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What effect does the Moon have on our Dreams?

A team of researchers at the College of Metaphysics are seeking to find the answer in the next two months as the positioning of the earth, moon, and the sun move through a sequence rarely seen in human history. Within 48 days, we will experience a new moon on a solar eclipse day, an eclipsed full moon, a new moon, and then a full moon.

“Our task is to receive, tabulate and analyze records of dream activity on each of these days,” says project creator Barbara Condron. “Physical science is just beginning to acknowledge what females have known for millennia – that the pull of the earth’s moon affects our biological cycles, our emotions, and our attitudes. The data we collect in the next three months will open dialogue on the moon’s effect on the consciousness we call dreaming.”

“I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not
looking at it.”

–Albert Einstein

A full moon, a new moon with a solar eclipse, an eclipsed full moon, and a new moon.....we're tracking the difference it all makes on our dreams.

Condron and others have been researching the field of dreams for 40 years through classes and seminars sponsored by the School of Metaphysics, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 educational institute devoted to the exploration and development of mental technology. Ten years ago www.dreamschool.org opened the research to a worldwide audience with a steady stream of dreamers reporting their personal night time movies. The site’s goal is “to interpret a dream for every man, woman, and child on the planet.”

“Every day we receive dreams for analysis and interpretation,” Condron says. “They come from across the U.S. and they can come from Germany, Australia, Nigeria, even Vietnam. The internet enables us to verify a longstanding hypothesis: homo sapiens dream, in every country, in every culture. Collecting these dreams gives us a unique window into the nature of humankind’s consciousness that some call soul.”

From missing a test and teeth falling out to lucid dreams and visitations, hundreds of dreams and their intepretations have been logged. Condron is author of Every Dream is about the Dreamer and The Dreamer’s Dictionary. She expects the “moon dreams” will generate a third this fall.

“Through our Global Lucid Dreaming Experiments we hope to advance scientific knowledge and awareness of consciousness,” Condron says. Her documentary TEN POWERS OF DREAMING details how individual’s dreams – from scientists and artists to inventors and warriors – often find a place in our everyday lives. “From the Periodic Table of Elements to Gandhi’s nonviolent resistance to British colonization to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, dreams have helped shape the course of human history and its time we understand how and why.”

To participate in the research, email experiment@dreamschool.org. There is no charge.

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