Enthusiasm for Project August!  Let me begin this post by recognizing the excitement in the air about this project. I’m basing this off several different measures; however, the discussion that follows is certainly atop the list. You see, even though Project August doesn’t officially begin until May 1^st, I’ve already received one email from an anonymous dreamer who began the procedures last night!

Before I discuss this August dream, let me point out something very important. Normally, only the dreamer can determine with any certainty what their dream actually means. However, Project August is quite a bit different in that individual dream interpretation is not exactly what we’re looking for. For the top level predictions, we’ll be focused on the items that don’t need interpretation. For example, if a dreamer dreams about a bridge collapsing, we’ll first take that at face value and not try to determine what that event could mean to the dreamer. The concept here is that in my experience, the biggest precognitively-dreamed events normally play out in real life very closely to how they were portrayed in the dream (of course there are exceptions).

However, knowing that each dream holds multiple meanings, we’ll also consider metaphoric associations, particularly when matching several dreams together into a separate set of memes. Okay, enough mumbo jumbo for now; let’s get to the exciting dream…

The dreamer sent more than this, but I thought this second paragraph would be best to discuss:

“Outside looking at clouds keep making swirls. I yell at dad to come inside and he tells me that even though the clouds are swirling and look like they are about to form tornados that they are too low and aren’t tornado clouds. I don’t agree with him and am watching what I think are tornados swirl all around in the lower horizon of the sky (like when a storm is brewing). The skies were blue, the sun is out, and it doesn’t look like rain at all but there are these huge weird looking clouds that are whitish clouds full of brown plumes that looked kind of like a puff of dirt swirling and heading towrds [sic] us but it wasn’t dirt because it was in the sky. I look up and see a huge one coming right for us and I am yelling at my dad to take cover. Then I wake up.”

Thank you, dreamer, for sending this in! You did a great job. As I dissect this dream, please don’t take anything personally. To make Project August work smoothly, we’re going to need certain things that are probably not normally required. What follows is less a critique and more just some important questions about this particular posting. Don’t stop dreaming, you did great!

The first thing that pops right out is the description of the swirling clouds and the discussion of whether a tornado is present. We first would take the highest probability factor and apply it to the most straightforward symbol…in this case the tornado/cloud/swirl. Regardless of what we want to call it, it appears to be ominous and very destructive. So, on the surface at least, we might be willing to predict a tornado to hit…..uh oh….where did this dream take place?

Rule number one for all P.A. participants: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! While we can increase our chances of being “right” if we simply throw out nebulous claims like, “a tornado will hit somewhere in August,” that is not a strict enough projection. We want to be able to predict where the tornado will touch down and when it will do so.

Therefore, while I SO appreciate this early dream, the dreamer should probably have included the location of where this dream occurred. For this particular dream account, it appears that it occurred at the dreamer’s home of residence, or near the father’s house. So, where is that house?

If project participants don’t want to include exact locations, then provide at least a general region (e.g., northeast Texas or middle of NY state), so we can at least have a place to throw our prediction darts. If participants don’t have a location, then at least throw out some descriptors like “Huge mountains to the North” or we’re on the Atlantic coastline,” etc.

By the way, many people might be wondering about the other details in the dream. We can certainly glean even more from this dream account, but those smaller details are expected to be mainly compared with the collective dream set (or a sub-categorized set of dreams), as I’ll inevitably discuss in later posts.

Bottom line, this was excellent practice from our first participant! Let’s give him or her a standing ovation!! Thank you, dreamer. Lastly, if enough registrants want to begin now, I guess there’s really no reason to wait…just provide comments below or contact me separately…if enough people want to begin early, then I’ll set up the category in the DreamBase. Exciting times; we’re off to a G-R-E-A-T start!

Disclaimer: Project August is not a scientific study. Any projections into future predictions should always be considered merely speculation, especially when matched with dates and locations. Readers assume full responsibility for their actions based on any information provided in or referred to from the content above. While precognitive dreaming is a real phenomenon, readers and dreamers alike are cautioned to use a high level of discernment when reading anything related to predictive  dreams, including Project August. Any material and content that discusses Project August should be considered ‘for entertainment only.’