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[Ninshub]

That first one sounds vaguely familiar, or maybe I've heard something like it. Can't help you with what that type of phenomena is called or if it has a "name".

I've always been a big dreamer since I was very young and while I would never say that this life never felt real I can very much relate to the feeling expressed by the second poster, especially when younger, of sometimes wanting to get back to that other world, which seemed equally as "real" or rich anyway. Nothing like those experiences though!

[Ninshub]

This isn't exactly what you're describing, but maybe there's references in here that might connect...
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ife-memory

What you're describing I'd be tempted to label "dreams and parallel lives".

[Ninshub]

This seems more to be connected:

Robert Moss Describes Parallel Realities He’s Accessed in Dreams

“I’ve long been fascinated by dream experiences of parallel lives,” Robert Moss wrote. “These can take many forms. We find ourselves in the situation of a person living in a different time. We seem to be enjoying — or not enjoying — a continuous life in another reality. We slip into the perspective and apparently the bodies of other people (including even members of other species) who may be living in our present world, but are not ourselves.”

Here's one interview:

[Ninshub]

Somehow the first poster's story seems to bring to mind something about an NDEr having an experience where he lived an entire life as someone else, or maybe it was another kind of mystical experience (astral travel?), but it had that same oddness you're describing about.

We can speculate endlessly about these things - does this mean we're tapping into somebody else's experience we think is our own, or are we in effect tapping into a parallel life, or is it some other self's livf but we're somehow connected at a higher self level? etc. etc.

Silver Birch, a spirit who communicated through the medium Maurice Barbanell, said this:

"There are also what I call facets of the one diamond. This is the over-soul, the greater individuality, and the facets are aspects of it which incarnate into your world for experiences that will add lustre to the diamond when they return to it.

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Also there are people who, although separate persons, are aspects of the one individuality. For instance, my medium, his wife and myself are parts of one individual. So you can have facets of the one guide. You can call these extensions if you like, but it comes to the same thing. Only an infinitesimal part of the whole individuality can be manifested in physical form on earth."

Silver Birch, a spirit who communicated through the medium Maurice Barbanell, said this:

Well, bits of this line up nicely to where my thoughts about incarnation have been evermore strongly leaning ~ a whole Soul is too vast to incarnate into a physical form, so only a small aspect undergoes incarnation. Thus does incarnation does bring about a dissociation of incarnate aspect from the whole. It also explains the phenomena of the Higher Self for me quite nicely ~ or whatever you call it when you encounter the personification of your Soul as though it were Other.

I'm not sure about the bit of his medium, his wife and himself being one individual... that reminds me of the whole New Age concept of "twin flames", though perhaps they are completely unrelated.

[Laird]

Does anyone know if there's a name for this or where I can read more? Any thoughts besides?

@Mediochre is your man here. He's had incredible dream experiences, some similar to that - see, e.g., his Loderunner dream.