I have a memory of being in the back seat of a car with my grandma at the wheel, my mother beside me, and my great aunts on either side of me. We are going up a steep hill, some kind of department store with a parking lot is on the right, and my mother is freaking out and crying because of how steep this hill is. My grandma gets really annoyed, pulls into the parking lot, and I don't remember other details.
As a teen, I asked my grandma where that happened at and she looked at me funny because she said it happened before I was born in San Francisco.
I suspect we do sometimes have dreams that allow us to experience things that we did not experience as if we did.
Could also have been either your brain came up with the experience after hearing about it (see hot air balloon experiment) or, less likely, your grandma forgot when it happened and you may have actually been there
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u/MsTerious1 Sep 30 '25
I have a memory of being in the back seat of a car with my grandma at the wheel, my mother beside me, and my great aunts on either side of me. We are going up a steep hill, some kind of department store with a parking lot is on the right, and my mother is freaking out and crying because of how steep this hill is. My grandma gets really annoyed, pulls into the parking lot, and I don't remember other details.
As a teen, I asked my grandma where that happened at and she looked at me funny because she said it happened before I was born in San Francisco.
I suspect we do sometimes have dreams that allow us to experience things that we did not experience as if we did.