Project August

Report #1

May 4, 2014

“August 2014 has the same flavor and texture as a turning point of history.”

Quote taken directly from “Ablelba’s” first Project August dream.

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I’ll begin by saying just how excited I am about this project. Frankly, I can’t believe it’s actually started, and believe me, we have a LOT to talk about. I want to express how grateful I am to have you all participating in this truly groundbreaking project. I can’t tell you how many people are anxiously awaiting August just to see how this thing unfolds…me included!

The amount of dreams we’ve had so far is fairly in line with our estimates. Of course, to really get a good picture of the collective dream landscape, we really need millions of dreams, literally. Therefore, we ask that you please continue posting your August dreams, and if it presses you to do this, try to get a couple other friends to participate as well. We tried to scale down our entry procedures to appeal to more people.

This particular project is just the tip of the iceberg. Being the first of its kind, Project August is much more than just analyzing how well the collective dreams can predict the future; it’s also about helping us design more scientific studies in the upcoming months/years. The more we know, the better our design so that our follow-on projects are even that much tighter in terms of scientific credibility. We needed a starting point, and Project August was the ticket.

One word of caution: in a very pristine research project, I wouldn’t want to affect future dreaming by allowing the dreamers to see the previously dreamed dreams (unintentional tongue twister). For example, if participants read about a catastrophe on the West coast, will they then start dreaming about that coastline just because they saw it earlier? The same goes for this report. If this was a perfect study, no one would be able to read previous dreams OR the predictions prior to August.

Make no mistake, though. The big key to this project is simply participation. This is partly the reason we’re offering these predictions periodically: a sort of reward in a way for continuing to participate in the project. If no one ever gets any feedback, then I suspect that participation would eventually wane.

Therefore, this report is in honor of YOU. It’s the only thing I have as a gift in exchange for your time and your dedicated work.

But just realize that reading this report can influence your dreams. I want you to do two important things here: 1) only read this report in the morning, and 2) before you read, affirm that you will dream about fresh, new content and not simply a regurgitation of what you saw here. Why only the morning? This will give your mind a full day to trump your subconscious with other irrelevant crap instead of the predictions we have here. It’s no big secret that despite your intentions of August headlines, all of you still provide some amount of day residue in your dream stories. That is to be expected. I just don’t want the day residue to be any material from this report!! That being said, if you dream about an exact headline below, then still write it up…you did your best, and if you dreamed about it, trust that there was a reason for it! Don’t filter your dreams after the dream happens.

To continue reading, click here. Note: the full 10-page document is accessible only to people who submitted Project August dreams in the last two weeks. If you submitted a dream and did not receive the password via email (the email on file in the DreamBase), then please contact us immediately.

The report is jam packed with explanations about our methodology in this project, trend data across the collective dreams, and even a list of possible headlines that were predicted directly from the dream content. To view report #2, please submit at least one Project August dream to the DreamBase before May 16, 2014. Thank you and happy dreaming!

To read another article based off the 1st report, visit this article