Research Program / Claims / esp-3
Through appropriate preliminary suggestion, an individual can induce their own clairvoyant dreams.
个体通过适当的初步暗示，能引发自己的透视觉之梦。
Concept esp · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ 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)
Adjudicating experiment
Four sleep laboratories recruit approximately 240 participants, each spending one adaptation night and four experimental nights; a randomized crossover compares a standardized target-perception suggestion script with an equally timed neutral script, with the scripts not revealing target content. Polysomnography confirms REM, with predetermined cue time points before and during REM; upon awakening, dream reports are recorded immediately and sealed; a remote system independently presents targets randomly each night, and blinded raters rank among four pre-matched candidates. The primary endpoint is target ranking, with visual detail and dream vividness as secondary endpoints; over 18–24 months, the study simultaneously tests above-chance performance and the gain of suggestion relative to control.
Suggested paper title
Standardized Pre-sleep Suggestion and Hidden-Target Correspondence in REM Dream Reports: A Pre-registered Crossover Study
What it would overturn
If both target matching isolation and suggestion gain are replicated, it will revise the hypothesis that 'suggestion can only change dream content and reporting style, but cannot increase accurate acquisition of unknown external targets.'
Candidate labs / funders
Chris A. Roe，英国北安普顿大学; Pattie Maes，Massachusetts Institute of Technology，Fluid Interfaces研究组：[梦境项目](https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/sleep-creativity/publications/); Karen R. Konkoly；Ken A. Paller，REM梦境交互研究团队
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Medium; 'preliminary suggestion improves accuracy' can be a distinguishing prediction, but the original text lacks scripts, timing, dosage, or success criteria, and cannot be replaced by more vivid dreams.
Note
Supplementary question 2 is technically feasible; precautions must be taken against post-awakening writing, post-target-reveal reinterpretation, and selecting only dreams most similar to the target; the 'auto-suggestion' in the original claim should also be tested separately from externally played suggestions.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim esp-3, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/esp-3