Results:
The first result of this dreamwork study is a definiton of some of the terms used in dreamwork. The most difficult term to define was the work "anomalous." This page is dedicated to that finding. Lindblom
Some definition:
Anomalous:
"At the 2000 annual meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration, S. Krippner and L. Faith reported on their analysis of 1,666 dream reports.
In this large sample, they identified 134 dreams that they deemed anomalous in one way or another.
They classified these dreams as follows:
In telepathic dream reports, it is the dreamer's impression that the dream correctly identified the thoughts of someone in external reality at the time of the dream.
Mutual dreams are those in which the dreamer and someone else report similar dreams on the same night.
Clairvoyant dreams concern distant events about which the dreamer had no ordinary way of knowing.
In precognitive dreams, information is reported about an event that had not taken place at the time of the dream.
A past-life dream concerns past events in which the dreamer participated but with a different identity than characterizes his or her current life.
Initiation dreams introduce the dreamer to a new worldview, or to a new mission in life.
In visitation dreams, the dreamer is visited by ancestors, spirits, or deities, and is given messages or counsel by them. "
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf131/sf131p12.htm
Anomalous:
"Anomalous dreams have been reported throughout history from various cultural groups throughout the world.
Parapsychologists usually classify these dreams as "telepathic," "clairvoyant," and "precognitive," with considerable overlap.
As a result, the attempt to verify or falsify these reports has been a crucial one for parapsychology and for interested scientists from other disciplines.
An attempt was made to study anomalous dreams by Montague Ullman and Stanley Krippner at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1960s and 1970s.
This presentation will summarize the research protocol and the overall results, as well as data obtained in other laboratories.
Meta-analyses of the two bodies of data supported the existence of anomalous dream phenomena; however, the effect is not easily repeatable and this fact has hampered the acceptance of these investigations into mainstream dream theorizing and clinical dream interpretation."
http://www.asdreams.org/2003/abstracts/krippner.htm
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