Research Program / Claims / dreams-11

Shared dreams belong to "root dreams," serving as a method to maintain inner identity and communication; all humanity has shared root dreams, and flying and falling dreams can be valid experiences rather than symbols.

共享的梦属于“根梦”,作为维持内在身份和沟通的方法;全人类有共享的根梦,飞梦和坠落梦可以是有效经验而非象征。

Concept dreams · Domain Dream Cognition and Unconscious Dynamics · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.

Seth sources (book §session)
  • dreams-projections §3
Adjudicating experiment
Approximately 300 pairs of close-relationship participants and 300 pairs of strangers each record 30 nights, independently sealing dream reports before communication; preregister correspondence scores for rare details, spatial relationships, and character actions; construct null distributions via date permutations and mismatched pairings, controlling for shared experiences, language, and media exposure; project 18 months. Nest a 100-pair laboratory sample with random target content given only to one side under isolation. Flying and falling dreams are separately coded by subjective experience, vestibular sensation, and objective information gain.
Suggested paper title
Prospective Dream Content Correspondence in Close and Unfamiliar Dyads: A Pre-Registered Multicenter Study
What it would overturn
Only if random information is reproducibly transmitted under strict isolation would the hypothesis that "cross-individual dream content correspondence can be explained by shared experience, culture, and chance matching" be challenged.
Candidate labs / funders
Chris A. Roe — University of Northampton; Martin Dresler — Donders Sleep and Memory Lab; International Association for the Study of Dreams; Dream Science Foundation
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The scope of all-humanity shared root dreams is strong, but identification conditions for root dreams, amount of transmitted information, and consequences for identity maintenance are all undefined.
Note
No direct paper was found in this search proving that root dreams maintain identity; flying dreams as true subjective experience do not require symbolic interpretation and do not prove objective flight; the listed associations and foundations support dream research but do not endorse these claims.[Funding directions](https://www.dreamscience.org/welcome/)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim dreams-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/dreams-11