{"collection":"bos","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bos/bos132.htm","path":"bos/bos132.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bos/bos132.htm","text":"Internet Book of Shadows, (Various Authors), [1999]\n \n \n . This following is an excerpt from \"Psi Notes\", prepared by William\n Braud, Ph.D., of the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas.\n \n Question: What percentage of a person's dreams are precognitive (foretell\n the future) and how can we recognize the difference between a precognitive\n dream and an ordinary dream?\n \n Answer: A large proportion of precognitive experiences occur during\n dreams. One survey indicates that as many as 65 percent of precognitive\n experiences occurred during sleep. Precognitive dreams also seem to\n provide more complete and more accurate information than do waking psychic\n experiences.\n \n . There's no way to know with certainty what percentage of our dreams are\n precognitive. The content of the majority of our dreams is probably quite\n mundane, involving replays of experiences of the day, perhaps some wish\n fulfillment, and maybe even \"random\" content. But now and then, dreamers\n do have accurate glimpses of the future as they sleep.\n \n . The only way to know with certainty which dreams are precognitive and\n which are not is to keep a dream diary of all dreams and check to see which\n come true and which don't. Some persons are able to associate certain\n feelings of confidence in connection with psychic dreams - but these are\n very subtle feelings which are difficult to put into words and which may\n differ from person to person.\n \n . Let me describe a program of research in which we are more certain\n about what's going on. This research program was initiated by a New York\n psychiatrist, Dr. Montague Ullman, as a result of his observation that he\n and his patients were sharing telepathic dreams in the context of\n psychotherapy. A dream laboratory was set up at Maimonides Medical Center\n in Brooklyn. Ullman, along with his associates Stanley Krippner and\n Charles Honorton, designed experiments in which persons spent the night in\n the dream lab. They were monitored electro-physiologically in order to\n detect physiological indications of dreaming - these indications include:\n an activated EEG, rapid eye movements, and reduced muscle tension. When\n these indications of dreaming occurred, the sleeper was awakened and asked\n to describe his dream. These descriptions were tape-recorded and later\n transcribed. The next day, a target experience was randomly selected and\n the subject then went through some waking sensory experience. What was\n discovered was that the sleeper was able to have accurate dreams about\n events of which no one was as yet aware at the time of the dream, but which\n were randomly selected the next day.\n \n \n 577","title":"Internet Book of Shadows: Dreams Precognition","type":"page"}