| We normally attribute the term psychics to | | | | energy revealing itself in dreams. As soon as the |
| people who can transmit energy or information | | | | subject entered the stage of random eye |
| without using any physical process. Further, this | | | | movement (REM) sleep, another participant called |
| particular energy that enables them to do so is | | | | the sender was signaled to start. The sender was |
| called psychic energy. However the question that | | | | to concentrate on any picture and then send the |
| often comes across is whether psychic energy is | | | | same to the sleeping subject through brain signals. |
| real or not. Innumerable people think it to be | | | | Then, the subject was awakened and then asked |
| nonexistent as they themselves have never | | | | to describe his dreams. The process was |
| experienced anything of such sort. They probably | | | | repeated innumerable times during the night. |
| have not even heard of it or have had a bad | | | | Thereafter, many judges were asked to compare |
| experience with some imposter who pretended | | | | the description of the dreams of the subject with |
| to be psychic in order to extract money from | | | | the picture sent by the sender. The pictures |
| innocent people. | | | | varied in theme and were selected at random. |
| A number of researchers have linked psychic | | | | They compared even the minutest details to find |
| energies with hypnosis, dreaming, meditation, and | | | | the co-relation between the two. The identity of |
| drug use. These energies can be natural god gifts | | | | the real picture was not disclosed to these judges |
| or can be self-induced. Innumerable people have | | | | and majority of them were able to pick the |
| been found who never even knew that they | | | | correct picture only on the basis of the |
| possessed such powers. Over the past 40 years, | | | | description of the dreams by the subject. |
| efforts have been made to verify these unique | | | | Many other tests have been conducted now and |
| but untrustworthy observations for a common | | | | then in an effort to understand this mysterious |
| man. | | | | energy in depth. The above mentioned test was |
| In 1930, Duke University developed some | | | | repeated once more by the researchers, and this |
| innovative techniques and methods for psi testing. | | | | time all the five senses of the subject were |
| These procedures involved some repetitive | | | | blocked. The sender was even isolated while |
| attempts by the subject to determine the | | | | sending the picture's data and pictures were |
| psychic abilities he or she possesses. Though | | | | chosen again at random. The results were again |
| these tests were able to determine the | | | | remarkable and depended entirely on the verbal |
| percentage of psychic energies, they failed to | | | | description of the subject. |
| identify the types of psi that exhibit themselves in | | | | Today there is a general understanding amongst |
| daily life. | | | | researchers this wonder called psychic energy |
| A major initiative to understand psychics was | | | | does exist. However one must note that the |
| made by Maimonides who designed a dream | | | | judgment is still out on whether it can be officially |
| laboratory where a subject was made to sleep in | | | | recognized by science as genuine. |
| order to understand the concept of psychic | | | | |