A few years ago I had a dream that I was back in a neighborhood where I lived from ages 10 to 14. I am in a friend’s yard and there is a playhouse (like a tree house, but on stilts instead of being up in a tree, so it was raised off the ground) in his front yard. In this dream, I remembered seeing that same play house in a dream. I actually commented to my friend, who was in the dream, that I remembered it from a previous dream. I could clearly remember that previous dream from within my dream. When I awoke, I could remember both dreams, and I remembered actually having both dreams on separate real life occasions. Has anyone else had this happen?

This made me wonder; what if while you are dreaming you have greater access to the area of the brain where previous dreams are stored. But when you are awake, it isn’t as easy to access that area of the brain.