Ive, since the time I was young, have been conscious in my dreams so that I could tell it was only a dream. Not until about for years ago did I start noticing that the dreams that seemed much more real were dreams that were actually occurring in real life. At first it really threw me off. I had a dream about me getting into a car accident and then climbing out of my car. As I climbed out of my car in the dream I read the billboard that my vehicle had stopped on. One week later I took a road I had never traveled on to see a old friend in the next town over. It was raining pretty heavy and I hydroplaned. As my truck came to a stop I realized that my truck was sideways. As I climbed out of the vehicle I realized I had stopped on the very same billboard from my dream.
After this happened it would occur more and more in my life. It got to the point that it really even through off my daily life. I could tell a big difference in a normal dream and a dream that seemed to have forbearance. I tried to tell my friends about it one time, but they just laughed it off and told me not to worry so much. The thing is I'm the one that most times was laid back and tell everyone else not to worry all the time.
As I notice a dream occurring it has the same feel as deja vu and at times it can just be overwhelming. The main reason it seems like too much is because it seems as though I mainly have dreams about tragic occurrences. I have no idea why this is, but it takes its toll and it's becoming a bit much to deal with. Its really been about 4 years since this started and it really seems like its only getting stronger. At this point I wouldn't mind advice on any level.
I've had several dreams that I remembered that had an event tail off a few days later ever since I was young. Two that stand out completely for me: 1) I had a dream as a kid that the building we lived in in NY was on fire. I was in my bedroom and in front of me was the actual dresser in my room with a lifelike bust of Jesus Christ. In the dream, the fire was rising behind the wall with the bust on it. I tried to get out of bed but the blanket had me pinned down. The eyes on the bust moved and looked at me and the mouth moved and a deep voice told me to lay back down. I was crying and scared but closed my eyes in my sleep. I then woke up in my dream and saw ashes all around, though my bed and my parents bed were safe even though all the walls were burnt down. A few days later, there was a bad fire on an upper floor in our building (though thankfully, it never burnt the building or our apt. Down.
Another dream was one I had (that I won't go into detail here on but may post about) regarding dreaming about 9/11 happening two days before it happened. To this day, it is easily the scariest dream in my life as it really happened. I was about 4 or 5 with the first dream, and I was 24 when I had the 9/11 dream two days prior to its occurrence.
I've had other deja vu type dreams (sad, happy, nonsense dreams) in the past too that I slightly remembered but remembered more in detail only after the event happened, and I would say "hold on, I remember dreaming about this" and someone would ask me and it's as though I remember even saying in the dream that I dreamt about it so the dream seems to continue for a moment more in real life. I don't know any other advice that would help other than trying to jot down or remember your dreams as much as you can when you awake (for me, it seemed the more I remembered a dream, the chance of it not happening seemed to be more of the case, though there were still instances that it did, such as 9/11). Maybe if you do more meditation and try to focus or hone in on your abilities, you'll have better outcomes with it.