This question was sent to me through another forum, but it is interesting, and so I am posting it here to see if anyone has any information
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Huh, now I'm going to have to ask someone I know who dabbles in dream interprettation. It reminds me of when I dreamed of the live chickens at the checkout counter.
It also reminds me of how in my dreams I have Sets - the School, the Elevator, the Mall, and so on. Kinda like Joseph Campbell's idea that there's some underlying collective set of ideas, and these Sets are mine. Every time I have something set in a school, my dream world recycles the School set so it doesn't have to make up a new one.
If you're really into dreams, check out "The Sandman" graphic novel (comic book) series by Neil Gaiman.
I don't know if there's a term for that, but I've got a lot of those; places and people that I recognize (within the dream) from other dreams, that I've never seen in waking life. And the flying, of course - I've always flown in my dreams, and it feels so natural and automatic that I just never question it.
And in asking a someone I know who is an editor for one of the leading dictionaries out there, she had this to say:
The word I keep coming back to is "cryptomnesia," which the Med Dictionary defines as "the appearance in consciousness of memory images which are not recognized as such but which appear as original creations." That's pretty close. I think it was coined by Myers (of the Myers-Briggs Personality Test), and it refers to subliminal or hidden memories that are not apparent to the supraliminal consciousness.
But...you could come up with something that's based on "cryptomnesia" and "automnesia" ("memory of earlier experience without any apparent associative condition"), since what you're describing has to do with continuity. I guess that would be "autocryptomnesia"? No, sorry, "cryptautomnesia"--secret suddenly revising memories.
But if you want to go with the Greek "dream-memory," then yep, it's "oneiromnesia."
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It also reminds me of how in my dreams I have Sets - the School, the Elevator, the Mall, and so on. Kinda like Joseph Campbell's idea that there's some underlying collective set of ideas, and these Sets are mine. Every time I have something set in a school, my dream world recycles the School set so it doesn't have to make up a new one.
If you're really into dreams, check out "The Sandman" graphic novel (comic book) series by Neil Gaiman.
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The word I keep coming back to is "cryptomnesia," which the Med Dictionary defines as "the
appearance in consciousness of memory images which are not recognized as such but which appear
as original creations." That's pretty close. I think it was coined by Myers (of the
Myers-Briggs Personality Test), and it refers to subliminal or hidden memories that are not
apparent to the supraliminal consciousness.
But...you could come up with something that's based on "cryptomnesia" and "automnesia" ("memory
of earlier experience without any apparent associative condition"), since what you're describing
has to do with continuity. I guess that would be "autocryptomnesia"? No, sorry,
"cryptautomnesia"--secret suddenly revising memories.
But if you want to go with the Greek "dream-memory," then yep, it's "oneiromnesia."
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