Frequently experiencing Deja Reve (always tends to be related to media)
This is a little difficult to explain but throughout my life I have experienced very specific Deja Reve where something happens during the day that has a 1:1 correspondence to my dream the previous night. My dreams are often cinematic and while they are happening I am both a character in them as well as watching the events unfold as if they are on a screen. When I wake up there will be remnants of what went on, but, as with most people, the memories quickly fade and I forget about them completely…
That is, until something happens during the day to trigger the memory back to my consciousness. In the last week this has happened three times and I feel only one of them can be explained by coincidence.
I won’t go into too much detail about the dreams themselves, but the first involved the band “Clap your hands say yeah” and talking with someone about the similarities between them and the band Geese. I woke up with one of their songs stuck in my head despite not having listened to them for at least several months. Later in the day at a bar I was shocked to see someone wearing a “Clap your Hands say Yeah” shirt. This wasn’t someone who I had previously spoken to about the band or seen wear the shirt.
The 2nd dream involved an imagined alternate final season to Euphoria and out of these 3 was easily the most vivid and lengthy. Later that day I was at a pride house party and one of my acquaintances started chatting about this season of Euphoria. Since Euphoria just ended and is a popular topic of discussion I feel this can be attributed to coincidence.
This third dream involved the 2000 horror/sci-fi film The Cell which I can attest I have not seen since it was released on video several decades ago. I would not call myself a fan of the movie and don’t even really remember what it was about aside from its striking visual presentation. While the other two Deja Reve experiences arose from social interactions, here the dream was recalled from a series of AI images that I found scrolling through X. While they were not directly taken from The Cell, it was clear they were inspired by it, and as I expected, several comments pointed this out.
Not looking for an explanation for any of this, but just found out that there is a name for this phenomenon and wanted to share my recent experience with it.