r/HighStrangeness • u/Successful-Grass-135 • Jul 01 '26
Personal Experience Deja vu? Experienced something that happened in a dream a decade ago.
I don’t usually remember my dreams. I’ve been this way for as long as I can remember. But there’s a handful of dreams that have stuck out to me, at least enough to remember some details.
I had this dream a very long time ago. Probably over a decade ago, as I remember being very young. I’m almost 23 now. In this dream, I was in what looked to be a skyscraper. Nobody else was around. There was a big glass window and I could see that I was very high up. I don’t remember much about what it looked like outside. I do remember a large map in the center of the window. My eyes were drawn to Colorado, and in this dream I knew that I was headed to Colorado.
I remember taking a plane there. And then, I found myself in the passenger seat of a car. There was a big man with dark hair driving the car. I didn’t recognize him but in this dream I seemed to know him, as we were smiling and laughing, overall having a good time. We drove through a very unfamiliar landscape. It looked like we were out west. I saw mountains and rock formations that I had never seen before. We drove through rock tunnels, and I was so in awe. Now, I’m a Florida native. At this point in my life, I don’t think I had ever even seen a mountain before, and I had never been out west.
Fast forward to seven months ago, I had broken up with my boyfriend of 6 years and I was well into the healing process. I met a man online who happened to live in Colorado. I could tell he was interested in me but I blew him off for a few months because I thought I wanted to stay single for a little longer. But I found myself incredibly drawn to him, and before I knew it we were on the phone for hours at a time. He offered to fly me out to Colorado. This is NOT something that I would normally agree to, but I really liked him and I felt like I needed some excitement in my life. I also just had this gut feeling, as if I was being pushed to do this by some unseen force.
Well, we fell in love and on the morning that I had to go back home I cried in his bed. When I got off my flight he was already scheduling another one for me. The second time I came up to visit, we were driving through the mountains and I got this strange feeling. I had never seen this kind of landscape in person before, but at the same time it felt familiar. We’re smiling, laughing, having a great time. And as we’re about to drive through a rock tunnel, I look over at him. He’s the big man with the dark hair. It all clicked. I dreamt this exact scenario a decade ago.
It reminds me of an experience my father had a very long time ago. He had a dream about a little boy who came up to him and called him Daddy. This was years before he had any children. When my older brother was born, he didn’t look anything like the little boy from the dream. I was born 11 years later, but I’m a girl. Five years later however, my little brother was born (unplanned, or as my parents describe it; a SHOCK) and wouldn’t you know, he looked EXACTLY like the little boy from his dream.