Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the person who had the dreams, so it feels more like a weird echo of something that already happened to you a long time ago.

M.R. Carey
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Melanie is trying to say she doesn't know if her dreams will come true. What if her dreams do come true and then she's not the same person who had those dreams? It's like she's already forgotten what it felt like to be that person and now her past self no longer exists and she has no idea who that person was.

Source: The Girl With All The Gifts

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