Thread: False Memories?

It happens to me too. I just keep thinking that it did happen, because if it didn't, how did it get there?

this happens to me all the time in dreams. something will happen and ill have this memory of some other thing and then when i wake up im like wait that never happened but in the dream it was so real

Alright cool so im not the only one Kinda thought i had something wrong with me for a bit haha

i think it's our mind creating a puesdo dream before the body falls asleep, therefore creating a daydream like memory..

This thread reminds me of deja vu. I'm still convinced that dreams must predict the future, and that they are our source for deja vus.

it's kinda like a dream inside itself, huh? i get that a lot. i think it happens when we try to explain something odd happens in our dreams... that or we just get distracted and randomly make up stuff

This used to happen to me a lot...especially as a kid.

I went years--sometimes almost into adolescence--with these really elaborate memories of events in my life, people I'd met, or crazy movies I'd seen...only to find out they were only dreams I'd had as a kid.

It's somewhat unsettling to me to know one's brain can play such convincing tricks.

But it's sort of like when you wake someone up abruptly and they talk [often nonsensically] as if they are still in their dreams for a minute, simply because their mind isn't fully awake yet, and doesn't realize what they were just experiencing was in fact a dream.

..Which is less unsettling, and often quite amusing.

Originally Posted by Desert Claw

it's kinda like a dream inside itself, huh? i get that a lot. i think it happens when we try to explain something odd happens in our dreams... that or we just get distracted and randomly make up stuff

Yeah totally. You just made me realize that this often happens to me when I try to explain something that doesn't make sense. For example, just the other night I had a dream where I had different parents. I should have become lucid, but instead i was able to explain myself as to why my parents were gone... and it made sense at the time.

I was about to ask this question myself, strangely enough! I often have false memories as I lie trying to get to sleep. I lie there reminiscing about something and then think: hang on, that's complete rubbish! It's how I know I'm about to drop off to sleep so it's quite comforting. In a way it's a sort of reverse lucid dreaming - instead of being awake in a dream, you're dreaming while awake! But yes, it is odd what the brain can do. It makes me think madness is not very far away - the flick of a switch in the brain and we could be convinced we are someone else completely with a load of different memories.

Could this be related to the phenomenon of memory footprints?

This is what happens when you experience like, say a week in a LD right?

Hmm, I think this happens to me in my dreams. One time I had a dream about these three girls I was visiting, say. When I arrived at their house, I distinctly remembered visiting them before and promising to visit them again. It seemed very real to me, although I didn't remember anything like that before I saw them. Then when I woke up, I realized that that was the first time I had ever encountered them... and this happens in a lot of my dreams.

This happened to me yesterday while I was awake :/ I was thinking that I asked my dad something, and I was waiting for a reply. I was going to repeat the question, but I was unsure if I actually asked it. It really confused me!

I'll get those memories sometimes more than a day after the dream they were in. So i sometimes have to sit down and think my way through the last day or two to make see what's been going on and double check. It can be a big relief or a big disappointment.

Often in dreams I will remember having done something before. For instance, tonight, I dreamt I took some food from a platter, and while doing so I could remember having taken food from the platter previously. However, I am unsure as to if I'm remembering content from a dream I've had prevously that night or even before that, or if it's memories that are created there and then.

I wonder though if we can differentiate between the false memories you have when you are awake but on the verge of sleep, and the false memories you have within dreams which give you the background to the dream and create the impression of time (for instance, being aware that you have lived somewhere for several years when the dream only lasts a few minutes).

The ones that really intrigue me are the ones when you are about to fall asleep and you are thinking away to yourself about this and that, and reminiscing about things that happened, and suddenly you come to yourself and realise that those situations or people just don't exist.

I get them all the time. Last week I was sick, so I literally slept for 5 days straight, and only got up to eat a couple times, and I dreamed SO much, I couldn't even tell the difference between waking reality and dream reality.

Also, I was sick, so I was constantly coughing and it would wake me up but just enough to go back to sleep and change dreams. I kid you not!... I had around 30 dreams daily from morning to dinner when I was sick. I was in dream reality more than waking reality. It was pretty crazy!

i had week of false memories after i watched avatar...

creepy body overwrite style

its rather strance that i am not horribly obsessed on it, though my sub-c seems to be (avatar body in every LD)...

Originally Posted by Auraez

i had week of false memories after i watched avatar...

creepy body overwrite style

its rather strance that i am not horribly obsessed on it, though my sub-c seems to be (avatar body in every LD)...

mine were like this

It will change. Then it'll be impossible to go to pandora or shapeshift. I've been trying so hard.

I used to have theories for all kinds of things like this when i was younger. Like i've said before i've always been obsessed with dreams. I even tryed to keep a dream journal when i didn't even know about LDing i just tryed to keep one because i always thought dreams were cool.