Does someone know how to call this? Dream related.

[knimren]

In my life I have experienced it a lot of times. You are having a dream and when you wake up you tend to forget it. I know it's normal to lose more and more fragments of your dream during your day.
But sometimes it happens that you have a dream where you do something and you almost forget it completely and then something
similiar or even the same happens to you. On some random day. Weeks and even months after you had this dream.
Or you are doing the exact same thing that you have dreamed of and you completely realize it in the moment you do it or where it happens to you.
And you just think: "Wait a minute. I think I have experienced this before."

Does someone know how you call this? I always called it some kind of "future dreams". I just never remember anything from that dream until I experience it again on a random day.

[Shier]

Deja-vu?

[Cureless]

I get that a lot too, where I'll dream of doing something insignificant at some time then later in life I wind up in that exact situation.
Would be some shit to dream of dying and then have that happen in the same fashion.

I just refer to it as 'visions' since Deja Vu specifies just the feeling that something has happened before, not actually seeing it and then reliving it.

[editline]August 1st 2013[/editline]

I've tried to defeat this many times by altering the future so to say. By that I mean I'll have a dream of the future, but be aware that I'm in a dream at the same time and think "This is what I'm going to think.", so that when I meet up with that event in real time I can think of something else to break the cycle. But alas, all I ever do is repeat the thought I made during the original viewing of the event and nothing changes.

Now-a-days, I just accept and ignore it. Though it sure fucks with my grasp of reality when things like this happen.