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Jane heard a whisper 'twelve-o-five' in a hypnagogic state, verified via pendulum as telemetric reception; on another occasion she terminated a dream experience prematurely due to fear; in a dark experiment, Jane could not see her own hand and spontaneously monologued describing a 1748 English shoemaker's shop.

珍在昏沉状态中听到耳语“twelve-o-five”，经摆锤验证为遥测接收；另一次因恐惧提前终止梦境体验；黑暗实验中珍看不到自己的手并自发独白描述1748年英格兰鞋匠铺。

Concept awareness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · experiment record · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.

Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
For historical cases, first audit original timestamps, notes, prior reading, and verifiable details of the 1748 shoemaker's shop description; if independent records are absent, the original event cannot be experimentally adjudicated. Prospective trials can recruit approximately 100 individuals prone to hypnagogic experiences, each for 6 nights of PSG, with remote system random selection of isolated targets, locking verbatim reports upon waking, then pre-registered forced-choice and blinded evaluation, project duration 12 months; historical scenarios validated using pre-sealed archives and matched decoys, prohibiting post-hoc selection of congruent details.
Suggested paper title
Prospective Target-Matching Accuracy of Hypnagogic Reports Under Sensory Isolation
What it would overturn
If reports stably contain random target information that cannot be derived from prior knowledge or sensory contact, it would challenge the explanation that 'verifiable information in these experiences comes from prior memory and sensory input.'
Candidate labs / funders
University of Virginia School of Medicine 的 Division of Perceptual Studies：[异常体验与意识状态研究](https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/); Zoltan Dienes，University of Sussex，研究暗示、无意识知识与方法学
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Twelve-o-five' and 1748 provide surface details, but without pre-specified targets, independent records, and exclusive information, they have no greater predictive power than general hypnagogic imagery reports.
Note
Not seeing one's hand in the dark and spontaneously producing a historical scene do not themselves require anomalous mechanisms; terminating an experience due to fear also cannot confirm the external reality of the experiential content.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • The hypnagogic state: A brief update — Romain Ghibellini；Beat Meier (2023), Journal of Sleep Research
    综述入睡过渡期自发的声音、图像及身体感觉，为耳语体验提供常规解释，但不能追溯判定珍的具体事件。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13719)
  • Expressing unconscious general knowledge using Chevreul's pendulum — Gyorgy Moga；Zoltan Dienes (2022), American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
    摆锤没有显示稳定的额外知识优势，不能把同一人的摆锤反应当作遥测来源的独立核验。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2021.2010641)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim awareness-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/awareness-11