The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 21, 1952, No. 2: Theodore G. Branfman and Henry Alden Bunker. 'Three "Extrasensory Perception" Dreams.'

This paper reports three dreams which, the authors believe, show possession by the dreamers of knowledge they could not have gained through the ordinary sensory channels. Two of the three dreams occurred during analysis and made 'unequivocal reference to a relatively important situation in the life of the therapist of which neither dreamer could possibly have 'known' anything', to wit, a Japanese child patient the analyst had under his care in hospital and in whom he was 'very particularly interested'. Both dreams were concerned with jealousy, and detailed material is presented to show how they corroborate Freud's view that telepathic knowledge is utilized by the dream work in the same as any other residue of waking life. The authors do not discuss what significance they attach to the analyst's very particular interest in the object of which two of his patients had extrasensory knowledge.

The third dream, dreamt by a man not in analysis, is reported because the fact that it gave the correct score of a football match enables a mathematical estimate to be made of the likelihood of the correct figure being due to chance.