It upsets all the laws of science of course, and official science is very much against this point of view. And that is a particular bias we have to fight, in this field. I have studied Chris for years and I have been absolutely amazed at some of the things he has come up with. He actually went to an army camp and got himself arrested, because he says, there is going to be an event here soon. And it happened very soon. It has made me change my whole attitude to science, essentially and this is rather mind boggling, if premonitions exist then we can’t live in a physical universe because they can only exist in a non physical universe, so, really premonitions are saying we live in a dream world. - Dr Keith Hearne

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LUCID DREAMING DAY – 12 April each year

On 12 April 1975, English psychologist, Keith Hearne, discovered (in his PhD research, completed in 1978) a way of enabling lucid-dream subjects in the sleep-lab to signal out from within the dream by making coded eye-movements.

This circumvented the profound bodily paralysis of dreaming 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep, which had previously prevented such communication.

Lucid dreams are an unusual type of dream in which you become perfectly conscious, with full critical faculties, within the dream state.

This advance opened a huge new area of dream research, into ‘inner space’.

Daniel Love suggested in his book, Are You Dreaming? Exploring Lucid Dreams: A Comprehensive Guide (see more below) that the date should be internationally recognized each year as 'Lucid Dreaming Day'.

The date 12 April 2015 was celebrated as the 40th anniversary of Hearne’s discovery.

Keith Hearne's pioneering PhD research into lucid dreams
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Dr Keith Hearne conducted the world's first sleep-lab research into 'lucid' (conscious, controllable) dreams for his PhD at Liverpool University, England.

Hearne:

• obtained the first eye-movement signals from a subject within the lucid dream state, in April 1975
• discovered the 'pre-Iucid' REM burst, and 'light switch effect' in dreams
• discovered the basic physiological parameters of lucid dreaming
• invented the world's first 'dream machine'

Download a (free [authorised by Dr Hearne]) copy of Keith Hearne's Lucid Dreams PhD (high resolution file / low resolution file)
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Background to the first PhD in the world on Lucid Dreaming and the original discovery of the ocular-signaling technique from lucid dreams by Dr Keith Hearne

After obtaining a BSc in psychology from Reading University, England, in 1973, Keith Hearne went to Hull University in the Autumn of that year, intending to conduct research for a PhD on hypnotic dreams, following discoveries he had made in 'hypno-oneirography'. He decided instead to use newly acquired computer equipment to research electro-physiological aspects of visual imagery*.

During that time he became skilled in running a sleep laboratory. He became interested in 'lucid' dreaming (the paradoxical conscious awareness of dreaming within the dream itself) and reasoned that it must be possible for a lucid dreamer to communicate to the world of wakefulness. A problem, though, was the inherent muscular paralysis of REM sleep.

In 1975 it suddenly occurred to Hearne that since the eye musculature is not inhibited in REM sleep, it might be possible to get subjects to signal by making deliberate ocular movements.
On the morning of 5th April 1975, Hearne wired up a lucid dream subject who was instructed to make a sequence of left-right eye-movements on becoming lucid. A lucid dream was reported at about 8 am, but unfortunately, the monitoring equipment had just been switched off. A week later, on the morning of 12th April 1975, the same subject had another lucid dream. The first signals in the world from a lucid dream were thus recorded.

Hearne continued to obtain more records over the next months. He wound up the work on visual imagery, submitting it for an MSc* and moved to Liverpool University, where he was offered a sleep-laboratory, to research lucid dreams for this PhD, using paid subjects.
During the course of this work he discovered the basic electro-physiological features of lucid dreams, including the pre-Iucid REM burst. Hearne also discovered the 'light switch' phenomenon, and invented the first ' dream machine'.

In 1975 Hearne informed psychology departments at American universities of his findings including Stanford (W. Dement) and Chicago (A. Rechtschaffen).

* Hearne, Keith M.T. (1975). Visually evoked responses and visual imagery. MSc thesis. University of Hull, England.

Dr Hearne's original chart-record of the first ocular signals from a lucid-dream, and his 'dream-machine' invention are now on permanent display in the Science Museum, London.

A book, The Dream Machine, by Dr Hearne, fully describes his research into lucid dreams:

Download a (free [authorised by Dr Hearne]) copy of The Dream Machine by Keith Hearne (high resolution file / low resolution file)

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A slide showing some of the cases from the dream precognition files of The Premonition Man, including pages from his dream diary.​

Grant Solomon & Jane Solomon are currently writing a book about the life of Chris Robinson, working title THE PREMONITION MAN: Scientific Evidence for Dream Precognition (planned publication date: 2022).

The book is for anyone interested in precognitive dreams and the nature of reality.

Robinson is an ordinary, everyday person. He is not a mystic or a religious man but, since 1986, he has been haunted by premonitions and precognitive dreams on a regular basis. 

Known as the 'Dream Detective' for his work with the police and security services, Robinson has had premonitions of plane crashes, terrorist atrocities and murders for many years.

The dreams started in 1986 when Robinson, aged just 35, died and met 'a Team of Beings' on the 'other side'. They gave him two options...

​Option 1) He could stay dead.

Option 2) He could go back to his life on Earth if he worked for 'Them'. By night, they would take him out of his body on journeys into the future. By day, he would warn the world.

Robinson chose Option 2.

Almost immediately after he was returned to his Earth life, the dreams began. ​In the mid-eighties, the UK was under constant threat from a terrorist organisation known as the Irish Republican Army or IRA. Robinson would dream about a bomb exploding and then would read about the same event in the following days newspaper. He was horrified and terrified in equal measure. He regularly contacted the police and initially was treated with disbelief. When his predictions came true, he was arrested and accused of the crimes. 

It didn't take long for the authorities to realise that Robinson wasn't the perpetrator but just an innocent messenger trying to convince them and himself he wasn't mad, and in the process change the course of history.

Robinson was introduced to Dr Keith Hearne, an internationally known British psychologist who conducted the world’s first sleep-laboratory research into ‘lucid’ dreams (in which the dreamer becomes fully aware of being in a dream) at Liverpool University. He devised the ocular-signalling technique and invented the first ‘dream machine’. The original sleep-lab chart records from his pioneering research, and a dream machine, are on permanent display at the Science Museum in London. Hearne conducted tests on Robinson that he says changed his view of science and the nature of reality.

The dreams are rarely straightforward but, over the years, Robinson has learned to read the cryptic messages and understand the meanings.

In April 2001, Robinson, in a further bid to have his dream premonition gift tested scientifically, contacted Professor Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona. Schwartz is a published and respected scientist who specialises in individuals who appear to have psychic abilities. The academic was was sceptical of Robinson's claims but eventually agreed to do some experiments. Schwartz conducted 'The Arizona Experiments' in 2001, in which Robinson was tasked to dream of ten destinations over ten days (1st to 10th August inclusive) before each day's destination had been chosen. The results were extraordinary.

​Robinson's lucid and terrifying premonitions include 9/11, the London 7/7 bombings, and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

When his work came to the attention Stan Lee, the creator of the Marvel Universe made a Superhumans documentary about Robinson and called it, 'Future Man'.