Have you ever had a dream about being a place you've never been, and days or years later, you end up there?

This has happened to me many times in my life.... as a child, I would dream that we went somewhere we'd never been, and the next day, we would go there. I never questioned it. As I got older, it happened less. The most recent incident was two days ago, when we went to look at an old house that is for sale. I walked into the upstairs master bedroom, and for nearly a minute I was very disoriented, feeling like I had been there before. Two or three times in my teens and early twenties I had dreamed about going into a room that looked exactly like that one, frantically looking for something, knowing I wasn't supposed to be there. It could be brushed off as coincidence, but this room has an odd shape, and is painted a color not normally seen in bedrooms. Even the closet was the same. The furnishings were different, but it was the same room as in my dream. That is what inspired this survey.

No.

I don't think so, but, I really don't remember my dreams so this may be a hard one for me to answer knowledgeably.

Yes floating out of my body and being in that place

> I don't think so, but, I really don't remember my dreams so this may
> be a hard one for me to answer knowledgeably.

An out of body experience'

I have had deja vu many times, especially when I have been in places that are linked to the civil war period. There are a lot of places all over Charleston SC that I always feel that I have been there before. I don't think I've ever dreamed about these places though. It could be that I read a lot about the civil war period.

Can't say that I have.

all the time

I'm sure this has happened many times. One in particular comes to mind. I often have dreams about this place where the buildings are quite old and there are many layers of bright multi-coloured paint on the walls. A few years ago, I was dating this woman and we went to a restaurant near her home, in an area I haven't spent very much time in. I don't think it really clicked at first, when we were seated, but when I got up to use the gents it hit me. Big time déjà vu!

No.

No, but I do have another story. In a lot of my dreams, I am in a place or places that continually appear but are NOT places I have ever been to in real life. A nightclub or outside restaurant I will be at time and time again, every detail the same....but is in no way resembling a real place that I have been. It kinda leads me to believe that our dreams may be our reality...you just never know.

Yes, and New York was pretty much what I dreamt about. That and the million or so times I'd seen new York City in movies...

Probably, but I'm not sure. It's not often I remember my dreams. There's been several times I've had the deja vu feeling when I've gone somewhere for the first time, though.

Several years ago, I had a dream and, in it, there was a man I'd never seen. He didn't play a major role in the dream, he was just there. A little while later, I was visiting my then-sister-in-law at work (Waffle House). We were sitting there talking and this man came in and sat at the table behind us. I knew I'd seen him before, but couldn't figure out where from. After sitting there a few minutes, trying to figure it out, it hit me that he was the man in that dream. Talk about a weird feeling. And, of course, my dumb ass turns to him and asks him why he's in my dreams. He thought I was nuts, I'm sure.

I don't think so.

This is more like what happens to me. Places & buildings that only exist in my dreams, the same ones popping up regularly.

Yep. Long ago I dreamed of a map of San Francisco whilst living in Los Angeles. At that time I'd not yet been to SF but the dream made me want to check it out. So I went there on vacation within a year or so, and ended up moving there as I decided I liked S.F. more than L.A. The bright yellow city map had a street called "Peralta" that I remembered. This street turned out to be in a neighborhood called Bernal Hts. and I ended up moving there; it turned out to be my favorite SF neighborhood. Another remembered street on the map was "Cheney." The dream map listed a "Chenery" which was the next hill over in the Glen Park neighborhood; which I visited and found I liked a lot. I have had various deja vus in my life.

Probably. But then I don't stay in just one location, I do tend to ... go places.

This is something I do too. They're urban outdoor locations though.

For me, these places have an atmosphere of their own but I seem to remember them (in my dreams), as being there before...though I do not associate being there in dreams. One is a specific nightclub with three levels and an entire wall-window that over looks the sea. I have never been to such a place in my waking life...but over, and over...in dreams...I am there. Another is a Mexican cafe on the end of a tourist peninsula....a French restaurant in Beverly Hills...and I know none of these places really exist!

I'm so glad to know that I am not the only one. Sometimes I believe I will come across a certain dream place in real waking life....but it hasn't happened yet. Do you suppose I'm visiting Heaven in my dreams but really have no way of knowing it?

That's a cool way of thinking about it! I, however, have always considered all this deja-vu and strange-dream stuff to mean that I'm remembering various past lives -- because some of it has been so persistent. Being a Buddhist I've believed in reincarnation many years anyway. I think some of us just tend to remember more than others.

Or maybe we are living within other dimensions of life (I know that is not a Buddhist belief) and we cross over them in our dreams, as all our 'selves' share the same mind. We visit our own other dimensions. I have heard this theory once but I think it was a rerun of "Lost In Space".

Yes, but I'm, not recalling it now so it must not have been real exciting.

Even cooler ! I love that idea.

Yes, there is speculation that there is a 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th dimension. Actually, I took a college course that targeted this theory having to do with folding over time and space to create these 'other' realities occurring at the same time as our own. It was very confusing and, along with my nursing courses...found it more work than I could handle.

I wish they could PLEASE find a way to put all that in a book that features easy to understand languange. It makes more sense than not and I'd like to find out more about it. Sounds absolutely fascinating.

I remember this: we had to draw a one dimensional box, build a three dimensional box...and somehow fold them upon each other to create a 4th dimensional illusion. The professor would go off on wild tangents while my build box usually fell apart half way through class.

I wish I knew your professor in person, as in my neighbor -- so I could listen to his wild tangents !

Look up 4th dimensional math on google, in your area, and see what you come up with.

Ok ! THANKS. I would never have thought to do that.

no, but in elementary school, my dad was picking me up and the day before he was looking at this one motorcycle. after school i thought, "I wonder if dad will pick me up on that motorcycle." and he did, it was pretty cool

Yes. Natchez, Mississippi

I've had a ton of deja vu experiances. They are almost always wierd little nothing deals though.

a friends house. It was just as in my dream.

yes

the beach at a resort