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THE DREAM-CONSCIOUS STATE:  A PERSONAL JOURNAL OF INNER EXPLORATION
Bruce G. Marcot

JOURNALS -- 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.

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