there's anyone out there who pictures their dreamworld as a honky-tonk bar, complete with pool tables, cold beverages, music that doesn't suck, and good company?

Or like Talking Heads' "Heaven" : There is a party, everyone is there / everyone will leave at exactly the same time / It's hard to imagine that nothing at all, could be so exciting, could be this much fun / Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens...
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: peeweevireo on February 12, 2019, 04:06:56 PM
It's probably due to us having read ssss, since its design of a dreamworld is several alone places spread over one very, very large wilderness. Either that or you're right that we all want to be alone sometimes  :D

I wouldn't mind good company, but definitely just something like a coffee house that's 1. free and 2. safe from all the monsters. That would be helpful if you needed to use it as a base to communicate, especially in a setting like ssss. Maybe not a bar for me, though, since there might be minors (me) c:
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on February 12, 2019, 10:56:36 PM
I can imagine a nice bar or coffee shop as a meeting point.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Keep Looking on November 28, 2019, 09:07:35 AM
I am 100% resurrecting a dead thread but I thought this was interesting.

Whenever I think of what my personal dreamspace would be, my mind always comes back to one place. Back in my old town there was a path down in the bush strip by the river that I used to walk just about every other day, especially in spring when the wildflowers and orchids were out. Near where a brook (a fairly large one at this point) meets the river proper there’s a log that goes out into the brook which I used to climb down every time I walked past, sitting out near the water and looking to where the brook and river meet. It’s a place that I was really familiar with and that means a lot to me - the bush and the land being the main thing I miss from my old town, and someplace that I loved to go. I don’t have any images of the exact place, but here’s some pics of the general area that I managed to find on the internet.

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3938b5_7a42645d470d40258c5144c7dc23cd9e~mv2_d_2500_1667_s_2.jpg

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3938b5_77805fa58b704cc4b321f989709fafde~mv2_d_2500_1667_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_2500,h_1667,al_c/3938b5_77805fa58b704cc4b321f989709fafde~mv2_d_2500_1667_s_2.jpg

And under the spoiler in case the images are really big:
Spoiler: show
 

(https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3938b5_7a42645d470d40258c5144c7dc23cd9e~mv2_d_2500_1667_s_2.jpg)

(https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3938b5_77805fa58b704cc4b321f989709fafde~mv2_d_2500_1667_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_2500,h_1667,al_c/3938b5_77805fa58b704cc4b321f989709fafde~mv2_d_2500_1667_s_2.jpg)

Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Alkia on April 25, 2020, 06:37:54 PM
*jumps on resurrection thread*

Ooh, KeepLooking, that sounds and looks like a lovely spot. I can imagine sitting above the water and listening to the brook flow along.

It took me a surprisingly (to me) long time to think of what my dream haven would be. Every place I thought of was very nice, but had some level of insecurity (a cabin in the woods is lonely at night, an cozy apartment with books isn’t free enough, etc.), but then I thought of the Alps. We (my family and I) took a trip to Germany two years ago and a large part of it was spent in that area. The open Alm (alpine pasture), beautiful pine forests on the sides of the mountains, blue sky, patterns of the clouds on the land, and wonderful colors of it all make it the ultimate safe dream space. The sound of all the cow bells tinkling and ringing in the distance is just so incredibly calming/comforting to me, too. 
Which is all kinda weird, because I’ve only been in the Alps once, but I guess it was a really, really happy time, and it makes me really happy whenever I remember it.

Here’s some pictures I took that express that feeling best:
(https://i.imgur.com/QsjhVIm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/0Wn6jfN.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/anoAY3b.jpg)
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on April 25, 2020, 08:58:08 PM
Keep Looking, that area reminds me of Hay’s Paddock and Dight’s Falls, both places within a few miles of Melbourne CBD, where you could still find platypus living in the river, and rare native plants, and the magic was still in the land.

Alkia, that area too is beautiful. I especially love the ecology of the alm areas.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Mebediel on April 27, 2020, 11:41:51 PM
I haven't posted on this thread before because it's really hard for me to choose one place. I've moved around a lot, so there are a lot of extremely different places that I feel at home in (one time after a move I somehow managed to feel homesick for four different places at once, which was a weird feeling to have). Could I cheat and have, like, a moving castle situation where one door leads to a bustling coffee shop in a city, one door leads to a grassy hill covered in wildflowers, one door leads to a tropical forested mountain overlooking a seaside town, and the last door leads to some forgotten corner of a dusty old university library?
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Keep Looking on April 28, 2020, 02:30:00 AM
Mebediel, I understand that feeling (also, the moving castle idea seems really cool, even if it might not work in-universe). I'm starting to feel more at home in the city after living here for a year and a bit - it's a completely different landscape even without the buildings, with the sandy soil and the scrub-covered limestone ridges, the lakes and swamps, the ocean with all its different moods and patterns (the ocean is warmer and friendlier here, and the coastline is smoother) - but as I spend more time here I get to know it more and I feel more and more comfortable (it's not as beautiful, but there's a certain something to it nonetheless). Part of me wonders whether a dreamworld would no longer be in my old town (which is full of bad memories as much as it is full of good ones), because I prefer living here. Yet whenever I go back down south, there's a part of me that yearns to stay with the tall forests and the cooler air and the tiny wildflowers in the leaf-litter and all of that which I know and love.

I miss the land far more than I miss anything else about that place (because there is so much that I don't miss).

If I were to have a dreamworld here, it'd probably be down by the ocean - near the old abandoned power plant, maybe, where there's some weird lakes with surprisingly big fish in them (used to be drainage, I think), before you follow the dunes down to the ocean and the remnants of an old grate are a bridge across the beach. Or maybe one of the weird limestoney hills (one of them has some old-growth tuart forest that's really cool) - the view is amazing and there also always seems to be some weird ruins of like, a wrecked car or some long-lost building's foundations hidden among the trees and the scrub. One time we also found a small cave.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: GaelleDragons on June 08, 2020, 06:56:27 AM
I couldn't find any good pictures of what my dreamspace would look like, so I decided to paint it. ^^"

(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/b341db75-28ed-416a-bd81-a49fbce10349/ddyymhl-62aa2616-66f8-452c-b05e-704c102a4308.png/v1/fill/w_1600,h_2100,q_80,strp/dream_space___speedpaint__by_gaelledragons_ddyymhl-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOiIsImlzcyI6InVybjphcHA6Iiwib2JqIjpbW3siaGVpZ2h0IjoiPD0yMTAwIiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvYjM0MWRiNzUtMjhlZC00MTZhLWJkODEtYTQ5ZmJjZTEwMzQ5XC9kZHl5bWhsLTYyYWEyNjE2LTY2ZjgtNDUyYy1iMDVlLTcwNGMxMDJhNDMwOC5wbmciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTYwMCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.-MiGO74BPMYQhwI7enuTgb-YVu1W1OLiHs1FJOz25lw)

Basically it's a cozy little house at the very top of a mountain in Iceland. The weird thing is, I actually saw it a few times in a dream (gonna tell about it quickly here).

In this dream I was living alone in this house and I was spending my days looking at the most beautiful scenery ever. It was like living a dream (except it wasn't real, it really was a dream lol). My house was perched so high, no one could come and disturb me, but (and this is where it gets weird because my brain is apparently incapable of making me remember nice dreams) I also could not go down the mountain, which meant that I could not go buy food and supplies. The top of the mountain wasn't fertile enough to allow crops to grow, so in the end I was left with only a small stock of food and water. The dream concluded with me dying of hunger after a few weeks. I wasn't sad though: in the end of the dream I just kind of accepted my fate and lived the happiest weeks of my life (thanks brain for sparing me the pain of starvation). And this is one of the most "normal" dreams I can remember. ^^"

I think this dream was kind of "inspired" by the ending of Into The Wild (my favorite movie ever and also a very good tear-jerker for me).

But since the dreamworld doesn't seem to care about logic or essential needs (or does it?), I guess this dreamspace could be as good as any. At least there I could enjoy spending time in this house for more than a few weeks!

Also I made a speedpaint video of the drawing above, if that's something you'd like to watch. ^^

Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on June 08, 2020, 07:42:13 AM
What is that movie, Gaelle? I had not heard of it. A dream like that would suggest to me that the back of your mind is suggesting that you need to be more prepared than you are for something you plan to do. Any idea of what it might be?
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: GaelleDragons on June 08, 2020, 05:42:41 PM
What is that movie, Gaelle? I had not heard of it. A dream like that would suggest to me that the back of your mind is suggesting that you need to be more prepared than you are for something you plan to do. Any idea of what it might be?

Into the Wild is a beautiful road movie about a young man who decides to get out of human society to live a free life on the road and find hapiness. It's based on a true story and it carries deep messages about life and freedom. Along with absolutely stunning nature shots, there's also some beautiful songs by Eddie Vedder (the singer of Pearl Jam).
I really recommend it, but be aware tissues will come in handy near the end.  ;)

Mhh... Actually that's an interpretation of my dream I had never though of. It could make sense, because I get very stressed out when facing an upcoming change that I don't feel fully prepared for. But I'm more the type to plan too much rather than too little in most cases.
I think this dream has more to do with the "dreamer" side of my brain clashing with the "rational" side. Like, sometimes I think "Oh I'd love to live in a tiny village in the countryside", but then my rational brain tells me things like "okay but you work in the capital and you can't do 6 hours of transport a day to get there. Also there's no internet there."(that's just and example, but you get the idea ^^").
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on June 08, 2020, 06:33:34 PM
Sounds like an interesting movie. And as someone who has lived both in tiny villages and completely alone in wilderness I can tell you that preparation and useful skills are utterly needful if you don’t want to die badly. No internet, but there are compensations, like nature, silence and time to think.

 These years I live on the edge of a small town in country South Australia, which gives me the best of both worlds, and has both nature and internet, as well as a good local community.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: afreude on August 31, 2020, 10:21:26 PM
Just don't go looking for the bus...
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on September 01, 2020, 12:33:04 AM
Well, there used to be buses here, but with a conservative government at present the major things our town has lost are most of the public transport and the Accident and Emergency department of our town public hospital. Indeed, the buses were part of our reason for moving here. It was a compromise between husband wanting to live in the middle of a big city and me wanting to live in wilderness.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: afreude on September 01, 2020, 05:08:22 PM
Heh, sorry the bus thing was in reference to Into the Wild.  I grew up in Alaska, so that story has been on my radar for a long time (Krakauer wrote a book about it in 1996).  After the movie came out a bunch of people went looking for the bus up by Haines but it resulted in a lot of rescues and a couple body recoveries by SAR.  Eventually the bus was relocated to an undisclosed location because it was attracting so much attention.  Here's the Wikipedia article for the book which has more info about McCandless and less info about actors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(book) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(book))


It's a bummer that public transit has lost funding in your town though.  In the US it seems like transit is chronically underfunded too; I don't really understand it, it's so good for so many people, it cuts down on traffic, and also reduces pollution especially in places that have electric and battery buses.  And you can read a book or listen to podcasts while you ride so it's a win-win.
Title: Re: Personal Dreamworld
Post by: Róisín on September 02, 2020, 06:39:46 AM
Thanks for explaining! Looks like a book I really have to read!