I sometimes have dreams that I think are real. I'm not talking crazy things that dreams are typically made up of... I'm talking about normal daily things that I wake up and think are real. I think they are real sometimes just for a few seconds or minutes but sometimes it is days later that I realize that something I thought was real was really something from my dreams. For example, a few weeks ago I went on a weekend trip with my parents to visit my sister. The next day I decided to wear my leather jacket instead of my usual canvas because the cat had slept on it and there was cat hair all over it. Three days later, my mom called to say that she was bringing me my jacket because I had left it in her car when we got back from the trip. For three days I thought that my favorite jacket had cat hair on it but in reality the jacket wasn't even in my house.

I don't know why this is happening to me. I've always had a problem with dreams. Mostly it was nightmares that I understood were just nightmares. In the past few months I've been dreaming more about daily things. I still wake up in a panic at least nine or ten times a week.

Thanks in advance for any help given.