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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 director 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.”
In addition to basic demographic information – sex, age, occupation, nationality, data on frequency of dreaming will be gathered. This will be catalogued with the reports of dream activity during these moon phases. In addition to dream activity, researchers will examine the dream content. What do we dream about? Does the moon make any difference in the content of our dreams? The length of the message? Our recall? These are areas we will examine.
Since beginning this experiment, we have received excellent feedback from others. One Swiss researcher noted a flaw in our proposal relative to advising those participating concerning our objectives. He writes:
This way of collecting data affects the results you will get because your dream subjects are being made aware of the moon phases before they go to sleep. You thus will not be able to make any statements on how moon phases affect dreaming. You will only be able to report on how being instructed to remember a dream at the time of a full moon affects dreams.
We welcome such insights as they are informative and instructive for all of us. This feedback has caused us to become more focused on what this chain of experiments can produce. "You will only be able to report on how being instructed to remember a dream at the time of a full moon affects dreams" supports one of the basic causal factors for any mental action: will. Will is the essential element for lucid dreaming, as it is the mental muscle making alertness possible in the dreamstate. Perhaps in this way we will produce evidences of the nature of intention in causing a dream to arise, sustaining it, and recalling it. Certainly it will, at the very least, measure the power of influence.
A basic principle governing human existence seems to be the creative nature of thought. "Seek and you will find". Expectation is a powerful motivator and quite often the predictor of self-fulfilling prophecy. This has been a dilemma for scientists for over 500 years. How does the experimenter affect his experiment? To the Greeks it was not so distracting, nor to those in the early Chinese dynasties. Rather, the creative nature of thought was exalted, explored, and seem as wisdom. We hope to kindle this possibility with these experiments.
What do we dream about? When? Why?
Do women remember dreams more readily than men?
Do men lucid dream more often than women?
Is there are difference in dream activity during a lunar eclipse? A solar eclipse?
What is the relationship of our sentient species to the rest of our universe?
These are some of the questions we are asking. In time we will see what the experiences of many reveal. We invite you to join us.
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“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.
By charting four moons we can expect patterns to emerge.
Do dream increase or decrease with a new moon? The full moon?
Is dream recall affected by the eclipse activity?
Does the phase of the moon affect frequency of dreaming?
What about content?
Are dreams more vivid, lucid, or memorable during specific moon phases?
We expect to have some answers by summer.
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