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I too at one time got these so often that it would freak me out if something particularly bad happened in a dream. |
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I've been having really freaky dreams lately, but of another sort. My dreams have recently had incredible continuity... i.e. my dream world has constants which are not the same as my waking world constants!
For example- in multiple dreams, the yard diagonal to my back yard has tons of wild animals in it- rhinoceri, ostriches, etc... the people who own it keep these animals for zoos who collect them at later dates. Only a fence separates my yard from theirs although their yard is a maze of fences but I'm perfectly safe. It's also never a big deal in the dream... I'll just look out the window and there's a giraffe walking by and I'll think, 'oh yeah... the neighbors are keeping animals for the zoo.' Some of the more mundane bits of continuity happen so often that I've actually caught myself being confused on occasion by their not being the case in the real world. |
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The only problem I see with the "write them down" option, is that you'd have to write every single dream down, and then trying to go back and find something that you dreamt about months (possibly years) later, would be exceptionally difficult and time-consuming. Also, as was said, the apparently prescient dreams seem to be of a mundane nature. I've had similar things happen ... just some random piece of conversation seems more than simply familiar, you knew who was going to say what and when. I tried to change the topic of a conversation once that I "knew" but my interjection merely delayed the later part which went off as I "remembered" it.
Better look behind the curtain for the new brick wall! "Deja vu is a glitch in the Matrix. It means they've changed something." Shit. Edited to add that where I was going with my initial part of the post is that you might not even write down that part of the dream since it's so ordinary, a snippet of conversation that has no relevance to you until you experience it "again." Another possibility is that your mind is working overtime and playing out possible scenarios of an upcoming meeting you will have. You've got an idea who will be there and what will be discussed, so your brain runs through some ideas of what will be said. This doesn't explain it if you're meeting new people, though. I usually don't give it much thought. Just chalk it up to the brain being more complex than we will probably still realize for quite some time. |
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I have these sort of dreams, too. Have most of my life. They used to bother me and then they convinced me of the paranormal.
When I started dating my husband, he took me home to meet his family. I walked into the scene with a pizza box on the counter, a fire going in the fireplace and his sister and friend sitting on the couch. It hit me. I had dreamt this months earlier. I had already met all of these people in my dreams. There are many other things, but I know this dream was in fact real because I had discussed it with my mom the next morning, so even she remembered the description. As I became more and more of a sceptic, I could not explain such dreams. Now I rationalize by thinking it was only a glitch in the Matrix. |
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Just WHAT are dreams anyway? And what purposes do they serve?
Is it just random electrical activity in the brain? Why do we forget about them after a good nights sleep and remember them if we wake up in the middle of the night(ever get that feeling after you wake up in the morning that you had a distinctive dream but somehow you can't capture what was in it no matter how hard you try?)? Anyone got links to a straightforward explanation? |
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maybe its the electromagnetic field of earth affecting your brain. happens to some people b/c of that. just a thought.
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