Paranormal Issues - 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.

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.

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.

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