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