For instance, you may dream of having a conversation with a friend, visiting a place from your past, or experiencing a moment of success or failure. The emotions felt in these dreams can be so intense that they linger long after we wake up, adding to the confusion of whether the dream was a memory or a creation of our subconscious. The phenomenon of dream deja vu is also common, where we dream of situations that seem eerily familiar, as if we have experienced them before.

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