Abstract: "A Preliminary Study on English and Welsh 'Sacred Sites' and Home Dream Reports

I've yet to locate my copy of Stanley Krippner's paper--I think the PsiberDreaming papers are still archived, so I'll have to go into it later today and see if I can locate it. For now at least, here is a brief biographical sketch of Stanley and his paper's abstract. Mark
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Stanley Krippner, PhD Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, served as the President of IASD 1993-1994, and APA's Division 32, the Association for Humanistic Psychology, 1980-1981 and President, Division 30, 1997-1998 (Society for Psychological Hypnosis), 32. A pioneer in the field of dream research, he was director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory in Brooklyn, NY. He is author, co-author or editor of numerous articles and books. In September, Stanley Krippner spoke at the Fourth International Chinese-American Conference on Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology in Guangzhou, China. He gave one workshop on AIDS prevention, one workshop on expressive arts therapy, and an invited lecture on creativity in dreams.

A Preliminary Study on English and Welsh “Sacred Sites” and Home Dream Reports
©2007 Stanley Krippner (used with author's permission)

Paul Devereux, Dragon Project Trust, Robert Tartz, Alliant International University, Adam Fish, Center for Landscape and Artefact
Abstract:
This article discusses preliminary data on advancing what we know about “sacred sites” and their affects on dreaming. Thirty-five volunteers spent between one and five nights in one of four unfamiliar outdoor “sacred sites” in England and Wales. Another volunteer awakened them following the observation of rapid eye movement and asked for dream recall. The same volunteers monitored their own dreams in familiar home surroundings, keeping dream diaries. Equal numbers of site dreams and home dream reports were obtained for each volunteer. The 204 dream reports had previously been subjected to inspection for bizarre and paranormal content, with no significant differences. This analysis used the Hall-Van de Castle Scale, and several differences were found, most notably more aggressive content in site dreams and more friendly content in home dreams. In addition, home dream reports contained more incidences of failure, striving, and success. A number of explanations were proposed for these differences, including expectancy, suggestion, the effect of unfamiliar surroundings, and possible anomalous properties of the sacred sites.