Telepathic Perception in the Dream State: Confirmatory Study Using EEG-EOG Monitoring Techniques

Abstract

S, selected on the basis of his successful performance in a previous telepathy-dream study, spent 8 nights in a laboratory; his sleep was monitored by EEG-EOG techniques. As E observed the onset of a REM period, he signalled (by buzzer) an acoustically isolated psychologist to awaken and concentrate on a randomly selected target (art print), the content of which was unknown to S or E. At the termination of each REM period, E awakened S, eliciting a dream report. These reports, and S's associations to them, were tape-recorded and subsequently transcribed. The hypothesis stated that there would be a discernible correspondence between the target used on any given night and S's dreams on that night. Upon completion of the eight nights, three judges (working independently and blind) rated each of the 8 targets against each of the 8 dream transcripts, using a 100-point scale to indicate degree of correspondence between each target-transcript pair. A Latin-square analysis of variance procedure compared the mean ratings of the 8 critical pairs with the mean ratings of the 56 non-critical pairs. An F of 6.43 (7/28 df) was obtained ( p < 0 001), confirming the telepathy hypothesis and replicating a previous telepathy-dream study.