Before I stopped dreaming I used to have very vivid and detailed dreams often, and it was normal for me to remember most of the things that were in the more detailed ones. I can still remember large portions of a few detailed dreams I only had once as a child. I have very good visual memory, which is how I remember most of these dreams. There are even some dreams where I no longer remember anything that happened, but I remember what several places in the dream looked like.

But, in addition to that I took up a habit of writing my dreams in a journal when I woke up around the age 13-14, if I remembered enough of them and if they seemed interesting enough. I did this because I noticed that my dreams often revisited locations I had dreamt of before. It was in a different dream, but it took place in the same location. And sometimes (not often) actions I had previously done in other dreams effected the location. It interested me so I often wrote them down to see if the connections had some sort of meaning. (Which they did not, as far as I could tell).

So I wrote these nightmares down the first time I had them. Almost 10 years ago. Not too long after that my dream journal went onto the PC, because typing is easier then writing. This also allowed me to edit the dreams I had previously written. Since these dreams reoccur, I'd occasionally remember new things I had not remembered before. Using the "perfect world" dream as an example, the original dream I had first written down was more or less a skeleton of it. I remembered the locations (Lake, Pier, log cabin, grassy fields, et.) and the key parts. (Played with kids, went to cabin, took apple, went to pier to think and eat apple, went to carnival, suddenly aged and everything died, etc.). But as I had the dream over and over for years, I could recall smaller details such as roughly where the kids sat/what they did while at the cabin, and I added them as I remembered them. That's pretty much how the dreams ended up becoming so detailed, just the repetition and having them for such a long time.





As for being a writer, I'm not sure. I personally hate writing and the English language. However, I am writing two stories despite that. I only took up writing these stories because I was originally making games out of them, and my computer got fried, thus making it impossible for me to continue making the games. Building the games was my escape from an otherwise not so happy place, so when that was lost I took up writing to continue those two stories replace my escape hobby, and I just never finished the stories so I'm still working on them.


And I agree, dreams are about our feelings. But things have drastically changed in my life, and I mean very drastically, for the better. But these dreams did not change, nor did they stop. Which confuses me. I am curious though, what do you mean when you say my dreams mirror my posts?