Deja vu, of course, is the feeling you’ve experienced a situation before. But I’ve often had the feeling that, specifically, I’ve dreamed being in a situation before.
Would the same brain mechanics thought to be behind deja vu also explain this? Or, since it’s dealing in dreams and the subconscious, could it be another cause entirely?
Do you mean that, upon arriving in a real situation, you feel you’ve dreamt that situation before, or do you mean the sensation that you’re dreaming about something you’ve already dreamt?
The former.
I’ve had that experience, but I’m not aware of any particular name for it.
Kinda curious if there is a name for it.
I have that a lot, too.
I’ve always figured that it’s because your neurons randomely fire during dreaming. They say deja vu is cuased by brain blips, so why shouldn’t the chaos of a sleeping brain cause said blips?
I had that same feeling just yesterday.
I was talking to my girlfriend and “remembered” I had dreamt that situation. The thing about it was that we were talking about my uncle and I had dreamt that my cell-phone had dialed up his number and he’d been listening to our conversation.
I even checked my phone to reassure myself it hadn’t actually dialed him up.
I get this relatively frequently, and I just call it “I’ve dreamed this before.”
I’ve kinda been stuck in the “same dream” rut for many years. All my dreams are either set in the first office building I worked in in Arlington, VA (or variations thereof), or in my high school in Colorado.
I get what the OP describes too, quite a lot. Sometimes the sensation is so intense that I go all dizzy - like a mini panic attack. My scalp prickles, and I lose my train of thought, the whole time thinking stuff like: “this has happened before, but not in reality. And there’s more detail to it; there’s something else that I just can’t grasp about this situation, something missing from my understanding of the right now, that was in fact in my dream, and if I could just grasp it, it would all make sense”. But that missing piece of the jigsaw never comes.
Most unpleasant, especially when giving a presentation in front of 200 people, as once happened.
Precognition.
Please PM me when you dream of winning lottery numbers.
Yeah, but the problem is, I could only tell you what the numbers were after I has seen the draw. It’s not like you wake up with a situation, and then see it unfold, rather, you see a situation, and feel like you dreamed it.
I 100% know this isn’t a deja vu thing with me. I have had the dream and completely remembered it vividly, then years later it would happen exactly the same down to the smallest detail.
It never is anything important, it just is vivid and precise. One of the biggest ones I had was in 8th grade in DC. I dreamt a whole situation, people, conversation, everything. I told my mother about it because it was so strange and it had the line “I did ok. I made Jaffles.”. So strange because I had no clue what that meant. A year later, in Indonesia, I tried out for the soccer team and as I was walking back to the gym the scenario happened EXACTLY like the dream. The last line of the dream I said to my freinds without even thinking about it. I just blurted it out because I did ok. I made the freshman team (that the school called Jaffles).
I have them, my mother has them, her father. We don’t know why or what it is. Even more odd was that some really mean jock at my college in San Fran made it a point to get me alone one night. I thought he was going to kick my ass because I was dating this girl he liked. Way late, all alone, he just broke down and started telling me about the dreams he had his whole life (exactly like mine). It scared him and he thought he was going nuts but he had this weird feeling I would understand (mind you, I may have said 3 words to the guy the whole time I knew him before that).
Strange stuff out in this world.
I have a TON more stories like that regarding those dreams. Some are really odd. I wish I knew what they were.