Experiment with Time

US: Hampton Roads Publishing Com, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. 2019 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not r eproduced with Optical Recognition software. Dunne, a British soldier, aero nautical engineer and philosopher describes in this work his experiment wit h precognitive dreams and builds on them a theory of time which he later ca lled Serialism. First published in March 1927, the book was widely read and influenced the imaginative literature of the day. An Experiment with Time divides into two main topics. The first half of the book describes a number of precognitive dreams, most of which Dunne himself had experienced. His k ey conclusion was that such precognitive visions foresee future personal ex periences by the dreamer and not more general events. The second half devel ops a theory to try and explain the dreams. Dunne's starting point is the o bservation that the moment of "now" is not described by science. Contempora ry science described physical time as a fourth dimension and Dunne's argume nt led to an endless sequence of higher dimensions of time to measure our p assage through the dimension below. Accompanying each level was a higher le vel of consciousness. At the end of the chain was a supreme ultimate observ er. According to Dunne, our wakeful attention prevents us from seeing beyond the present moment, whilst when dreaming that attention fades and we gain the ability to recall more of our timeline. This allows fragments of our future to appear in pre-cognitive dreams, mixed in with fragments or memories of.