A Summary of the Results of the Precognitive Dream Contests of

IASD's PsiberDreaming Conferences

2002 - 2011

by

Cynthia Pearson

In 2002, IASD began holding an annual PsiberDreaming Conference, an online event featuring presentations on "psi" aspects of dreaming. These conferences have been designed not only to inform participants, but to help them to develop their psi abilities. One of the most engaging ways to do that has been to hold contests that require dreamers to enlist telepathic or precognitive skills.

As the host of  the precognitive dream contests, I followed the same protocol I had been using since 1991, based on Dr. Marcia Emery's studies on "Programming the Precognitive Dream," which were first described in 1989 in Dream Network Bulletin.

It is important to understand that the targets for these contests are not selected until AFTER* all the dream reports have been submitted. Participants are given a short list of steps to follow at bedtime, requesting guidance from their dreams to see the target that will be chosen in the future. Below is a summary of our outcomes.

 

Target of the 2011 Psiber Dreaming Precognitive Dream Contest,
 selected October 2, 2011

 

The winning 2011 entry, submitted October 1, 2011:

The winning dreamer predicted that the target would be about "a concert, music or a band" following a dream series that included
going to a concert, going into a bar and pouring beer.The target photo features a DJ playing music in a bar with windows made of beer bottles.

 

Target of the 2010 Psiber Dreaming Precognitive Dream Contest,
 selected October 3, 2010

The winning 2010 entry, submitted October 2, 2010:

 First a “zebra horse . . .white and black …” and then “circles and the Cirque du Soleil.”
Our target horse wears a white blanket with black strap, lettering and numbers. Most prominent is the number 8,
in a font that looks like two circles. The photo, of the Japanese race horse Dream Journey, has been taken at a race track,
also circular, and which also carries a sense of performance feats comparable to those featured in the Cirque du Soleil.

Target of the 2009 Psiber Dreaming Precognitive Dream Contest,
 selected October 4, 2009

The winning 2009 entry, submitted October 3, 2009:

When the dream began it was "a little overcast, not sunny, in the city" and later, the dreamer found herself inside a church with people
"moving, sitting, kneeling, standing, then a group of musicians came in .... playing their instruments, guitars, hand held instruments and even a bagpipe."
The target photo shows a group of musicians posing with guitars on the south lawn during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll in 2008.

Target of the 2008 Psiber Dreaming Precognitive Dream Contest,
 selected September 28, 2008

The winning 2008 entry, submitted September 27, 2008:

The winning dreamer found herself at a fairground, on a ride that "involved being dropped in a cage from the top of a very tall building." Then she dreamt of a man on a bicycle wearing a striped jacket who shows her "two things combined." He wears a straw boater and has something red in a basket. Our target was a circus poster from the turn of the last century featuring divers who plunge from the top of a circus tent into three feet of water. The "two things combined together" recalled "Adam Forpaugh and Sells Brothers" and the straw boater was a popular style during the era of this poster. The diving team wears stripes and the way "something red" stands out in the dream suggests the one diver who reenacts the "Count of Monte Cristo" by diving bound in a red sack.

 

Target of the 2007 Psiber Dreaming Precognitive Dream Contest,
 selected October 1, 2007

The winning 2007 entry, submitted September 30, 2007:

 

The winning dream was titled "She Sticks Her Neck Out ," and featured "a statue of a woman ... levitated ... the head and shoulders ... higher than the rest. It's beige in color. I see that the neck of the statue is rather long..." (The dreamer added that the afternoon before the dream, "for no reason," she "started singing a chant she hadn't sung in years . . . 'There's a river of birds in migration, a nation of women with wings.'" )

Target of the 2006 Psiber Dreaming Precognitive Dream Contest,
 selected October 5, 2006



The winning 2006 entry, submitted October 4, 2006:

The winning dreamer reported a sequence that began with "a town in Europe," then a scene that "feels European.... daytime, very clear blue sky...there is an open, clean feeling." Subsequent dreams featured a scene "somewhere in Europe," and "water around," and then a "Water Town" where "the streets are water..." The target is a painting titled "Boating" by Edouard Manet, depicting a couple on the water near Paris.

Target of the 2005 Psiber Dreaming Precognitive Dream Contest,
 selected September 29, 2005

The 2005 winning dream entries, submitted September 28, 2005:

Two dreamers shared first prize. The first reported a dream that took place "in Victorian times" when it is "evening, almost dark." It features a "young woman who runs away" from a man who "pursues her but she's too fast for him." The second dreamer won for details in a sequence of dreams that included references to a child in jeopardy; a lone woman praying and mired; a little boy; balancing as on a tightrope; and children in danger on slippery ice and snow. Our target, an illustration from the 19th century novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," depicts the slave Eliza who, having learned that her son has been sold, flees with him to the north across the Ohio River, pursued by men and dogs.

Target of the 2004 Psiber Dreaming Precognitive Dream Contest,
 selected September 30, 2004

"I am on a group bus tour of led by a young Indian faculty member. We visit many places, but my strongest impression is of the countryside we visit. We travel through a vast, wide plain, with some small snow-covered mountains in the near-distance, white ridges of snow against purple." Our target, called "Spring at Bathurst," depicted a vast, wide plain -- in Australia.

selected October 2, 2003

“Running through an open field in the early evening when I noticed teenage Indian boys flying down from the sky... they continued to run as they reached the ground. Right before they touched down they were removing their white pants to reveal a blue pair underneath. I was concerned they would run over me." In our target, from "Plains Indians Drawings, 1865 - 1935," we have plural male Indians running across the Plains; one is wearing blue pants and another white pants; and one is running down his victim as he shoots him.

Target of the 2002 Psiber Dreaming Precognitive Dream Contest,

selected September 30, 2002

The 2002 winning dream entry, submitted September 29, 2002:

After describing a male figure who was "overweight and has white/gray hair," the dreamer then reported being “outside viewing a cityscape with another woman looking at a “high rise building off in the distance," and she “points to the Empire State Building." The target, the cover of the New Yorker magazine on Dec. 10, 1927, displays an outdoor Manhattan scene featuring a portly, white-haired doorman and a woman looking up at a high rise building in the background.