Geomagnetic Activity

&Dreams

Adrian Ryan

Geomagnetic Activity

All of these charts have a range of 25 nT

ESP and Geomagnetic Activity:Literature Review

Negative Correlation Makarec and Persinger, 1987Persinger and Krippner, 1989Krippner and Persinger, 1996Radin, 2002

Positive Correlation Radin, 1994Persinger et al, 2002Booth et al, 2002

Little or No Correlation Nelson and Dunne, 1986Persinger, 1989

OVERALL N = 2,879, rs = -0.03, p = 0.06(Spottiswoode, 1997)

ESP and Geomagnetic Activity: Literature Review

Local Sidereal Time Spottiswoode, 1997

Band 1 pulsation - enhances ESP?

Band 3 pulsation - inhibits ESP?

Melatonin

DMT?

Generation of Artificial Pulsations (Subrahmanyam et al, 1985)

Map of SAMNET Observatories

Lipnicki, 2009

1990-1997: 2,387 dreams

2 consecutive days of:• Low GMA (N = 69) • High GMA (N = 85)

Low GMA dreams were more bizarre than high GMA dreams (U = 2195.5, p = 0.006)

1912-2001: 18,212 dreams

2 consecutive days of:• Low GMA (N = 454) • High GMA (N = 1,400)

Low GMA dreams were longer than high GMA dreams (t = -1.91, p = 0.03)

www.dreambank.net

Dream Report Length vs Global Geomagnetic Activity

Negative Correlation

Detlev von Uslar N = 6,073, r = -0.06, p = 0.000002Norman N = 1,235, r = -0.07, p = 0.01

Positive Correlation

Emma N = 1,165, r = 0.06, p = 0.04Melora N = 209, r = 0.16, p = 0.02

Little or No Correlation

9 other dreamers N = 9,530, r = 0.01, n.s.

OVERALL N = 18,212, r = -0.02 p = 0.005

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www.dreambank.net:Length of Dream Report by Month

Barbara, from London

• 1999-2007: 2,103 dreams

Hypothesis 1: Band 3 Pulsations“Band 3 geomagnetic pulsations will correlate negatively with dream report length.”

- Test by checking local geomagnetic measurements...

RESULT: r = 0.02, n.s.

Hypothesis 2: Band 1 Pulsations“Band 1 geomagnetic pulsations will correlate positively with dream report length.”

- Can’t test directly as too far from magnetometer, but can test indirectly by looking at seasonal profile...

Seasonal profile of dream report length (top) is similar to band 1 profile (bottom), r = 0.47, p = 0.06.

Barbara from London:Length of Dream Report by Month

Burned Up on DreamViews.comfrom Edinburgh

• 2007: 77 dreams

• RESULT: Band 3: rs = -0.21, p = 0.033

Implications

• Support for ESP - Pulsation connection

• Enable study of other factors e.g., orientation

• Enable assessment of individual differences

• ESP and dreaming share common mental processes?

– “The waking dream” e.g., Foulkes & Fleisher, 1975

– Ed May: LST signature in mentation volume

Implications

• Support for ESP - Pulsation connection

• Enable study of other factors e.g., orientation

• Enable assessment of individual differences

• ESP and dreaming share common mental processes?

– “The waking dream” e.g., Foulkes & Fleisher, 1975

– Ed May: LST signature in mentation volume