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I’m not sure if this has been discussed before but does anyone find that there real life memories and those of there dreams are similar? What I mean exactly is that when I think back to a memory of a dream and then one of something that actually happened (both say a week ago) in my minds eye they ‘look’ the same. Ive only been thinking about it lately and it brought the whole “what is real” thing into my head :-)
This happen to anyone else or should I seek professional help :-D
I was also thinking about this today, and it's interesting. When looking back on dreams, you're right, it feels like you're looking back on something you did in waking life as opposed to something you daydreamed about or thought about. That's actually one of my favorite things about dream memories, because they're so realistic it's almost like reliving them when you look back on them.
Sometimes, you can mix up things that happened to you in real life, or happened AFTER you had the dream, with the dream itself. It has happened to me a few times where I thought about my dream, then read it in my journal, and saw that I had been mixing up things. So you can get some strange 'premonition' stuff going on if you look back on situations and dreams.
I'm sure it happens to a number of people. I am also sure many people at times also confuse something that happened in a dream as something that happened in waking life. It has happened to me before; you look back and are thinking about something that happened the other week or awhile ago, and then suddenly it dawns on you, "oh wait, that was a dream."
Our current understanding of the laws of physics aside, there is no real clear difference between exo-reality and endo-reality.
I reckon this mixes in with deja vous. I've often seen/done something and thought 'wow Ive been here', but there's always a nagging feeling that it was a dream.
Whenever I'm unsure about that, I ask one of my twenty concubines which live with me on the moon if it was real or not.
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Ive also had this sometimes. I think it indicates that the barrier between dreams and waking life becomes smaller and smaller, and that dreams become as important as waking life itself. They both have the same value and should be aprechiated the same. Most people dont care about dreams at all and its really ashame :?
Jammy I agree with you, as my dreams ARE as important as my waking life and I experience this memory confusion, the only thing that supports a memory here is either recorded evidence or the perception of others, so if you went off hiking in the woods alone perhaps a month ago. What trace of your passage is left now? Other than the memory in your mind? But what happens when you tell some one of your hike?
The memorys we have of the dream world our ours alone untill we share them with others, that act alone begins to solidify them as something that has happened to us. Once others are told of the experience, though they may not have been there first hand they can all go oh yah do you remember that time you did this in your dream? We remember it too and it becomes memory in others minds as well... The whole what is reality question can get really confusing at times, so much that I think alot of crazy people are just lucid dreamers that have just lost it, totaly unable to determine which world is which.
In my opinion I do not think that either is more real than the other. They are just different and the only experiences that are brought back and forth between each world is that of our own. When you have dream characters remember you and remember acts you have done in the past in regards to their world it makes you wonder.
/rant off/