The
Determination of Optimal Times for Individual Dream Experience
Frank J. Lucatelli is a
PhD candidate at Saybrook Graduate School preparing a thesis on
“Conceptual Modeling”, and a Michigan architect who has founded
and served as Director of HEAR, Inc., since 1969. He has presented
papers in Europe and the US applying conceptual models in physics
and personality assessment.
Abstract
By correlating certain assessment results of HEAR, Inc.’s
Strengths-SmartTM assessment instrument with the time of day that
a person was born, an individual’s optimal dream cycle(s) during a
twenty-four hour period can be accurately predicted. Consequently,
some people who generally do not remember dreaming during a normal
night’s sleep may experience vivid dreams if they were to nap at
other times during the day. Also, the relative degree to which a
person’s dreams are vivid compared to others can also be
predictably determined.
This new research raises the question that if a person’s inability
to remember their dreams is indicative of lack of actual dreaming
or simply their failure to recall their dreams. Our current
hypothesis is that it takes energy to dream and the presence or
absence of innate energy at specific times of the day, indicated
by a person’s predicted energy cycle, determines if the person has
the requisite energy to be able to have vivid dreams. The
predictive method described here could help, with further
research, to resolve this issue.
Because the study of dreams and or dreaming has not been a primary
focus of the work of HEAR, Inc., we are interested in finding
other research organizations that may be interested in exploring
and further testing the serendipitous findings we have observed.
The purpose in presenting to the IASD conference is to make
qualified professionals in the area of dream work aware of the
discovery made by HEAR, Inc. concerning the relationship between
personal energy associated with personality patterns and the
conjectured link with dreaming experience. It is hoped that the
predictive aspect of the Strengths-SmartTM instrument will
facilitate the work of those whose research interest is dreams and
dreaming.
HEAR, Inc. (Human Educational Alternatives Research, Inc.) has
been conducting basic research in the assessment of personal
strengths since 1969.
