Research Program / Claims / sleep-5
The astral body can travel during sleep and always returns to the physical body during physical life.
星光体在睡眠时可游走，且在物理生命期间总返回物理身体。
Concept sleep · Domain Dream Consciousness and Self-Representation · mechanism · 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
Corresponding to Supplementary Question 4: Recruit approximately 100 individuals with recurrent out-of-body experiences, each recording 10 nights. Before sleep, randomly give a neutral task cue or a control cue, without displaying the real target or its semantic clues; after sleep onset, an isolated server draws an image and displays it in a location that cannot normally be seen. Reports are timestamped and sealed first, then four-alternative candidate images are provided; pre-register all trials, 25% chance baseline, cluster analysis, independent leakage audit, and replication, over 18–24 months.
Suggested paper title
A Preregistered Multicenter Test of Hidden Visual Target Identification During Sleep-Related Altered Self-Location
What it would overturn
If hidden targets beyond normal sensory range are reliably identified, this would challenge the hypothesis that 'acquisition of external visual information during sleep requires ordinary sensory channels'.
Candidate labs / funders
Teresa Campillo-Ferrer — 异常身体体验与睡眠 EEG 研究者; Chris A. Roe — University of Northampton，异常信息获取研究者
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Travel' has no trajectory, distance, or detectable carrier; 'always returns during physical life' lacks independent criteria for determining departure and return, easily becoming a circular definition.
Note
Even if hidden target experiments succeed, they would first support anomalous information acquisition, not alone prove body separation or other dimensions; showing target images before sleep would turn the experiment into a memory and dream incubation test.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim sleep-5, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/sleep-5