kakyamer
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A few nights ago, I had a partially lucid dream. When I became lucid, I asked a woman out to a café. We got there and talked some, eventually I asked her, "What do you do as an extracur... extracurricular activity?" I had trouble pronouncing the word.

When I woke up, I recorded this long dream in my audio recorder. When I got to the part I just mentioned, I repeated the dialog. Strangely, I unintentionally mispronounced the word extracurricular in the same way I remember doing so in the dream! It wasn't just that: the word had the same EXACT cadence, sound, and feeling. It seems so odd to me that the same experience seemed to happen both when I was awake and dreaming. It would be like dreaming that I tripped over a mat, and then actually tripping over that mat. I would have thought that when I was awake, the feedback from my actual vocal cords and mouth muscles would make a different sound. Does my brain know how to simulate my mouth and voice so accurately, or is it just a fluke? I can see now how some people believe that dreams can be precognitive. Of course, this could have been a subjective illusion.