Divinity Atlas
Things this atlas does not know. Each entry is a question that specialists
have posed and not settled, recorded with what would actually resolve it and which
expertise the answer needs.
These are kept deliberately, rather than quietly omitted. An atlas that shows
only what it is sure of implies a confidence it has not earned, and the gaps are often where
the interesting work is. Several sit exactly where two fields fail to meet: identifying the
hyssop of the Hebrew Bible needs a botanist and a philologist of Biblical Hebrew, and neither
one settles it alone.
You can send evidence on some of these. A pilot is open on 55 questions in one field, Palaeography. Each says what would resolve it; send something that meets that bar, with a source anybody can check, and an editor will weigh it. Sending evidence does not guarantee the question will be resolved, and it does not have to be your field to read what is being asked. See what is open.
Grouped by the field an answer needs. A question sitting between two disciplines appears under both, which is why the group counts add up to more than the number of questions.
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Sleep Research 2
Telepathy
Has the Maimonides dream telepathy protocol ever been repeated at a comparable scale using modern sleep laboratory methods?
Open Telepathy
Why It Is Open The original series reported dream content correlating with a sender's target image above chance, but no other laboratory reproduced the effect, and the series itself was never repeated at a comparable scale. Irvin Child argued in 1985 that the result was dismissed rather than evaluated, which is a claim about how the field responded rather than a claim that anyone has since run the missing replication.
What Would Settle It A preregistered, multi-night sleep laboratory replication with automated target selection, blind judging of dream transcripts against a randomized image pool, and a sample size and analysis plan fixed in advance.
Expertise Needed Sleep research; experimental psychology; meta-analytic methodology
Question posed in
Dream Telepathy: Experiments in Nocturnal Extrasensory Perception, Montague Ullman, Stanley Krippner and Alan Vaughan.
The Maimonides Dream Telepathy Studies
Has the Maimonides dream telepathy protocol ever been attempted at comparable scale with modern sleep-laboratory methods?
Open The Maimonides Dream Telepathy Studies
Why It Is Open The original series ran on early electroencephalography and ended when the laboratory's funding did. Attempts elsewhere were smaller and did not reproduce the effect. This atlas could not establish whether any well-powered modern attempt exists, and the literature it consulted names none.
What Would Settle It A systematic search of sleep-research and parapsychology journals from 1975 onward for free-response dream studies using polysomnography and blind judging, and a count of their sample sizes.
Expertise Needed Sleep research; systematic review
Question posed in
Psychology and Anomalous Observations: The Question of ESP in Dreams, Irvin L. Child.
Experimental Psychology 1
Telepathy
Has the Maimonides dream telepathy protocol ever been repeated at a comparable scale using modern sleep laboratory methods?
Open Telepathy
Why It Is Open The original series reported dream content correlating with a sender's target image above chance, but no other laboratory reproduced the effect, and the series itself was never repeated at a comparable scale. Irvin Child argued in 1985 that the result was dismissed rather than evaluated, which is a claim about how the field responded rather than a claim that anyone has since run the missing replication.
What Would Settle It A preregistered, multi-night sleep laboratory replication with automated target selection, blind judging of dream transcripts against a randomized image pool, and a sample size and analysis plan fixed in advance.
Expertise Needed Sleep research; experimental psychology; meta-analytic methodology
Question posed in
Dream Telepathy: Experiments in Nocturnal Extrasensory Perception, Montague Ullman, Stanley Krippner and Alan Vaughan.
Meta-Analytic Methodology 1
Telepathy
Has the Maimonides dream telepathy protocol ever been repeated at a comparable scale using modern sleep laboratory methods?
Open Telepathy
Why It Is Open The original series reported dream content correlating with a sender's target image above chance, but no other laboratory reproduced the effect, and the series itself was never repeated at a comparable scale. Irvin Child argued in 1985 that the result was dismissed rather than evaluated, which is a claim about how the field responded rather than a claim that anyone has since run the missing replication.
What Would Settle It A preregistered, multi-night sleep laboratory replication with automated target selection, blind judging of dream transcripts against a randomized image pool, and a sample size and analysis plan fixed in advance.
Expertise Needed Sleep research; experimental psychology; meta-analytic methodology
Question posed in
Dream Telepathy: Experiments in Nocturnal Extrasensory Perception, Montague Ullman, Stanley Krippner and Alan Vaughan.
Systematic Review 1
The Maimonides Dream Telepathy Studies
Has the Maimonides dream telepathy protocol ever been attempted at comparable scale with modern sleep-laboratory methods?
Open The Maimonides Dream Telepathy Studies
Why It Is Open The original series ran on early electroencephalography and ended when the laboratory's funding did. Attempts elsewhere were smaller and did not reproduce the effect. This atlas could not establish whether any well-powered modern attempt exists, and the literature it consulted names none.
What Would Settle It A systematic search of sleep-research and parapsychology journals from 1975 onward for free-response dream studies using polysomnography and blind judging, and a count of their sample sizes.
Expertise Needed Sleep research; systematic review
Question posed in
Psychology and Anomalous Observations: The Question of ESP in Dreams, Irvin L. Child.