Thanks, waldo. I knew I had read something brilliant about this recently, but I couldn’t remember whether it was Sacks or Ramachandran who had written it.
Everyone who has this "I’ve seen you in my dreams" experience, please read that Sacks article.
I have had these experiences very frequently since childhood, as vividly as anyone describes them on this thread. As a teenager, I wondered if I wasn’t, perhaps, somehow precognitive (in a totally useless way, of course!), or if somehow I was "crossing the time spiral", or [insert your favorite "Twilight Zone" plotline here].
As an adult, subjecting these experiences to a rational scrutiny, I have come to the conclusion that a) I have a lot of vivid dreams about real-life situations and locations, and that sometimes my actual experience coincides with a memory of one of those dreams, and b) sometimes I have one of those little brain sputters described in Sacks’s article that makes me feel like I’m remembering a dream.
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