how did I get the same dream?

Question

i remember dreaming about that i was jumping really high and really far and i can actually feel that dream, but that dream was about 4 or 5 months ago and i got that dream again last night. how did i get that dream again?

Answer 1

Hi Chris

The simple answer is: "You probably did NOT have the same dream again. Just two dreams which were similar in some respects."

FWIW, most people go through 3-4 periods of REM sleep (which is when we usually dream) EVERY NIGHT. That's at least 20 REM periods each week, and at least 180 periods over two months.
Moreover we aren't necessarily limited to just one storyline in each period of REM sleep.

So having two similar dreams in 4 or 5 months is nothing unusual.

As a matter of interest:

The purpose of dreams, as far as we understand them, is to process the vast amount of information that comes in through your senses each day whilst you're awake.

On this basis the "meaning" of our dreams is simply that we are making sense of information which previously didn't have a "meaning", for us, because it hadn't been processed so as to fit into our mental maps of the world (all your existing beliefs, ideas, values, etc.).

Given this purpose, there will always be something in each dream, though we may not remember it, which ties the dream to recent "real life" events. However most of the things which appear in our dreams may have nothing to do with what has been happening in our life just before the dream occurs. Things can appear in a dream that have been part of the dreamer's memories as far back as they first started forming memories - or anytime in between then and now.

Nor do the things in your dreams have to be obviously related to each other. Like I said, dreaming is a process of finding/making meaning, and the brain can draw from anywhere in its huge store of memories in order to carry out that process.

By the way, there is nothing random about this process, but your subconscious mind can come up with connections that your conscious mind would never dream of (!), which is why dreams often seem pretty weird. Like dreaming that you are jumping really high and really far.

So when, if ever, you happen to notice yourself having what seems like a weird dream in future you can literally rest assured that everything is OK. Your brain is actually doing, with great skill, one of the many jobs it was designed to do

Answer 2

Recurring dreams usually mean there is something in your life you've not acknowledged that is causing stress of some sort. The dream repeats because you have not corrected the problem. Another theory is that people who experience recurring dreams have some sort of trauma in their past they are trying to deal with. In this case, the dreams tend to lessen with time.

Answer 3

Dreams are often repeated when you think about the issue alot because the neurological paths are easier to get to in the brain.

Dreams often represent something you want or need this could be in your conscious mind or unconscious.

Answer 4

Maybe You subconsciously double clicked?