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Check out this AMA with Dr. Julia Mossbridge, PhD and visit her site ThePremonitionCode.com if you're serious about training your precognitive abilities. We also had a double AMA with Julia's Positive Precogs and the remote viewers at The Precognitive Trading Group. In November 2021 author Eric Wargo gave us a wonderful AMA on precognition, dreams, and synchronicity.
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📚 Precognition 101
- The Basics
- Precognitive Dreams
- Déjà Experiences
- What Causes It?
- Do It Yourself 💡
- Advice
- Helpful Links
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Verified Claims
- Studies
The Basics
"Precognition is the apparent ability to predict unexpected future events, and precognitive dreams are among the most commonly reported seemingly paranormal experiences. Typically, in a precognitive experience, a person has some kind of impression, and later that is followed by an event that seems to confirm or match the earlier impression." - Caroline Watt, University of Edinburgh
The subconscious mind is a powerful force that’s capable of accessing knowledge a person will acquire in the future. Often it’s directly related to some rewarding or troubling learning experience. It functions in the same way we retrieve memories from the past and is relative to our own future experience. Sometimes seeing the future will allow you to change it. Psychical researchers estimate that one-third to one-half of all precognitive experiences may provide useful information that can help avert disasters.
Precognition can consist of chaotic moments where the state of something changes or emits a lot of energy or heat. Commonly reported examples of this are plane crashes, explosions, near death experiences and death. Our subconscious tries to help us survive by any means necessary and places extra importance on these moments. Similar to the morbid curiosity we get when we see a car crash, it all goes into the calculations in our brain to try and prevent that from happening to us. Individuals can respond to future upheavals, even near misses or close calls. We must recall the things that reward and frighten us in order to survive and succeed, so it makes sense that precognition focuses on those surprises.
Being able to access the future subconsciously fits well with theories on relativity, block universe, quantum physics and determinism. Skeptics of precognition have no basis to reject it given how statistically strong the data is supporting it. Even without experiencing it firsthand, the data provided by the most reputable and replicable studies has proven precognition is a natural (albeit evasive) function of the mind. It’s not a supernatural or paranormal ability related to aliens, religion, or telepathy, but those topics open people’s minds up to the idea of precognition which, interestingly enough, has been proven to help trigger it.
Precognitive Dreams
Precognition can occur at any time and by any means necessary, but mostly happens when the brain is relaxed. Although there are many reports of waking precognition, which include seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling the future, dreaming is the most common form of precognition. Precognitive dreams are common and many people have them unknowingly. They’re filled with more accurate future information than waking precognition and can be easier to access. Precognitive dreams aren’t just clear glimpses into the future, but rather a mixture of our own experience, interpretation, analysis and reaction to a particular future event as it will be. However, our dreaming minds tend to fill in the blanks left by that event with information from our memories, even if those details turn out to be incorrect.
Symbolic precognitive dreams replace important details with more meaningful or even random elements from your mind, but yet still convey information from the future. Third person precognitive dreams can have both symbolic and literal information, such as dreaming of being in a specific accident but then seeing it on the news the next day. Probabilistic precognitive dreams show future information but might have several details off because of the choices a person can make from the time the dream happens to the moment itself; most people disregard these dreams since they're not completely accurate. Literal and lucid precognitive dreams are the highest order of precognition, allowing us to observe and sometimes interact with future elements in our dreams.
It's often hard to tell precognitive dreams apart from regular ones. Some people become aware of precognition and start manifesting dreams they either want, or fear, coming true. However, a dream taken literally could have actually just been a metaphor for something else, like a bigger struggle in your life. The key is to look for personal symbolism and then rule out other possibilities. Once you experience your precognitive dream in real life you can then measure on a scale of 1 to 10 the odds that it was just a vague coincidence, 1 being pure coincidence and 10 being highly evidential for precognition.
Déjà Experiences
There are three very common experiences people go through as a past precognitive memory (or premory) resurfaces. The most commonly known is déjà vu - meaning already seen - and generally refers to a feeling of familiarity. Déjà rêvé, already dreamt, means you remember the dream connected to the moment as it happens. Residual memory can activate with certain triggers, causing dream content to be remembered. Frequency studies have proven high percentages of people experiencing Déjà Rêvé versus any other déjà experience. Déjà vécu means already lived through or experienced, and generally refers to the feeling of having gone through the present moment at least several times before.
There are four different categories of déjà experiences. Normal experiences consist of an inexplicable sense of familiarity and no ‘premory’. Precognitive experiences exhibit precognitive knowledge (“I knew that he was going to do that!”). Evoked experiences use methods like hypnosis, electrical stimulation, and certain drugs to reproduce déjà feelings (with modest success). Pathological experiences can be described as “chronic déjà vu” and are distressing for the individual having it. They often occur because of epilepsy of the temporal lobe and have symptoms like nausea, headaches and fainting. Pathological déjà experiences can also be caused by alcohol, emotional stress, paranoia, certain medication, migraines, tumors, schizophrenia, and dementia. If déjà is distressing or painful to you then some form of treatment should be considered.
What Causes Precognition?
The top 3 contributors to precognitive dreams appear to be: Economic (rent, work, societal), Health (hormones, illnesses, stress) and Media (news, movies, shows).
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Most people experience their first memorable precognitive dream during puberty but can recall having déjà vu throughout their childhood. Strong emotions tend to have a significant influence on what our precognition shows us. It can come from our own direct experiences as well as first- and third- person recreations of things we read in books or see in shows and movies.
Currently we can spot the areas in the brain where precognition occurs and it correlates with the areas responsible for past/future event construction and information retrieval. We’ve also been able to witness neurons charging up a fifth of a second before a conscious decision is made.
Some people are more likely to experience precognition for different reasons. There’s a known link between precognition and personality disorders, mood disorders, addictions, unresolved feelings, near death experiences and past trauma, as well as an openness to seemingly ‘mystical’ ideas, perceived self-influence over personal luckiness, and frequently updating one’s beliefs.
There have also been many instances where precognition proves to be a social-orienting function. For example, you can dream of a friend you haven’t spoken to in a long time and when you go to talk to them you find out they got into an accident at that same moment you dreamed of them. Another example is when a precognitive dream contains multiple random elements surrounding a person and when following up with them the other parts of the dream show up; it’s like a self-fulfilling interaction that never would’ve happened otherwise.
Do It Yourself 💡
With a little bit of practice and time you can find yourself regularly experiencing precognition, and maybe even controlling it.
Meditation has proven to trigger precognition although it happens most when we're relaxed and stressed at the same time. We're most successful at sleep precognition because our mind is at rest and our consciousness isn't in control. It's also been recommended to de-stress your day-to-day and try to have a healthy lifestyle, although it can happen regardless.
Keeping a dream journal is the best way to see your own precognition. A dream journal can be anything as long as you can get to it quickly upon awakening. A notebook, a sketchpad, an internet diary, or a piece of paper will work. Write only your dreams and nothing else. Make your diary a ritual and recall as much as you can while still lying in bed.
The ability to lucid dream can help receive future dreams as well, so many of the same techniques end up helping us become precognitive. There are also pre-sleep and post-waking routines as well as habits throughout the day that can maximize your chances of dream recall. Another way of practicing could be with shuffling a deck of cards, guessing the card you'll flip over but taking a rest in between each card. Our discord server has several channels where you can practice guessing with different bots.
It's been recommended in the community to try the Wake-Back-To-Bed technique, achieve lucidity, and ask a 'spirit guide'-like dream character the things that you'd like to precognitively know. It’s effective when it works so it’s worth mentioning. Precognitive knowledge also may be induced through trance, channeling, mediumship, and divination. Lastly, any methods used for remote viewing can be used to sense the future.
Advice
When experiencing a precognitive moment don't analyze what you're sensing and instead focus on receiving only. This gets rid of the mental clutter that we can often bring. It's something everyone is capable of and by knowing this you also eliminate the nervousness often associated with seeing future events.
It’s proven to be beneficial to act as if free will existed, although studies show it should more accurately be called 'free won’t'. Think of the present like a dynamic equation that gets plugged into a static future. For example, it's hard to stop a plane crash unless you're in a situation where you can. Furthermore, studies show there’s a small window during brain-initiated impulsive action that allows us to veto predetermined behaviors. Overall, according to psychological studies, acting in a self-determining manner results in healthier outcomes than acting as if one could not change the direction of one's life.
Essential Reading: JW Dunne's An Experiment with Time, Jess Stearn (writing about Edgar Cayce): A Prophet in His Own Country, Julia Mossbridge's Transcendent Mind: Rethinking the Science of Consciousness, Eric Wargo's Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self
Helpful Links
Free Training - Paid Course - Types of Meditation - Non-Precog Dream Help - Better Dream Recall - Lucid Dreaming - Remote Viewing - Psi Phenomena
Frequently Asked Questions
Real questions and answers submitted to us by the community.
Verified Claims
There are many examples of precognition from different people throughout recorded history as well as different species around the world.
Studies
Some of these sources require you to log in through an institution with your .edu login info. If you don't have one I recommend signing up for an online school, many of which don't require you to actually start attending in order to gain access to these sources. Knowledge belongs to all of us.
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