flashbacks in dreams / causalities

[Croy]

Last week I noticed twice a flashback in my dreams.

This morning I dreamed I said to a friend : “Ok, It 's 5 o’clock, I’m going in the classroom for my examination”. When I was in I seemed to be 15 minutes too early and interrupting other people undergoing there examination. This all took some time, some discussions with the professor etc… finally I was back outside the classroom and I thought why didn’t my friend warn me I was too early? He should have noticed it was only a quarter to 5 and not 5 o’clock. Then my flashback happened. I “remembered” telling my friend it was 5 o’clock, and seeing him adjusting the time on his clock, making it 5 instead of a quarter to 5. The explanation for this is: He had a bad watch wich didn’t measure time very accurate, and he assumed my time was the right time, so he adjusted his time and didn’t tell me I was early.

This flashback, as did anotherone I had, happened cause I was seeking for a reason for something, a cause for something. So in my dreams I’m asking myself how could this happen and I have a flashback.

But I’m confused now. Did I really tell my friend it was 5 o’clock and then go into the room and then had the flashback? Or did I, when I came out of the classroom, imagine I told my friend before I went in?
So what mean is that I don’t really know if I told my friend twice in my dream that it’s 5 o’clock (once while telling and once during flashback) or just once (during flashback). I can’t remember that.

This also made me think about the following…
In my dreamdiary I wrote a several times “I know this place from previous dreams” etc… but none of these places have been written down before in my dreamdiary.
Soo, all these dreams I had before, thinking “I’ve been here before…”, were they really some kind of recuring dreams/dreamplaces or were they just imaginations at the moment?

I’m not saying recurring dreams don’t exist! I’ve had reoccurring nightmares when I was a little boy. All I’m saying is that it doesn’t have to be a recurring dream/place because your dream tells you it is. It only is for sure when your wake life tells you without the suggestion being made in the dream.

I don’t know if anyone finds this interesting but it was something I really wanted to tell to someone cause it confuses me much [%

[the_fool]

I used to wonder wether my subconcious was planning my dreams in advance, and somehow hiding the plot twists from me…after dreaming the most incomprehensible series of random occurances and actions, I would suddenly dream something that would pull everything together and make sense of what had gone before (albeit often in a slightly slanted logic). In my dream, I would think “Aha!”, and upon waking, wonder if I had the explanation already in mind while dreaming the confusing first part.
Now, I think it is all part of the subconcious minds defence of the dream state. It seems very relunctant to hand over the reins sometimes, and does its best to make the dream world believable so as not to wake your concious mind. So it comes up with these explanations for what is going on, and even makes them seem totaly plausible when often they are not. So your mind invents the ‘flashback’ to make sense of things that might otherwise alert you to the fact that you are dreaming, and makes it feel like a genuine memory. This, too, is why I think sometimes I suddenly think ‘oh, this is a movie’ in my dreams - it is all part of my sunconcious’ campaign to prevent me from realising that I’m dreaming. My brain can really piss me off sometimes.

[reality.failure]

I think you explained that very well ‘the fool’.

[the_fool]

Thanks! I’m really fascinated by the resistance that part of our mind often puts up against lucid dreaming…and I have to wonder why it does - lucid dreams aren’t exactly harmfull (or are they?). Probably, lucid dreams are resisted because there is a chance that they will wake us up. But I wonder if there is more to it than that.