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hi. i've been interested in dreams for a while, years. i guess it was 5 years ago, that i started having very weird dreams, and lucid dreams.

there was a period where i was having lucid dreams regularly without trying to, or without previously having tried. I had either conversations or just quiet personal moments most of the time (like a moment of "zen"). also, i was having weird de ja vu in my waking life. I would go to a place that I've never been before (awake), and recognize it from a dream I've had.

A few examples - I went to a new city I had never visited before to see a concert. My girlfriend had gotten bad directions, but I at one point recognized where I was from a dream, and drove directly to where we were going, which I also recognized.

I was driving down a strange one way ally-like street buried in the center of a part of town I'd never explored. Once I turned a corner there was a driveway, a tree, a mailbox, and a house, the leaves on the ground, the sunset, everything from a dream I'd had.

I had a dream about a port city off a coast. The sky was black and a giant hole opened up in the ocean. the city was being pulled into the hole, i flew up in the air to escape it and ended up back home. a few days later hurricane katrina hit. I'm not saying I predicted anything, (let's not get off on the wrong foot here) I'm just saying, it's wierd.

Sounds a bit crazy, I know.Things like this happened in a rising frequency and then after a few years it tapered off. For about two years, I've have a hard time having a lucid dream even if I try. It's hard to say about the de ja vu because most of the dreams that connected with real-life scenarios had happened months if not years before their respective waking-life event. But it still happens whenever I go somewhere new and unfamiliar. Sometimes it's not even somewhere else, it's like if you could record every possible aspect of a given period of time (like less than a minute), every detail, every facet of your senses, and play it back one more time. And when it happens I feel kind of high.

I want to know if anyone else has experienced this same thing, and if you have any theories.

Last night in particular, I had a dream that I was at work (where I work is in an old renovated mint, $) except it was in another period of time or form, it was broken down and decayed. my dream would switch back and forth through time and / or form (whichever one it was). That I've never experienced before...

Probably just day residue. You know that it was enevitable because of the season and the climate shift, you just happened to dream it when you did.

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Welcome Daniel,

That's great that you have experience in lucid dreaming already.

I can't say that I have had any experience with the type a dreams you mentioned. But stick around and keep reading and you may find others who have had expereince with similar things.

If you have any questions, start with the Quick Start Guide (stickied above in this section) that has lots of useful links and info....or just ask.

Hope you stick around and enjoy your stay. :)

hm.

i'm thinking it's a memory thing. I can't find the link right now, but there's an article on a relatively new theory of how the brain creates memories called "Holonomic Brain Theory". It's based on the idea that as you are developing a memory of a particular event (like riding your bike at the moment), your brain thinks "bike, street, weather, houses" whatever you're taking in around you. So memories are only a junction of these ideas, to trivialize it.

It follows that de ja vu may be when your brain retraces a junction to create a new memory because the ideas that compose it are so similar to an old one that it accidentally "overwrites" part of it. So as an event is happening (like riding your bike down a street someplace you've never been) you think it's somehow familiar to you, but it's not. It's just that you can't remember what was there before because it simply isn't there, what's happening now is there instead.

So maybe dreams, or memories of dreams can follow this pattern as well. Maybe when I'm somewhere new (because that's where new memories are bound to be forming more than a new memory of the street i live on) my brain is replacing something from a dream (for whatever reason).

Welcome to the forum Daniel33

There's a forum here called the Beyond Dreaming forum. You might be interested in that stuff.

I heard that deja vú was was caused by your brain looking at events from the past and guessing an outcome by creating the dream sort of similar to what you said.

that's interesting. i'll have to check that forum out.

thanks for all the replies and info everyone!