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Right before I fall asleep, I'll remember some random details of a dream I had when I was 5-10 years old. It changes each night, but never is a newer dream.

Does that happen to anyone else?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I also sometimes recognise places and situations from previous dreams, or at least I dream that I recognise them..

It's like those dreams that feels like a hours/days/years even if you only had a 5 minute nap. It's impossible to know if time actually passed or if you just dreamt a memory of a long time passing.

A few times I have been certain that the place in the dream was the same as I have dreamt of before, but other times I am equally convinced that I've never actually dreamt about it before, even if it felt so in the dream.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Iโ€™ve had a couple of dreams that were impossibly longer than the time I was asleep.

Once I lived months a single night. Woke up disoriented and took a long time looking around confused before I remembered who I was.

The other dream was at least many weeks, and in real time it was only three minutes! It was a sort of detective/bounty hunter thing with me chasing a guy. It ended with a sci fi battle in a first that was utterly terrifying, and I woke up in a cold sweat. Literally three minutes since Iโ€™d last looked at my phone. Body drenched in sweat that was actually cold, my heart pounding. The dream had been so real.

Both of those dreams ended with me dying.