Subject: Michelle
When I was younger (from around nine years old to about my junior year of high school), I would constantly experience vivid dreams about people and events that had happened in my life. Until recently, my ability to dream more or less vanished, but I still remember many of the dreams I had when I was a kid, especially the one time I had a dream that actually happened in real life a few days later.
I was about 11 years old and my entire junior high school of about 100 students and teachers were going to the beach for a school trip. A few days before the trip I had a vivid dream about the entire trip. I remember dreaming about the students on the bus singing "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey on the way to the beach, then getting off the bus and running over to a concession stand that was on the beach. I vividly remember dreaming about students playing beach volleyball, swimming in the sea, and playing other games throughout the day. Then, before I woke up, I remember dreaming about the ride back to the school and looking around the school bus and suddenly realizing that I was remembering the dream that I was having at the time.
The crazy thing is that everything that occurred in the dream happened during my school's trip, in order, including the part when I realized I had a dream about the experience just a few days prior. I was completely spooked by the dream, and never told any of my family or friends about it.
Recently, I have had more and more dreams that have come true. I don't know why it has happened again, but it really scares me at times. Sometimes when I remember a dream again, it feels like a fog lifting from my brain for a split second, just before it falls again. This feeling really scares me though. Maybe someone can help me out.

Comments
Michelle,
I am pretty sure this sort of cognitive effects were studied deeply. Technically it is called a "deja vu" a French word which means "already seen". I came across one or two articles explaining how at the origin of these false beliefs there is a sort of short-circuit in the neural structure of the brain.
It is perfectly normal. Don't worry.
I hope it helps.
Mauro
Posted by: Mauro | May 27, 2008 02:08 PM