Precognition, also called future vision or prescience, is the ability to see events in the future. It has been widely studied and documented throughout history. Some people claim to have experienced precognition themselves, while others believe it to be a psychic phenomenon. There is no scientific evidence that precognition exists, but there are many theories about how it could work.
The term “precognition” was first coined by French philosopher and psychologist Pierre Janet in 1901. He used it to describe a patient who had recurring dreams about an upcoming event that she later found out really happened. Janet believed that precognition was a form of retroactive interference, where information from the future affects our memory of the past.
Since then, there have been many studies on precognition, but most of them are small-scale and have not been able to provide conclusive evidence for its existence. Some scientists believe that precognition may be caused by unconscious cues that we pick up on without realizing it; others think it might be a form of extrasensory perception (ESP). However, there is no consensus among experts on how Precognition works, or even if it exists at all.
Despite the lack of scientific evidence, many people continue to believe in precognition and report experiencing it firsthand. Some say they’ve had dreams or visions about future events that later came true; others claim to have felt “gut instincts” about something before it happened. There are even some cases where multiple people seem to have had similar precognitive experiences (such as dreaming about natural disasters before they occur). Whether or not these reports are accurate is impossible to say for sure – but they do suggest that further research into this fascinating topic is warranted.