Hello, I honestly only just learned of the term Deja reve, upon doing research on dreaming glimpses of the future.
For example, I once had a dream I owned a cat, in an apartment. When I woke up I remember feeling panicked that I owned a cat since it felt so real. Six months pass and I completely forgot of the dream. I ended up adopting a cat right after moving into an apartment, and lived what I dreamed exactly.
Another example, I dreamed I had a long conversation in the dark with my boyfriend’s best friend, about my boyfriend. But I was so confused because why would that happen…. 4 months later it happened. And I didn’t remember the dream until I lived the moment.
For one more example, I dreamed I had a new job. And six months later I had the new job and again, didn’t remember the dream until I lived the moment.
I know this sounds crazy but I’m just wondering if anyone has experienced similar! There are many more instances of this. I also get sleep paralysis pretty often if that has anything to do with this?
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Yup this is exactly how it goes for me and it's been happening since I was a child. I usually forget the dream entirely until I'm living the moment. Twice I wrote about the dream in my journal, which was pretty eerie. For me at least, the experience is almost always pleasant.
Most of the time they're totally mundane moments with a few notable exceptions. The most profound one was when I dreamt about my husband before I met him. I was in another relationship at the time and the dream woke me up. I even started crying bc I knew that relationship wasn't working and I didn't want it to be true. I didn't think for a second the dream was anything other than my subconscious telling me to break up with him though! And I forgot about the dream for years, so when the moment came years later the deja reve hit like a freight train haha. It wasn't like I clearly saw my husband's face or anything, but I did clearly see the living room of the home I would later share with my husband. I was sitting on the floor beside him folding laundry with a deep sense of contentment running through me. Laundry of all things!
I am an atheist but this is the one thing in my life that feels spiritual and that I can't really explain. I sort of just accept that I don't understand it, but I enjoy it when it does happen and just carry on looking forward to the next one!
My dreams are always too real. I don't remember most of them but the ones I remember are in full detail and end up becoming reality down the line. It has been this way since I was little. I never wake up rested because my dreams are ridiculously exhausting.
I had a dream that I was at an airport in a place that I had never been in before, trying to get permission to get on a flight somewhere urgently. I had this feeling of sheer dread, horror and urgency in the dream, like nothing I had felt before; it was so dark & apocalyptic. I woke up sobbing and panicking.
7 months later I found myself stuck at an embassy & then an airport in a place I have never been to before, trying to get help with an emergency flight to another country because my perfectly healthy mother died abruptly & without warning. At some point in my countless hours pacing this airport waiting & trying to comprehend that my Mum was dead it dawned on me that it felt like I had been there before, that I had felt this before.
I dreamt it. 7 months before it happened.
This started happening to me after exploring lucid dreaming and remote viewing in my late 20's. So maybe it's something we all can do but has become dormant in many or something 🤷♂️Always kind of is like wow in the moment when you see the dream and reality coincide. I take it as like a sign to be aware or that it's like a checkpoint of some sort. Maybe a way to anticipate things. Maybe it's something in the nature of consciousness so that when we're asleep that we can somehow explore time as well to some extent.