Do dreams really reoccur?

Question

I think most people, myself included, think they have had reoccurring dreams. When I think about mine, I remember waking up in the morning thinking that the dream I've just had seems familiar, and therefore it must have occurred before.

But I think perhaps it might not have done. Dreams can play funny tricks with our memories, and so the feeling of familiarity might be an illusion. You might have had the dream only once, but think it's occurred several times because it's managed to implant itself into several different places in your memory.

The only way to disprove this is by keeping a dream diary. Has anyone done this, or is my theory actually possible?

Answer 1

I have "episodes" (with repeats) in dreaming  with sound tracks, and i lurv it.

Answer 2

I think dreams can fortell the future. I had a dream about a big large Great Blue Heron flying exactly above the tallest part of my house and then the next morning when I go to school I turn around and there is that bird flying over the tallset part of my house. I had a few more but none was as memorble as the others

Answer 3

Yes dreams are reocurring. I honostly have many reocurring dreams.

I kept a dream diary and it helped me quite a bit.

Dreams DO reoccure.

Answer 4

I have reoccurring dreams, several I have had since childhood, and like the first poster here I have "episodes" of dreams, it's like watching a television series and as the dream begins I will be thinking/dreaming(?) that I know this one and wonder what's going to happen next!

I also hear, smell, taste, feel in my dreams and they are in colour. I also talk in my sleep and cry too, and I will sometimes "act out" while sleeping and my husband will wake me up wondering why I was doing/saying things!

I used to keep a dream diary when I was a teen, but it got to be too much trouble as I grew up and real life happened!

Answer 5

dreams can keep re occurring..I have had a few..It usually is a sign that something in your life is to be dealt with or is on your mind regularly ...I do keep a dream book and it has helped me make the right decisions in my life

Answer 6

I don't often remember my dreams..that is, if i dream at all... I feel a bit dream deprived, i must say!

Answer 7

Oh my god i have that!! i wonder the same thing, and ive tried to figure it out too, its too complicated.

god youve got me thinking about it again now!! lol

Answer 8

Sometimes if I fall back alseep quick enough, I can continue my dream, though it may be slightly altered in terms of plot.