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I don't think so. I don't really have contact with whatever is left of my family, most are dead, others live hundreds of miles away and none of them bother with me. I wonder if it's because it's the opposite of my actual life. In real life I'm penniless, alone and have no control over anything, not even my own life. Total opposite of a rich, powerful royal surrounded by family.
It could well be.
As an additional thought along similar lines, I personally have something of a weird half-farcical complex about being a noble and in some spaces - half-farcically - lean into that aesthetically and behaviorally in benign ways. My 'weird LARP bullshit' as I tend to call it.
This sort of thing may be psychologically adjacent to these dreams If yours. In my case, I think my brain latched onto it - in part - because it allows something of a recontextualization of my disabilities, which are purely mental.
'Actually, my so called 'inability to clean up my house properly' and 'intensely mercurial moods' and 'drug dependency' are signs of me being born to be a loser poet twink aristocrat, thank you.'
It's extremely silly but does genuinely make me feel better about myself - a similar if less intense psychological Thing may be going on with these dreams.
That's quite funny.