Paradigms of human memory

[Amake]

How old were you when you first thought you might dream your future and wake up and still be as old as you were then? Because, presumably, you'll sometimes think back on that realization and wonder if that's what's happening, and feel like you may wake up to find out that your life since then has been a dream.

I was five or six, I can't remember which. But it means there's a part of me that's considering the possibility I'm still five or six and the entire world as I know it is a dream. I could wake up and be back in the village and know all these things I still don't have the prefrontal cortexal development or hormone production to understand, and some other things I could understand and mistakes I wouldn't have to make. Don't eat the yellow snow, use birth control, all that sort of thing. I definitely would get on the Internet earlier and spend more time there. What would you do?

The reason I'm asking is because I've decided the term for this phenomenon is "Memory overflow in the Matrix".

(If you don't have any idea what this is about, watch the beginning of Almost Famous.)