Do you sometimes get your dreams mixed up with past memories?

A lot of times, I seriously think a dream happened in real life. I have a terrible memory, and dreams seem more real.

I will often think something happened that didn't. I wonder if I just dreamed those things.

After a night of drinking, yes

Sometimes my dreams reinforce memories. Especially those of an early age. My grandfather died when I was two but occasionally comes to me in my dreams. They're good dreams/memories.

I often have difficulty with distinguishing my dreams from real life. How do know that this "reality" isn't really a figment of our dreams? How do we know that our dreams are the true reality?

I also get dreams and memories mixed up. I'll be trying to remember something and then a "memory" will come up and I'll have to wonder whether it really happened or not. Most of the time, it seems that a fantasy/dream somehow got mixed in with the memory.

The kind of dreams which I usually have are due to or the reflection of my past incidents... but from amongst them also there have a lot of dreams which I never wanted to end and if I would wake up I would take some time to realize that they aren't true and just a dream..

no

YES .

One time I had a dream of myself when I was really little. It was like my past replaying itself in my dream, and there I was, this little girl. It was me. I was watching myself in my dream as the way I once was.

It was the way I looked when I was little, the way I sounded when I was little, it was me. And for some reason I woke up really depressed. And I don't really know if it was because I wanted to go back to that moment, or if that dream made me realize how much I changed over the years, and how sad that kinda made me feel.

I mean, it wasn't just the look that changed, it was everything. My demeanor. The way I saw life. The way I think the real me actually is. But unfortunately, I think I kinda lost who I once was when I grew up.

When I was a child yes.

and some of my older dreams feel a bit like memories

No but old memories often turn up in my dreams.