Is this a normal thing? It’s been happening for the last couple of years, but recently I’ve noticed it happening more often. I have a dream in which, for example I have a conversation with someone I know, but don't remember it the morning as a dream….and then at some point days later I remember the dream as an actual event which I believe really happen. I’ve often confronted people for things they never actually said or did – sometimes I find out/work out whole days lodged in my memory which never happened at all. At first I thought it was quite interesting but now I’m starting to wonder just how much of my life really did happen….Its like i'm losing my grip on reality...
Does anyone have any insights on this?
The only thing I have to compare this experience to was when I went back to work in grocery retail after being self employed for over a decade.
Much had changed in the employment world and I took on a graveyard shift job and had to learn about computerized systems, deal with personality and human rights issues from co-workers, memorize the descriptions and locations of over 10,000 products and all done at a break neck pace.
Physical and emotional overload working many hours of overtime after being used to doing all my work by appointment at my own discretion.
I would dream that I was at work, doing my job, dealing with the people and operational difficulties, awaking exhausted.
At the point where I woke up, I knew that I had been dreaming, because then it was time to get ready and go to work to do it all over again in real time. :bugeye:
You say that this has been happening for the last couple of years. Are there any changes in your job or your health, or is there any question of job security looming on your event horizon?
From my own experience, I would wonder if anxiety is at the root of your present difficulty in separating dream reality from the three dimensional.
Anxiety brings out creative actions from within, as our mind examines issues from perspectives that we may not have considered until challenged.