Yes, I always called it "dream continuity". I posted in a thread 12 years ago (!!!) about this exact subject: |
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Within this last year I have been having this phenomena where my old dreams, even dreams I've long forgotten in waking life, come back to me as a real life memory in a dream. Even though I would know in waking life that these were dreams and not real memories, in the dream it feels so real and I believe that it actually happened. For example I've had dreams where my wife and I had a new baby, then months later in another dream I remembered this and got a little panicked talking to the dream version of my wife because I was like "We have another kid, where is he? How did we lose him what happened?" Another example is this recurring airport where I have to fly somewhere across the world. I will remember these as if they really happened. Its as if I keep returning to the same universe and retain the dreams as memories inside that universe...its like some kind of alternate reality I go back to. Has anyone had any experience with this kind of thing or any insights about this? I feel like this could be an easy path to becoming lucid if I can remember to reality check during these moments but I just never do, they're always very long adventurous realistic dreams and I really love them still even though I'm not lucid. |
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Yes, I always called it "dream continuity". I posted in a thread 12 years ago (!!!) about this exact subject: |
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I think dream memories in other dreams have happened for me but honestly I couldn't really know for sure without looking through my journaling. However, I have had the opposite scenario. Certain memories of very specific dreams have become so vividly imprinted at some point (not necessarily when the dream occurred) that I have honestly mistaken certain dream memories for waking memories. When these memories came to me at random times in the past, it has taken me a few moments to go over these memories to realise that they did not happen in waking life, mostly because of how they seem so accurate. |
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Singled out from some of my favourite quotes from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: "Risks of [Planet] flowering: considerable. But rewards of godhood: who can measure? - Usurper Judaa'Maar: Courage: to question."
I'm not sure if it's the same phenomena, but one of the more interesting things I've come across is "dream nostalgia" -- memories of people, places, or things (in dreams) that never actually existed in real life. And these aren't just simple or shallow mis-rememberings, but rather long, elaborate, emotionally charged memories. |
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In my own personal dogma, I believe there to be separate parts of the psyche which govern waking and sleeping states. When I am awake, my waking self has access to this psyches memories and basic universal laws that govern this plane. However when I dream, it seems to be another self entirely, sharing traits sure, but still governed by different laws and with access to a separate set of memories/experiences. |
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
I am more than I think am, I can become much more than that even
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