# Dream People You See Again **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 5, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357 "2002-08-05T00:54:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/1 "2002-08-05T00:54:30Z")
I’m startin’ to worry a little bit about my sanity, y’all… This afternoon I had a dream about a woman I had seen **before** in a dream. She doesn’t resemble anyone I know in real life, and she isn’t what you would call **pretty** , but as soon as I _saw_ her in today’s dream, I _recognized_ her from the previous dream. I was visiting her and her husband, and we were sitting in the living room listening to a Strauss waltz, when she got up took me by the hand and we began to dance. I remember being impressed with the fluidity of her movements when she put her arms around my neck and we both rose into the **air**! My arms around her waist, and hers around my neck and we were floating/dancing and I could feel her body **thrumming** beneath my hands. I’m in love, y’all! And I can’t wait to go back to sleep so I can see her again. When I woke up this afternoon, I went **DAMN!**. Ever happen to any of y’all? Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/2 "2002-08-05T00:57:51Z")
I’m not so sure about people, but in my dreams there’s an entire alternate Waikiki which I visit. Even though its geography bears little relation to the real Waikiki (I lived there for 6 1/2 years), it is consistent within itself, and includes some of the surrounding parts of Honolulu. Pleasant dreams to you, Quasi, CJ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/3 "2002-08-05T01:03:18Z")
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” – E. A. Poe Maybe it’s someone from your past? Maybe it’s someone you knew as a child and it’s your subconscious’s estimation of how she looks all grown up. Anyway, I’ve had “series” of dreams before; sometimes it’s just a return to a place where I’ve had adventures before (well, in a dream, anyway). ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/4 "2002-08-05T03:06:05Z")
A person from previous dreams doesn’t come to mind right off hand, but like **cjhoworth** , I’ve revisited many places that are only found in my dreams. They frequently are not only consistent, but give evidence of time having passed since the last time I visited them (an empty lot where a house–which I’ll also remember–had been before, etc.). I also will remember my way around them from having dreamed about them before. ---
**Author:** ![Jessity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jessity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessity)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/5 "2002-08-05T04:37:41Z")
I see the same people in my dreams, I usually recognize them from past dreams, but they’re not actually people I _know_. The places and locations in my dreams are usually familiar to me, but not in the spot where they should be. I keep dreaming about my mother’s house, but it’s not _where_ my mother’s house actually is, and where it is in the dream is somewhere I don’t recognize. ---
**Author:** ![Sinshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sinshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinshine)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/6 "2002-08-05T05:21:13Z")
I have a sort of dream deja-vu thing going on. It gets spooky sometimes. I’ll have a dream of something that doesn’t necessarily happen in my day-to-day life, but is nonetheless mundane. (IE I am a temp, but I’ll dream of going to a business lunch with my boss and some clients. It happens, but not often to temps.) The dream will be _soo_ realistic that when I wake up and realize that I’m not there, I’m here at home, it’s a little jarring. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/7 "2002-08-05T05:55:24Z")
I swear I have the same dreams over and over again, but with a bit of difference each time. It’s weird. Then again, I also have seen people from previous dreams in my dreams… and experienced the all-too-real dream. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/8 "2002-08-05T07:13:42Z")
Have you ever woken up from a dream with the feeling that you’ve dreamed it before, only to wonder if you’d only _dreamed_ that you’d dreamed it before? Would you be able to tell the difference? I’m not sure I can. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/9 "2002-08-05T08:03:21Z")
The people who keep recurring in my dreams are dead, in oil-drums, in the basement of a house that I have since moved out of. It’s my most common anxiety dream: “The new tenants _must_ have looked in those drums by now… What am I going to _do?_” Why are you all looking at me that way? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/10 "2002-08-05T09:42:58Z")
**Quasi** , with all that body-thrumming going on, you might want to make sure her dream-husband doesn’t dream-kick your dream-ass… Just a thought. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zephonith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@zephonith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephonith)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/11 "2002-08-05T09:53:49Z")
I keep dreaming of the same places. I have a dream supermarket, dream mall, dream amusement part etc. Recently they totally renovated my dream mall and I dreamt I got lost. I don’t usually dream of the same people though. ---
**Author:** ![partly\_warmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/12 "2002-08-05T10:55:33Z")
Larry Mudd, omigod, and this is the man who thought I was weird for discovering a way to cook noodles mostly without using heat?? * * * I’ve guessed that repetitive dreams are one of three things: 1. Some message your subsconscious _really_ wants you to hear, whether you do or not. 2. An echo to a memorable place, fictional situation, etc. that your brain likes to use as a “cheap” backdrop to a relatively benign dream. 3. Setting and characters heavily influenced by something you’ve recently been investing time in. (Such as episode 89 of the show you never miss.) The dream I have been wondering about is this big, floating eye of fire, appearing in the darkness, twisting around as if it were searching, searching for me… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-people-you-see-again/122357/13 "2002-08-05T11:25:25Z")
When I was 20, I had at least 2 (that I can remember) dreams about the same imaginary woman. She told me her name was Amy Lipson. I can still remember the way she looked and the sound of her voice, even after 22 years. She seemed older and wiser than I was. I suspect she was a part of my psyche–my Jungian _anima_. On a related note, has anyone else here ever read that **Astro City** story, “The Nearness of You”?