Thread: Deja Vu in dreams..

Yeah, the feeling that "I've dreamt this shit before!" pops up from time to time. Usually after waking up I'm left pondering whether I really did have the dream before.

Yeah i get it ALOT but what really annoys me is that i never become lucid. ARGH! and now ive just realised it happened to me last night...

annoyance +10

lol this happens to me a lot. i will be dreaming then all of a sudden i will be like omg i just had this dream like a week ago or something ,its odd and sometimes its annoying because i can't remember when i had the dream before.

I get that a lot of the time too, but I think it's to create some sort of story in my dreams. Like my subconscious works in building my dream backwards and well as forwards. Last night I had a dream that "hell hounds" were attacking my grandparents house. According to my dream, I'd been here before and in the same situation, so it felt like the house had been attacked several times before the actual attacks took place (if that makes sense >.<)
But usually it feels like a "I've been here before, now I have to finish what I started" kind of scenario.

Also, my dreams sort of repeat the same scenes over and over sometimes too... I don't know if that counts, but it kills the storyline of a dream for me :@ Unless my subconscious has looped the same scene over again so I can "do it right" and save a friend's life or something after initially letting him get lynch by a mob...

Haha yeah i get that all the time. Mostly after i wake up i think about what i was dreaming and it feels and looks so familiar like I know i did it before but i cant figure out what.

Dreams tend to manifacture memories with incorrect creation dates, so to speak. So instead of creating a memory and marking it as recent, the brain will often create a memory and mark it as weeks or months old. I don't think this is the same phenomenon as waking deja vu, though.