Thread: Hidden dream-memories

Cool! Do you remember when you had these dreams? Or do you just have an intuition that you had the dream a long time ago?

I've experienced this before - something will happen to me during the day, and I'll remember a tidbit from a dream - but I can't remember when I had the dream. I think your mind subconsciously remembers all your dreams, even though you can't remember them on a conscious level. I think that's why I sometimes get dream deja-vu (where in my dream, I'll realize I've had this dream before - which is a guaranteed opportunity to become lucid).

Cool! Do you remember when you had these dreams? Or do you just have an intuition that you had the dream a long time ago? [/b]

Although my memory of the actual dream is very vivid and clear the memory of the circumstances is very vague, so its just a guess of when it happend - just that I have impression that it was long ago. Btw: By recalling one of those dreams right now to reassure myself of how clear these memories are, I remember another old dream! Iam impressed, once again...

I think your mind subconsciously remembers all your dreams, even though you can't remember them on a conscious level. [/b]

This gets me to the question of how many other memories are hidden in subconsciousness. Perhaps we can remember our early childhood if we just get the right "key" to these memories...

I think that's why I sometimes get dream deja-vu (where in my dream, I'll realize I've had this dream before - which is a guaranteed opportunity to become lucid).[/b]

Yeah. When I was much younger I had this reoccuring dream where I was hunted by a babushka-witch and a living washing-machine. I dunno if I got lucid some way but after the third night upon realizing that this was a reoccuring nightmare I somehow got intentionally rid of it.

Well I had some Old DR a few times. But I do wonder or I 'just recalled them 293 days later' or that I allready had recalled them 293 days ago, and now rememberd.

I think your brain writes the dreams in your memory in like a REM like memory bank, it's more hard to acces then C:/ data, and if you don't use it a while stuff gets written over it.

Ok I don't know much about compters, so so far for this parralel, but I do think your brain can't really recall dreams without your mind allready 'read' the dreams you had and store them somewere deep away in the rusty old C:/ . Maybe if your subconsious 'reads' the dream that was on your RAM memory one night and puts a copy of it that you can rememeber somewhere deep away, so you could still recall it way later, without acutally knowing you recalled.

ok that sentence didn't roll, but do you get my idea?

I recall my dreams only when I'm not intent on it. When writing this I can't recall any old dream, but I'm sure I will when I stop thinking about it. (I'll try to write old dreams down and analyze it.)

I have memories of dreams in my dreams, and often remember "lost" dreams when awake.

One of many interesting phenomena I've discovered since journalling is that there is an awareness of things done in other dreams while dreaming. For example, I quit smoking in '85, don't drink or use any other substances in RL. In my dreams, however, I will occasionally drink, use drugs or have a smoke... with a sort of consciousness that I do that from time to time. In my dreams, that's so. In RL, it is not.

That sort of points toward an alter-ego in my dreams, doesn't it? And yet that alter-ego adheres pretty closely to my morals and ethics most of the time.

I think dreams play a lot bigger role in our behavior and feelings than we know. Even though many of the dreams aren't explicitly recalled, they are part of us and influence us.