at last I know I'm not the only one...
"i found myself in the really weird position of having seen it all before. not sure how that could happen - but i was really dis-orientated as it was such a perfect replica of my dreams, or my dreams were of such perfect form of the reality - bazza van der trance"

It was kinda spooky reading that... I don't know how many times I have had seemingly innocuous dreams of simple, everyday situations that then occur weeks or months later.

I have mentioned it to my wife & brother at times & had those dreams dismissed as just 'similar' to expected, normal situations.

But here's the crux: How can my brain POSSIBLY imagine/construct being somewhere I have never seen before?

example: We moved into a new rental place 8 months ago. A few weeks ago I was sitting at the dining room table with my young kids when I get the feeling I have been there before... I remembered seeing that EXACT situation (where I was sitting, where the kids were sitting, how old they were, etc) in a dream I had BEFORE we even moved from our old house...

So how could I know:
1) what the new house would look like?
2) what age my kids would be in that situation?
3) where we would all be seated?

Oh, and it's not just the look of the scenario that I dream about - I also know how I'm feeling & what I'm thinking about in these dreamed situations.

I have these dreams often enough that I'm not afraid of them, but invariably as soon as I get that feeling of 'this is familiar', I start really paying attention to where I am & what's happening around me.

These dreams are always in the 1st person, so it's only ever situations that I will find myself in later. & it's completely involuntary.

strange? spooky?

Sorry for length - first time & all that.

Would have been longer if the missus had showed up..
(GMRage stood a little straighter, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 6:09, 3 replies)

Same here!
I have those dreams and react in exactly the same way, it is truly weird...
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 9:35, closed)

That happened to me recently
I had a dream where I was sitting in a chair at a desk in a room I hadn't seen before. About two weeks later I got sent away with work and my hotel room was an exact replica of the room in my dream. Freaky shit.
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 10:15, closed)

I think i've had that once or twice
One that i always remember was from very very long ago.

When i was in the year after reception. The dream from several weeks previous saw me throwing something small at my friend michael, and he would block it, dead-centre, with a small book with a minotaur on the cover.

As is really happened, my projectile of choice was a pen lid, and immediately i recognised the situation.
(ShitBitch, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 10:21, closed)