Rec | VISITING PLACES THAT ONLY EXIST IN YOUR DREAMS

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visiting places that only exist in your dreams

there’s a vintage store that i’ve been visiting in my dreams for years. sometimes it’s filled with the best finds imaginable, sometimes it’s kind of bare. the worst is when i show up and they’re closed.

@k8derossetmusic

Mar 4, 2025

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@marie_nicole

Whenever I dream of San Francisco (Home) the steepness of the hills is INSANELY exaggerated, so much so that the sidewalks have ladders built in them, and that type of terrain extends through the sunset district. The Golden Gate Bridge is somehow impossible to find, and so you have to jump from tide pools to tide pools during low tide to get to the Marin Headlands, which look more like instant Muir Woods. I always visit the same apartments, and San Francisco Conservatory of Music (alma matter) is an enormous, wood paneled and marble cathedral. It all has an air of grandiosity and absurdity.

Mar 4, 2025

@jxnator

sometimes I visit a trampoline world in my dreams but I can’t stop running full speed and jumping really high and the dream always ends when I jump off a high platform with nothing to catch my fall. The changing store in your dreams sounds way more interesting and terrifying though

Mar 4, 2025

@whoopscym

i keep visiting the same roller coaster in my dream. it’s like twin coaster, two tracks that are red and blue that sort of loop around each other

Mar 4, 2025

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