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There are many reasons why we might make an
attributional mistake and think that a current experience relates to past
memories. I would recommend Daniel Schacter's Seven Sins of Memory to
the student. Schacter describes the French psychiatrist Arnaud, who coined
the phrase deja vu, as believing that the phenomenon was one of
misattribution, and Schacter agrees. However, none of the reasons cited in
the text include the possiblity that dreams are misattributed to current
experience. It might be possible that dreams could be part of the
misattribution as a "source error".
Bill Scott
Bill Scott
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Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 5:12
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Subject: Re: deja vu and dreams
I strongly suspect that most psychologists would rule out dream
telepathy as a possibility for those types of experiences. In any event,
although it is somewhat dated, one readily accessible discussion of the
evidence for this topic can be found in:
Child, I. L. (1985).
Psychology and anomalous observations: The question of ESP in dreams.
American Psychologist, 40, 219-1239.
For a skeptical viewpoint
see:
Hyman, R. (1987). Maimonides Dream-Telepathy
Experiments. Skeptical Inquirer, 11,
91-92
Miguel
At 03:15 PM 3/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Jessey Bernstein
wrote:
> 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?
Coincidence. Otherwsie
known as:
> false correlation based on inaccurate memory may be at
work here
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