I have been inviting dreamers to participate in precognitive dream
studies for over 10 years. For the most recent overview, read the summary
of the PsiberDreaming Conference Precognitive Dream Contests held
during IASD's Psiberdreaming Conferences.
Critical
Thinking for Psi Dreamers, Gloria Sturzenacker's presentation at
the 2007 IASD conference, offers a general system of evaluation for
anyone interested in precognition or, for that matter, psi phenomena in
general. (Note: The link in this paper to a PDF-format list of
metacepts is not
active, but you can download the metacept list here.)
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!
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.
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.
Copyright 2005 Cynthia Pearson