This happens to me about once every few years. I dream something very random and insignificant, and occasionally I will remember the dream the next day. It is usually a completely ordinary or mundane scene, only about 10 seconds or so of action.
The last time it happened was a few years ago. I dreamed about being in a room that was unfamiliar to me and somebody introducing me to a person, me shaking that person's hand. And that was it. It was completely innocuous and insignificant but I remembered it the next day clearly. Then about a year later I was at somebody's house for a get together (some place I'd never been) and somebody introduced me to a person and it flashed over me that this was the exact scene I had dreamed, down to the paintings on the wall. I don't even remember who the person was now. It's not somebody that I've ever had contact with since nor expect to again. But the scene was exactly as I dreamed it.
It just happened to me again the other night. I work at a restaurant. I used to work at a different restaurant with a friend who is also my housemate. About a year and half ago I had a dream that I was working at a restaurant but it was a different restaurant than where I was at the time. Again, nothing significant about the scene I dreamed. Just about 10 seconds of me walking up to a computer terminal in this strange restaurant that I did not recognize. I told my roommate about the dream for some reason, just because it was vivid and I have been prone to have these deja vu's stemming from random scenes I remember in an innocent dream.
Anyway, I stopped working at that particular restaurant and took a job in sales last October. The job didn't work out and come this past October I found myself missing the restaurant business and decided to go back to it. I took a job at a very nice place that I had never stepped foot in before. I've been working there for a few months now, but Saturday night I was walking to one of the computer terminals and it hit me.
It's really hard to explain if you've never experienced this sensation. It's like a wave comes over you and you kind of flash back to the dream and remember that it was exactly how you "imagined" it. You sort of get a "butterflies" feeling in your stomach when you realize what has happened. It's a pretty powerful thing. I'm sure there are people on this board who have had similar occurrences. This last one has left me really questioning things though. I asked my roommate if she remembered the conversation we had about the dream when it happened and thankfully she did (because nobody ever believes me when I describe these things after the fact).
I don't mind these occasional moments. They are actually pretty cool. But this last one like I said really has me evaluating the implications of it all. Is our future already decided? Are we just going through the motions until we get there? What does this tell us about our own minds and this .... ability for lack of a better word? What else is our mind capable of? I'm not a spiritual person at all, but this kind of shit creeps me out a little bit.
The last time it happened was a few years ago. I dreamed about being in a room that was unfamiliar to me and somebody introducing me to a person, me shaking that person's hand. And that was it. It was completely innocuous and insignificant but I remembered it the next day clearly. Then about a year later I was at somebody's house for a get together (some place I'd never been) and somebody introduced me to a person and it flashed over me that this was the exact scene I had dreamed, down to the paintings on the wall. I don't even remember who the person was now. It's not somebody that I've ever had contact with since nor expect to again. But the scene was exactly as I dreamed it.
It just happened to me again the other night. I work at a restaurant. I used to work at a different restaurant with a friend who is also my housemate. About a year and half ago I had a dream that I was working at a restaurant but it was a different restaurant than where I was at the time. Again, nothing significant about the scene I dreamed. Just about 10 seconds of me walking up to a computer terminal in this strange restaurant that I did not recognize. I told my roommate about the dream for some reason, just because it was vivid and I have been prone to have these deja vu's stemming from random scenes I remember in an innocent dream.
Anyway, I stopped working at that particular restaurant and took a job in sales last October. The job didn't work out and come this past October I found myself missing the restaurant business and decided to go back to it. I took a job at a very nice place that I had never stepped foot in before. I've been working there for a few months now, but Saturday night I was walking to one of the computer terminals and it hit me.
It's really hard to explain if you've never experienced this sensation. It's like a wave comes over you and you kind of flash back to the dream and remember that it was exactly how you "imagined" it. You sort of get a "butterflies" feeling in your stomach when you realize what has happened. It's a pretty powerful thing. I'm sure there are people on this board who have had similar occurrences. This last one has left me really questioning things though. I asked my roommate if she remembered the conversation we had about the dream when it happened and thankfully she did (because nobody ever believes me when I describe these things after the fact).
I don't mind these occasional moments. They are actually pretty cool. But this last one like I said really has me evaluating the implications of it all. Is our future already decided? Are we just going through the motions until we get there? What does this tell us about our own minds and this .... ability for lack of a better word? What else is our mind capable of? I'm not a spiritual person at all, but this kind of shit creeps me out a little bit.
