Deja-vu based-on dreams.

Any experiences with deja-vu in awake states based-on sleep-dream experiences?

Personally, I've experienced such 'deja-vu' a few times after busier than normal morning schedules.
 

DammitDog

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Yes, a few times. In my early 30s my job sent me to Phoenix. It was the first time I'd flown or left the east coast. I'd had no interest in Phoenix really so I'd never studied it in any way. When I got there I realized that I'd been there before in dreams. So much was familiar there and in Sedona (where I visited over the weekend that I was there). Over the years I've had experiences of being in a conversation and knowing I'd already had it in a dream. The most vibrant example was when I was staying with my grandmother one weekend after she'd had surgery. I was in the bedroom across the hall from the bathroom and my mom was in the bathroom with my grandmother changing some bandaging and I realized I'd dreamed that exact scene. In the dream, my grandmother had cancer and it was bad. I saw the two of them in the bathroom and asked if everything was okay and my mom turned and said No, no it's not. There was more to it - stuff I don't quite recall now. The dream scared me and I was so upset in it that the illness shifted to a different relative. I was so upset the day after that I emailed someone about it and how badly it shook me up. I detailed what happened and was said. 6 months later, there I was, grandma with cancer and seeing the same scene. Luckily it was treated and she was okay. I told the family and pulled the old email. Everyone was freaked out. That one was kind of premonition but definitely a deja vu as well. Years later, I had a dream with a warning for me about 6 months before a major health crisis of my own. That one wasn't really a deja vu thing so much as a warning that could potentially be explained as my subconscious picking up on my failing health before my conscious mind did and trying to draw attention to it.
 

PaulKH

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Yes, a few times...Years later, I had a dream with a warning for me about 6 months before a major health crisis of my own. That one wasn't really a deja vu thing so much as a warning that could potentially be explained as my subconscious picking up on my failing health before my conscious mind did and trying to draw attention to it.

Yeah, similar situations are, I speculate, why some people think that events cause time "ripples" in all directions, and that the dream realms can use those, as it uses everything else: to explore consequences or give warnings or however we tend to interpret them. They happen often enough for many pattern-seekers to latch onto (and often happen in mundane ways we don't even notice until we are feeling the oddness of familiarity-yet-not).

For me, I have seen no discernable pattern in them (no cause), just that they are one of the kinds of recognizable-to-me facets of dreaming. Cheers for oddness, even when it is initially upsetting (they can still be learning experiences you will get nowhere else).
 

Al1ce

Member
Yes I think now I know that I have dreamed of this before, my future self, it usually happens when I have altered something from the past in my present.
 
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