Do you repeatedly dream about a made up place?

[AllKnowingGerbil]

Last night I dreamt about escaping hostage takers in a big building. When I woke up I realised it was the same big building where I previously dreamt I worked and had to find a printer. And also the building where I dreamt I was at school and needed to find a toilet.

So my brain has built a single set as the backdrop to any dream involving a large area. And bizarrely I don't think it's an actual real life place, I don't recognise it.

This struck me as a bit odd. Do you have regular fictional venues for dreams??

Oh God, the house dreams.
I don't know if it helps anyone but I once read that dreaming of a house is symbolic of your life. If you are in a big room alone, you are feeling lost. In a cramped room, feeling oppressed. Running through a house, a problem you are not facing up to. And so on.
Strangley enough, the repeated living in a house with strangers dreams stopped when my abusive ex was gone.

Yes! The most common one is a big house. To get to the top floor, you have to climb up through this sort of vertical tunnel, climbing from ledge to ledge and it's really tricky (there are no stairs), and in my dreams there's always some pressing need that requires me to get up there quickly. I actually think "oh no not again!" whenever I find myself starting a dream in this house

Yes, a multi storey car park.
I’ve worked there moving cars around.
Had to walk an entire class of kids, all in full ballet regalia, through it.
Searched it for my car.
Tried to find my car when parts of it had fallen down.
And just driven round and round it.
In R.L never worked in a carpark, or with cars, or taught ballet. No idea where this is but the road outside is on a long slope downhill and there’s a church and dark red brick buildings.

I have a stables in a pine forest somewhere very hot and a rocky Island with a road round the outside. I feel like I know them both very well but have never been to either of them.

Yes! I always dream of the same 'housing estate' which is nothing like any housing estate in the real world - it's incredibly futuristic and has very high buildings which are apartment blocks. They are very expensive and high-tech. I'd say I dream of this place once a month.

Yes! I house shared with a close friend in my mid 20s after we both went through a relationship breakdown. We lived in a flat, then a house for about 18 months or so in total.

I have a recurring dream that we are living in a different flat before the 2 real ones, in a slightly different area of the same city. Flat is always the same - layout, decor, etc. No idea what it means! Always just mundane stuff going on - no drama or stress!

Yes, same place as when I was a child. It's a memory of a memory I have of the old Victorian marketplace in my town (rebuilt around 1986), I regularly have semi nightmares about the old one.

Yes and I’m always amazed when I wake at the detail that went into constructing a whole building (including secret doors, cobbles, ice sculptures!). I know where I am even when it isn’t the actual place.

My most amazing dream (that one I’ll turn into a series of books one day!) was an entire warring world and I visited a few places from backwater dirt road towns to a high tech city.