British inventor and philosopher. He designed the first British military aeroplane (19067), and wrote the best-selling speculative works An Experiment with Time (1927), The Serial Universe (1934), The New Immortality (1938), and Nothing Dies (1940).
After experiencing a precognitive dream of the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée, Martinique, Dunne became seriously interested in the nature of Time. Through years of experimentation with precognitive dreams and hypnagogic states Dunne posited that our experience of Time as linear was an illusion brought about by human consciousness.
His two major works, An Experiment with Time (1927) and The Serial Universe (1934), elaborate on these ideas. As a scientific explanation for ideas of consciousness being explored on a wide scale at the time and as a theory corresponding to familiar ideas contained within the Mystical Traditions of the world's religions, they were enthusiastically embraced by such figures as Aldous Huxley and J.
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