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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MORE ABOUT JOHN L PETERSEN — futurist, strategist, and large-scale change agent

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John L. Petersen is considered by many to be one of the most informed futurists in the world. He is best-known for writing and thinking about high impact surprises—wild cards—and the process of surprise anticipation. He edits and publishes an internationally acclaimed e-newsletter, FUTUREdition, which highlights weak signals and early indicators of significant futures. John conceived of, designed and developed the world's first national surprise anticipation center for the country of Singapore. 

His current professional involvements include investing in and developing resources for both large, international projects and breakthrough technology start-up companies that have the potential of significantly changing the world.   He is also the developer of a multi-use real estate project.  .

John has led national non-profit organizations, worked in sales, manufacturing, real estate development, and marketing and advertising, mostly for companies he founded. A graduate electrical engineer, he has also promoted rock concerts; owned and produced conventions; and worked as a disc jockey – among other things.

Mr. Petersen's government and political experience include stints at the National War College, the Institute for National Security Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council staff at the White House. He was a naval flight officer in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve and is a decorated veteran of both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars. He has served in senior positions for a number of presidential political campaigns and was an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1984. He was twice the runner-up candidate to be the Secretary of the Navy.

In 1989 Petersen founded The Arlington Institute (TAI), a non-profit, future-oriented research institute. TAI operates on the premise that effective thinking about the future is impossible without casting a very wide net. The “think tank” serves as a global agent for change by developing new concepts, processes and tools for anticipating the future and translating that knowledge into better present-day decisions.

An award-winning writer, Petersen's first book, The Road to 2015: Profiles of the Future was awarded Outstanding Academic Book of 1995 by CHOICE Academic Review, and remained on The World Future Society's best-seller list for more than a year. His second book, Out of the Blue: How to Anticipate Wild Cards and Big Future Surprises, was also a WFS best-seller. His coauthored article, “The Year 2000: Social Chaos or Social Transformation?” was published in six different publication and was one of the most highly acclaimed writings on Y2K. His 1988 book-length report “The Diffusion of Power: An Era of Realignment” was used at the highest levels of American government as a basis for strategic planning. He has written papers on the future of national security and the military, the future of energy and the future of the media.  John's third book, A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change, presents a template for individuals and organizations for dealing with highly uncertain futures. 

Petersen is a past board member of the World Future Society, writes on the future of aviation for Professional Pilot magazine and is a member of the board of directors of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation. He is a network member of the Global Business Network and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. A provocative public speaker, he addresses a wide array of audiences around the world on a variety of future subjects.

John is a licensed pilot who enjoys aerobatic flying and an amateur radio operator.  He lives in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia with his wife, Diane.

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'Premonition Man: The Robinson Phenomenon' by Grant & Jane Solomon (planned publication date: 2022) will tell the story of precognitive dreamer, Chris Robinson.

Can Robinson tell the future from his lucid dream experiences?

Stan Lee, creator of the Marvel Universe, including X-Men and Spider-Man, thinks he can.

In the two videos below, Robinson appears as 'Future Man' in an episode of Lee's 'Superhumans' on 19 August 2010.

DAILY MIRROR

I See The Future In My Dreams

This article appeared in the Daily Mirror newspaper on 21 October 2005.

When the terror bombers struck London on July 7, Chris Robinson was shocked. Shocked, but not surprised.

For Chris had seen it all in his dreams - and it wasn't the first time visions of horror had come to him in his sleep. Every morning Chris, 54, jots down his dreams and sends them to Dr Keith Hearne, the first scientist to study "lucid" dreaming under laboratory conditions.

He is the perfect guinea pig ... when he was younger he had precognitive dreams two or three times a year. Now, the visions happen almost daily.

For three weeks leading up to the July 7 bombings he repeatedly dreamt of snow and dogs.
Over the years Chris discovered that dogs in his dream signify terrorists, snow implies imminent danger and meat is code for dead bodies.

On the morning of July 1 he emailed Dr Hearne: "Last night I was in a tunnel. There were two explosions, lots of soot and smoke. There are huge great big dogs. This could be London." Three days later (July 4) he emailed Dr Hearne again: "I've had another dream with huge dogs. I'm sure there's going to be a terrorist attack very soon."

On July 6 the clairvoyant woke up with memories of his most disturbing dream yet. Chris recalls: "I saw even more mayhem in the dream. That night I watched the news and prayed a terrorist attack wouldn't happen." But the next day he was devastated when he heard about the London bombings. "I did let the authorities know, but there was little anyone could do to prevent the attacks," he says.

In the past the clairvoyant has made predictions - and kept complete records - about the Hatfield rail crash, several IRA bombs and a recent plane crash at Los Angeles International Airport.

"Chris has provided outstanding early warning of many terrorist activities in the past, especially IRA bombings. He even gave alerts just before the London bombings," says Dr Hearne, a psychologist who's studied dreaming for 30 years. Chris's gift, however, has been a mixed blessing. "When the dreams started occurring regularly I saw my GP. I thought something was wrong with me and he told me I was mad," he says.

"But I was saved by police officers and a priest who assured me that whatever was going on in my dreams, was real. I was not mad.

"Now thankfully, Dr Hearne acts as an official, unbiased, record keeper. He's got details of my visions going back 15 years and even spent six weeks at my house, monitoring my brain waves."
Chris, an office cleaner from Dunstable, Beds, also sends his dreams to 'the Network' a group of psychics based in Arizona. The Network is monitored by a retired US intelligence chief who passes on information to the Whitehouse.

British police too have been impressed by Chris's talents. Alex Hall, a former Detective Chief Inspector with the Regional Crime Squad, says:

"Over the years Chris has convinced me of the genuine belief he has in his powers. We have worked together on a number of investigations and he has been able to offer helpful information in relation to major crimes and terrorist activities."

If you have psychic dreams contact Dr Keith Hearne via european-college.co.uk

​12 December 2004 - Mount Fuji
'Me (in front of Mount Fuji) on day 4 in Japan. The dream from 23 November 2004 said that day four in Japan would be the same and as great as day four in Arizona; only I would "have to climb stairs to see the mountain". I didn't know where I would be going or when. This dream came true so it was an accurate premonition.'

13 December 2004 - Tokyo
Robinson with the TV crew and experts from Japan. 'This was a venture with experimenters and media who were interested in finding the truth about dream precognition. I proved that dreams can predict details of crimes and provide clues to catching terrorists. The TV programme was huge over there.'

June 2005 - Okayama
Psychic detectives, Gabrielle Crofts and Chris Robinson, work together on TV Asahi's 'Save Our Souls' programme to find the murderer of a young girl who has been stabbed to death.

Robinson's task is to dream 'Where You Will Take Me Tomorrow'
Chris Robinson (aka 'Premonition Man') is tasked to dream the night before where Richard & Judy production team will take him in London tomorrow. Robinson dreams, draws, and predicts: BOATS, ONLY ONE BOAT next to STRUCTURE WITH WINDOWS, BRIDGE, HOSPITAL. How many other locations in London have this combination of objects and landmarks? Richard & Judy thought Robinson's accuracy was 'astounding'.

In the Arizona Experiments Robinson scored 10 out of 10 in similar premonition tests
Professor Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona confirms Robinson scored 10 out of 10 in similar tests in the United States. The professor also confirms that Robinson accurately predicted the 9/11 Twin Towers terrorist attack whilst he was undergoing the scientific Arizona Experiments in 2001.

This led to Robinson being employed to do (still classified) work for the US government
The results of these experiments led directly to Robinson being employed by the US government to work for them using his dream premonition powers in 2003. Most of what Robinson did for the US government is still classified.

Watch the 3 videos in order to judge for yourself.

​[NOTE: Our 'Premonition Man' book and movie script are both in development for completion during 2022.]

Playlist of interviews with Chris Robinson, Professor Gary Schwartz, and others, in connection with '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.

View 'Premonition Man-The Arizona Experiments—Interviews' playlist on YouTube

In April 2001, The Premonition Man, Chris 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 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.

This playlist is an introduction to The Arizona Experiments.

View 'Premonition Man: The Arizona Experiments—Documentary' extracts on YouTube

Chris Robinson's experiences with dreams really began in 1989, during a period of upheaval in his life, when Chris was in his late 30s. He was living in a caravan in a mobile homes park doing odd jobs. He had just become a father again.

One night, Chris was staying with a friend and was woken by what he thought was his child crying. Then he realised that he could hear a voice in the room -his grandmother's voice. 
But his grandmother had been dead for several years.

Chris could hear her voice clearly, as though she were standing next to him. "Christopher," she said, "someone is trying to steal your car."

Chris found himself in a half-dream state, accepting it as fact that he was talking to his dead grandmother. "Nan, the car's not here, it's at home. By the time I get a taxi or walk there, it'll be long gone. Anyway," he added, wanting to get back to sleep, "it's insured."

"Don't worry, Christopher," his· grandmother said, "I'll do something about it."

The next afternoon, as Chris reached home, one of his neighbours came over to see him. 

"Something strange happened in the middle of the night," she said. "There was a blinding light, and we heard a voice. My husband got up and looked out of the window. There were these blokes trying to break into your car, so he chased them off. He spent the rest of the night sitting up, guarding it."

Chris checked the car, and it was perfectly all right. He thanked his neigh-bours, then went back tn the caravan and thought about what had happened. Had his grandmother saved his car? 

I to went to the local church and pruyod to both his grandmother and grundfather, thanking them. He had no idea that this was the beginning of something. He simply put it down to a strange  coincidence.

Chris was flying over water. There was a man below him, in the water, in some distress. Chris knew the man was going to die and flew down to help him. The stranger had fallen off a boat that Chris could see in the distance, sailing away from them. The man said: "It's all right for you - you're going back to your body in the morning. I'm not."

It was frightening, and Chris woke with a start. He found an old letter by the side of the bed, scribbled down a few details of his strange dream, then went back to sleep.

Two days later there was an item on the news about an ex-soldier who had fallen overboard from a ferry bound for Sweden, and had drowned.

Chris had mentioned the dream to a policeman whom he had been assisting with an investigation concerning some ex-colleagues. He had also told his friend Trevor Kempson, a News Of The World journalist.

A week later, the same boat was involved in another incident. Chris already had a feeling that something terrible was going to happen to the boat, and had told the police. The boat was carrying a consignment of beagles to Sweden. Nearly all of the dogs died, suffocating from lack of oxygen.

The night after the incident, the soldier appeared again in Chris's dreams, and told him that he was going to set the boat alight. The next morning Chris was on the phone to his police contacts, telling them of his dream. And then, in the same spot where authorities were sure the soldier had drowned, the sister-boat to the first ferry caught fire.

The summer went on, and a few dreams came and went. Having no proper records, Chris can't recall the exact details.

But by now the police were becoming extremely interested. Two officers took over the job of dealing with Chris and, if not monitoring him, then, at the very least, keeping an eye on his dreams.

Chris felt ill-at-ease with his dreams. There had been an accumulation of data all about planes. Chris filled a whole page of a notebook, which he now kept by his bed to record his dreams, and among his notes were the words: plane, end, die, gone to airport on way home and CRASH.

Next morning he spoke to Paul Aylott, a local detective inspector, and said: "I think there's going to be a plane crash, and people will die. I don't know how many, but I've got the number 93. It's going to come down in a bunker. And I think it's going to be Valentine's Day. There are Asians on the plane. But the real clue is some chemicals."

It was actually on February 15 that Aylott and Chris next spoke. An Air India plane had crashed in India, into a bunker on a golf course, killing 93 people. It had exploded coming in to land over the town of Bhopal. That was the link with chemicals: Bhopal was the scene of a chemical works explosion in the late 1970s which had left many dead and the inhabitants of the town with long-term health problems.

The month of February ended with a premonition of a train crash. Chris dreamt that he was on a commuter train running towards a junction where the line was closed. The passengers were quite unaware of what was about to happen. He phoned Paul Aylott when he awoke, and said: "There's going to be a train crash in Penge [an area in south London], but I don't know when." 
And on the night of February 28, Chris received a phone call from Paul. "There's been a train crash in Penge." 

As Chris put down the phone, he began to wonder what his other dreams of the past month might mean. He had dreamt he was sawing the top off a radiator and repairing a hole in the pipes of a washing machine. He also had the words water and WATER-leek written on the page. Why had he spelt leek that way?

The answer became obvious within the next day or two, when torrential rai  caused flooding in parts of Wales. Not only had he been repairing potential flood risks in radiators and washing machines, he had written about a water leak with a double meaning: leek being the vegetable with which the Welsh are associated, and also an obvious mis-spelling of the world leak. If nothing else, this showed that his subconscious had a sense  of humour.

Chris had uneasy dreams. In one of them, he dreamt about the smuggling of mercury detonators, the type used in nuclear weapons. There were also hints of forthcoming problems between Iran and Iraq. The next night had seen him write shooting in the street and [Bullet] in [head] in his dream diary. Brackets placed around words in his notes meant he was not sure.

On March 28, 1989, five people were arrested at London's Heathrow Airport after the security staff made a chilling find in an aircraft hangar there: 40 krytron triggers in an ordinary suitcase. These triggers form part of a sophisticated electronic system for a nuclear device. 
The krytons were bound for Iraq, where Saddam Hussein had, two weeks previously, ordered the execution of journalist Fazad Bazoft for allegedly spying on missile bases.

Then, on the night of March 29, weaponry expert Dr Gerry Bull was walked through Arrivals and into the airport's main building.

Pete had to think fast. "Swap it for sand and let him walk," he finally decided. "I don't want anyone taking their eye off him for more than a second. He's got to be heavily tailed."

The case was passed through, and word sent to Customs at the airport to let the courier through unchallenged. He was followed to a North London park, where he waited for several hours. 
Pete finally conceded defeat and ordered that the courier be arrested. The people he was working for must have had an observer at the airport.

The courier stood trial and received a heavy prison sentence. He had been caught thanks to Chris's dream. It was just a shame that no other member of the gang was netted in the operation. But perhaps Chris had helped to dry up one line of supply for drugs being smuggled into the country.  

In September 1990 Chris began to feel that very few people were taking notice of what was happening in his dreams. He wrote to Graham Bright, his local Member of Parliament, then to Scotland Yard and to the Ministry of Defence. In each letter he outlined what had happened to him so far, and asked each party what they intended to do to help further research into his dreams, and put the dream results to good use.

Graham Bright was the only one to reply positively. He wrote several times and also telephoned Chris about his premonitions. Chris was put in touch with Special Branch in Cambridge, and Mr Bright began to take particular notice of Chris Robinson - because Graham Bright happened to be John Major's parliamentary private secretary, and Chris began to have dreams about an attack on John Major.

On October 18, 1990, Chris dreamt he was in a car with an Irishman in a blue suit. He could see the man's pear-shaped face clearly, with his pointed chin, and a thick shock of red hair. The man was talking about the IRA.

When he woke, Chris could see that he had written Car in Bits and [mini] change front. From this he knew that the next IRA attack would use a vehicle - not necessarily a Mini, which was why the word was bracketed - that had been altered in some way. And from the way he had written the former phrase, he knew that the postcode would be CB - or Cambridge, the county in which John Major had his constituency.

On the night of November 14, Chris dreamt of a white van, which was being used by the IRA. Two nights later, on November 16, there was a reference in the dreams to [Philip] Lawson. 
The brackets around the name Philip suggested uncertainty - which left Chris with Lawson. At that time, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was Nigel Lawson, living in the Chancellor's official residence at 11 Downing Street, next to the Prime Minister's residence at Number 10.

John Major was not yet Britain's Prime Minister, but Chris had a feeling that this would change: for some time he had been having dreams that told him Margaret Thatcher would soon be replaced. Put together with all the references to John Major, Chris felt sure that he would be the replacement.

At any other time this would have been a premonition noteworthy in itself, but right now that was the last thing on Chris's mind.

His dreams began to come through with a strong message. Chris dreamt of IRA men getting away from a scene of crime on a big motorbike. This eventually turned out to be correct. 
But the dream had a double meaning, because Chris wrote the phrase Big Old Motorbike in his dream diary, which was a way of indicating a bomb: Big Old Motorbike. Bomb.

While this had been happening, the expected coup in the Tory Party had occurred and John Major had been installed as Prime Minister.

So it was no surprise that Chris wrote on December 3: Halt at Major Rd ahead. Phone call warning to [police]. 

The dream on Tuesday, January 8, was so explicit that it prompted Chris to send it directly to Graham Bright.

The dream revealed codes for the SAS, SW1, BT - the postcode for Belfast, and a sure sign of IRA activity in Chris's universe - and Cambridge, signifying John Major. Just imagine how Chris must have felt as he tried to make people listen to him. He translated the dream to send it to Graham Bright.

On January 10, he saw a van being resprayed by the IRA. He knew the van that would be used in the attack would be white - as indeed it was.

Wednesday, February 6, saw the most blatant dreams yet: three rockets firing into space, with postcodes for SW1. There were more resprayed cars like those Chris had been seeing for months. When he woke at four in the morning, he knew what was going to happen.

He also knew that he couldn't go back to sleep. His wife was working at a hotel, and she was due to start an early shift at 5.30am. Chris made her break-fast, then drove her to work. 
He took his children to school and told a couple of their teachers about his dreams. By the time he got back home it was close to 10 o'clock. Chris had become resigned to the fact that no-one was taking any notice of him.

The phone rang. At first he wasn't going to answer it, but a voice in his head said, "Answer it, Chrissy, it might be important."

If there was one thing he had learnt by now, it was never to ignore the voices that occasionally came into his head. He answered the phone.

It was Graham Bright. He told Chris there had been an attack on Downing Street at 10 o'clock that morning. Three rockets had been fired from a white van that had then exploded. Two men were seen making a getaway on a motorbike.

One of the rockets had landed in the garden of No 11 Downing Street. The other two had hit No 10, but had caused little damage, apart from the falling plaster dust that surrounded Graham as he spoke.

"What can I do to help you?" he asked Chris. "I now know that you were utterly correct." 

"If you really want to help, the first thing you can do is write me a letter," Chris replied."Because the biggest problem I have is that people don't believe me. If I had verification from somebody in your position, that would make things so much easier."

"I do believe you. And all the police I've spoken to who have dealt with you believe you. The problem is that all the ones who have no experience of you think that you're mad, and think that I'm mad to believe you."

Chris put the phone down, and it struck him as remarkable that, within an hour of a major attack on Downing Street, the Prime Minister's private secretary had found time to ring a psychic in a small country village.

Sadie Holland was a researcher for Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe, a series of television documentaries linked by the famous science fiction author. When she asked Chris to take part in an experiment which would be conducted by Dr Richard Wiseman at the University of Hertfordshire, he had no hesitation in accepting.

Sadie told him that the tests were designed so that four psychics would be shown three predetermined objects. Only Dr Wiseman would know what they were until the day.

"You realise I don't work like that, don't you?" Chris said. "I may be able to dream about the objects in advance, but I won't just be able to look at them and give you an instant history.

"Put the objects in boxes, and label the boxes A, B and C. Then I can ask the spirits questions about box A on Friday night, box B on Saturday night, and box C on Sunday. I can fax you the dream notes next morning, to be compared later to the history of each object."

On the first night, Chris's dreams were confused, but when he awoke he knew that a woman had been murdered. She knew her killer, and had been killed with a gun, but beyond that there was nothing concrete.

The second night was better. Chris was visited by PC Keith Blakelock, who had been killed in London's Tottenham riots of 1985. He told Chris of two murdered policemen. One death was his own, the other related to the second object -box B. As with Blakelock, this constable had died of wounds to the head. However, these wounds had been caused by a gunshot.

On the third night, Chris found himself observing a woman preparing a bottle of milk for a small baby. Police-woman Yvonne Fletcher, murdered in 1984, appeared by his side, and said words, which he wrote down in his diary: keep your fingers away - boiling over - turn heat off. Chris found himself standing in a flat which he knew was in London. The room caught fire, and the shock of this made him wake up.

On September 13, four psychics, a TV crew, and Dr Richard Wiseman were assembled in the doctor's lab. Chris had a shock: the objects were laid out on a table ... They were neither boxed nor labelled, as he had requested.

"Can these at least be labelled, as that's how I've worked?" asked Chris.

Dr Wiseman seemed put out. "Very well," he sighed, and asked a student to label the items A, B, and C.

Chris sat down in front of the table, and picked up object A, a lady's shoe. He told the camera what he had dreamed and .that he expected the shoe to have belonged to a woman who had been shot.

Object B was the projectile part of a bullet, without the shell casing. He told the camera about his encounter with Blakelock, and how he expected that this was connected to the murder of a police constable.

Object C was a red woollen scarf. As he picked it up, he experienced a rare flash of psychometry. As soon as it was in his hands he could see a woman being strangled: he put the scarf around his neck, and as he did he could see milk bottles. It was his opinion that the scarf had been used as a murder weapon, and that the murder was in some way connected to milk.

The objects had all come from the Essex Police Museum. The shoe had belonged to Camille Cecile Holland, a 57-year-old woman shot dead by her common law husband, at their remote farmhouse. She was missing for four years before a digging party found her body at the farm. She was identified by her shoes, and her killer was hanged on the evidence of a London cobbler, who made the shoes.

The bullet was one which killed Police Constable George Gutteridge at Stapleford Abbots in September 1927.

He was shot in the head by Frederick Browne, later arrested with a gun in his possession. It was proved by ballistics evidence, used for the first time in an English murder trial, to be the same as that which killed PC Gutteridge.

The scarf had been used in a recent murder. The victim's name was not-revealed, but she had been killed by her milkman in a row over her milk bill. He had reported finding the body on his rounds to try to cover his complicity. When he finally confessed, he claimed that it was an accidental killing, and that she had been strangled by the scarf when he had grabbed it to prevent her  running away.

Chris says: "Considering the amount of money spent on research into space and astronomy, I think it's incredible that no-one has ever written a book or done heavy research into dreams. Millions of people all over the world dream every time they sleep, yet no study of dreams has been published. 

"As far as the police I've spoken to are concerned, I'm the only person that they know of who has repeatedly had dreams that apparently foretell many unforeseeable occurrences. My own doctor has told me that I'm not mad, neither do I need any medical treatment. He says it is possible that perhaps I have been affected by the high number of near-death experiences I have had over the years, or by long periods of anaesthesia that I endured during my open-heart surgery when I was a child."

​THE END

Precognitive dreamer Chris Robinson ('Premonition Man') is tasked to dream the night before what is in a box which will be opened on live TV the following morning. Richard and Judy thought he did very well. Watch this video to judge for yourself.​

TRANSCRIPT
Daily Star--Dreamer Chris in Horror Forecast
12 June 1990
 
The horrors that hit Britain at the weekend did not surprise former Tv repairman Chris. For he claims that he has already seen them taking place – in his dreams.
 
Chris, 39, gave up his old job a year ago to devote all his time to studying his dreams of death and destruction… and to warn people about them.
 
And yesterday he claimed that as he slept he foresaw the terrible events of the past few days.

His clairvoyant insight showed him:
 
The BOMB planted by Animal Rights fanatics in a car in Bristol which injured baby John Tupper. 

The PILOT who was sucked out of a plane window.
 
And the PARTY of teenagers in Saturday’s 21st birthday bash at the Honourable Artillery Company headquarters in London.
 
In fact he was so certain about the Bristol car bombing that he says he sent the police a map on Friday indicating where it would take place.
 
Chris lives in a caravan in Bedfordshire with his wife Bessie. He said yesterday: “before I go to sleep, I leave a piece of paper with a certain question on it by my bed and pray for an answer.
 
“The notes are full of cryptic clues about major disasters which I have to interpret. But I’m getting better and better at it.”
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One of his police acquaintances, a detective inspector said: “He can give an area where something will happen.”