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Dream telepathy is the ability to communicate with others through one’s dreams. Deborah Erickson describes telepathic dreaming as telepathic communication facilitated through meditation, a quiet mind, and a consciousness level outside of time and space. Some examples of dream telepathy can also be predictive dreaming or psychological dreaming. The first person in modern times to recognize and record scientific findings on telepathic dreaming was Sigmund Freud. Since then, many experiments have been conducted in order to learn more about dream telepathy.

Dreams
Researchers have been exploring the powers of dreams and how separate our dreams are from the world that we as humans can control. Once people are in a dreaming state, they no longer have control of their bodies or minds. People often times experience dreams that they cannot explain because of the seemingly random nature of the dream. Researchers say that some people experience switches in personality while dreaming. For example, a normally calm person will experience dreams full of anxiety and fear. There are also records of people dreaming up what become world famous musical compositions or poetry. Some mathematicians are able to solve problems in their sleep that they could not while awake. Many people also experience rapid eye movements (RME) while dreaming which tend to lead to a better chance of recalling the dream. This discovery created a perfect opportunity for a dream experiment. There are some criteria that are used to identify telepathic dreams. Some correlation between the dream and reality must be unusual or unordinary. The dream must also contain knowledge that the patient could not normally have known. Another indicator is being intrusive. If the patient feels a sense of strange or intrusive elements to a dream it is also considered telepathic. Often times, the dreamer will have dreams coinciding with events in his or her therapist’s life. There have been some instances where the patient is able to dream up telepathic events that the therapist has described or that exposes the therapist’s weaknesses or vulnerabilities. Some therapists even use hypnosis to gain information from their patients.

History
Beginning with Sigmund Freud, speculations of communication via dreaming arose. He produced a model to express his ideas about telepathic dreaming. Freud claimed to have many pseudo-paranormal experiences that could be explained by telepathic dreams or thoughts. His ideas were not widely accepted at the time, but he continued to publically express his interest and findings about telepathic dreaming. He explained in a paper, “Dreams and Telepathy,” that he had not personally experienced a telepathic dream, but was informed of others that had experienced such phenomena. Freud continued to collect telepathic experiences from second hand sources to gather more information in order to further his research and complete many writings on the subject. Other researchers have since expanded Freud’s findings.

Experiments
There have been many experiments done to test the validity of dream telepathy and its effectiveness. It has always been difficult to research and do experiments for dream telepathy because of its complicated nature. Many test subjects find ways to communicate with others to make it look like telepathic communication. Experiments were done to prove the subjects’ powers by cutting off communication between the agent, sender, and receiver of information, but people found ways to get around blindfolds no matter how intricate and covering they were. Dr. Krippner lead the studies at the Miamonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York in 1964. Patients were monitored and awakened after a period of RME then separated to study the ability to communicate telepathically. Many different studies were done in a series to ensure there weren’t any tarnished variables. According to the results from the Child Experiment of 1985, nonrandom results were gathered that support the possibility of ESP. Many experiments have proved that stimuli from outside the conscious awareness can result in illusions and have an effect on problem solving activities.