“Dream Deja vu.” First encounter. Walking down the street, way home from work, I pass a woman who I’d served earlier, during my shift, and who I know also to be a server. She acknowledges me but I don’t acknowledge her at first.
Second encounter, seems to be down the same stretch of street, same situation, the woman is a little taller and wearing something notably blue. She acknowledges me and I don’t acknowledge her, but now she pats me on the back a few times when she passes, in a friendly jovial way, as if to say, heh! I’m here!
During what I’m calling the second encounter, I have the strong sense that the first encounter occurred in a previous dream, but I think it’s more likely that either (a) the first encounter occurred earlier in the same dream or (b) the first encounter was a memory of a dream that never actually occurred. That is, in my dream I had remembered, but my memory was an invention of the dream.