Thread: Spontaneous Recollection of Older Dreams

Happens to me all the time. It seems like there's not just short-term and long-term memory, but also 'deep' memory...stuff that's in there, but not able to come out when the brain is busy maintaining the body. I find I remember dreams--and other things, too--from a long time ago much better in the middle of the night.

I've actually dreamed being back at certain dream locations that I haven't dreamed since childhood. Most of the time, I become lucid due to my recognition of these locations. It's a pretty weird sense of nostalgia during sleep and after waking up.

Yes! This happened to me just recently in fact. The dream was so fuzzy and hard to remember when I had it, I couldn't even tell what it was or where it was or who was in it. But that was about a year ago, it was barely a week ago that I remembered the full details of that dream, all within a matter of seconds. It's practically a short story now!

There was a trigger and that was remembering the location where it was set. Strangely though, not the immediate location, but the geographical location - which I don't think I could have possibly known in the dream.

Cool, I'm glad to see other people have these experiences too. Its amazing how the mind works isn't it?

I've had a few dreams that I recognized instantly from being years ago, even if I didn't remember them at the time. It's fun, you can fix a nightmare by knowing what you did the first time. One really scary nightmare is now funny
(the switch that turnes of the lava is by the left)