Many thanks to Robert Waggoner, editor of  the Lucid Dream Exchange, for permission to post his excellent paper, Identifying Precognitive Dreams Through Patterns: A Prospective Approach. This is loaded with useful suggestions for anyone interested in studying incidents of precognition in their own dreams, and those of others too!

I have been inviting dreamers to participate in precognitive dream studies for over 10 years. For the most recent example, read the summary of the 2002 Precognitive Dream Contest, held during ASD's first Psiberdreaming Conference. In this case, after all the entries were received, our target was selected from an online collection of over a thousand magazine covers.

In earlier studies, the target was the front page of future editions of newspapers. Below are the reports of those studies. The population of dreamers was different in every case-- one was a group who attended a book signing; another was the readership of a metropolitan newspaper; and the third was comprised of members of a dream class. There is also a report on an experiment conducted when the Internet was young(er).

It's best to read these in order. See if you agree with the judges!

#1 A Public Experiment in Precognitive Dreaming
This paper was presented at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams in 1993.

#2 The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Dream Experiment
This time, a newspaper columnist ran a piece on the experiment, and readers sent in their dreams.

#3 The Precognitive Dream Experiment by the Lily Dale "Joy of Dreaming" Class
With participants from many states, our target was a national newspaper.