Strange, strange phenomena...

I wonder if this happens to anyone else or if anyone can offer me solace. Because honestly, agonizing over it has really been draining on me. I tend to over-analyze subjects having to do with reality & the philosophy of perception... And so being on a dividing line, not sure as to why it is happening or what it is exactly, is irritating to say the least. This hasn't happened recently, but it has happened very often in about the past 6 years or so. Around once every month, if it were spread out evenly.

I wouldn't quite call it Deja Vous because I'm not feeling like I have been somewhere/done something again from my waking life. Rather, I will be in the middle of something or under a certain circumstance & feel like I have DREAMT of it beforehand, even though I hadn't. At least not to my recollection, I hadn't. And even sometimes, in my lucid dreams, I will be given false memories of my waking life & experience Deja Vous in the same way.

I'm not sure if it has to do with incomplete dream recall initially & perhaps they are not showing up until later, but even with that being said, my logic doesn't agree with repeatedly having insignificant "dreams" that come true. I may be spiritual, but that just sounds ridiculous, hahaha.

If anyone has ever experienced anything similar or has some type of theory, throw it at me. I've been bored & my mind tends to drift in a problematic direction... It'd be nice to find some relief. : )

I have had dreams like that before, it usually happens around important events for me. I unfortunately don't have any theories as to why it happens, but I find it interesting that I'm not the only one.

I have a number of memories that I have no idea if they actually happened or if I dreamed. For me, it seems to happen mostly when I'm on alot of sedating meds, especially when I took benzos. Not sure if it's at all related, but sometimes I will feel like I'm in a dream despite the fact that I know I'm actually awake. It's really a weird sensation.

Well thank you both!!

Princess: Only once or twice has the dream DEFINITELY, without a doubt, come true in relation to an event. But usually I am sitting around doing nothing in particular & then I get hit with a huge feeling of "I dreamt that this happened before, right??" lol. But that is really interesting. I'm glad I'm not the only one. :P

Seraph: I don't take any medications, which takes off that possibility for me... Sometimes I'll feel dreamlike, all of a sudden. But it doesn't happen very often. And only some of the time do I tend to have recall of these dreams that may or may not have happened. Meh, odd...

My mother and I both experience this. Something I read a few years ago theorized that it was a case of part of the brain recognizing something or processing somethin a split second before the rest of it does, which makes a certain amount of sense, but I haven't followed up on it. My mother (and I, since I grew up with it) calls them 'true dreams.'

I don't know what the actual source or term for it is, but you are not alone

Edit: these instances also, for me, are usually followed by a vague knowledge of how the next few moments will go, and it's very surreal until the moments pass. Sometimes I feel like something horrible or important is about to happen; usually it doesn't. I was wondering, do you experience that, too? There are also some really interesting theories on the nature of time and perception that could contribute to it, in my opinion, but again I haven't followed up.

YES!! Hahaha I can usually predict seconds before I say something, how the ensuing conversation will go, or something along those lines. But yeah, thank you so much for your response... I'm not alone!