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TeAippra Veetdeor Rickeats es20:Q/0/G8d G8 LuOloRB4NRI6 -00789R003100140001 -2 DRAFT receiver and an experimenter (i.e., called a monitor) enter the AC laboratory (i.e., an office with a single desk and two chairs), an assistant will use a computer random number generator to select a target from the baseline target pool. Both the receiver and the monitor will be blind to this specific choice. At a pre-arranged time, the monitor will encourage the receiver to draw and write impressions of the target material, which is located approximately 50 meters away. After approximately 15 minutes of casual questioning, the trial will end; the data will be copied; the originals will be secured; and the actual target will be presented as feedback to the receiver. The analysis will be discussed below. 6. Lucid Dream Trial Protocol During the study, each receiver will attempt to provide six AC trials in a lucid dream state according to the following procedure: (1) Each receiver will receive a sealed opaque envelope containing a target photograph chosen ran- domly from a predetermined set of 100. Receivers will place the target envelope in the room in which they are sleeping. (2) Using the DreamLight, they will attempt, while dreaming, to open the envelope, memorize its con- tent, and awaken as soon as possible. (3) In the waking state, they will write and draw their impressions in detail. (4) During the next day, they will mail the unopened envelope and their response to the principal in- vestigator (PI) for analysis. Upon receipt, the PI will send back a copy of the target photograph as feedback and an additional sealed envelope for the next trial. This procedure will be repeated until six trials are obtained from each receiver. 7. Analysis Traditional rank-ordering will be the method of analysis. The set of 100 National Geographic magazine photographs have been divided into 20 packets of five targets each. Within each pack, the targets have been selected to be as visually different from one another as possible. (A series of fuzzy sets were used to provide a quantitative method that was “fine tuned” by human judgment.) When a target is chosen from one of the target packs, the remaining four targets are considered as “decoy” targets for an analyst. For each trial, an analyst, is given the AC response and the target pack (i.e., five targets) from which the actual target was chosen. The analyst is required to rank order the targets from best to least match to the given response, regardless of the quality of the matches. The rank that is assigned to the intended target represents the value of the dependent variable for the trial. A sum-of-ranks is then computed for all the trials for each receiver, and effect sizes and p-values are determined from the known sum-of- ranks distribution. The effect sizes from the lucid dreaming trials will be compared to each receiver’s base line data and to historical AC data that is available for the experienced receivers, Approved For Release FA noe Ee SYK RbP96-00789R0031 00140004 -2