What do you call this? I know it's not Deja Vu

[marcher22]

Let's start off with this: My cousin back in September won an Owl City album at a church event. I remember looking at it a few times and it looked really nice. This is the album cover: http://www.mp3boo.com/cover-album/oceanEyes250.jpg Now on the left side, Is a boat, or so I thought it was. . 2 nights ago me and my cousin were talking about so called " christian " bands and then Owl city came up, I thought it was a band ( never heard any of his songs) but he said it was just one guy. We didn't talk about this for long. ( basically since september till now i didn't talk much about owl city) Now last night I had a dream It was very faint but I remember seeing the owl city album cover and the boat ( it looked like a boat when held in your hands) and I realized hey isn't this like the boat on the owl city cover. And then I was infront of it and In my dream the "so-called boat" was now a huge building infront of me. I was like cool it's a building! I forget what happens next. Now this morning my cousin plays a song and says it's Fireflies by Owl city. And then I said " Wait.. Hold on, you know the cover of the album it's not a boat It's a building" My cousin was surprised he was like really? So we went on google and looked at it. ( He lost the album cover) and zoomed in Here http://www.owlcitymusic.com/images/e..._1280x1024.jpg When zoomed I zoomed in, he was like " Yea!It is a building I never saw that before" .. and well I didn't either. I find it kind of strange how in a dream how that was revealed. Especially because I always thought it was a boat.. What would everything I just described be called? I know it's not deja-vu. It's also very RANDOM. I'm guessing my subconsciousness new it wasn't a boat it was actually a building but why It was brought forth is sort of a mystery... Imagine If i was making a mistake in life, thinking "X" is this but really in a dream once again I realize im mistaken. That would be awesome wouldn't it.. but yea what's the name for this? Is it just called like " A revealing dream" or something?

[spockman]

Freud noticed this. Here is an article. psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/37/1/104.pdf But anyway, having sub-conscious knowledge revealed in a dream, like a less than obvious solution to a problem, (or the album cover which you likely picked up on somewhere else without noticing,) is referred to as the 'sleeper effect.'