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Why second-generation immigrants dream of places they've never seen

I keep having dreams about my homeland but I was born here and have never even visited and it is confusing my sense of who I am supposed to be.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Inherited memory and displacement create a longing for a homeland that exists only in the psyche.

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