In my dreams, I often get a powerful sense that I know a place, object, person, scene or senario. Or at least that it fits with a broader history that I know as mine. It's rarely a disconnected island all in itself. This makes sense since it's me that's dreaming and thus the dream is drawing upon materials in my own mind. Thus often they hit upon themes I'm familiar with. However I was thinking that maybe in some partial way dreams accumulate --- forming a misty disjointed dream world of experiences. Perhaps the specific déjà vu experiences well known in dreams speak to this residue. For me, it's almost always impossible to trace a figment of déjà vu to a previous dream when I'm waking. In fact, it's notoriously hard to remember things from dreams in general. I was thinking maybe this illustrates state-dependent access to information in the brain. Just like the content of extreme psychotropic experiences (DMT) seems to be only accessible within that state. In fact due to the suggested role of DMT in dream synthesis there's probably a very similar thing going on.. * (I really seem to like bringing up drugs, but I think they help flesh out points quite well).
Perhaps then the adept in lucid dreaming can come to an awareness of dream-world continuities/memories which account for the potent feeling of recurrence/similarity in dream experiences???
*I remember reading that dreams aren't thought to be processed through the hippocampus which plays a critical role in converting short term memory into long term memory (not storing). But perhaps they can be pushed on through and encoded with sufficient peri-/post-dream determination..?
Just some thoughts.
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