Lar's Dreaming FAQ
4. Paranormal issues
4.1. Can dreams predict the future?
Yes. This is done all the time. I guess you have experienced a deja-vu.
Most children do. Some
people have these experiences as adults too, and some have even
gained control over this
ability. It is possible to travel in time from a Lucid Dream. But
this will be discussed in the
Lucid Dreaming
FAQ. These experiences that predict the future have been labeled
Precognitive
dreams. Spontaneous Precognitive dreams happen all over the world
and are being frequently
reported. But not many controlled scientific experiments have been
done on this phenomenon, but
those that I am aware of prove them to be real. Two experiments
done by Maimonides Hospital in
Brooklyn, New York gave significant results. The testperson was
the psychic Malcom Bessent, and
the project was lead by Montague Ullman. Bessent slept in the laboratory
for 8 nights, were he
tried to dream about an unknown event that should take place each
morning after he woke up. It
was a hit 5 out of those 8 nights. Chance for this being a coincidence
is 18:100 000
(p.=.00018). The second experiment tried more to avoid possible
explanations like telepathy and
clairvoyance. The experiment lasted 16 nights, where 8 of them were
precognitive nights and 8
of them were normal nights. What happen the morning after the precognitive
night was decided by
random numbers. On this experiment was there also 5 hits out of
8 nights.
Those wanting to study the details can go over the reports:
Krippner, S., Ullman, M., and Honorton, C.
A precognitive dream study with a single subject.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 65:192-203,1971.
Krippner, S., Honorton, C., and Ullman, M.
A second precognitive dream study with Malcolm Bessent.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 66:269-279,1972.
Ullman, M., and Krippner, S., with Alan Vaughan.
Dream Telepathy. New Yourk: Macmillan, 1973.
Here are other reports on the subject of precognitive dreams:
Sondow, N. The decline of precognized events with the passage of
time:
Evidence from spontaneous dreams.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1988, vol.
82,
33-51.
Stowell, M. S. Precognitive Dreams: A phenomenological study. Part
I:
Methodology and sample cases.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1997, vol.
91,
163-220.
Stowell, M. S. Precognitive Dreams: A phenomenological study. Part
II:
Discussion.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1997, vol.
91,
255-304.
Stevenson, I. A review and analysis of paranormal experiences connected
with the sinking of the Titanic.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1960, 54,
153-171.
Stevenson, I. Seven more paranormal experiences associated with
the sinking
of the Titanic.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1965, 59,
211-225.
Stevenson, I. Precognition of disasters.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1970, 64,
187-210.
Van de Castle, R. L. Sleep and Dreams. In: B. B. Wolman (Ed.), Handbook
of
Parapsychology. New York & London:
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977, pp. 473-489.
Barker, J. C. Premonitions of the Aberfan disaster.
Journal of the American society for Psychical Research, 1967, 44,
169-181.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (JASPR) is
available by subscription from the
American Society for Psychical Research,
5 West 73rd St
New York, NY 10023
http://www.aspr.com
Other books with evidence on the precognitive phenomenon is
The Conscious Universe from http://www.psiresearch.org
and a book by the name Margins of Reality.
If you want to have precognitive dreams, you should check out my
Lucid Dreaming
FAQ. And if you
suspect that you have had a precognitive dream, you should write
it down for later
verification.
4.2. Is it possible to share dreams?
Yes. Dreams can be shared and people may even have conversations
with others with 100%
accuracy. This is an interesting concept, and again you should be
lucid in order to make
conscious contact with others in your dream. Many people experience
similar dreams with friends
or relatives. This is not uncommon either. Shared dreaming is also
called mutual dreaming.
Telepathy is an area that has been done more research on. The same
laboratory that experimented
with precognitive dreams, have also experimented with dreamtelepathy.
They have done 13 various
experiments with dreamtelepathy, 9 of those gave statistical significant
results.
Here are some references to some reports and books:
Ullman, M., Krippner, S. Dream Studies and telepathy.
Parapsychological Monographs No. 12. New Youk:
Parapsychological Foundation, 1970.
Ullman, M., and Krippner, S. with Alan Vaughan: Dream Telepathy.
New York: Macmillian Publishing Company, Inc., 1973.
Krippner, S. Dreams and other altered conscious states.
Journal of Communication, 25(1): 173-182, Winter 1975.
Tolaas, J. and Ullman, M. Extrasensory communication and dreams.
I: B. Wolman (ed.) Handbook of Dreams. New York:
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979, pp. 168-202.
Van De Castle, R. Sleep and dreams. I: B. Wolman, (ed.)
Handbook of Dreams. New York:
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977, pp. 473-499.
Krippner, S., Honorton, Ch., and Ullman, M.
A longdistance "sensory bombardment" study of ESP in dreams.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 65:468-475,
1971.
Krippner, S., Honorton, Ch., and Ullman, M. A long-distance ESP
dream
study with Malcolm Bessent. Journal of the American Society of
Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine, 20:9-17, 1973.
Kogna, I. M. The informational aspect of telepathy. Paper presented
in absentia, at UCLA symposium, A New Look at ESP, 1969.
Mitchell, E. An ESP test from Apollo 14. Journal of Parapsychology.
35: 89-107, 1971.
Hall, C. Experimente zur telepathischen Beeinflussung von Tr-umen.
Zeitschrift f¦r Parapsychologie und
Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 10:18-47, 1967.
Ross, C. Telepathy and dreams: An attempt at replication.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University, 1972 (Mimeo).
Norquiest, J. P. A multidimensional space model for extrasensory
transmission of mental concepts. Unpublished Master's thesis in
psychology. Sacramento: California State University, 1977.
Other books with evidence on telepathy is The Conscious Universe
and Margins of Reality.
If you want to learn how you can share a dream, you should check
out my Lucid
Dreaming FAQ. If
you suspect having had a shared dream, then write it down for later
comparing of notes.
4.3. Can I view distant locations from my dreams?
Yes. This is mostly called Clairvoyance, Remote Viewing, Out of
Body Experience or Astral
Projection. It is a good way of exploring the Universe, there are
no limits to distance,
destination or speed. You can leave your body from a Lucid Dream
or on the onset of sleep. How
to leave your body from a dream will be discussed in my Lucid
Dreaming FAQ. And you might also
check out my Out of Body Experiences FAQ for more info on this.
SRI Experiments: 1973-1988. In
1988 Edwin May and his colleagues analyzed all psi experiments conducted
at SRI from 1973 until
that time. The analysis was based on 154 experiments, consisting
of more than 26,000 separate
trials, conducted over those sixteen years. Of those, just over
a thousand trials were
laboratory remote-viewing tests. The statistical results of this
analysis indicated odds
against chance of 10^20 to one (that is, more than a billion billion
to one). So chance is not
a viable explanation.
Some references:
Dean Radin. Ph.D. The Conscious Universe: The scientific truth of
psychic
phenomena. 91-109, 1997.
Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne. Margins of Reality: The Role
of
Consciousness in the Physical World. 149-191, 1987.
If you suspect that you have seen a distant location, then write
it down when you wake up for
later verification. Good Luck.
Credit: Thanks to Jon Tolaas, people at alt.dreams, alt.out-of-body
and various mailing lists.
Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for any action you may take after
reading this FAQ.
Last update: February 1999
Copyright L Lars Rune Foleide -1999
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