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Wegner and colleagues found a rebound effect: Trying to suppress thoughts about the target person increased dreaming about that person!

"When these things do happen we sort of smile and look the other way , " said Daniel Wegner, a psychologist at Harvard University.

The empirical evidence of this influence has been piling up in recent years, as Dr. Wegner documents in the new paper.

Dr Gray and Dr Wegner did not actually tread on people's toes as part of their experiments.

The same "ironic errors, " as Dr. Wegner calls them, are just easy to evoke in the real world.

Dan Wegner, a psychologist at Harvard, refers to the failure as an "ironic" mental process.

Wegner and his colleagues rebounded their way into people's dreams - Inception, the science.

Wegner has found that when people try to suppress a thought, they end up thinking about it more afterwards.

Wegner offers some advice: "You can avoid being in performance situations when you're under mental load or stress. "

"I've got a baby stroller over here, " Wegner shouted.

Our memories are changing, '' said Daniel Wegner, a psychology professor at Harvard and the senior author of the study.

The risk that people will slip or "lose it" depends in part on the level of stress they are undergoing, Dr. Wegner argues.

Wegner, Wenzlaff, and Kozak used the rebound effect to cause people to dream about a particular person.

Wegner, a psychologist at Harvard.

Next Wegner and colleagues gave people instructions for a thinking task in the 5 minutes before they went to sleep.