Some people say like I must think I'm awesome for all the lucid experiences I started off talking about, but to counterbalance that maybe I should mention normal dreams because I have plenty of them too.

Case in point, from this morning ...
I was approaching a quaint looking stone building with vaguely european architecture, as I arrived at the door, I was greeted by a youngish looking woman with a blonde Olivia De Haviland hairstyle and wearing 30's formal evening clothing, as though this dream was taken from an old movie. She seemed to recognize me as a guest. And we sat at a small circular table talking for a few minutes. Then another guest arrived, an oldish-looking man in a formal suit, and with him a group of black uniformed soldiers acting as his "security". The man started talking about his past glories, which somehow involved zeppelin airships. Strangely though, I couldn't make out most of his exact words, only his overall meaning. He seemed to be a friend of the hostess.

Meanwhile, the leader of the soldiers had been skulking around, he then approached me and said something I also couldn't quite make out. When I didn't respond immediately, he said something about my being an enemy of the state and aimed a gun at my head while he said more things I was having trouble understanding. This frightened me and left the hostess awefully nervous. Finally, the older man turned his attention to what was going on and told this security officer that though I was an "englander" I was sympathetic, which got the gun put away.

All of this left me shaken enough that I headed to the bathroom, which had the old fashioned european dual toilets. Afterwards, I looked in the mirror and it wasn't my face looking back. I'm not sure who it was, but I could swear I'd seen her somewhere. She/I was dressed in 30's formal as well. I spent a few minutes looking at how overdone her/my makeup seemed, The dream ended shortly afterwards.

There is a lot of good detail in your dream recollections. I hope you keep a dream journal.

It sounds very much like a prior life visualization. You were you and yet you were someone else.

Sometimes I wonder why they do not have a dream forum at UM. We get valuable insights into our subconscious through dreams.

Hello all.

I agree with you assessment of the dream and the idea about a dream forum. That would be very interesting!
Warm regards, Mabon.

Tis a good idea a dream forum!

I have a creased up old dream dictionary, it is like that because I have many dreams myself and am always flicking through it lol. Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to have a sort of dictionary online, whereby you could put in key words and the search would provide a possible explanation.

Probably it would take up a massive amount of space though, but maybe it would be possible.

Good theory, about the prior life I mean. And yes, a dream forum would be nice. I keep an online dream journal myself...