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For some reason, when she awoke the next morning, she remembered nothing of what she had
dreamed the night before. Even while she was bathing her son later in the morning she had no
recollection of it. As in her dream she had to go into another room to get a towel and while she was
doing this she heard an odd noise from the bathroom. Suddenly her dream in all its detail flooded into
her consciousness and, rushing into the bathroom, she found her son lying at the bottom of the tub. He
had stopped breathing and was already turning blue. Unlike the dream, the accident did have an
ending, and a happy one at that. After a minute or two of mouth to mouth resuscitation, the child was
revived.
There are ways for people to have ESP experiences without something terrible happening to a friend
or relative. Two psychic investigators found this out while they were studying how people sleep and
dream. The two scientists, Drs. Stanley Krippner and Montague Ullman, discovered that although the
body goes to sleep at night, the brain never does. During a night's sleep it has bursts of activity that we
experience as dreams or nightmares. The two men wondered if a person's brain would receive
telepathic messages more easily while the body is asleep. With fewer distractions from the body's five
senses, they thought the brain would be freer to exercise its own sixth sense.
To find out if this was possible, Krippner and Ullman set up a simple experiment with two people and
the selection of pictures. One person was supposed to be the telepathic sender and the other, while
asleep, was to act as the receiver. The message was always a drawing the sender picked at random
from a box of sealed envelopes. If a message got through it would appear in the form of a dream. For
this reason each sleeper had special wires attached to his skull to "listen" to what the brain was doing.
When the brain became more active during a dream, the wires would sense this and set off an alarm,
waking the sleeper. The person would describe the dream he had into a tape recorder and hopefully
the dream would be some sort of representation of the picture message.
It turned out that Krippner and Ullman's hunch was right. People with no psychic experience were
getting the telepathic message loud and clear. For example, in one instance the picture chosen for the
message was of two prizefighters in a boxing ring. Shortly after the sender had begun concentrating
on the drawing, the sleeper had a dream. He described how he saw "posts standing up from the
ground" and said there was a "feeling of movement." Generally he said the dream was "something
about Madison Square Garden and a boxing fight."
Some of the best proof that ESP goes on during sleep came during some spectacular failures in
Krippner and Ullman's experiments. One night a woman receiver dreamed she was in a bad car
accident on a bridge. Since this had nothing to do with the image a sender was trying to transmit to
her, the experiment was marked down as a failure. The next day the woman learned she had received
a message but not from the person in the laboratory. During the night her boyfriend lost control of his
motorcycle while crossing a bridge. Although he caused a huge traffic accident, he escaped with only
a few scratches.
A few nights later the same woman duplicated her first "failure" by receiving a message different
from the one sent to her in the laboratory. She dreamed she saw an elderly woman, her grandmother,
sitting on the floor in a dark room surrounded by a pool of blood. As it happened, on the night of this
dream, her grandmother had slipped and fallen in her house, cutting her head. On hearing the noise, a
relative living in the house investigated and found the grandmother sitting on the floor stunned from
the blow and covered with blood from the cut.
After tests like these, Krippner and Ullman are convinced that everyone has psychic dreams, but few
people realize it. This is basically because they haven't trained themselves to remember their dreams.
There is a simple way to do this, Krippner says, that doesn't require all the fancy equipment he uses in
his dream laboratory. All a person has to do is keep a dream diary to keep track of dreams that could
be important. The best way to use it according to Krippner is to follow these simple steps:
" Before going to bed, place a pen and the diary a notebook of some kind where they will be
handy when you wake in the morning.
" Before going to sleep tell yourself one more time you're going to remember any dreams you have.
" In the morning relax a bit before you get out of bed and try to recollect any dreams. Jot down what
you can remember in the diary.
" Finally, after a few weeks of keeping the diary, go back over the dreams and see if there is a single
image or situation that kept popping up. It could be that someone was trying to get a message through
to you while you were sleeping.
If most people can receive ESP messages when they're asleep, can they also do the same thing when
they're awake? For years the psychic experts have said it wasn't possible to control ESP. Someone just
had to sit and wait for it to happen. Then, in 1974, a few discoveries were made that changed these
experts' minds.
Two men by the names of Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, both highly respected scientists, had
heard about a psychic ability called remote viewing that a few people seemed to possess. Very simply,
remote viewing is the ability to see a distant place by telepathy, either through the mind of a person
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