Thread: Related dream causes sudden recall of forgotten dreams?

So, has anyone ever forgotten a couple of dreams, then maybe a week later had a related one (either by situation or recurring character or both), and suddenly remembered the other dreams they forgot?

Excerpt from my dream journal:

Now, before we delve into Dream Two, we must first bring up two dreams I had forgotten that are, undoubtedly, related. They both look silly now, but were quite serious when I dreamed them.

An old wizard (who reminded me very much of Gandalf) told me that something was out of balance and a sacrifice was required to free these spirit-deer. At first, he thought the texts meant himself, but then he found they meant me.

In the first dream, I had black plastic chains attached to my wrists. The wizard then broke these chains. We thought this symbolic gesture would be enough.

In the second dream, we found this was not the case. This time, I was to eat coffee beans (Don't ask me why, it was quite serious at the time). We thought this worked. However...

...in last night's dream, the wizard was there again. I was led into my brother's room, where the wizard explained that a life was required. I was told to jump on the bed to represent a leaping deer, and the wizard took aim with an arrow. I was struck in the right side, and as I settled back onto the bed, I muttered that "it was the wrong side, it wasn't enough...". However, the wizard told me that perhaps a mark was all that was needed. As he removed the arrow, there was, indeed, only a scar left.

The scar was there in whatever subsequent unrelated dream fragments I had but do not recall, and I was almost... disappointed... to find the mark gone when I woke up.

What's bizarre is that I should have remembered the first two just because of what they involved. And I am certain that they were previous dreams and not part of this one or made-up memories...