What are map dreams about?

I am a vivid, linear dreamer who suffers regularly from hypnagogia, sleep paralysis, and night terrors.

Last night, I had a long, linear dream that mirrored an epic/fantasy. I was on a fantastic/strange continent across which I traversed to solve a riddle. At the base of the mountain, I found a relief in a mound of rocks with a treasure box. Inside was a scroll of parchment. When I unrolled it, these are the words I found:
“
_________ are the map...
_________ is the key.

Solve the riddle, and you will be rewarded your greatest wish and the influence over 1000 suns.”

Along with a companion, I traveled many landscapes, met many fantastical persons and creatures, as I attempted to fill in the blanks within the riddle. In a forest of twisted/gnarled trees, in an owl’s hole at the heart of a grand old oak, I found an object that was a puzzle that needed to be solved, like a rubik’s cube but made of stone and fewer columns to align.

When I solved the puzzle, the stone crumbled to dust. Inside was a femur bone around which was wrapped another scroll of parchment. It said:

“Skeletons are the map...
_________ is the key.”

After more journeying with my mysterious companion, I discovered another puzzle on which was written the final missing word to the riddle. I felt a grand oneness, because the whole riddle together made perfect sense, and I knew exactly where to go to achieve my goal.

Sadly, I woke, and I could not remember the word that filled the final blank, and the oneness I felt from the solution entirely fell apart. It has been haunting my waken self ever since.

“Skeletons are the map...”
What is the key?!

Any thoughts or insights?

So today I had a dream that me and two girls i used to be friends with and smoke with all the time in high school. We were in Manhattan and I thought that we were just climbing a really really really tall building like It was as tall as a sky scrapper. And I’m afraid of heights so I remember once we were sitting on it I started feeling anxious about falling off but I still sat down and lit the blunt and didn’t say anything about it. So as were smoking we’re just talking and what I thought was a building underneath us it starts to get really hot and shake. And then on my phone I look up like a live map of where we are, and it showed a volcano that was erupting or about to erupt. And then one of my friends was like yeah we better go this thing is about to erupt. And as I stood up to quickly get off I started getting dizzy and felt like I was about to faint which is what usually happens when I smoke weed and get a lot of anxiety. And then that’s when I woke up.

Any idea of what any of this could mean or was it just a crazy stupid dream lol.

Like your vision has the map and ammo and all that on screen stuff built in to your vision? Bullets even make the thwap sound when I shoot people. Its real life or death though. It’s fun and crazy af. (I don’t own guns or want to shoot people for real) lol PEACE AND LOVE ❤️

I think I was a maintenance worker or something. I wasn't a Nazi but I was working for them. There was this Nazi commander guy who was following me around. I didn't want to talk to him so I tried to shake him by running around this desert. I was supposed to ride a train with him but I had other plans. I ran down the train tracks and he chased after me.

The dream took a surreal turn when the train tracks went around a rocky bend and suddenly stopped. And then I saw the desert suddenly dropped off like I was outside the bounds of a video game map. I could see the bottom of the skybox when I looked over the edge. I had no choice but to turn around and I found myself in a mining camp. The Nazi commander was talking to some miners and there was a quest icon over his head. And this mining camp was closed in, I couldn't go anywhere else. There was also nothing to do. So I assumed the only way to progress was to take a quest from the Nazi commander. But I didn't, I just ignored him and wandered the mining camp until I woke up.

I had this weird and very vivid dream. It began by me and my friend standing on street near parking lot, I wanted to go explore and he told this is all just a game. I told him let's find a way to glitch through it. I found this staircase which had very small holes in them and I started to jump on one particular spot and I felt through, I did this three times until I was under the map (like when you fall through the ground in videogame). At this moment I was left alone and I saw this huge gate at the end of the hall (it was basically just blackness all around with a path). As I moved towards just before entering the room with gate there was this huge monitor that was showing human kind statistics, how many of us are alive, how many souls visited this planet, how much money we think we have created so far (this one made me so sad) and how much time have passed and others I have forgotten.

After I entered the room with gate I realized what kind of place this is, it was a like a portal to universal consciousness, if you enter you will see and understand everything. The room was all white and there were plants and flowers everywhere, the gate itself was huge, like 10 people standing on each others shoulders. I was moving forward and looking at all the plants and flowers, they were so beautiful and as I wanted the gate to open this woman arrived. She was very merry, she knew I wanted in and her intention was to let me in. She showed she has the key but didn't want to let me in instantly, she was commenting on the flowers and smelling them. I think she then tested me, she put the key on ground to see if I wanted to take it by force, I recognized the thought that arose in my mind, to take it by force and overpower her but I didn't act on it, I have chosen to respect the situation unfolding. I waited for her to finish her flower adoration but then the phone ringing woke me up from the dream...

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Have you ever dreamt of something similar?