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This book is the first to scientifically explore the phenomenon of telepathic dreaming in depth. It recounts how psychiatrist Montague Ullman and psychologist Stanley Krippner conducted experiments to determine whether persons acting as senders can transfer their thoughts to the minds of sleeping receivers, thereby altering their dreams. Their results were astonishing: the researchers were able to verify several instances of telepathic communication between participants. Participants often gave uncannily accurate descriptions of images that the senders attempted to project to them - apparently confirming the reality of extrasensory perception during the dream state.
In fascinating detail, the authors explain the intriguing process and results of their 10-year study, researching and experimenting with the human ability to communicate across the barriers of time, space, and sleep. They also review the history of previous research in this area, describe their own controlled experimental procedures, document their subjects' reactions, provide transcripts of several dream sessions, and critically engage with scientific reviewers. All this is done in straightforward language, making the book accessible to both general readers and serious scholars. Rarely has a scientific work been so readable, engaging, and entertaining.
This new 50th Anniversary Edition features a never-before-published article by Montague Ullman on interpreting dreams in light of theoretical physicist David Bohm's concept of an implicate order; and a new afterword by Stanley Krippner, highlighting recent developments in dream telepathy research.
About the author
Montague Ullman, M.D., (1916-2008) was an internationally renowned American psychiatrist holding degrees in neurology as well as psychiatry. Ullman received his Bachelor of Science degree from the College of the City of New York in 1935 and graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 1938. He was Emeritus clinical professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a Charter Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, past president of the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts. In 1967, he developed a sleep and dream laboratory at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. where he conducted groundbreaking experiments in dream telepathy. In 1975, his meeting with David Bohm, renowned quantum physicist, was pivotal in Ullman's search for the mystery of dreaming consciousness to quantum physics. Dr. Ullman's life's work was devoted to lecturing, teaching and inspiring a grassroots dreamwork movement within the United States that expanded internationally. He is the author of "Appreciating Dreams," and co-author of "Working with Dreams," "Psi and Psychiatry," "Handbook of States of Consciousness," and "The Variety of Dream Experience." His work has been widely published, including in Sweden, China, Denmark, Finland and Germany.
