problems. Because of our cultural conditioning, we have been
taught to dismiss dreams as possessing no value or
significance. People are therefore not inclined to take dreams
seriously enough to make the effort to send them in. Dr. Louisa
Rhine examined 433 precognitive dreams in her files that dealt
with events that could have been altered if the dreamer had
taken steps to do so; in only 37% of the cases was such an effort
made. If dreamers will not take the private steps necessary to
avert the outcomes of their precognitive dreams, they are not
very likely to make any public efforts in this direction.
Tabulations by parapsychologists of the time span elapsing in previously documented cases of precognition indicate that the largest number of reports occur within 24 hours of the precognized event and their frequency progressively diminishes as the time interval extends backward. Particular attention would therefore need to be paid to any event, whenever a noticeable increase of reports pertaining to it suddenly began to accumulate at the registry. Unfortunately, since all these registries are manned by only one or two part- time volunteers, it has not been possible for them to catalogue and systematically review the material they receive with the rapidity that would be needed in order for the potential of the scheme to be assessed. 178 |