Dreams placing false memories?

Ive wondered if this happens to anyone else? you dreamed a dream and then later that dream affected your memory of the past? if you dont get what i mean heres an example that i went through.

For many years i had thought that my aunt had this large beautiful garden that was breathetaking and i went to her house rarely to. I had lived right next door to her for a good 3-4 years as well before i moved to where i am now. so one day i went over her house for a party and i took a look at the garden. there was nothing there..it was just an empty piece of land. i was pretty confused and then i remembered that a long long time ago i had dreamt that this place was that garden and it never existed... :|

that was the only one i can remember for now, but does this happen to anyone else?

Hi Nightowl

I have had a few dreams like that and many more involving smaller things. I usually figure out it was a dream sometime the next day when I go to spend my dream-placed money! However, you had no way to remind yourself that it was a dream. I have to admit that despite the confusion and disappointment it can sometimes bring, I rather like the feeling!

Maybe that just gives us another practical reason why we should practise dream recall more!

Alovia
:)

I have had something like that happen before. The only one I'm aware of is from when I was really little, like 5 or younger. I was playing in the park with my dad in the snow, and he rolled this huge roll of snow, that looked like a spiral on the side. I later realized this was impossible, but it still remains an incredibly vivid memory. I'm sure I've had others, too, as I used to have dreams that left me wondering what had happenned after I woke up, and none of the past few hours had actually occurred.

I kinda get this too I think, Ive had recurring dreams about certain places so many times they feel like real memories, I can picture them and remember my experiences there just as clearly as high school for example. Its kind of weird because it seems like maybe it takes place of a real memory.

Is it easier to remember past dreams or events in past dreams while in a dream?? Thatd be weird, like we have two seperate memory banks.

Well they've proven that hypnotherapists are able to place false memories by accident
And the dreaming state is very similar... :?

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Originally posted by Alovia
Maybe that just gives us another practical reason why we should practise dream recall more!

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Good point ;)

It sometimes makes me wonder if perhaps they are slightly real , like dreams from another life or something, like precog .
But then thats probably me just wanting to believe they are real because they allways seem to be really good dreams/ memories

Yeah. I've had dreams like this. I'll never really know which things are indeed true. Heh.

I've experienced this before:

When I was on a road trip when I was real young it was at night and I drifted off. I had a very vivid dream about driving through a small country neighborhood and stopping at a gas station by a farm. It was still night and I heard a rooster crow from the farm. Suddenly it was daylight right after that rooster crowed. Everyonce in awhile afterwards I would remind my parents of how it became daylight so quickly but they said it never happened when I got older I realized it must have been a vivid dream.

it's nice to see that im not the only crazy one ;)