Abstract Index Conference Index

ABSTRACT

Psi Dreaming Between International Locations - Implications And Challenges 

Dr. Brigitte Holzinger, Vienna, Austria
Dale Graff, Prince Frederick, Maryland
email: baygraff@chesapeake.net
Web Site: http://www.chesapeake.net/~baygraff/

1. Type of Presentation: Paper for 20 minute oral presentation.

2. Title of Presentation: Psi Dreaming Between International Locations - Implications and Challenges.

3. Biographical Description: Two presenters: Dr.Brigitte Holzinger, Dale E. Graff:

Brigitte Holzinger, resident of Vienna, Austria, facilitates creative dreaming and lucid dreaming programs. She is a psychologist and psychotherapist for Gestalttherapy, and a founding member of the Austrian Sleep Research Association and the Institute for Consciousness and Dream Research.

Dale E. Graff, resident of Maryland, USA is an internationally recognized lecturer, writer and researcher on psi topics. He is a physicist and a former director of project Stargate, the program for research and applications of remote viewing phenomena.

4. Summary of Presentation: Recent psi dream experiments between the USA
and European locations are described. Pictorial material and real locations were targets. Successful results were achieved, demonstrating that psi can manifest in the dream state for targets at 7000 mile distances. Specific examples illustrate type of targets, psi dreams, experimental protocol and evaluation procedures.

5. ( A ) Learning Objectives: (1) To learn how psi phenomena can be observed
experimentally in the dream state for pictorial material and for real locations.
(2) To become aware of procedures and protocols that permit scientific appraisals of psi dream content. (3) To understand some of the psi and psi dreaming processes that provide insight for interpreting results and for improving data quality.

(B) Evaluation Questions: (1) How do different types of target material affect
results? (2) What role does the target observer (sender) have in this type of psi experiments? (3) What effect does target distance have on psi data accuracy?

ABSTRACT

Psi Dreaming Between International Locations- Implications and Challenges

Two ASD members, Dr. Brigitte Holzinger, Vienna, Austria, and Dale Graff, Prince Frederick, Maryland, USA began long distance international psi experiments in September, 2000. Their main objective was to determine if the classic dream telepathy experiments of the 1960s performed at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY could be replicated at distances that varied between 6000 and 7000 miles. Other objectives included the search for potential variable that might have an impact on quality of results, and to gain insight into the psi and psi dreaming process. They took turns being the sender (target scene or picture observer) and psi recipient or psi dreamer. Both conscious state psi and dream state psi was explored, although the emphasis was on psi dreaming. Targets included pictorial material and locations that were visited. Target content was open to anything; e.g., people, animals, scenes, structures, or combinations. Some targets had an observer; other targets used the double blind protocol and did not have an observer.

This presentation is a summary of their results to date. It has statistical appraisals where possible and examples of specific experiments to illustrate types of psi target material used. Main conclusion: the participants were able to access quite clearly some of the targets at 6000 and 7000 miles distances.

These experiments were documented using Internet communication to record dream or conscious impression summaries (the scripts) and to verify that proper data exchange procedures were followed. Sketches were officially recorded via notary public. Data evaluation was based on estimates of sketches or script-to-target correspondence and where possible on an In-Group matching procedure to provide statistical relevance to the results. For In-Group matching, experiments were evaluated in clusters of three targets to facilitate judging. In order for participants to use this procedure, they had to perform consecutive experiments without trial-by-trial feedback. In-Group matching requires that the target material has no date information and is presented to the judges or participants in random order. The judges then attempt to identify the correct chronological order based only on the scripts and sketches from the individual psi sessions or dream summaries. Some script-to-target correlations were very strong; others only showed hints of contact. Implications of this variance are discussed and insights are proposed regarding how psi cognition functions and on how psi information may be detected and transmitted. Individual strategies for achieving psi contact and previous psi experiences are factors that influenced results.
Some of the parameters that affected psi performance included characteristics of the target: the clarity of boundaries, the continuity between target elements, and the scale of the target features. Other variables were how the targets' meaning is determined by the target observer's or the dreamer's associations.

We close the presentation with a challenge to all dreamers. It is our vision that others will consider these observations and devise similar and better experiments for eventually leading to a clearer understanding of the universal psi process. We do not believe this is a much-too-lofty goal. It is within the grasp of ASD members and other dreamers; especially those who wish to understand the nature of psi and its implications for themselves, our environment and the universe.


REFERENCES

Psi Dreaming Between International Locations - Implications and Challenges

1. Broughton, Richard. Parapsychology - The Controversial Science. New York: Ballantine, 1991.

2. Graff, Dale. Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness. Boston, MA: Element, 1998.

3. Graff, Dale. RIVER DREAMS, Boston, MA: Element, 2000.

4. Jahn, Robert, ed. The role of Consciousness in the Physical World. Boulder, CO: Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), Selected Symposia Series, Westview Press, 1981.

5. Rhine, Louisa, E. The Invisible Picture; A Study of Psychic Experiences. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1981.

6. Ryback, David and Letitia Sweitzer. Dreams That Come True. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

7. Ullman, Montague, Stanley Krippner and Alan Vaughan. Dream Telepathy. New York: Penguin Books, 1974.

ABSTRACT

Tracing Psi Dreams and Synchronicity Across Time and Space - Dale Graff

This presentation describes how a review of dream journals led to identifying a link between psi dreams for near time situations and activities years in the future that involved an international setting. Factors that may have facilitated this linking are identified, and the relationship between precognition and synchronicity is described. A scanning model for psi perception is suggested by these dreams.

To illustrate this linking and psi scanning process, I describe a precognitive dream that also had implications for a model of consciousness similar to the wave/particle duality of light. The dream had wave/particle imagery that was experienced the next day in an unusual experience that also hinted of synchronicity. Intense focusing (incubation) on the nature of consciousness form reading the book, Synchronicity, Science and Soul-Making, by Mansfield, generated the energy that led to this psi dream. Shortly after this experience, a precognitive dream occurred with imagery that matched descriptions that I later read in the book, The Way of the Explorer, by Mitchell, and that resonated with the book's central concepts. However, a key aspect of this precognitive dream did not become clear until a year later when I discovered a direct correlation with background material for a dream interpreted by C. G. Jung in the book, Dreams (Pages 229-233).

Jung used symbolic imagery from an incident in Goethe's Faust to illustrate the point of dream analysis involving unconscious material struggling for awareness. Similarly imagery in psi dreams has to struggle past competing associations in order to accurately represent the intended target.

A year later, I was contacted by Dr. Brigitte Holzinger, a resident of Vienna, Austria, who was interested in exploring remote viewing and psi dreams. We set up a series of international psi experiments emphasizing dreams. Our first formal series of three experiments was between a Greek Island location and Maryland, USA. We achieved reasonable success in these long distance psi experiments. After the experiments, while reviewing my dream journals, I noticed that the three targets chosen by my co-experimenter correlated very well with several symbolic images from Faust that I had reviewed a year earlier in the book, Dreams. One of the images in that portion of Faust linked to a Greek setting. I describe this correlation and relate it to synchronicity based on a subconscious psi scanning process that very likely that had a role in the selection of targets that were "meaningful." This linking also hints of an underlying connecting process or principle that may be considered as an archetype.

The content of the three targets and resulting psi dreams called attention to the synchronistic connecting process and illustrated that such links can be detectable most any time. All we have to is be alert for their presence and occasionally review our dream journals to discover them. Developing an expectation for experiencing synchronicity and precognition increases their occurrences and makes it easier for us to trace and track them across the spacetime of our daily experiences and from within our dream landscape.

REFERENCES

Tracing Psi Dreams and Synchronicity
Across Time and Space

1. Broughton, Richard. Parapsychology - The Controversial Science. New York:
Ballantine, 1991.

2. Graff, Dale. Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness. Boston, MA: Element, 1998.

3. Graff, Dale. RIVER DREAMS. Boston, MA: Element, 2000.

4. Hull, R.F.C. C.G. Jung-Dreams. Princeton, NJ: Bollinger Series, Princeton
University Press, 1974/1990.

5. Jahn, Robert, ed. The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World. Boulder, CO:
Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), Selected Symposia Series, Westview Press, 1981.

6. Jolande Jacobi & R.F.C. Hull. C.G. Jung - Psychological Reflections: A New
Anthology of His Writings 1905 - 1961. Princeton, NJ: Bollinger Series XXXI, Princeton, University Press, 1970/1973.

7. Joseph, Frank. Synchronicity & You. Boston, MA: Element, 1999.

8. Mansfield, Victor. Synchronicity, Science and Soul-Making. Chicago, IL: Open
Court, 1995.

9. Mitchell, Edgar. The Way of the Explorer. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons,
1996.

10. Rhine, Louisa, E. The Invisible Picture; A Study of Psychic Experiences.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1981.

11. Ryback, David and Letitia Sweitzer. Dreams That Come True. New York:
Doubleday, 1988.

12. Ullman, Montague, Stanley Krippner and Alan Vaughan. Dream Telepathy. New
York: Penguin Books, 1974.

AN UNDERSEA MESSAGE SENDING EXPERIMENT USING PSI DREAMS

by: Dale Graff, Prince Frederick, Maryland
email: baygraff@chesapeake.net
Web Site: http://www.chesapeake.net/~baygraff/

Paper for ASD 2001 Convention

July 10 - 15, 2001

1. Type of Presentation: Paper for 20 minute oral presentation.

2. Title of Presentation: An Undersea Message Sending Experiment Using Psi Dreams.

3. Biographical Description: Dale E. Graff, presenter, is an internationally
recognized lecturer, writer and researcher on psi topics. He is a physicist and a former director of project Stargate, the program for research and applications of remote viewing phenomena. He facilitates workshops on intuition, psi phenomena, and particularly psi dreaming.

4. Summary of Presentation: The first known attempt to evaluate the potential of psi
dreaming for receiving accurate messages is described. In July 1977, the presenter was a participant in a psi communication experiment with a submersible 500 feet deep near Catalina Island, CA. Several messages were transmitted from the submarine to the onshore dreamer 500 miles away in Menlo Park, CA.

5. (A) Learning Objectives:
(1) To explain how psi dreams have the potential for information transfer via
a code book approach for sending printed messages.
(2) To show how both conscious state psi (remote viewing) and dream state psi
can supplement one another.
(3) To evaluate the possibility of an electromagnetic aspect in the psi process.

(B) Evaluation Questions:
(1) Do dreams have the potential for providing psi information sufficiently
accurate for communication with others or for taking action?
(2) Does the content of psi dreams vary with individual focusing strategies, target
material and objectives?
(4) Can some type of electromagnetic wave explain the results of this undersea
experiment?

ABSTRACT

An Undersea Message Sending Experiment
Using Psi Dreams

In July 1977, I developed a procedure for using the potential of remote viewing and psi dreams in a message sending role. At that time I was the government manager for a contract on remote viewing research with Dr. Hal Puthoff at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Menlo Park, CA. As I examined the remote viewing data, it became apparent that verbal or printed material is difficult to access by a remote viewer and are not as reliable as sketches of the target area. However, a procedure we called "associative remote viewing" suggested a practical technique: link spatial information with a specific message. For example, a specified target scene would be identified in advance as relating to a message. If that remote scene was described correctly by a remote viewer, a codebook with the message association to that scene would be consulted and the intended message read¾it is the message of the day. I envisioned applying this technique for communication with hostages or submarine commanders. All that was needed was a small set of diverse targets with associated messages¾one for the transmitting area and a duplicate set at the remote receiving location.

The opportunity to evaluate this message sending approach occurred in July 1977 when a private entrepreneur had access to the University of California's deep diving submersible for the weekend. Its primary mission was to search for artifacts on the ocean floor 500 feet deep off the coast of Catalina Island, CA. Remote viewers were invited aboard to see if they could assist in artifact location. They were also tasked to see if they could describe distant scenes in the San Francisco Bay area to evaluate if seawater would attenuate or affect the remote viewing perception and to see if messages could be received from the shore using the associative remote viewing technique. I added another option: have remote viewers or psi dreamers on shore at SRI attempt to describe target pictures on board the submersible to receive the message from the undersea location. Thus, the potential for two-way psi communication could be evaluated.

This presentation describes details of this first undersea message sending experiment with emphasis on the use of dreams to receive the messages. Although only a few trials could be performed due to logistics problems, they were successful; the intended messages from the shore and from the submersible were received. Statistical results exceeded the significant level.

This experiment demonstrated the potential for applying psi, especially psi dreams, in a very practical situation when no other means of communication are available. Implications of this experiment is discussed, and speculation is provided as to why the US Navy rejected this undersea message sending approach as a backup to conventional techniques. New psi communication experiments are described to encourage others to explore this unique form of remote message sending and receiving.
Dale E. Graff; November, 2000

REFERENCES

An Undersea Message Sending Experiment
Using Psi Dreams

1. Broughton, Richard. Parapsychology - The Controversial Science. New York:
Ballantine, 1991.

2. Graff, Dale. Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness. Boston, MA: Element, 1998.

3. Graff, Dale. RIVER DREAMS. Boston, MA: Element, 2000.

4. Jahn, Robert, ed. The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World. Boulder, CO:

5. Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), Selected Symposia Series,
Westview Press, 1981.

6. Rhine, Louisa, E. The Invisible Picture; A Study of Psychic Experiences.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1981.

7. Ryback, David and Letitia Sweitzer. Dreams That Come True. New York:
Doubleday, 1988.

8. Ullman, Montague, Stanley Krippner and Alan Vaughan. Dream Telepathy. New
York: Penguin Books, 1974.