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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 LN734~85 The ESP experiments in the classromm is just an overature. Its value lies mainly in the educational methods. However, it may lead to even wider applications in everyday life. 2. Dreams and ESP: One person's thoughts, without going through normal channels, being known by another person - this is what has led to research in thought transfer. In report of spontaneous ESP, there are about equal numbers of it occurring in a dream and while awake. However, people are much more deeply impressed with their experience when it occurs while they are awake. Furthermore, this is very easy to test. It was only after ?Foloyinde? that people were aware of the psychological significance of dreams. It has only been recently that research has been conducted on ESP in dreams. Thought transference during dreams has drawn most attention of psychologists. Way back in 1953, a psychologist in New York, M. Ullman, cooperated with L. Dale of the U.S. Parapsychology Association in beginning research in thought transference in dreams. It was only through the use of an EEG and other new technologies that the experiments made qualitative progress. In a hospital in New York, they established a dream researh center. Dr. Ullman and his co-workers atempted to induce thought transference dreams. Although. similar to as awakened state, these experiments seemed to be a waste of time and money.. Howeer, they conducted several relatively successful experiments. The experiements showed that the dream content of the subject could be influenced by the sender's thoughts. They told the subject to attempt to dream about what the sender was thinking about. They put him on a bed in a dark room. There were many special electrodes on his body to record electrical’ waves and rapid eye movement during the dream cycle. The sender was not far from the subject. His job was to select at random a topic card and to attempt to transmit that out. The topic cards were sealed in an envelope. Most of the time prints of pictures were selected. In a room next door, the experimentor controlled the EG and a walkie-talkie system to communcate with the sender and the subject. At the beginning of the experiment, the sender would open the envelope, and conccentrate on the card and any related thoughts it might invoke. When the experimentor saw that the subjects rapid eye movement cycle was completed, he would awaken the subject through the intercom system. He would ask him to describe the dream and record it on a tape reorder. He would then allow the subject to go back to sleep. The same topic card would be transmitted the whole - night. In this way several of the rapid eye movements could be related to the topic card. Thus, every night the experiment consisted of the sender transmitting a mental image, and the subject recording his dreams.: Could the dreams really be affected by this? This is not an easy question to answer. In the average experiment, the subject of the dream seldom was precisely the same as the topic card, but in the situations described below, can we say the subject's answer was accurate? For example, the card about the Mexican Revolution. There were clouds and mountains in the background. The subject's answer was "a ~77- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8