A geography of dreams

Date: 8/13/2016

Have you ever felt like you know places that only exist in your dreams, and often go back there when you sleep? Most of my dreamplaces are inspired and modeled by real life places from my childhood and surroundings, but sometimes I feel like I intimately know a place, and usually all that familiarity vanishes when I wake up. Sometimes the familiarity lingers through daydreams though, and I want to return to these impossible lands like a moth drawn to a flame. Is this a delirious sensation of belonging right out of my subconscious, or are there really places carved into my memory where I go back to when I fall asleep, not unlike Lovecraft's eerie Dreamlands? Should we try and draw a map of our own Dreamlands?