I have had this happen to me several times before and it reoccurred last night, so I thought Id post a topic on it to ask about similar experiences.
Essentially I have these dreams where I think to myself “I have had this dream before.” It is really weird to me because its not like my normal lucid dreams where I have an epiphany of “WOW, Im dreaming!” Instead I simply realize that I have dreamed this before and thus exert a little bit of control over it(such as knowing exactly what is going to happen next, and sometimes avoiding/changing what I know will happen next). Also, I think it really is more of a Deja Vu kind of feeling(compared to simply a dream repeat) because often when I wake up I dont remember actually having had that dream before.
I guess this is kind of like a low level lucid dream. I am just really curious to hear if anyone else has had this kind of experience of knowing you are reliving a dream, but not actually fully realizing what that means. I certainly find it to be an interesting experience.
I’ve had that happen to me at least once. I recall that I was bored in one dream, and told some nearby DCs that the dream had been more exciting last time, without actually realizing that I was dreaming. After a moment, though, I realized the implications of what I was saying and became lucid for real. I’m pretty sure I’ve never had a similar dream before or since, but during the dream I felt that I had been through the situation several times before.
That happens to me all the time. I realize that I’m dreaming about 50% of the time, but usually once I do it sets off a sort of panic to get out of the dream, because my dreams usually revolve around me being chased. And I have recurring dreams a lot, so it’s usually a, “Now that I know what happens next I need to get out even faster.”
I’ve tried a couple times, though it was always a sort of panicky situation and never ended up working. I haven’t had one in a month or so, and I’m striving to just try to change the course next time based on my knowledge of what will happen next. I’m going to try to hide where they won’t look or make something happen that will hinder them. We’ll see how it goes.
I have had a dream like this before…It is a very strange feeling indeed, hard to place but think you got the jist of the feeling. I have done minor things differently and was able to direct the dream more on a course of my choosing, but only minor changes.
Something like this has happened to me before. Occasionally in a dream I’ll get a vague feeling of “Oh yeah, this has happened before” but when I wake up I am sure that I never had a dream like that before. I never have become lucid from it though.
One thing I have thought about this feeling of deja vu is that maybe it is caused by having the same dream earlier in the night? That is what it feels most like to me. Just a thought.
hm, thats a very interesting theory. I could see that being plausabile. Have the dream earlier in the night, forget it, then dream it again. Sounds like a possible explanation