Flash backs during the day

[kiwibonga]

Who here experiences "flashbacks" throughout the day?

I'm going through a phase where I'll see things around the house that will remind me of situations involving these objects that never actually occurred.

The first time it happened was a week after my first two OBEs (a few months ago), I grabbed my laptop and had a sudden flashback to a dream/OBE I had the night before where I walked on the laptop and broke it in half. I clearly remember trying to turn it on and noticing purple flashes coming from the cracked screen.

I went to the kitchen and had a sudden flashback of a dream/OBE where my mom visited me and was talking to me -- the conversation never physically happened.

This has happened sporadically throughout the months, but this week is particular... I'm having lots of non-physical memories that surface as soon as I see something related.

I got my wallet from the desk this morning, and had a flashback of a dream I had the night before where I had lost my wallet, and found it lying in the sand, half buried.

I went on facebook (www.facebook.com) and suddenly remembered a search I made while dreaming. I was looking to get in touch with a girl I met at the bus station in waking life, and while I was successful in finding her in the dream, when I tried looking for her today she wasn't in the search results.

I've been playing a video game for the past few days, and I just couldn't remember where the story had left off -- I played right before going to bed, and actually dreamt that I was still playing. Since it's a RPG, a lot of the actions are repetitive, so I dreamt that I continued the game from where I left off, and when I actually went to pick it up again in waking life, I realized I hadn't progressed since I put the game down... Logical, but the dream memories had somehow welded with real memories.

There's also a lot of disturbing memory anomalies -- remembering buying things I never actually bought (food-related), or looking for things in the wrong places because they were in different places in the dream.

Now, these problems are minor and not very bothersome, and I don't think they could escalate to a point where I'll wake up and believe that all my dreams were real events... What I'm wondering, though, is how common this is... Is it a common side effect of OBE practice or meditation?

Any idea if they are really flashbacks to dreams or created on the spot? Finding out the exact timeframe is difficult -- sometimes I won't know how "old" the dream memory is... I wonder if I'm experiencing sudden "mind splits" where I'm day-dreaming.

I'm working hard on developing clairvoyant abilities, but I'm not sure if this could be a sign that something is happening... I've read a lot about bringing consciousness outside of the body, but I've read very little about bringing higher consciousness into waking life, so I really don't know how to track my progress!

Any recommendations?

[Woah]

I'm sorry but I can't really help you, other than say that I get my dream memories mingled with my real memories all of the time! I will be mad at a person for days before realizing it was something they did in a dream. I also have that video game problem all the time too, losing my wallet as well.

[jalef]

yeah i also have this all the time. it started to get confusing since i started meditating and energy work. before i did this my dreams were not lucid or vivid and i could diferentiate quite good but now...
i think this isnt a problem with dreams that you actively recall in the morning because for this memories you know that they are dreams, so i would suggest developing a better dream recall.

[catmeow]

Yeah, I have the same issue.  But I suspect that the dreams may well be prophetic and when the event happens in real life you are instantly reminded of the dream which "predicted" the event.  Prophetic dreams don't need to be world-shaking - just little things that happen throughout the day.  It doesn't bother me...