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Scientific Publications by Dr. Keith Hearne

MSc thesis :

Visual imagery and evoked responses - University of Hull, 1975.

PhD thesis :

Lucid dreams : an electro-physiological and psychological study University of Liverpool. May, 1978.

(Hard copies deposited with the Society for Psychical Research in London).

(View PhD at : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dreathemes)

Scientific Papers / Articles

Hearne, K. (1977) An experiment in 'telepathic' phobic fear & REM sleep. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 49 (771) : 434 – 439 (March)

Hearne, K. (1977) Visually evoked responses & ESP : an experiment. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 49 (774) : 648 – 657 (December).

Hearne, K. (1978) Visual imagery and evoked responses. Psychological Research, 40 : 89 – 92.

Hearne, K. (1979) ESP – does it really exist ? Nursing Mirror, 149 (19) : 28 – 29 (November 8th).

Hearne, K. (1980) Insight into lucid dreams. Nursing Mirror, 150 (10) : 20 – 22 (March 6th).

Hearne, K. (1980) Post-hypnotically suggested dreams and the sleep cycle : an experimental re-evaluation. IRCS Medical Bulletin, 8 : 240 – 241.

Hearne, K. (1980) Behold, it is a dream. The Guardian, p 14, July 17th.

Hearne, K. (1980) Terror lurking in the dark. Nursing Mirror, 151 (7) : 18 – 20 (August 14th).

Empson, J., Hearne, K., & Tilley, A. (1980) REM sleep and reminiscence. Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 34 : 23

Hearne, K. (1981) Lucid dreams and ESP : an initial experiment using one subject. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51 (787) : 7 – 11 (February).

Hearne, K. (1981) The effect on the subject (in waking, SWS and REM states) of electric shocks to the Agent : an ESP experiment. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51 (788) : 87 – 92 (June).

Hearne, K. (1981) Visually evoked responses and ESP : failure to replicate previous findings. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51 (789) : 145 – 147 (October).

Hearne, K. (1981) A light-switch phenomenon in lucid dreams. Journal of Mental Imagery, 5(2) : 97 – 100.

Hearne, K. (1981) At death's door. Nursing Mirror, 153 (21) : 26 – 28 (November 18th).

Hearne, K. (1981) Control your own dreams. New Scientist, 91 (1272) : 783 – 785 (September 24th).

Hearne, K. (1981) Strange goings on in hospital. Nursing Mirror, 153 (26) : 24 (December 23rd).

Hearne, K. (1982) Trapped in sleep. Nursing Mirror, 154 (2) : 34 – 35 (January 13th).

Hearne, K. (1982) A cool look at nothing special. Nursing Mirror, 154 (3) : 26 – 28 (January 20th).

Hearne, K. (1982) An ostensible precognition of the 1974 Flixborough disaster. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51 (790) : 210 – 213 (February).

Hearne, K. (1982) Undiscovered country. Vogue, 3 (2218), Vol. 139 : 56 – 64 (May).

Hearne, K. (1982) Ten tests for state-assessment. Lucidity Letter, 1 (3) : 6 – 7 (May).

Hearne, K. (1982) Effects of performing certain set tasks in the lucid dream state. Perceptual and motor skills, 54 : 259 – 262.

Hearne, K. (1982) An ostensible precognition of the accidental sinking of HM Submarine Artemis in 1971. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51 (791) : 283 – 287 (June).

Hearne, K. (1982) Three cases of ostensible precognition from a single percipient. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51 (791) : 288 – 291 (June).

Hearne, K. (1982) An automated technique for studying psi in home lucid dreams. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51 (791) : 303 – 304 (June).

Hearne, K. (1982) Energy flow between healer and patient ? Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51 (792) : 382 – 384 (October).

Hearne, K. (1982) A suggested experimental method of producing false-awakenings with possible resulting lucidity or OBE – the FAST (False Awakening with State Testing) technique. Lucidity Letter, 1 (4) : 12 – 13 (October).

Hearne, K. (1982) Dreams. Next..., 1 (3) : 89 – 93.

Hearne, K. (1983) A scene-change phenomenon in externalised imagery. Lucidity Letter, 2 (1) : 2 – 4 (January).

Hearne, K. (1983) Features of lucid dreams : questionnaire data and content analysis (1). Journal of Lucid Dream Research, 1 (1) : 3 – 20 (Summer).

Hearne, K. (1983) Electro-physiological aspects of lucid dreams – more detailed findings. Journal of Lucid Dream Research, 1 (1) : 21 – 47 (Summer).

Hearne, K. (1983) Lucid dream induction. Journal of Mental Imagery, 7 (1) : 19 – 24.

Hearne, K. (1984) A survey of reported premonitions and of those who have them. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 52 (796) : 261 – 270 (February).

Hearne, K. (1984) Lucid dreaming and psi research. In Current trends in psi research. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Parapsychology Foundation, New Orleans, USA, pp 192 – 213 (August 13th – 14th).

Hearne, K. (1984) The early warning system that nobody heeds. The Guardian, p. 11, Wednesday, August 29th.

Hearne, K. (1985) An ostensible precognition using a 'dream machine'. Journal of the Society or Psychical Research, 53 (799) : 38 – 40 (February).

Hearne, K. (1985) The importance of spontaneous cases. Parapsychology Review, 16 (5) : 13 – 15 (September / October).

Hearne, K. (1986) Dream sense. Nursing Times / Mirror, 28 – 31, (January 1st)

Hearne, K. (1986) Hypnosis – is it of value ? Pulse, 77 – 78 (May 24th).

Hearne, K. (1986) An analysis of premonitions deposited over one year from an apparently gifted subject. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 53 (804) : 376 – 382 (July).

Hearne, K. (1987) A new perspective on dream imagery. Journal of Mental Imagery, 11 (2) : 75 – 82.

Hearne, K. (1987) A dream-telepathy study using a home dream-machine. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 54 (807) : 139 – 142 (April).

Hearne, K. (1989) A nation-wide mass dream-telepathy experiment. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 55 (814) : 271 – 274 (January).

Hearne, K. (1989) A forced-choice remote viewing experiment. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 55 (814) : 275 – 278 (January).

Hearne, K. (1989) A questionnaire and personality study of self-styled psychics and mediums. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 55 (816) : 404 – 411 (July).

Hearne. K. (1997) Freeze-framing the past. Kindred Spirit, Issue 39, Summer, (June-August), 40 - 42.

Hearne, K. (1999) Lucid dreaming. Positive Health, 40 (May), 13 – 15.

Hearne, K. (1999) The concept of the virtual self. Positive Health, 44 (September), 11 - 13.

Melbourne, D. & Hearne, K. (1999) The incredible dream oracle. Positive Health, 46 (November), 9 - 11.

Letters

Hearne, K. (1976) Letter to Nursing Times, 72 (13) : 499.

Hearne, K. (1982) Letter to Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51 (791) – 319 – 320 (June).

Patents

UK patent on Hearne's dream machine : 2039741 published 20th July, 1983.

USA patent on Hearne's dream machine : 4420001, published 13th December, 1983.

First publication of Hearne's Lucid Dream Research:

(Paper read at Conference) Eye-movement communication from lucid dreams : a new technique and initial findings. 11th postgraduate – postdoctoral Conference in the Behavioural Sciences, Hull University, April 15th – 18th, 1977.

Papers given at Conferences

Lucid dreams : a new area for psi investigation. Annual Conference of the Society for Psychical research, Brighton April 15th – 18th 1980, and London 1980.

Hypnosis : a cool re-evaluation. Annual Conference of the Society for Psychical Research, Bristol, April 10th – 12th, 1981.

An analysis of premonitions. SPR lecture, 10th February, 1983, London.

Lucid dreaming and psi research. 33rd Annual Conference of the Parapsychology Foundation, New Orleans, USA. August 13th & 14th, 1984.

The past and present of seeing the future. Annual Conference of the SPR, London, September 21st, 1985.

Time and the puzzle of precognition. Study day No. 11 of the SPR, London, 26th April, 1986.

The mystery of premonitions, and Research into lucid dreaming. One day Conference, The College of Psychic Studies, Oxford, 10th May, 1986.

A study of psychics and mediums. Annual Conference of the SPR, Cambridge, 5th – 7th September, 1986.

Talk on premonitions, etc. Annual Conference of the National Womens Register, Nottingham, 16th – 17th April, 1988.

Some theoretical considerations of lucid dreaming and A study of nightmare sufferers. ASD Conference, London, July 26th-29th, 1989.

(Also many other talks to local societies, etc).

N.B.

Background to the first PhD in the world on Lucid Dreaming and

the original discovery of the Ocular-Signalling technique from

Lucid Dreams

After obtaining a BSc in psychology from Reading University, England, in 1973, Keith Hearne went to Hull University in the Autumn of that year, intending to conduct research for a PhD on hypnotic dreams, following discoveries he had made in 'hypno-oneirography'. He decided instead to use newly acquired computer equipment to research electro-physiological aspects of visual imagery. During that time he became skilled in running a sleep laboratory. He became interested in 'lucid' dreaming (the paradoxical conscious awareness of dreaming within the dream itself) and reasoned that it must be possible for a lucid dreamer to communicate to the world of wakefulness. A problem, though, was the inherent muscular paralysis of REM sleep. In 1975 it suddenly occurred to Hearne that since the eye musculature is not inhibited in REM sleep, it might be possible to get subjects to signal by making deliberate ocular movements. On the morning of 5th April 1975, wired up a lucid dream subject who was instructed to make a sequence of left-right eye-movements on becoming lucid. A lucid dream was reported at about 8 am, but unfortunately, the monitoring equipment had just been switched off. A week later, on the morning of 12th April 1975, the same subject had another lucid dream. The first signals in the world from a lucid dream were thus recorded. Hearne continued to obtain more records over the next months. He wound up the work on visual imagery, submitting it for an MSc and moved to Liverpool University, where he was offered a sleep-laboratory, to research lucid dreams for this PhD, using paid subjects. During the course of this work he discovered the basic electro-physiological features of lucid dreams, including the pre-lucid REM burst. He also invented the first 'dream machine'. Subsequently Hearne also discovered the 'light switch' phenomenon. In 1975 Hearne informed psychology departments at American universities of his findings including Stanford (W. Dement) and Chicago (A. Rechtschaffen). (The original chart-records are on display in the Science Museum in London.)