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[Daniel33]

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...