Post by KittyLane on Feb 26, 2007 20:46:54 GMT -5
Rather than debate ESP's reality or not, I just collect examples of possible psychic dreams, sticking to data and ignoring theory. So with that in mind:
If you're working alone, the easiest sort of psychic dream to look for is precognition (predictive dreams). A detailed journal is the key here, and not just of dreams: where you go and who you meet, what books you read and shows you see.
While the classic Rhine cards use to test ESP are normally employed with a tester and a subject, you can test and practice ESP alone, by guessing at face-down playing cards and the like. I find (again, I'm not proposing a theory to explain it, just reporting data) that a busy, agitated mind pretty much guarantees near-random scores; a still mind picks up odd impressions (with a distinctive feel to them) that push scores above random. Strong feelings, unlike thoughts, don't necessarily interfere; though they can generate runs of LOW scores as well as high!
An interesting variant of these psychic calisthenics, a variant that tests for a subtle form of telekinesis, is to try to influence the "random" hands dealt in computer games such as solitaire. Hey, if you're wasting work time anyway, why not?
If you have friends who are also into dreams, or you belong to a regular dream-group, then telepathic or shared dreams become practical to track. Be warned it's not extraordinarily difficult, in my experience, to uncover apparent telepathic or shared dreams, but it can be VERY hard to cope with the emotions they stir up. Even dreamers who think they can handle it may have eruptions of fear, loathing, disorientation, guilt, panic, stony denial. Shared dreams can feel like a boundary violation even if asked for. And predictive dreams can bring up fears of predestination and lack of free will.
I'm convinced these fears are cultural brainwashing--after all, if your sleeping mind can handle ESP without flipping out, surely you can while awake, too! But in practice, it's stressful.
FALSE PSYCHIC DREAMS
Dreams that seem to be psychic, for when you wake, some news predicted in the dream turns out to be true--until you wake up AGAIN, and find the confirmation of your dream-ESP was a dream itself.
Why list such sneaky, frustrating dreams? Oh, I just wanted you to know it can happen!
If you do have a pseudo-psychic dream, don't feel cheated. OK, your dreams didn't prove they have a psychic sense, but they DID prove they have a more important sense: a sense of humor.
www.worlddreambank.org/2/2PRECOG.HTM
Dreams of Apparitions
These dreams involve people who are dead, whether you know the person or not. The prevailing theory is that in some form, some aspect of that person is actually communicating to you through your dream. Apparition dreams may or may not be purely symbolic, but all apparitions come specifically to convey a personal message. This personal message may not be for the dreamer, though. It is common, for example, for apparitions to appear to people who didn't know them very well, and to usually give a message to the dreamer to pass on to the loved ones the deceased left behind. Most often, this message is to let the family they love know that they are happy and to get on with their own lives.
Clairaudient Dreams
These dreams involve sounds in which you can clearly hear information.
Clairsentient Dreams
These dreams involve clear empathic feelings or sensations about an event that is occurring as you dream it.
Clairvoyant Dreams
Clairvoyant dreams are dreams that occur simultaneously with the dream experience of the event you see. There is absolutely nothing you can do about changing or preventing anything you see in a clairvoyant dream. Clairvoyant dreams are almost always experienced exactly as the event actually happened, involving less purely symbolic information than other psychic dreams.
Premonition Or Precognitive Dreams
These are also called futuristic dreams sometimes. They tell us what might occur in the future, not what will necessarily occur. They can be entirely straight forward, or purely symbolic. Precognitive or premonition dreams can be used as tools to prevent or change future events. If you take them as a warning ahead of time, they give you the option to change events.
Telepathic Dreams
These are dreams in which communication is made directly from one energy source to another without any mechanical assistance of any kind.
www.tryskelion.com/psydream.htm
If you're working alone, the easiest sort of psychic dream to look for is precognition (predictive dreams). A detailed journal is the key here, and not just of dreams: where you go and who you meet, what books you read and shows you see.
While the classic Rhine cards use to test ESP are normally employed with a tester and a subject, you can test and practice ESP alone, by guessing at face-down playing cards and the like. I find (again, I'm not proposing a theory to explain it, just reporting data) that a busy, agitated mind pretty much guarantees near-random scores; a still mind picks up odd impressions (with a distinctive feel to them) that push scores above random. Strong feelings, unlike thoughts, don't necessarily interfere; though they can generate runs of LOW scores as well as high!
An interesting variant of these psychic calisthenics, a variant that tests for a subtle form of telekinesis, is to try to influence the "random" hands dealt in computer games such as solitaire. Hey, if you're wasting work time anyway, why not?
If you have friends who are also into dreams, or you belong to a regular dream-group, then telepathic or shared dreams become practical to track. Be warned it's not extraordinarily difficult, in my experience, to uncover apparent telepathic or shared dreams, but it can be VERY hard to cope with the emotions they stir up. Even dreamers who think they can handle it may have eruptions of fear, loathing, disorientation, guilt, panic, stony denial. Shared dreams can feel like a boundary violation even if asked for. And predictive dreams can bring up fears of predestination and lack of free will.
I'm convinced these fears are cultural brainwashing--after all, if your sleeping mind can handle ESP without flipping out, surely you can while awake, too! But in practice, it's stressful.
FALSE PSYCHIC DREAMS
Dreams that seem to be psychic, for when you wake, some news predicted in the dream turns out to be true--until you wake up AGAIN, and find the confirmation of your dream-ESP was a dream itself.
Why list such sneaky, frustrating dreams? Oh, I just wanted you to know it can happen!
If you do have a pseudo-psychic dream, don't feel cheated. OK, your dreams didn't prove they have a psychic sense, but they DID prove they have a more important sense: a sense of humor.
www.worlddreambank.org/2/2PRECOG.HTM
Dreams of Apparitions
These dreams involve people who are dead, whether you know the person or not. The prevailing theory is that in some form, some aspect of that person is actually communicating to you through your dream. Apparition dreams may or may not be purely symbolic, but all apparitions come specifically to convey a personal message. This personal message may not be for the dreamer, though. It is common, for example, for apparitions to appear to people who didn't know them very well, and to usually give a message to the dreamer to pass on to the loved ones the deceased left behind. Most often, this message is to let the family they love know that they are happy and to get on with their own lives.
Clairaudient Dreams
These dreams involve sounds in which you can clearly hear information.
Clairsentient Dreams
These dreams involve clear empathic feelings or sensations about an event that is occurring as you dream it.
Clairvoyant Dreams
Clairvoyant dreams are dreams that occur simultaneously with the dream experience of the event you see. There is absolutely nothing you can do about changing or preventing anything you see in a clairvoyant dream. Clairvoyant dreams are almost always experienced exactly as the event actually happened, involving less purely symbolic information than other psychic dreams.
Premonition Or Precognitive Dreams
These are also called futuristic dreams sometimes. They tell us what might occur in the future, not what will necessarily occur. They can be entirely straight forward, or purely symbolic. Precognitive or premonition dreams can be used as tools to prevent or change future events. If you take them as a warning ahead of time, they give you the option to change events.
Telepathic Dreams
These are dreams in which communication is made directly from one energy source to another without any mechanical assistance of any kind.
www.tryskelion.com/psydream.htm