You know you're a giant nerd when

your super cool Saturday night out ends in a shouting match in the pub parking lot

over whether the goddess Hecate was a Titan or an Olympian. 

YOU GUYS

Indulge me briefly my friends--this is a survey for all of you.

I would like to ask y'all about your dreams. Specifically, I want to know about houses.

For every home in which I have ever lived, there is an alternate version that exists in my dream-brain. Sometimes the dream version is only slightly different than the real life house, sometimes there are really huge differences--either way, these dream houses remain consistent from one dream to the next. 

My current apartment for example: the dream version is larger, and set in a completely different location. Same with Mumsy's condo when I was living in the basement: my basement space looked almost exactly the same as it did in real life, but the backyard outside the sliding doors was totally different (flat fields/farmland instead of the fenced in moss-and-grass). The dream version of my old apartment had a whole section of rooms behind the kitchen that did not exist at all in real life. The dream version of my childhood home had a crazy huge attic space that also did not exist in real life.

Do any of you readers experience this with your homes and your dreams? If you dream of your homes, are they different than real life? What about them is different? I want details.

And now the second half of this survey......

Lil Bro#2 and I had this discussion last weekend and it has made me very curious. Do you guys have a house--NOT a house that you ever lived in outside of your dreams--that shows up in your dreams over and over and over again?

I do. Lil Bro#2 does as well, and for some reason both of our Houses remind us of my step-grandparents' old house, and both of our Houses have a whole section of rooms (living room, bedroom, bathroom) accessible only via a secret hidden door.

Idk why my House reminds me of my step-grandparents' house, because my House is freaking enormous. Like complete with a belltower (the interior of which is only accessible via secret door) and a massive ballroom/library with two big curving staircases that lead to a balcony that encircles the entire room. I wish I could do like architectural drawing, but I'm pretty sure there are parts of the House that defy physics, so that might be kind of hard to illustrate...

This House has existed in my dreams for as long as I can remember, and it has not changed. Lil Bro#2 said the same of his House.

I've tried looking up what the *experts* have to say about houses in dreams, but of course everyone has a different explanation. Lil Bro#2 and I thought that the most likely explanation of the House is that it is basically a visual representation of everything you have ever retained in your mind. Like if someone took your brain with all of its knowledge and memories and weird personality traits and turned it into a building.

Which brings me to the second question--do any of you have a House that shows up frequently in your dreams? What is it like? Has it changed, or does it stay the same? Details!!!

Inquiring minds want to know.............