Is it normal that i randomly remember dreams from years ago?

Its the weirdest thing ever. I will be randomly driving or laying down or doing anything and out of nowhere i would remember a dream from the past. It could be from a couple of months to 10 years in the past. Sometimes its vivid other times its bits and peices. I want to know why this happens and if it happens to anyone else

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  • lonelysoul

    This is more than just remembering dreams. They randomly pop up in my head. Its usually dreams that i dont remember at all. Its like having a dream tonight and not remebering it than it pops up 10 years later

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  • zchristian

    I still remember a dream i had when i was 5-6 years old...

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  • indecisive

    It happened dreams, thoughts, memories, and i remember some scenes in my head of when i was 4. I want to know also the cause.

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  • 62704

    This has happened to me a couple times. One example was when I was 11, I suddenly had a dream "pop-up" from when I was 7 or 8. It was soo weird.

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  • The_Gnome

    It is likely you have a very intuitive mind that makes random neural connections: therefore a thing your sub-conciousness (thought) it saw whilst driving fired off a quick succession of neural activity, thus causing you to remember a deep-seated memory from long ago...
    and depending on the circumstances at the time e.g. waking abruptly during the dream will make you forget the details of the dream, or waking up at the end of the dream and spending ages going over most every detail will make it a crystal clear memory...

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