Hm - yes and no.
But I like your hotel-room example - Iīm sure we have our schemata of such things, and every time we encounter a new specimen, which belongs - we integrate some new data into it
Then we draw on that schema - to not have our brain deal with it all, as if it was in such a situation for the first time.
Saving processing-capacity.
That even might make us prone to miss out on differences, which lie outside of our expectations - the brain glossing over them, if they are not really intensely "out of order".
What I find strange in this context, though, is that I seem to be able to remember something from a prior dream, while I am in the next one.
Originally Posted by PsychotiChaos
Ok, this may sound odd but i had a dream last night where i was in this place that i felt like i visited in real life, but this didn't occur to me when i woke up, this was being thought of in my dream, i was even telling myself to check google earth and sketch the place when i wake up. Very odd dream, i wasn't lucid but it seemed as though i was some what conscious, but i did have a lucid dream either earlier or later on. I believe i might have dreamed of the same or a similar place before, now i know i did, this wasn't one of those dreams that was pre-programmed to make me believe i dreamed about it before, weird dream.
As you say - there are dreams, where I only believe, that I was in this and that location in another dream* before, and when I wake up, it feels, I didnīt ever dream of that before - I just thought so in the dream.
*Why on earth I am able to have such a thought of another dream in a dream and not get lucid from it - only my subconsciousness knows..gaah.gif
But there are also ones, where I dream of a place, that I really do have dreamed of before.
Maybe itīs even the same with the above scenario and I have forgotten that dream, where I was there before, and I really do remember things from one dream to the next always, when it feels that way.
I know this goes against some concepts of dreams - but Iīm pretty sure it happens.
Sounds very convoluted, my post - hope it is understandable..
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