From: The New York Times
Are You Dreaming of a ‘Mall World’? You’re Not Alone
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Dylan Selterman, a scientist who works as an associate teaching professor at the Johns Hopkins University department of psychological and brain sciences, and studies dreams, said there was no scientific research that backed any of those Mall World theories.
“If people are reporting very similar specific physical features of the mall in their dreams, we don’t have any evidence for the collective subconscious or some kind of telepathy that would explain that,” Dr. Selterman said in an interview. “It could be a coincidence. It could also be a form of social contagion, like if somebody says, ‘I had this dream about a mall,’ and then it’s now in the discourse, people might be picking up on that, and then it gets incorporated into their dreams.”
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