A new approach to veridicality in Dream Psi Studies

AJ Paquette

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Abstract

A problem in spontaneous dream psi studies is validation of purported psi elements. Dreams rarely have enough specifi city to satisfy critics that they point to paranormal knowledge of a specifi c event. This creates evidential hurdles to overcome when evaluating whether a dream contains psi-derived information such as scenes of future events or physically distant locations. In this study, the goal is to arrive at a reasonable method to establish that information derived from spontaneous dream experiences can be established as veridical. To accomplish this, a method for fi nding the equivalent of a target within a spontaneous experience is used to fi x a specifi c locale and time for comparison. Adverse scoring criteria are used to address complaints about confi rmation bias. The result is a psi-adverse method for scoring spontaneous experiences that are anchored to a specifi c locale and time. This method regularly produced signifi cant p-values when used to assess 20 consecutive dream records, comprising 598 individual line items. These records were taken as a sample from a group of 3,305 dream records made over the past 22 years by the author.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)589-610
Number of pages22
JournalJournal of Scientific Exploration
Volume26
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Dream
  • Out-of-body
  • Precognition
  • Presentiment
  • Psi
  • Spontaneous psi
  • Veridicality

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