Announcing Gaia's Dreams (www.psiarcade.com/gaia)
Gaia's Dreams is an IONS web-based experiment based on Carl Jung's concept of the collective unconscious. It is designed to gather and analyze dream quality and content from many people, and to automatically provide graphical reports on emerging trends based on aspects of those dreams. Eventually this site may also perform daily linguistic analyses of the content of the collective dreams. Ultimately the goal is to correlate collective dreams with world events, including natural and unnatural disasters, to see if collective dreams are predictive. Similar to the Global Consciousness Project (GCP, http://noosphere.princeton.edu), which is exploring the interaction between global consciousness of large-scale world events and aspects of the physical world, Gaia's Dreams is exploring interactions between the collective human *unconscious* and aspects of the physical world.
This experiment was partially motivated by reports of unusual dreams prior to 9/11 and the tsunami of December 2005, and by hundreds of historical cases of precognitive dreams. Data collected on this site will help us discern whether such dreams are truly precognitive.
Dean Radin, PhD
Senior Fellow, Institute of Noetic Sciences
