Time, places, dreams and memories
I have just spent a few days in a place where I spent time with one of my best friends who died recently and also an ex, years ago.
When I walk into one of the restaurants or just walking outside where I was with them, I see myself with one of them. I feel I am going to bump into them as if time did not exist. The scene of a dinner, the joy or the difficult conversations are present on my mind as if it just happened.
Yet, they aren’t there anymore. One of them is dead, I haven’t seen the other for years.
I sat in the exact same place where I had so much fun with my friend, years after, and the memory is so vivid I feel like my friend just went to the bathroom and will show-up.
Time disappeared.
That same night, I dreamt about them and in the dream they were here and we were talking.
In the dreams there is no time. I remember perfectly well the conversation I had last night in the dreams. In dreams, time disappears. Death disappears. Separation of any kind disappears. I am just as present as if it was real and it is real while I dream.
The place I am in brought the memory and got me to dream about people who aren’t here anymore.
I cannot help but think is it just a memory or do we actually leave some energy in any place we visit? When we come back we just “pick-up” that energy again and the story continues in dreams?
I have felt this many times. Sometimes visiting a new place feels familiar. Have I visited it before, in a dream or a previous life? Have I lived already some moments making a story in that place?
Visiting a place again with different people (I am with two of my oldest sons this week) creates a different set of memories and will create new dreams next time I visit this same place.
Is it me holding these memories? What about past friends or partners visiting in a dream because I am back here? Could it be the place itself recording some “energy” or “memory” of us visiting? Is there a “memory” held by a place itself?
There are places where I know I have always very powerful dreams and others where I barely dream.
Where I am has a huge impact on my dreams but also my incoming thoughts.
Do you have the same experience about “places having a memory” which is not only in your mind but actually “attached to the place”?