Hi Chivvi,
I've had several similar experiences before, and I here's what I think is happening. I've come to realize that if something in a dream really grabs your attention, it's quite likely you'll re-dream it. I first really understood this at a time when I was using mantras to help me remember my dreams. Mantras are very effective at impressing an idea into your subconscious, and in this case it worked a little too well! Oh, I should also mention that at the same time, I was also using a technique of reviewing my dreams upon waking subvocally, just under my breath, actually using words as if I was telling it to somebody. I find this very effective to get the dream logged into your conscious mind (verbal mind) before you open your eyes and let the waking world flood in and begin erasing everything. So - what happened is the two techniques together caused me to actually re-dream each dream in Nrem sleep after having it. Nrem means non-REM sleep - REM dreams are the familiar ones; little movies we act out immersevely, but Nrem dreams are different - they're just a stream of thoughts or words sometimes accompanied by a single image or pattern that doesn't move, so basically it's like you're looking at a picture and hearing a stream of thoughts running through your head, or a piece of a song playing over and over.
So what happened was I'd sort of tell myself the dream in Nrem sleep after dreaming it in REM, but when I told it it would be a little different - in fact my mind was getting all clever and embellishing it, making little jokes and changing the way things happened. It was really not cool, because what it did was make me forget the actual dream and instead remember my subvocal re-imagining of it. Ghaaa!! This happened for a while - I'm not sure how long but it was, like a week or more, until I just stopped trying so hard to remember my dreams.
I'ts not exactly like what you describe, but it's basically the same principle. And of course I'm not saying either of yours was an Nrem dream, that's just what mine happened to be. Yours both sound like regular REM dreams, with the second one repeating the first one to some extent. I suspect when you were having the first dream and thought it was happening just the way it did in Spiderman 3 that probably struck you as really impressive or cool, and it's strong emotion like this that makes something stick in your subconscious. Emotion doesn't have to mean elation or grief, it can just be extreme coolness or weirdness. And the sub-c is extremely creative in finding ways to frame things, like having an earlier dream projected up on a movie screen.
That's my theory anyway.
Wow - ok, amap0la said the same thing in like 6 words. Why couldn't I have thought of that??!!
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