Simple Protocol for Dream Telepathy Experiment (used in the Lucidipedia experiments)

The hypothesis: A waking person can intentionally direct an unusual, telepathic thought image at a receptive, sleeping person who intends to receive it, and some associated aspects of the telepathic thought image will appear in the sleeping person’s dream state.

Please note that any communication of an image involves a translation by the sender of the image and a translation by the receiver of what they receive. Because the image must be processed by the mind of the sender and then the sender’s processed image must be again processed by the dreaming receiver, the thought transfer involves two layers of processing. Thus, the ‘image’ rarely appears exactly in the dream; instead elements or some aspect of the image appear.

For example, let’s say that the telepathic sender decides to send the painting, Mona Lisa. Looking at the image, the telepathic sender begins to think that the Mona Lisa must be an unhappy nun at an Italian nunnery. Then, the telepathic receiver dreams of a sad woman at a church, who works alone and never smiles. In such a case, the sender’s associations to the image have been sent and re-translated by the receiver. Therefore, the receiver does not receive the image, but the sender’s view or idea of the image, which the receiver interprets.

The experiment has three people: the waking telepathic sender, the dreaming telepathic receiver and the third party witness.

Here you have a choice – the third party witness can go on-line and find ten unusual images, and then tell the sender to pick a number between one and ten. The third party witness will then email the sender the link to the telepathic image to be sent. OR you can simply have the telepathic sender go on-line and then select an image. The only concern here, is that sometimes the telepathic sender finds a few good images and feels conflicted about which one to send – in a sense, his or her mind becomes filled with different images, and does not communicate to the receiver only one image. If you have the sender pick, then the sender should send the link to the image to you before the night of the sending.

The Telepathic Sender prints off the image and spends five minutes in each of three evening hours, and in each of the two hours after waking the next morning, in ‘sending’ the image to the Telepathic Receiver, Robert Waggoner. The Telepathic Sender begins each five minute session by mentally stating, “I am now sending this image clearly to Robert Waggoner so that he can receive the image easily and dream about it.” During the next five minutes, the Telepathic Sender will ‘send’ the image by focusing upon it, imagining himself interacting within the image (e.g., if of a person in a boxing ring, the sender will see himself as one of the boxers).

The Telepathic Receiver will prepare himself to receive the information clearly from the Sender on the pre-determined night.

The Telepathic Receiver will send an account of his dreams to the third party witness. The Telepathic Sender will send an account of how he sent the image to Robert (what the sender focused upon, or what the sender imagined doing).

The third party witness will ask any questions of the receiver about his dreams or the sender about his sending. Then the third party witness will show everyone the Target Image and the Receiver’s Dreams and the Sender’s Report. All parties can then comment on similarities between the dreams and the target image.

During the experimental period, the sender and receiver can not communicate with each other. Also the sender does not let anyone else know of the telepathic image.

Notes: As you can see, the sender does this ‘sending’ in the waking state. Also, the receiver does not have to be lucid. The receiver simply has to recall his dreams on the pre-determined night. Also, the sender should not worry ‘if’ he is sending at the time of the receiver’s actual dreaming; the sender should focus on sending the image (and not be concerned with ‘how’ it works).

In some of the Dream Telepathy studies by Ullman and Krippner, they showed judges the target image. Then they provided five sets of dreams. One set of dreams comes from the telepathic receiver, while the other four sets are some randomly provided by others. Then they asked the independent judges to say which set of dreams seems to relate to the image. Since this is simply a demonstration, I doubt that we want to do this.

By having an unusual image (that is, one that a person would rarely dream about), it helps prove that the receiver’s dream about some aspect of that image is highly unlikely, and significant.

See the results of this experiment at http://www.lucidipedia.com/forum.php?section=viewtopic&t=1610&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0