Thread: No sense of linear time.

In a word, yep. To both.

And I've never quite managed to work it out. In retrospect, things sometimes feel familiar, as though I had dreamed them before. And as soon as I think that, I get vague memories of these other dreams. But I can never prove that I didn't just dream that they were familiar, and then make up old dreams.

Ok, this is really starting to wierd me out! It happend again this morning (remembering old forgotten dreams.) It always happens when I'm trying to solidify my memory of the dream I had that night. I'm sitting there walking myself through it to bring back all the details and boom, bits and pieces of old forgotten dreams just start poping into my head. I've heard of people developing excellent recall but, jesus what the hell is this! The only way I can describe it, is it's like looking through an old picture album. One will come accross old pictures of yourself and immediately remember the setting in which the picture was taken, even despite the fact you haven't thought about it in years. I had parts of four different dreams pop up while I was just trying to remember the details of the one I had the night before!

Anyone have any ideas? This has really got me perplexed.

The same thing happens to me, too. o_o

I dunno why, though.

Originally posted by tanaqui
In a word, yep. To both.

And I've never quite managed to work it out. In retrospect, things sometimes feel familiar, as though I had dreamed them before. And as soon as I think that, I get vague memories of these other dreams. But I can never prove that I didn't just dream that they were familiar, and then make up old dreams.

Ya, what tanaqui said.

Maybe because while your in the process of recalling dreams and, " trying to solidify my memory of the dream I had that night." That you are making connections a variables that your subconscious are bringing to the surface. Since it is all stored back there somewhere, recalling dream oreinted ideas may be rehashing old ones.