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I wouldn't call what you're describing "déjá vu;" that's more like when you're awake, but feel like you're reliving a particular point in time that you think you haven't. I can see why you would think that, though; as you said, it was a while later when you got the feeling. It's likely that you just forgot about your dream for a while.

What you're describing is more like plain precognitive dreams. It was a while between the entries, so although you may not have remembered the dream, it's more like recalling a memory than déjá vu.

This leaves me with an interesting question to pose: Could it be that déjá vu is simply someone forgetting their precognitive dreams, and so causing a bit of shock when they come true?

Hmm...Now I'm interested to see if anyone else here has dream journaled as thoroughly as you did. 3nodding

wow that's odd, I'm going to start recording my dreams and days and see if that happens to me.

I sometimes have deja vu, ad other times where I see my entire future, I forget it as soon as I see it though. Deja vu is deffinately real, and I think you really have a talent, see what other events repeat, you could be amazed.

Again, that's more precognition (and dreams about such are called "precognitive"). Déjá vu is the feeling that you've experienced something before, and you don't know why.

I've had many déjá vu's before, but I also have a lot of precognitive dreams.
It's become pretty much regular for me, and I've gotten used to it. It used to drive me crazy when I felt like I'd already done something before when I knew I hadn't, but I've also had a lot of strange things happen to me in the time between.
I have extremely strong precognitive dreams (among others), though, to the point where I refuse to sleep for days. I have dreams about things that will happen, down to the smallest detail, I also have dreams about things that have happened in the past, that I could have no idea about. Those dreams are the scary ones, though, because they're usually very painful and I feel that pain even after I wake up and it stays with me, because I'm usually a first-person party. (I've actually had it happen to me this week. My boyfriend was telling me about his grandmother's house in New York and how she says the house is evil and haunted and refuses to go into the old part of the house, because there was a man that lived there that would adopt children and would punish them by locking them in the basement and some of them starved to death. I had dreams about that basement for years, before I even met my boyfriend or knew who he was, and ended up describing that basement, the rest of the house, the man- who was a drunk, that he had a wife, and I told him that he was downplaying the story because he didn't just lock the kids down in the basement, but tortured them to death, I described the cage that was built into the wall- which my boyfriend told me was taken out- and other details down to where the window was and what the floors were made of. Hence the reason why I don't like sleeping, because most of my dreams consist of things like that.)
I also have a lot of dreams about the people I'm going to meet and the places I'm going to see. I often think back and wonder if I had done some things differently if it had been able to change my fate, or if things would have still ended up like they are now. I've known that I was going to date every guy I've dated since I was 16, how it was going to happen, what was going to happen and how it was going to end (for example). I tried the experiment of doing things differently than I had forseen myself doing it, but the result still ended the same with our break up. Maybe the dreams are just showing us what lessons we are to expect in life, and that we are all guided by fate.
I don't know.

On that note, I've often sat down and really wondered if some of the dreams that we have about the far future are really dreams or if the future will really be like what some of us dream it will be like.

I read some where (probably wikepidia) that they therorise that the subconciouse part of the brain notices things that we miss and while dreaming it could be a time for the subconciouse to put things together and show you the results..... Sounds resonable (I misspelled some stuff sory sweatdrop )

That's hell eek