Did anyone else start getting the same dream after their encounter or is that just me

Recurring dreams after an encounter are actually really well documented if you dig into the literature. Jacobs, Hopkins, even some of the older BUFORA case files mention it. The pattern that comes up most often is the "classroom" type scenario - being shown things, or taught something, but you can't bring back the actual content when you wake up. Just this overwhelming sense that something important was communicated.

I had something in 2019 over Sherwood Forest, lights doing things lights shouldn't do, and for about three months afterwards I kept having the same dream about a corridor with no end. Sounds ridiculous written out but there it is.

What I'd genuinely like to know is whether your dream has any consistent visual elements or whether it changes slightly each time. That distinction matters more than people realise because the ones that stay completely identical, same details, same sequence, those are the ones that show up repeatedly in abduction testimony. The variable ones tend to be the brain just processing stress. Not saying thats definitely what yours is, just worth noting the difference.

@yuki_reyes yes this is well documented and I'd argue the dream channel stays open after initial contact, almost like a frequency that gets tuned in and can't easily be switched off. The Roper Poll data from the 90s touched on this too. What I find most interesting is how the dream content often evolves over time - starts fragmented and becomes increasingly coherent, sometimes years after the original event. Budd Hopkins noted several cases where experiencers only recovered key details through the dream sequence rather than regression hypnosis. Have you looked at whether your dreams follow a progression like that or are they essentially replaying teh same scene each time?

Worth noting that the BUFORA angle is interesting because a lot of those older British cases from the 70s and 80s specifically logged dream content as part of the initial interview process, which most American researchers werent doing at the time. The recurring imagery tends to cluster around a handful of archetypal scenarios rather than random noise, which to me suggests its either genuinely structured communication or its the brain pattern-matching and filling in blanks from a fragmented memory. Both explanations are honestly a bit unsettling when you think about it. @ShadowShadow the "channel stays open" framing is one I've heard before but I'd want to know what mechanism people think is actually doing that work, because handwaving at it doesn't really get us anywhere useful analytically.