The future of the universe of Biology is increasingly being granted to the new science of Chronomics. The major premise of the new science is the embedding of critical information about timing in human DNA. Chronomics can be viewed as the scientific explanation for serial ordering in biological phenomena. This problem of serial ordering -- such as regulating growth in the embryo and post-natal development through adulthood and old age -- has never completely fallen under the purview of science. Until now.

My specialty is serial-ordering of mental phenomenon, such as the human moods, emotions, dreams and mental states. To a accomplish this, as you know, I have served as the primary human guinea pig; meaning that for almost 30 years, day and night, I have often lived alone recording  quantitative variables continuously. My research began January 1, 1977, becoming by January 1, 1989, a detailed study of 11 variables. Special emphasis has been placed on the timing and recording of sleep and dream patterns -- in which my group undoubtedly has been the first to succeed in a complex study lasting more than 16 years.

The science of studying humans for their rhythms for decades was laid out in 1972 in the book, "Body Time" by Gay Gaer Luce. Her claim was that the person who took the time would find many biological rhythms, some sophisticated mathematically beyond the sine wave when taken individually and cumulatively would define sophisticated mental states and would disclose the balance between health and disease. The word used by Dr. Luce was "intermeshing" of biological rhythms. She was looking ahead beyond the science of biological rhythms as it was then when a small clique provided the premises, personalities and scope for the study of rhythmic processes. She correctly anticipated the breakthrough science that is now called Mental Chronomics.

Were an observer to summarize the discoveries in Mental Chronomics (I named the new science), here they are in reverse order of importance:

        (1) The existence now of a data set that covers a sleeper's life from January 1, 1977 until the present day. It provides normative data on a human's sleeping patterns. These data capture the normal sleeping life of a man who lived alone, never used an alarm clock even once, and never travelled across more than three time zones. The data cover more than 10,000 nights without interruption. This compares with data from 45 nights on which government agencies have estimated that the average person needs eight hours of sleep. The data going back almost 30 years establish seven hours as the personal norm in the absence of environmental demands such as those of a regular sleeping partner, children and going to work. These data comprise 45% of the primary subject's lifetime.

        (2) The waking and sleeping data from this subject and others male and female, reveal, as Dr. Luce predicted, the presence of a "monthly emotional rhythm." Although generations have been led to believe that "moodswing" is abnormal and related to bipolar disorder, the converse is true. Every adult human appears to experience an emotional rhythm, really a modulator, that moves them predictably between successive mental states. The serial-ordering can be detected in moods, emotions, dreams and mental states -- assiduously collected findings now provide the critical normative values required for the merging new science of Mental Chronomics.

        (3) Beyond the modulator that is thought to last about a month, six other rhythms have been detected in the primary data set. These include weekly rhythms modulated by the monthly rhythm. There is a third rhythm lasting about a biological hour and a fourth that lasts a half-day. The daily rhythm is well known. In addition, a yearly rhythm has been detected, and the seventh rhythm seems to last about a decade. These seven rhythms often  invisible to prior researchers can be detected without difficulty in the primary data set of 20,000 dreams. In the published literature and in data downloaded from the Internet, at least three of these rhythms can be easily detected.

        (4) The complex mental event known as the dream through deconstruction then reverse engineering appears about 80% determined by the intermeshing of these seven rhythms  -- as Dr. Luce predicted. It has now been demonstrated how the thematic elements, object-images, emotional tone and scripting of the dream can be reconstructed around the modulator rhythm intermeshing with the subordinate rhythms. These major findings can be detected in multiple data sets from the primary subject during almost 30 years, and to a lesser extent in the additional dreamers, male and female before and after menopause.

        (5) The greatest discovery must be that because the modulator frequency  can change over time it can during decades shift from around 30 days to a differing frequency at subsequent life stages. Given that the monthly rhythm divided into four weekly cycles, researchers can track the frequency shifts. The primary data set revealed how the 30-day cycle shifted to 28 days then to18 days then to 4 days then to 30 hours. Of enormous interest, during November 2000 the 30-hour cycle increased frequency therefore created a precession around the arc of a circle. The result, incredibly, has been for 5 1/2 years a 260-day rhythm to dreams that laid bare the fine-grained structure to the modulator.

Taken together, these findings on modulated sleep, dreams, moods, emotions, and mental states provide the empirical underpinnings for the innovative and quantitative science of Mental Chronomics. The concept of serial ordering of mental states that is now only a glimmer at the major scientific research institutes exists in decimal point precision developed under the aegis of our group. In fact, we believe that we have fulfilled the expectations of Dr. Luce in 1972 of an emerging new science. It is also the fulfillment of the theoretical speculations presented in a chapter of a 1973 Academic Press volume that I wrote credited to Goodman and Weinberger. The 260-day cycle of dreams represents a most unexpected finding that places Mental Chronomics on the most firm empirical footing.

Where to go from here? At the age of 67, I have three great interests in the life that remains. First, I would like to meet with a skilled mathematician to devise  some key concepts, being both the mathematical expression of the modulator-function and its changes over time, and also how the four-part organization of the modulator fulfills Gabor-type expectations for high-fidelity communication through neural tissue. Our proposed joint paper could be established as the foundation for a new science when published in a journal of general science in North America, Europe or Asia.

Second, and this is imperative, the formation of an estate-foundation that establishes and places the irreplaceable archives. Many years ago I read about the Edgar Cayce archive in Virginia Beach maintains a curator and archivist-researchers who convert the paper data to electronic format. I am more than willing to coordinate the establishment of programs for analysis in the archives. I am willing to establish the estate-foundation with two other talented parties. They could represent the physical plant for the archive that might be a university library, and could regulate access to the archives and protect trade secrets.

Third, and most important to industry, I have an analytic algorithm being considered that can be converted into commercial software to be made available for limited access. The astute businessman or businesswoman can convert privileged access to the algorithms into practical product offerings. Potentially among them are: (1) Prediction of Dreams. (2) Prediction of Critical Times During Human Interaction. (3) Ideal Times to Place Witnesses on the Stand and to Cross-examine. (4)  Profiles of Political Leadership -- Regular Patterns of Efficiency and Inefficiency. (5) Maximum Output of Trained Athletes During Phases of a Monthly Emotional Rhythm. And (6) Diagnostic Software to Determine Whether Disease May be the Loss of Coordination Between Rhythms.

 

Obviously there is a great deal that we can accomplish with the assistance of three or four aware, intelligent and ethical persons willing to help launch the first new science in 40 years with the growth potential to match that of Psycho-Pharmacology since the 1960s. A number of documents I have written on the potential of the new science can be accessed on Google when you type in "Mental Chronomics."

In conclusion,  this is what I need: Recognition for the science I have discovered through investment of personal funds; archives for granting limited access in a physical plant; and conversion of algorithms into limited-distribution products. The best outcome would be that the government and the public, as I have attempted since1996, become alerted that the science called Mental Chronomics that can provide the root for a Millerian General System. This can provide government-funded intellectuals with a new challenge for the future. For the public, their benefit is to know how from the grass roots as much as from top-down institutions invention can originate and spread to create a better world for the mind.

Thank you for your time and interest. Let me know your initial reaction to the information provided here. I believe that this email does supply the proper overview to discuss Mental Chronomics and its likely future here in America.

With Respect,

David A. Goodman, Ph.D.