A question from an intro psych student to my TA:

"I had a question concerning the chapter on consciousness. How do psychologists explain the phenomenon of deja vu with regards to dreams? ... For me personally, I've dreamt about [something] the night before, and it happened the next day. "

Anyone have any answers? My TA answered the question well, and suggested a false correlation based on inaccurate memory may be at work here (i.e., we dream many things and don't pay any attention to the ones that don't turn out, but if one out of thousands happens to occur, we remember it), but the student was interested in whether there was any research on this.

Thanks again for your help,
Jessey Bernstein, M.A.
Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology
University of Rochester


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