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Can dream memories be real memories? I had a conversation with my mom about a dream I had where my grandma was mad at me and she was really mad at me in the past.

Edit: I guess I was dreaming about when my grandma was mad at me. But her anger seemed intensified.

Originally Posted by oneiroer

Can dream memories be real memories? I had a conversation with my mom about a dream I had where my grandma was mad at me and she was really mad at me in the past.

Edit: I guess I was dreaming about when my grandma was mad at me. But her anger seemed intensified.

Yeah, I think that dreams borrow from anything that we experience in waking life from any period of time. These things are often changed, remixed, intensified, toned down, or otherwise modified, but sometimes memories come out relatively unchanged.

Having said that, some dreams feel like very real versions of past events, but often are not. Several months ago, I had a dream of my grandfather that was very much like how he would have acted and included an idealized version of an experience I wish I'd have had before he passed away, but none of it had actually happened.