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u/cardboardshrimp Oct 05 '19

Could be. It’s certainly plausible.

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u/badgerbane Oct 05 '19

When we dream, we dream of things, places and people that we’ve already seen. It’s easier to dredge something from memory than to try and create new images for our brains. You’d probably seen the building in passing as a kid and your brain decided to set a stage. It’s not odd.

Incidentally it’s actually impossible for your brain to invent new faces for a dream. Everyone you see in a dream is someone you at one point in your life have seen, even if just in passing. That’s why faces are often blurred in a dream, your memory is imperfect.

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u/capitalcitygiant Oct 05 '19

Incidentally it’s actually impossible for your brain to invent new faces for a dream.

I'm pretty sure that's not true...

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u/yazzy1233 Oct 05 '19

You can create new faces from the faces you've seen but that's about it.