Christopher Robinson:
Psychic Dream Detective

Christopher Robinson is an Englishman who claims to have highly accurate psychic dreams.

Since the 1980s he has served as Scotland Yard's dream detective, giving warnings of serious crimes and terrorist activities around the UK. They listen to him, because his advice in the past has proven bizarrely spot on.

He has also given demonstrations on live television, in which he was able to identify the contents of sealed containers - all via his precognitive dreams.

And in 2001, he took part in the famous Arizona Experiment; a scientific study of prophetic dreams that produced some uncanny results... This article is about the psychic dreams of Christopher Robinson and what one expert boldly described as "the best scientific experiment in the history of man."

Predicting UK Terror Attacks

In 1991, Christopher Robinson (right) warned police that the IRA would bomb a bank in St Albans - five days before it happened. He named the town, the date and the time of day the explosion would occur. Amazingly, Robinson was also able to name the two IRA terrorists who were involved; information that was confirmed a week later by the police anti-terrorist squad.

Christopher Robinson: Dream Detective

Born in England in 1951, Robinson has had prophetic dreams his whole life. In 1984 in his mid-30s he began working with Scotland Yard (London's Police Department HQ) and remains a legitimate source of intelligence for HM Revenue & Customs and The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) today.

Indeed, Hertfordshire Police has gone on the record to back up the work of this unparalleled dream detective: "When Chris Robinson comes to the police with his dreams, he is taken seriously and the information he passes on to his established contact, Sgt Richard MacGregor, is acted upon immediately."

The main feature of his almost nightly precognitive dreams is that they show what will happen in the next day of his life. This happens even when the next day's events are totally unforeseeable - such as witnessing a plane crash. What makes Christopher Robinson different from other claims of psychic dreams is that he reports them daily, and has been scientifically proven accurate many times.

The Arizona Experiment

The Arizona Experiment of August 2001 is probably the most convincing evidence yet produced that psi and precognitive dreams are real. This scientific study was carried out by Gary E Schwartz, PhD, at The University of Arizona. The results were later submitted to the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.

Psychic Dreams of Kitt Peak Research Laboratory In the experiment, Schwartz secretly wrote down 20 locations in southern Arizona in 20 envelopes, then mailed them to a contact in California. The envelopes were then numbered 1-20; with 1-10 used in the study and 11-20 reserved as control locations. For 10 nights in a row, Robinson was asked to dream about the next day's location, report his dreams, and then Schwartz would take Robinson to the place the next day to see if his dreams came true.

The Arizona Experiment was very well designed. The experimenters were skeptical of Christopher Robinson, and followed strict criteria for identifying precognitive dreams. They did not accept self-fulfilling prophecies, nor consider any generic details that could be attributed to chance. Finally, at the end of the experiment, the data was analyzed by 78 University of Arizona students to independently score each dream's accuracy. The result: a success rate of an astonishing 98.33%...

Robinson's Psychic Dream Results

PREDICTION	EVENT
Day 1: The primary theme was of "holes, lots of holes" and a "basin empty of water." He later dreamed of a bombing in London.	Sonoran Desert Museum - an outdoor museum in a basin that was once an ocean. Schwartz's favorite section had prairie dogs with hundreds of holes in the ground. A bombing in London also occurred on this day. Hit Rate: 8
Day 2: The main themes were "shops and workshops... fabricating things... metal."	Tubac Artist Colony - to a specific shop that had metal sculptures, with a workshop in the back. Hit Rate: 10
Day 3: The themes were "heads, lots of heads, belts, leather, jeans."	Tucson Mall - Schwartz parked in his usual spot at Dillards Department Store, which featured a large number of mannequin heads at the entrance. Schwartz purchased one of the heads, plus a pair of jeans. Hit rate: 10
Day 4: The main dream themes were "suns, mirrors, LCDs, telescopes, Mount Olympus, airplanes, hangers, a pitched propeller."	Kitt Peak National Laboratory - at the top of a huge mountain to the world's largest Solar Telescope. They ate lunch at the nearby airport restaurant with hangers that had a large pitched propeller in front. Hit rate: 10
Day 5: Christopher Robinson dreamed of a "car with four flat tires, no 'mineral' oil, and cars stopped by men at a 'border crossing'."	Gem and Mineral Store - had a car with four flat tires parked out front. En route, they passed workmen stopping cars near a huge water tank with the word 'Borderland'. Hit rate: 10
Day 6: The main themes included police, moving vans, road closed curving at a dead end, murky water and dangerous ladders.	Colossal Cave - with its specific "ladder tour". They also passed murky water, and the cave ended at a curved road closed at a dead end. A moving van had gone up the road and got stuck; afterwards the police came. Hit rate: 10
Day 7: He dreamed of "dust, dust everywhere, including on the floor in a building, a court room, and a train robbery."	Old Tucson - a western theme park also used as a movie set. There was dust everywhere, including a room with a completely dusty floor. They also saw a courtroom and a large train that had been used in more than 100 movies involving train robberies. Hit rate: 10
Day 8: The main themes were of "space, space capsule, archeology, crossing over a dry river."	University of Arizona Planetarium - a space museum including archeology and pictures of purported dry riverbeds on Mars. Hit rate: 10
Day 9: Christopher Robinson dreamed of "parking meters, satellite dishes, a murder taking place nearby."	Downtown Tucson - Schwartz intentionally parked near parking meters and a huge set of satellite dishes. The next day, the Tucson paper reported the murder of an elderly woman in downtown Tucson. Hit rate: 10
Day 10: The primary theme was of "trees, greenery, crossing over a river, and an Army building."	Arizona State Museum - Schwartz and Robinson crossed over a stream to get to the museum surrounded by huge trees and green grass, unusual for Tucson. They also passed the Army ROTC building on their return from the museum (which was closed). Hit rate: 10

The results of the Arizona Experiment are compelling. Through his psychic dreams, Christopher Robinson accurately predicted details about landscapes, close-up features, place names, and other elements not described by the location cards. Remember that only the primary dream themes were used - and that Robinson is an English dream detective, not at all familiar with southwest Arizona.

All in all, the Arizona Experiment was a resounding success. Yet many scientists still refute the concept of psychic dreams, because it simply does not align with the established laws of time and causality.

The Rules of Psychic Dreams

In his 20 years of having prophetic dreams, Christopher Robinson has come up with some ground rules to explain this psychological phenomenon.

1. Dreams sometimes predict future events in great detail.

2. Dreams seldom give precognitive data on mundane or expected events.

3. Dreams can be asked to provide information about specific questions.

4. Dreams sometimes provide specific answers to those questions.

5. Dreams provide much more detail where sudden deaths or terror are involved.

6. Dreams often feature people who are no longer alive.

7. Dreams are often very cryptic in content and need to be translated.

How do Psychic Dreams Happen?

Dream Detective Christopher Robinson likens his ability for prophetic dreams to a computer program. "The law of physics dictate that, given all the data about a given model, then it must be possible to predict where every element of the model is at any point in time," he says. "Hence our ability to launch a spacecraft on a journey and land it hundreds of millions of miles away on another part of the model. In this case, the solar system."

He goes on to explain that, given all the data about the universe at a set point in time, we should be able to predict where any atom is at another point in time. So if, while we sleep, we have access to this ultimate source of information, then it would provide the mechanism for all humans to have precognitive dreams...

Visit Christopher Robinson's website, Dream Detective, to learn more about his astonishing experiments into psychic dreams, including his TV appearances and the official published report on The Arizona Experiment.

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