Summary Of A Woman's Post-Incubation Dreams

Smith obtained the photo of the target individual from a friend who verified her actual problem before the experiment began. The individual was a middle-aged woman with multiple problems: She had multiple sclerosis, especially in her hands, requiring frequent medication to reduce the pain. She was also the primary caregiver for her mother, who was in the final stages of lung cancer. She had recently lost her husband to an industrial mishap—he was accidentally crushed by a front-end loader, and in the process, a limb was severed. The woman was also involved in a very serious car accident.
To discover whether his subjects could dream about any of this woman’s problems simply by examining a photo of her, Smith coded several types of elements in
the dreams of participants both before they attempted to dream about the woman before and after after. The dream categories that were scored included:
Any mention of torso problems;
Any mention of head problem;
Any mention of limb problems;
Any mention of breathing problems;
Other health problems;
Financial problems;
Problems related to social or marital relationships;
Car/driving problems.

The study found that the proportions of dream elements referring to all these categories combined was significantly larger for subjects post-incubation than at the baseline pre-incubation level. The most-mentioned categories in post-incubation dreams were limb problems, breathing problems, and car/driving problems.
Here's one striking example of a post-incubation dream from a subject in the experimental group: "Woman has crippled hands and can’t open the pill bottle.
The right arm does not work and there is a lot of pain. Her hands are all crippled and rolled almost into fists.” While these results are indeed striking and intriguing, the crucial comparison is between the frequency of “hits” in subjects' post-incubation dreams and the baseline frequency of the generic versions of these “hits" in dreams? In other words, how often do limbs, car crashes and breathing problems occur in dreams at all? Do these post-incubation (replace here)rise above those baseline frequencies? Smith tracked baseline frequencies for these topics in his subject's pre-incubation dreams but still found a significant rise in the proportion of hits in post-incubation dreams.
It is reasonable to conclude that Smith has identified something more here than just a statistical artifact. Let’s say that some sort of dream telepathy is real and that dreams are more sensitive signal detection devices than in daytime mental states. What could account for this sensitivity? Smith mentions a few possibilities: He notes that correlated brain signals between two isolated individuals has been documented using functional magnetic imaging. Striking instances of apparent dream telepathy and similar brain activity patterns has been noted between twins in
particular. what is the subconscious trying to tell people? One good way to find out is through your dreams. When we sleep, our subconscious doesn’t need to battle with our conscious mind. Our emotional side is not challenged by our logic, so it’s easy for our subconscious to break through barriers. But it isn’t always easy to understand what it is trying to tell us. The subconscious relays messages in the form of dream symbols, or sometimes even bizarre dreams in which we are participants or observers. Think of a dream as a private movie screening of a film in which you play the leading role, or perhaps just sit in the front row of the theater.
Dreaming is one of the best ways for the subconscious mind to get your attention. Many people get psychic impressions from their dreams. Others may only dream when being forewarned about a situation. Some people think they never dream. In some dreams, our friends and family members may make an appearance. Even loved ones who have passed on can show up from time to time to say hello.