I'm currently attempting to extend the session facade, so instead of using Session::put('company', $company); throughout my app, I'm using Session::setCurrentCompany($company); and so on. To accomplish this, I extended \Illuminate\Session\SessionManager to add a few methods.

    public function preferenceTimeZone()
    {
        return $this->get('preferenceTimeZone', App::make('DateTimeZone', ['America/New_York']));
    }

    public function setPreferenceTimeZone(DateTimeZone $timeZone)
    {
        $this->set('preferenceTimeZone', $timeZone);
    }

With this method, I'm able to define my session variables and do Session::all(); and see every variable that has been set on the same page . Utilizing $this->get() is the exact same as calling Session::get(), or at least should be. However when I redirect the page, any variables set with my special methods are not saved, whereas those defined with Session::set() or Session::put() save just fine.

Any ideas on why this would be the case?