Psychic Dreaming: Dreamworking, Reincarnation, Out-of-Body Experiences & Clairvoyance

About the Author

Loyd Auerbach, MS (Parapsychology), is director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations (since 1989) and president of the Forever Family Foundation (since 2013), and has been in the field for more than thirty-five years focusing on parapsychological education and field investigation. Auerbach is the author or coauthor of ten books (nine on the paranormal). The most recent is ESP Wars: East and West (Crossroad Press, 2016), covering the psychic spying programs of the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia, which he coauthored with Dr. Edwin C. May (who ran the US program), Dr. Victor Rubel, and Joseph McMoneagle (the project’s #1 remote viewer). Auerbach is a professor at Atlantic University and JFK University, and he teaches Parapsychology (local and distance) through HCH Institute in Lafayette, California, and online courses through the Rhine Education Center. He is on the Board of Directors of the Rhine Research Center and the advisory board of the Windbridge Institute. His media appearances on TV, radio, and in print number in the thousands, including ESPN’s SportsCenter, ABC’s The View, Oprah, and Larry King Live. He works as a parapsychologist, professional mentalist/psychic entertainer, public speaking and media/social media skills coach, and as a professional chocolatier. Visit his public speaking site at www.speakasyourself.com and his main website at www.mindreader.com.

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Dedication

This revised edition is dedicated to my late father, Dick Auerbach. He was an inspiration and always supported my dreams, whether they came true or not.

Original Dedication: To the memories of D. Scott Rogo and Alex Tanous. As a writer, parapsychologist, and friend, Scott had an enormous influence on my professional life, my attitudes toward parapyschology, and my desire to present information to the general public. As a psychic practitioner and as a research participant at the ASPR, Alex, too, had an impact on my professional base. More, though, he somehow led me to experience what people call psychic. You will both be missed.

Acknowledgments

For this new revision: A big thank you goes out to Annie Wilder, for reaching out to me and arranging for the reincarnation of Psychic Dreaming, and to all my students who have allowed me into their lives over the years.

Back in 1991, with the original edition of Psychic Dreaming, I acknowledged the following—I’ve added a couple of comments here.

In writing my first book (ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists) I thanked everybody who had a hand in the making of me, personally, in the field of parapsychology. You are all thanked again.

As for this volume, I’d like to especially thank several people I interviewed, including Keith Harary, Beth Hedva, Montague Ullman (since passed away), Joanne Mied, and Pat Kampmeier, for giving me time and putting up with my questions.

Thanks to Kathy Dalton, Doug Day, and Brian McRae, for moral support, and to Rachel Seaborn, for helping Kathy and Doug go through a lot of letters.

A special nod of the head to my agent for this book (the 1991 and 1999 editions), Linda Mead, to Brian Thomsen who came up with the idea for this book, and to Beth Lieberman, for being a great editor to work with (again, for the 1991 edition).

Thanks again to the great people I worked with at LexisNexis (formerly Mead Data Central) in San Francisco. It was great being there, and without the LexisNexis information services I’d have had a much tougher time writing the proposal (let alone the book).

Special thanks go to Marcello Truzzi, for keeping me abreast of a lot of happenings in and around parapsychology (and for all the jokes). Marcello passed away several years ago and is sorely missed.

Lots of love to my parents, Barbara and Dick Auerbach, and to my brothers, Ron and David, for their continued support. My father passed away a little over ten years ago, though I still feel his presence in my life.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Psychic Means What?

Chapter 2: In Your Dreams

Chapter 3: Dream On: The Form of Your Dreams

Chapter 4: The Basis of Dreamwork: Other Lands, Other Times, Other Dreams

Chapter 5: Conscious While Dreaming: Lucid Dreams

Chapter 6: Dreaming Your Way Out of Your Body

Chapter 7: Dreams of Days Past: Reincarnation

Chapter 8: Sharing Your Dreams: Telepathy

Chapter 9: Dreams of the Here and Now: Clairvoyance

Chapter 10: Future Dreaming: Precognition

Chapter 11: What Affects Our Psychic Ability: Psi & Psychic Dreams, and Some Theories

Chapter 12: Dreamwork and Dreamweavers

Chapter 13: Working with Psychic Dreams and Experiences

Chapter 14: Dream a Little Dream of Conclusions

Bibliography

Preface

When I first published Psychic Dreaming in 1991, it was one of three books subtitled A Parapsychologist’s Handbook (the other two being ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists in 1986 and Reincarnation, Channeling and Possession in 1993). All three included extensive background on the history of parapsychology and the state of research at the time, as well as appendices that took readers to a variety of other parapsychological resources. They were intended to be something different from the book you now hold in your hands (or on your eReader).

I was asked to revise Psychic Dreaming to focus on how dreams and psi work together, and how you, the reader, can work with your own dreams, psychic or otherwise. Given the new focus, much of the parapsychological background has been removed d rm) from the original, there has been only minor updating—mostly pop cultural and in reference to technology (after all, no one really uses a VCR anymore).

Even though the latest research on sleep and dreaming has not been included in this book, the process of working with dreams has not changed. Nor have there been any appreciable new findings on psychic dreams from parapsychology (perhaps mainly due to the lack of research funding in general for the field).

Consequently, the material is still robust and relevant enough that this revised reprint will get you well on your way examining, understanding, and working with your dreams in general, and your psychic dreams in particular.

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Introduction

One of the more frequent questions a parapsychologist (and certainly a psychologist) gets asked outside of their regular working situations is I had this dream … can you tell me what it means? Of course, the psychic twist to all this is the second question of Will it come true?

Many people are fascinated by experiences we call psychic, but more people, including skeptics of the psychic, are even more infatuated with the surreal (though often frighteningly real) world of our dreams. We want to know why we dream certain things, what they mean, how we can control them, and if they will come true (or have they already happened). There are dozens of books available on dreams, everything from interpretation books to workbooks to books with particular scientific emphases, from psychology to neuropsychiatry. There are many books on the paranormal that touch on dreams, even a few that deal specifically with dreams and their connection to a particular psychic ability, such as telepathy. But I wanted to write a book that examines the potential range of psychic components of our dreams, with the idea of offering suggestions on how to use that information.

In this book, I will explore both sides of the ESP/dream connection. To understand how psychic information can appear in dreams, in what form and through what sort of interpretations, we need to look at dreams, sleep, and the dreaming process in the brain. To understand the forms of psychic abilities and information and how such can be used by those of us who have such experiences through our dreams, we need to look specifically at the different kinds of experiences, at least in the ways they are categorized by parapsychologists today. In order to understand how to work with information that may come through our dreams, we need to look at the connection between those experiences and the form and process of dreams.

Some of you reading this book after most of my others may seem a bit surprised that it is dealing with dreams. After all, from most of my writing and media exposure, you have come to believe that Loyd Auerbach is a ghostbuster and nothing more. In actuality, parapsychology covers so much more than mere things that go bump in the night, and I have always considered myself more of a generalist in the field, with some obvious emphasis on survival of bodily death and all that includes. But one really can’t effectively study ghosts and hauntings and the like without understanding other psychic experiences and what parapsychologists have learned in the laboratory as well as during their field investigations.

Much of my focus has been as someone who reaches out to the public with the intent of showing how common psychic experiences are. I’ve done that through the media, through my writing in print and on the web, and through the many courses I’ve taught for adults (and on occasion, people younger than that) academically and non-academically. My professional background started right after graduating with a master’s degree in parapsychology in the early 1980s with a position in Public Information and Education at the American Society for Psychical Research. Over the years, I’ve been heavily involved in teaching parapsychology, doing field research and investigation, working with and within various organizations, writing, and even a bit of laboratory research (though mainly as a consultant looking at potential fraud and the controls for the experiments).

One of the things I’ve always prided myself on has been awareness of the work of others in and around my field. This book would not have been possible without the work of others, allowing me much to synthesize as I put it through my own mental processing.

The idea for a book on dreams and their psychic component was actually not my own. The idea for this book came straight from the editor of my first book, Brian Thomsen (then with Warner Books). When it was suggested to me, I got excited about it (why hadn’t I dreamed of it?). As I started looking further into my field’s research on the subject, my curiosity was truly aroused—the result being the first version of Psychic Dreaming, first published in 1991.

It’s been revised (though not necessarily updated, other than minor bits) for the current audience with more of a focus to help you better understand how psychic information passes into and out of dreams, how to identify it, and how to work with your dreams so as to be able to potentially use that information.

Dream along with me …

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chapter 1

Psychic Means What?

The title of this book is Psychic Dreaming. While a good deal of the first part of this book deals with sleep and dreaming, it’s important to set the foundation for the psychic aspect: What does it mean to be psychic or to have psychic experiences?

Parapsychology, Psi, and Psychic

Parapsychology is the scientific study of psychic, or psi (pronounced sigh), phenomena. These are exchanges of information between living things (mainly people, of course), between the minds of living things and the environment (without the use of what we call our normal senses), or are direct influences of the minds of living things on the environment (without the use of physical bodies or technology). Of course, these interactions do not seem to be currently explainable by the known physical laws of nature, but that will not always be the case. Psi, by the way, is the term chosen by parapsychologists to refer to these experiences because it is a fairly clean term, being the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet and denoting simply an unknown.

To say you are psychic may simply mean that you have some other way besides logical deduction or inference to come up with information to solve problems. Whatever it is we’re using to gain extra insight, whether we use jargon terms like psi or ESP or not, is something worth paying attention to; our minds are telling us, There’s a bit of information that needs considering … so consider it already!

People who call themselves psychic can run a wide range, since everyone has some degree of psychic ability, according to the tenets of parapsychology. However, there are those who call themselves psychic with a capital P. I am a Psychic is a different phrase than I am psychic. So, the people claiming to be a Psychic are people who have, by their own statements, a better grasp of their own abilities, and therefore some degree of control of those abilities. Such a job title (psychic or psychic reader or psychic practitioner) often doesn’t mean that person really has any degree of actual control of their abilities, but only that they recognize all the extra information coming into their minds, and that they can utilize or apply that information in different situations. And, of course, there are many phonies out there—people who not only are not terribly psychic (not any more than anyone who visits them as clients) but are also aware of their unpsychicness and fraudulently put themselves out there as ones who know.

Being Psychic

In looking at whether some people are more psychic than others, we have to define terms. Someone who is psychic is someone who has psychic abilities and experiences. Since the majority of human beings have experienced something psychic in their lives, and since the experiments in parapsychology indicate that psi is evenly distributed across the population, as are the reports of psychic experiences, it would appear that everyone is psychic to some degree. Whether one person is more psychic than another is a valid question, but one difficult to assess in a given case.

The analogy used to relate psi to something in science fiction is that psi is like musical talent. Everyone has it to some degree, whether that means you can tap your foot to a beat or can play a concerto on a piano. Recognition of musical talent is a key to developing it. Some people are child prodigies, able to jump right into the music with little or no training, and others, try as they might throughout their lives, can never get any better than playing Chopsticks.

Psi is similar, though certainly not as trainable. Being psychic may mean recognizing the difference between information received or perceived by your normal senses and anything extra that comes through. It may be that those people who call themselves psychics are able to separate that noise they get through their senses and pick up fainter signals from the background.

According to all polls, most people in the West do believe psychic interactions and experiences are at least possible, even if our culture (especially academia) says otherwise and even makes fun of the belief. In a poll conducted in the latter part of the 1980s by George Gallup Jr. and Jim Castelli, and reported in the Los Angeles Times (Dick Roraback, If There’s a Ghost of a Chance, Americans Will Believe It, October 31, 1988), 46 percent of all Americans believe in extrasensory perception, 24 percent believe in the ability to receive information from the future (precognition), and 15 percent believe in ghosts.

In a similar poll conducted by the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center and reported by priest/novelist Andrew Greeley, 42 percent of Americans report contact with someone who died, and 67 percent believe in ESP. Surveys and polls of groups around the country have reported similar numbers. So a hefty percentage of people believe in psychic experiences and have reported them. With such high numbers of experients, the image often projected by opponents to parapsychology and by many psychic practitioners that these experiences are not normal is false. Psychic experiences, or those we call psychic, are in actuality part of the normal range of human experience.

More recent polls show that college-educated people are more likely to believe in psi’s reality or at least possible existence, with upward of seven out of ten people believing in some form of psychic experience.

Millions of people have reported experiences they have classified as psychic or paranormal. Parapsychologists study those experiences and try to isolate what we think may be causing them. We are also looking for the physical explanations for how psi might work, how people might gain information from the future or the past or from thousands of miles away, or how we might possibly be able to affect that computer across the room. We study the how (psi happens), who (it happens to), and why (it happens to those people).

Parapsychologists study subjective paranormal experiences (SPE). This phrase, coined by neuropsychiatrist and parapsychological researcher Dr. Vernon Neppe, describes very well what happens to people. The SPE relates to any experience one has that seems or feels paranormal or psychic. We call it subjective because it is that personal interpretation that the experience is out of the normal range of experience and can be called psychic. This does not mean the SPE doesn’t relate to objective, real happenings, just that the objective, real evidence might not be available.

What Falls Under the Psi Label?

Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the interaction involving information flowing into someone’s mind. For physical interactions—the idea of mind over matter—parapsychologists use the term psychokinesis (PK), covering everything from psychic healing to affecting computers and other electronics to movement of objects.

Parapsychologists study these phenomena both in and out of the laboratory, as these things happen spontaneously in people’s lives. Parapsychologists apply the scientific method to study psychic experiences, and this involves much more than just collecting stories from people. In addition, the idea that the human personality, spirit, soul, or mind can survive the death of the body has also involved parapsychologists from the very start, and is its own subcategory of psi phenomena, called Survival of Bodily Death.

ESP

To further drill down in the categories, ESP is basically receptive in nature, as our minds receive information from other sources. When the information apparently has its start or origin in the mind of another person (or even an animal) we call it telepathy, mind-to-mind communication. Unlike what you see on television, this really doesn’t mean that someone can read another person’s mind. It’s more the idea that images, sensations, and information can somehow be shared between two or more minds directly. As far as dreams are concerned, we are looking at the idea that in our dreams information that originates in the minds or experience of others somehow finds its way into our dreams, sometimes leading to mutual or shared dreaming.

Clairvoyance is an idea that goes way back in human history. This is the ability to visually perceive objects, people, or events happening at the same moment as vision but outside the range of our ordinary senses or inference. Most people have visions or essentially see the information in their mind’s eye apparently because sight is the sense we rely on the most. When the psychic information comes into our heads, our brains translate it into imagery as the first form of perception. Clairvoyance means clear seeing, but people also relate mentally hearing psychic information (clairaudience means clear hearing, with the mind’s ear). In addition, we often bodily feel or sense things happening elsewhere (clairsentience) and