Thread: Revisiting Very Old Dreams

I have had dreams where I had the illusion that I had been to that place before/seen it before when it was just my mind playing tricks on me. Other than that I do have many lucid dreams about my room- most are FA's. However I have yet to have a nonlucid about an imagined location that appears more than in one dream- though I guess sooner or later it's bound to happen as the brain runs out of ideas

I often think I've re-experienced a recent dream but as there's no evidence in my DJ (now running unbroken for nearly 2 years) the re-experience is either a dream itself or I really have recalled a dream that escaped recall at the time. I tend to side with the former, although the latter certainly feels correct.

As for dreams from long ago, well I suppose it happens. I do wonder whether previously unrecorded dream memories are lodged in unconscious memory and can be recalled during a subsequent dream or e.g. hypnosis.

I wonder many things about dreams in fact. I even wonder whether dreams are real-time are they come about as a kind of flash-memory download that just give the illusion that they happened in real time.

I would say that I do quite often (not like every night though) re-visit dreams from the past. They will either be exactly the same dream from before and I will wake up and think that the dream felt familiar and that I was sure I had dreamt it before. Other times I will enter a dream and it will have picked up from a dream I had years ago, kind of like the continuation of a story. While I'am dreaming I will get the feeling that this has happened before.

Sometimes I have dreams I have dreamed 5 years ago. Pretty wierd. A shame I don't get lucid when I realize that I have had this dream before.

I have couple of dreams that seem to renew themselves once or twice in a year. I have seen those dreams since I was a child. They have very deep meaning for me because they always carry strange feeling of meaningfulness with them.

I haven't succeeded recreating them in lucids though. Not completely, at least, and I am not actually sure if I even want to.

That's actually on my list of things to do in lucids - resivisiting some old dreamplaces. I sometimes do it in non-lucids.

I do sometimes dream of things I've dreamt before, and it brings a sort of nostalgia feeling to me. But it's never gone as far back as it does with you, mine only go as far as about a year.