And my pillow was gone

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It occurs to me that, at least for me, the cinematic - or even literary - depiction of dreams is as consistently technically incorrect as the depiction of computers. Does anyone really have dreams that are picture-perfect flashbacks of things that happened earlier to them in waking life? Or that are even recognizably flashbacks at all?

I'm a little more willing to believe stories about recurring dreams, but I don't think they're really all that common. When I hear someone on the screen saying "I still see her face in my dreams every night" I'm like "No you don't, you liar. Last night you dreamt of a penguin wearing a bikini that was trying to give you a green lollipop but you wanted a purple one and suddenly you were making out with it, and maybe in retrospect you figure that the penguin was supposed to be her, but it's rather an oversimplification to abstract the whole deal as 'her face'. But, whatever."

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I've had weirdly-distorted flash-backy things, where I'm in a familiar place (a mountain I used to ski as a kid, say) but nothing remotely picture-perfect (it isn't any particular day, and nothing that actually happened happens).

Also nothing strictly recurring, although one particular past g/f showed up in my dreams (not like that) a significant number of times during the course of a subsequent relationship. I never used to take those "she is haunting my dreams" things seriously until that happened, but I can attest that it does. Those particular dreams were realistic and detailed, and we were doing the kind of things we had actually done, like hiking and sailing and canoeing.