THE DREAM-CONSCIOUS STATE: A PERSONAL JOURNAL OF INNER EXPLORATION
Bruce G. MarcotJOURNALS -- PART TWO (1986-present)
A Lucid-Dream Parapsychology Experiment
Here's a fun one. We've all heard (probably apocryphal) stories about people having premonitions in dreams and their coming true later, or seeing someone or some place in a dream although they were miles away, etc. So I was led to ask, can one truly become clairvoyant in a lucid dream?
Here's how I tested this. On five index cards I drew the standard type of ESP-test figures: a square, a circle, three wavy lines, a triangle, and an X. I then shuffled them for a long time, cards face down with my eyes closed, and, eyes still closed, selected one at random and sealed it in an envelope. I stamped the seal so I would know if I had opened it, even in sleep-walking (which I haven't done since I was perhaps 4 or 5 years old, and only briefly then). I placed the envelope on my desk, face down so I couldn't see through the envelope to the symbol on the card within.
Then, for the next three or so weeks, every night I concentrated on having a lucid dream in which I would open the envelope and reveal the card.
Eventually, the lucid dream appeared, and in the dream I conjured up the image of my desk. With great elation, I took the envelope, opened it, took out the card, turned the card over -- and saw, quite clearly and positively, a square.
Great! I awoke smiling, beaming with delight! Astral projection at last! Psychic-seeing through lucid dreaming! Channelling Houdini or Edgar Cace while sleeping! Evidence of pure ESP! Clairvoyance!
I then went to my office, to my desk, and opened the envelope (seal unbroken) ... and found the image of ... three wavy lines.
I hadn't laughed that much in a long time. I might try it again; replication of experimental results, and all that. Or if I just need another good laugh.
Surprisingly, after I had conducted this entire experiment, I found a "lucid dreaming" news group on the Internet, and one person suggested this exact same experiment! I did not write and tell them I had actually done it. No one in this news group could actually conduct the experiment.