Dreaming precognitively: A comparison with a non-dreaming condition and with human and artificial judges

Abstract

This study aimed to compare the precognitive results obtained during dreaming and non-dreaming conditions with a group of selected participants trained to recall their dreams in two separate experiments. In the first experiment, we used artificial judges; in the second experiment, we used human judges. The participants in this study were adults with extensive experience in remembering and recording their dreams. The task was to dream a randomly selected image, called the target, generated immediately after the research assistant received the dreams transcriptions from all participants. In both experiments, the percentages of the target correct identification in a dreaming condition were 28.6% and 31.4% above the expected statistical chance of 25%, as identified by artificial and human judges, respectively. On the contrary, the percentage in the non-dreaming condition was only of 13.8%, well below the expected probability of 25%.