Lately, I've been having several dreams that I am in a house that looks very familiar. One I know was my childhood house, and it looked the same except that it had an upstairs. Another house seemed possibly like a lake house we used to visit in the summer (when I was in my 30's), but it was a little different.
The recurring issues are 1) I know the house...I know my way around and I know what is behind each door and I know which way the hallways go. 2) I'm always looking through drawers...sometimes a dresser, once a stack of plastic storage drawers, once a stacked wood drawer. When I am looking in the drawers, I find things that I actually remember from a long, long time ago... like a little plastic game with a couple bb's inside that you steadily roll into little holes. And in my dream, I even said, wow, I rememeber this...but I used to have 2 of them, and I look in the drawer again and sure enough, find the other one. I haven't thought about these toys since I don't know when but it was in my dream and I remember it. Also, I look at a closet of clothes hanging and I see old clothes that I actually had when I was much, much younger. I mean, I recognize the clothes!!! I don't think it has anything to do with being younger, it's more like a strong de ja vu feeling. And these dreams just HAUNT me for days and days as I try so hard to remember each and every thing I pull out of the drawer or closet. It's a GOOD feeling but it's strange because I don't think I could have possibly remembered ANY of these clothes games, etc in my conscious mind.