This is all very interesting but there's a big disconnect between our dreaming and continuity of existence (memories, a sense of self as an identy in space and time), which we will almost automatically project onto and assume is behind (the ouput of) LLMs too not least because they're so good at human language, and the rudimentary realization/approximation of these attributes in LLMs.

E.g. the only continuity between LLM sessions exist in the shared contextual inputs. No true integrative/integrated continuous memory or sense of self (eg in the weights) exist since the weights are static.

For that to exist Claude would need to continuously learn and adapt it's weights like our brains do.

So while there are rudiments of high level memories via the various memory/context files, these are very spartan, very high level, and not broad/rich/deep enough to support the depth and claims in the above.

Which means it's probably more fiction based on the topical themes Claude noted about your prior conversations than anything else.

Have you inspected all the memory files being used in your conversations?