Dream telepathy: experimental and clinical findings
Routledge eBooks November 9, 2018 DOI: 10.4324/9780429478802-2 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Pilot study Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 5 |
| Key points | Argues that telepathy serves to maintain contact amid conflicting needs for distance and closeness, and that dream analysis supported the telepathy hypothesis. The author reports receiving a 1960 Parapsychology Foundation grant for a pilot dream telepathy study using rapid eye movements and dream recall, and proposes that the dream's imagistic mode is closer to the "implicate order" than waking discursive thought. |
Abstract
Telepathy appears as one way of maintaining contact at critical points in the management of contradictory needs for distance and inviolability and at the same time serving the inextinguishable need for closeness and safety. The analysis of the dream did support the telepathy hypothesis. In 1960, in the course of the author&s;s last year in practice, he received a grant from the Parapsychology Foundation to conduct a pilot study to apply the then recent discovery of the connection of rapid eye movements to dreaming and how the possibility of near total recall of the dreams of the night lent itself to a dream telepathy experiment. There are two experimental techniques which may have a possible bearing upon the perceptual aspect of telepathic effects as this relates to similarities based on form. The dream&s;s focus on interconnectedness suggests that the imagistic mode of the dream is closer to the implicate order than the discursive mode of waking consciousness.