Had such a frustrating experience today!
I had a loooooong, vivid dream in which I was trying to figure out whether or not I was personally acquainted with a certain famous actor, who was present in some of the dream scenes. I think I was trying to reality check by “remembering” whether or not this was true. In other words, if I could remember that I don’t actually know this actor but he’s present in the scene, I must be dreaming.
However, my dream self kept “remembering” a dream past where I spent time with this person and brought up photos and video of the two of us. I was SO convinced that this was real life (because what I was seeing “fit” with my dream self’s memory), I had to thoroughly wake up to realize that I don’t, in fact, know this actor.
My dream self fooled me. Anyone else had this happen?