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First published in 1927, this text explores the relationship between dreams, time, and reality. It shows how a scientific experiment probes the nature of time and the barrier dividing past and future, and offers a scientific argument for human immortality.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I read this book when I was a teenager and it blew my mind. Over the years, I almost forgot about it, and it seemed vaguely like it must have been science fiction. But I just came across a copy in a second hand shop and read it again, and it is still mind-blowing. But even more amazing, even though it was written 80 years ago it fits right in with current ideas like those of Julian Barbour and David Deutsch. Maybe there is no difference between time and the other dimensions and we live in a "block universe" where the past and future are just different places. Maybe my teenage self is still out there getting his mind blown by this book for the first time! If you are intrigued by modern ideas in quantum physics, read this as well!
43 of 45 people found the following review helpful
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Dunne is a seminal figure in the gentleman-scientist tradition. A trained engineer, he was fascinated by a striking precognitive dream and conducted experiments on himself and with his friends that established that they all routinely dreamed about both past and future events. While his work was done without experimental controls, it established a prima facie case for lab work on precognition that got done half a century later.
The Rev. Norman Crowder lent me a copy of this in the 1960s. I accepted Dunne’s reports of his experiments at face value. Lab work since (See Rupert Sheldrake, "The Sense of Being Stared at") confirms Dunne’s reports.
Dunne goes on to discuss the implications for the nature of consciousness. How does consciousness have to be for this kind of precognition to be possible? Popularisations of Einstein's work were appearing in the 20s by eg James Jeans. Dunne imagines a human life as a 4-dimensional 'worm' through space-time, and speculates that consciousness has some kind of relationship to the whole line, but that waking consciousness consists of tightening the focus to the present, that is to say, to the present conceived of as a point traversing the worm.
In the 1960s I baulked at this line of thinking as wildly speculative. Thirty-forty years on, with more evidence in from both parapsychology and quantum physics, it looks less wild. The Mind-Body question is alive and kicking still.
In summary: Dunne is first-rate. Readable, provocative and like Sheldrake, describes simple experiments you can perform yourself. And unforgettable. (I haven't seen a copy in years.)
1 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I'm more interested in precognition in waking life rather than in dreams. And I wasn't impressed by Dunne's introduction of an immortal soul on the last page.
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