Telepathy Dreams
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart
so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together
all the time."
Hobbes (Bill Watterson's comic characters Calvin and Hobbes)
 In
a Telepathic dream the dreamer receives messages
from someone else, from another's dreams, or seems to pick
up another's thoughts and express them as a dream. Included
in this category are dreams of spirits, ghosts, and those
recently dead, who 'speak' to you using telepathy.
Telepathy happens in dreams when thoughts, emotions
or physical sensations are transmitted from one mind to
another. They have been widely studied by scientists as
of all forms of psychic dreaming they are comparatively
easy to verify. As telepathic dreams involves both a receiver
and a sender, experiments can be set up to test the phenomena
by noting how a receiver's dreams are influenced by thoughts
intentionally sent to him while sleeping.
TELEPATHY
EXPERIMENTS
Pioneering dream telepathy experiments were done in the
1880's by the Italian psychical researcher G. B. Ermacora
and published in the proceedings of the American Society
for Psychical Research in1889. Ermacora worked with a medium
named Maria Manzini as his main subject and although they
achieved some very remarkable results the experiments did
not have the controls and safeguards we would expect for
a serious scientific investigation. Nonetheless Ermacora
had made the first serious attempt at inducing dream telepathy.
Some of these ideas were developed further in the 1940's
by a young Viennese psychologist names Wilfrid Dain who's
work was taken seriously by some members of the scientific
community and published in Duke University's Parapsychology
Bulletin.
The most important advances were done at the Maimonides
Institute in Brooklyn New York by a team of parapsychologists
including Montague Ullman, Stanley Krippner, Alan Vaughan
and Charles Honorton. The Maimonides team were funded for
ten years to study dream telepathy. Their techniques involved
monitoring sleeping subjects' brain waves and eye movements
and then waking them to get an immediate report about their
dreams. In another room the telepathic 'senders' concentrated
on target pictures designed to create a particular impression.
The 'receivers' dreams often contained fragments of the
imagery or similar emotional content to the picture being
transmitted. Montague Ullman from the research team commented
that if a subjects dream "is vivid, coloured,…
and somewhat puzzling to the dreamer and does not 'fit'
into his dream pattern or reflect recent activity, then
we can be alerted to the possibility that the dream is being
influenced by ESP."
TELEPATHY
TEST
The biggest telepathic transmission test was conducted
in 1971 by asking about 2,000 persons attending a Grateful
Dead rock concert to focus on a colour slide of a projection
image and attempt to send it by telepathy to the dream laboratory
45 miles away in Brooklyn. Here the psychic Malcolm Bessent
was asleep and would attempt to reach out to the concert
and receive the images in his dream over six nights. Stanley
Krippner, from the Maimonides team, pointed out that many
of the revellers at the concert were already in altered
states of consciousness from the ingestion of psychedelic
drugs and this may help the project. In one experiment fans
were sending an image of a man in the lotus position with
his charkas, or energy centres, all brightly coloured. Bessent
dreamed about a man who was "suspended in mid air or
something" and "using natural energy" and
remarkably he 'saw' "the light from the sun… a
spinal column."
Signs, Stories and Symbols:
TELEPATHY
EXAMPLE
I dreamed that my mother's luggage was fashioned in the
shape of a huge, pink poodle. I lifted it by the awkward
woolly handle. "It's no good, they will never let us
in the airplane with that ridiculous thing" I said
as I looked down into its black beady eyes. "I will
have to go and ask at the flight desk about this. Now time
is running short so DO NOT move from this spot or we'll
miss the plane to Italy."
I left my mother and wife Jane standing outside the airport
duty free shop with its tempting bargains and hurried off
with the bag to find a fight attendant. I think I'd made
my point about not moving but I knew it was like asking
Dracula to wait besides a blood bank.
By the time I returned with the flight attendant we were
running desperately late and would have to dash to catch
the airplane. "Where's Mom?" I asked. "I
don't know," replied Jane. "She's gone shopping
but I have no idea where she is now." There follows
a period of frantic activity, Tannoy announcements, and
after a hopeless search for mother, I wake up.
I began to describe my dream to Jane but she knew the plot
for she'd had exactly the same dream except from a slightly
different perspective. Jane dreamed of me arriving with
the flight attendant and had spent her dream urging my mom
not to go shopping while I was absent. Amazingly, the words
spoken in the dream were the exactly the same as in my dream
and so were many other details including the poodle bag.
It would appear that Jane and I communicated in the dream.
We had experienced dream telepathy.
The vacation went without a hitch, perhaps because we heeded
the dreams advice. And mother did not bring a poodle bag!
The dream is of interest because it occurred on the same
day that the contract arrived for this book. Maybe the unconscious
was helping me by giving me an interesting example of a
psychic dream.
TELEPATHY
THEMES
Telepathy themes may include: Dreaming of talking to the
other dreamer on the telephone or communicating with them
by email or letter. Look to see if your dreams contain any
other communication themes such as a carrier pigeon, a message
on the radio, an unusual advertisement hording or graffiti
messages. Your dreams may be set in the same city or country
and may feature similar people. Watch also for concurrent
themes, emotions and any other shared content. Dreams have
a strange way of distorting things. For example your friend
may dream of eating and you may dream of shopping for food.
Similarly, dreams also speak in puns so watch for the way
your dreams play with words. For example a telepathic message
from a friend named Mike may result in you dreaming of a
microphone, Tony a toe or knee and Barbra a bra on barbwire!
MORE ABOUT TELEPATHY
Extract
from Psychic Dreaming
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