As usual, I was not clear. Usually, after waking from the dream, it sticks with me for a liitle while, even if I get up and go about my day. I know that I had the dream, but as events unfold, it slips away from consciousness. It may be related to deja vu, but not [...]
Dreaming is just the brain going through patterns in your neural pathways, right? So if whatever prompted the dream in your brain in the first place is still at play the next night, it makes sense that you’d "replay" through some of the same pathways.
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I’ve had that happen a few times. It’s not common at all, but every once in a very great while….
For me, it seems to only happen with exceptionally powerful dreams, ones that are brighter and more, um, ‘important’ than usual ones.
Grasping for an explanation, I’d suggest that regular dreams only use [...]