Hey all,
I thought that I had to wait until this happened to me again before I could write about it. Luckily, I didn’t have to wait for too long.
Something that seems weird to me happens frequently when I’m dreaming. I’ll dream that I am in a certain place or am experiencing a certain thing, and then when I wake up I’ll think to myself, “wait a second… I’ve been here before!”
Just a few nights ago I dreamt that I was in one of the buildings on my college campus in a basement level underneath the main building. In the past this place housed other people and was inhabited but in this most recent dream it was devoid of anybody and seemed abandoned. About half a year ago I would frequently dream that I was in a massive combination theme park/mall where I would go to see an attraction named “E.E.E.E,” which I think I have dreamt of no less than four times. Just outside that theme park is an educational center that I have also thought that I have been to on more than one occasion.
These are only a couple of examples but it seems that at least a few times a month I visit a place in my dreams that I have been to before. However, the memory of being there before isn’t triggered until I have actually “revisited” that place in my dreams. Before going back, I would not dream of these places nor even remember having been there for months, sometimes years. But after revisiting, I am suddenly afforded a complete historical clarity that reminds me that in fact, I have been there before!
Part of me thinks that I am experiencing false memories. Dreams are powerful things and it would not surprise me that such a thing could convince me that I have been someplace in my dreams where in fact, I have not. Still, the preciseness of the dream location and the themes that remain constant over what I believe to be several visits seems amazingly consistent to the point that I am not sure whether or not I am imagining that I have been in these places before.
Does anybody else here revisit the same place in there dreams on more than one occasion? I especially miss my E.E.E.E. dreams since they were quite grand, but I can’t go for a couple of weeks without seemingly revisiting a place that I have not been to in either several weeks or several years. Your input may very well help me determine the nature of my own recurring (or not) dreams.