Randomly remembering old dreams

I often suddenly remember a dream from what seems like months ago. Is it possible that these dreams are from the previous night and not a previous night? Is there any significance in us rememebring them now?

How do you know they are many months old? Do you recall them in other times of day rather than immediately after waking up?

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and they just seem like they were from certain times, although i dunno why, like “hmm seems like its about 2 months old”. i dunno. I only wrote that so that i would have enough characters in my message to stop it giving me an error lol.

That’s really weird. From what I can figure out here, it’s a bit similar to deja vu, right? There is of course a difference since you know the source of that specific memory (a dream) and an approximate time of it.

Whatever it is, I suppose its an issue related rather to overall memory than dreams only. Does it happen that you suddenly remember IRL things as well?

But I suddenly remember old dreams, too. Not that often but it happens from time to time.

I just know I had these dreams a while ago. I think it’s because I was able to recall them after I woke up but forgot about them too fast. But mostly there is no specific trigger that activates the memory :eh:

All these dreams have one thing in common: I had all of them before I started to write down my dreams.
Often it’s just a scene or short fragments of the dream and I remember how I felt in that situation.

Once I woke up and remembered the dream from that night (which was before I wrote down dreams) and was so certain that I had this dream for at least 4 times before but always forgot about them. That’s deja vu I think.

Until now I have forgotten about most of them again but some memories remain. I think I should write them down as well, when I remember one of them again.

What you describe is exactly what i get. Except the bit about writing dreams down… perhaps thats something taht i should start doing…

I suppose it’s a side effect of your efforts towards improving dream recall. Your both concious and subconcius got more involved in the matter of dreams which are more important to you since you started writing them down. Remembering past (“lost”) dreams may be an additional result.

Im not trying to reemebr more dreams though (sorry if i didnt explain myself properly…) its just a random effect ive noticed that hapens sometimes.

That’s thing that happens also for me. I usually write one dream in my DJ daily,but most of the times I’m having more of them. Those wroted ones for some reason doesn’t come back. Those unwritten sometimes pops in my head. :confused: It’s bit like Bayonette.

That’s not annoying, anyways.

I can remember dreams I had years ago that I never wrote down. I know they were years ago because I told people around me at the time and somewhat remember how ol dI was when I had the dream. Weird yaaa

Same here. A year ago, a few years ago.
Sometimes they just pop back into my head. :smile: