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  • Title: Deliberate presleep control of dream content: an experimental study.
    Author: Griffin ML, Folkes D.
    Journal: Percept Mot Skills; 1977 Oct; 45(2):660-2. PubMed ID: 917721.
    Abstract:
    29 subjects attempted, over a period of 10 nights, to influence their dream using techniques described in Garfield's book, Creative Dreaming (1974). A target suggestion was selected from a list of six suggestions compiled by, or for, each subject. Subjects kept daily records during the experiment both of their efforts at dream influence and of the dreams they recalled. Four judges attempted to identify from the dream material the target suggestion on each subject's suggestion list. The results indicated that the judges were unable to do so at better than chance levels. Thus analysis indicated no reliable evidence that conscious presleep suggestions become incorporated into dream content.
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