nef
I have a question - when do you know it's deja vu? when you forst see it, or when it repeats itself? and do you not remember that you've seen it before UNTIL you've seen it again - that is, you don't remember the dream until you see it again?
Nef
I never dream - or I never REMEMBER having dreams. I do, however, consciously create scenarios when I'm half-awake sometimes. The problem is, only this morning I had to remind myself that it wasn't real - I almost convinced myself that i had failed a course last semester, even though I've known for weeks that I passed.
Is there any reason for not remebering or not having dreams?
LauraGan
hey, i've been quickly reading all the posts - very interesting . . . I've had a few lucid dreams before . . . i'm sure, but i can't remember their subject matter. Alot of my dreams are really wacky and fragmented. There was once where - before i could swim at all - i dreamt that i was super good at swimming o_O and aother time that i could fly. hmmm, i wonder if there are different 'classes' of dreams - like uh; fragmented/hard to remember, realistic/possible, lucid etc. - just a random thought.
i've never had really scary dreams where i dwell on them for days - unlike watchig horror movies - and there's only been one dream where someone else was in danger - it's usually me. also, on the topic of 'imaginations' just a piece of info - i NEVER see people's faces when i read, or dream - maybe only if i envision a face i've actually seen before. i also never see places or concrete things clearly - they are like smoke on the edge of my mind . . .
hope this hasn't been boring . . . just wanted to write :)
Nef
I have a question - when do you know it's deja vu? when you forst see it, or when it repeats itself? and do you not remember that you've seen it before UNTIL you've seen it again - that is, you don't remember the dream until you see it again?
Agyllian
Well for me, like I said in my post above, I can only remember it during or after the event actually ocurred. But my mind tells me that this is exactly as I have seen it - not just that it feels familiar but exactly the same. The reason I think this is not just some feedback loop in my mind is that I can remember dreaming it on the occasions that I am awake and have just let my mind wander and had what you might call a day-dream.
This sounds different to what happened to your friend. That John guy sounds like he is just applying a general statement that can refer to alot of different things and doesn't give any details.
It's like...your brain switches into third person - for a just a moment - similar to how we sometimes experience dreams. You're not outside your body or anything, you're just perceiving the situation in front of you as though you're removed from it. I think the sensation - whatever's causing it aside - confuses us into thinking we've dreamt it, or been there before. Nothing to back that up, just what it feels like.I have a question - when do you know it's deja vu? when you forst see it, or when it repeats itself? and do you not remember that you've seen it before UNTIL you've seen it again - that is, you don't remember the dream until you see it again?
Nef
There was a series on SBS recently about this - memory recall and false memories, I mean, and how our memories adjust things, get them entirely wrong, and can be manipulated easily, to think that we've seen something we haven't. I've googled around trying to find out what it was called but my memory (lol) fails me...did anyone else see it / know what it was called? It was a month or two ago, so it's not available in ondemand any longer.Every time you remember something, your brain re-writes the information and it adjusts it to match other information. This is a documented phenomenon and causes real problems for police investigating crimes because the witnesses can be influenced to 'remember' details that didn't actually happen.
Sian