Lovecraft's Dreams: Geomagnetically Influenced?

Thanks to T Peter Park for calling attention to this article. I've condensed it for blog use.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16871-sweet-dreams-are-made-of-
geomagnetic-activity.html
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Sweet dreams are made of geomagnetic activity
April 2009 by Ewen Callaway
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{H P Lovecraft was famous for his dreaming. In his fantasies, dreams and madness were critical components of his exposition. Notably, Cthulhu dreams, and its dreams influenced sensitives to frenzy. Perhaps Lovecraft's intuition bordered on genius, since nw it appears that dreams are influenced by geomagnetic fluctuations, precisely the kind that a sleeping god-behemoth might produce nestled in the Earth's magma.}
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Looking for an explanation for recurring nightmares?
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New research suggests you can blame the Earth's magnetic field, rather than a
repressed childhood. Darren Lipnicki, a psychologist formerly at the Center for Space
Medicine in Berlin, Germany, found a correlation between the bizarreness of his dreams, recorded over eight years, and extremes in local geomagnetic activity.
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Other studies have tied low geomagnetic activity to increases in the production of the melatonin, a potent hormone that helps set the body's circadian clock. So, based on anecdotal evidence that melatonin supplements used as a sleeping aid can cause off-kilter
dreams, Lipnicki wondered whether local magnetic fields could induce the same effects.
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Between 1990 and 1997, he kept meticulous records of his nightly reveries, amassing a total 2387 written accounts during his teenage years. "I always wanted to do science with them," he says. For the study, he devised a five-point scoring system to rate the
bizarreness of these dreams.
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Lipnicki looked up daily geomagnetic activity in Perth, Australia – his home at the time. A scale called the k-index quantifies local geomagnetic activity, and he included only days that scored on the extremes of this index. This whittled his dream log down to 66 days of low geomagnetic activity and 70 days of high activity.
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Using these figures, Lipnicki uncovered a statistical correlation between dream bizarreness and geomagnetic activity, with freakier dreams occurring on days with the least geomagnetic activity.
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{While this is real science, and a real study, the fantasy writer inside Chrispy wants to be credulous. However, the scientist part of me has grave doubts about the subconscious triage being done, and then applying statistics to pre-selected data. So, it is what it is, but my imagination soars to consider all those dark energy beings striving for immortality living inside our planet or outside our atmosphere influencing our dreams – and nightmares.}