This article was co-authored by Mari Cartagenova and by How.com.vn staff writer, Luke Smith, MFA. Mari Cartagenova is a Psychic Medium & Animal Communicator based in Westford, Massachusetts. Mari has been seeing and speaking to Spirits since she was a child, and she loves to share her psychic gifts and abilities to help others. She specializes in mediumship, intuitive psychic guidance, past life or soul reading, and animal communication. Mari is the 2019 Award-Winning Best American Psychic and a Certified Advanced Spirit Worker.
This article has been fact-checked, ensuring the accuracy of any cited facts and confirming the authority of its sources.
This article has been viewed 6,385 times.
You’re going about your day when you get the striking, uncanny feeling that you’ve already done this before, but in your dreams. “Déjà rêvé” is the term for this eerie sensation, and while it may seem like a sort of omen, the explanation might be more scientific than you think. We took a look at the academic research and spoke to psychic medium Mari Cartagenova to get to the bottom of what Déjà rêvé is, why it happens, and how you should interpret it.
Things You Should Know
- Déjà rêvé is the feeling that you’ve already dreamed something that happened in your waking life.
- Déjà rêvé is most likely caused by your brain remembering its own dreams, prompted by familiar or relevant events you experience while awake.
- Déjà rêvé may also be caused by “thin boundaries” between some people’s thoughts, memories, feelings, and dreams, causing them to overlap.
Steps
Why does déjà rêvé happen?
- Déjà rêvé may be your brain recollecting memories or past dreams. Research is still ongoing, but experts think that déjà rêvé may have something to do with the way our brains “store” dreams, recalling them when we encounter something in our waking life that resembles those dream-memories.[4]
- Researchers in a study in 2018 were able to trigger déjà rêvé in epilepsy patients by delivering an electric brain stimulation, suggesting that the brain can recall specific dreams under certain conditions.
- Researchers suggest that the brain’s left hemisphere might “encode” or store and interpret dreams, while the right hemisphere contains the actual “materials” of the dreams.
- Déjà rêvé may be caused by overlapping thoughts or feelings. A study in 2010 suggests that déjà experiences may be more common in people with “thin” boundaries between mental states, or for whom thoughts, memories, feelings, and dreams tend to crowd or overlap, making it more difficult to distinguish each.[5]
- The study suggests that déjà experiences may occur because of crossed wires (so to speak) between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, which are each responsible for different functions.
Expert Q&A
Tips
Expert Interview
Thanks for reading our article! If you’d like to learn more about dreams, check out our in-depth interview with Mari Cartagenova.
References
- ↑ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X18300792
- ↑ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X18300792#bib34
- ↑ https://health.clevelandclinic.org/deja-vu-what-it-is-and-when-it-may-be-cause-for-concern/
- ↑ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X18300792#sec4
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45360059_The_frequency_of_deja_vu_deja_reve_and_the_effects_of_age_dream_recall_frequency_and_personality_factors
- ↑ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X18300792#sec4
- ↑ https://health.clevelandclinic.org/deja-vu-what-it-is-and-when-it-may-be-cause-for-concern/
About This Article
Did this article help you?
⚠️ Disclaimer:
Content from Wiki How English language website. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License; additional terms may apply.
Wiki How does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain, or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein.
- - A few of these subjects are frequently censored by educational, governmental, corporate, parental and other filtering schemes.
- - Some articles may contain names, images, artworks or descriptions of events that some cultures restrict access to
- - Please note: Wiki How does not give you opinion about the law, or advice about medical. If you need specific advice (for example, medical, legal, financial or risk management), please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.
- - Readers should not judge the importance of topics based on their coverage on Wiki How, nor think a topic is important just because it is the subject of a Wiki article.