Dreams & Psi

Dreams have long been associated with revelation, symbolism, creativity and anomalous perception. This Mind & Body subcategory explores dream experiences in relation to psychical research and consciousness studies, including spontaneous dream phenomena, dream telepathy, precognitive dreams and broader questions about the meanings and functions of dreaming in human life.

Painting - A Dream of a Girl Before a Sunrise (1833) by Karl Bryullov

Announcing and Departure Dreams

In dreams of these types, spirits of the deceased appear to let the dreamer know they plan to reincarnate.

Dream ESP Reports (list)

Summaries of reports, surveys and analyses of dream ESP in the SPR archives from 1889 to 1998.

Asclepieion at Epidaurus, which contains inscribed descriptions of cures attributed to the healing powers of Apollo and Asclepius.

Dream Incubation

Dream incubation is the modern term applied to dreaming for purposes of problem solving, healing and divination.

Dreams and ESP

This article describes the experience and study of ESP in dreams, notably of telepathic interactions and precognitions of future events.

Angela Grubbs, a lawyer living in Atlanta, experienced intense dreams and visions of a young woman whose life and circumstances she was able to verify.

Dreams and Past-Life Memory

Apparent past-life memories may surface in the dreams of both children and adults, but rarely are they detailed enough to be verified.

Lucid Dreaming

This article surveys research on dreams in which the dreamer is aware of being in a dream and sometimes can control the dream.

Maimonides Dream Telepathy Research

This article describes ESP dreaming experiments carried out in a New York sleep laboratory.

Robert Van de Castle

Robert Van de Castle (1927–2014) was an American psychologist specializing in dreams who also was active in parapsychology