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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Picture-perfect flashbacks, no; flashbacks that were obviously brain's reinterpretation of events, and similar enough to real events that they could have been real, yes. Ditto people showing up as recognizably themselves, even if the dream-setting is not one in which they ever appeared.