That night, I was a little girl. This strange phenomenon that I experienced became one of the first manifestations of my precognition. When I found myself in a dark corridor, I suddenly realized that the horror, suppressed during the last meeting at the airport, was not just a product of my imagination. How could I, without tears and completely still, know about my father's death while being thousands of kilometers away from him? I understood that I would never again be able to weave tents from his flannel shirts or smell his cologne.
Despite my fears of being thought insane, I shared my story with neurobiologist Julia Mossbridge, Ph.D. She listened attentively, asking questions as if I were a participant in her research. Was this your first memory of precognition? How often do you have such feelings? How do you know that one of them is about to come true? Later, she confessed that her own experiences with these strange extrasensory phenomena prompted her to study the topic.
Since the age of seven, Mossbridge has encountered predictive dreams and precognitive experiences while awake, allowing her to know about events she could not learn about otherwise. These memories of the future may indicate that our perception of time is not as linear as it is commonly believed.
“Understanding precognition is not difficult,” says Mossbridge, who works at the Center for the Future of AI, Mind, and Society at Florida Atlantic University. “It’s hard for those who haven’t experienced such feelings to believe in it. We don’t understand how time works. Even physicists admit they can’t explain it. We are stuck in a linear perception of time, but is it really that way? Much of the controversy surrounding precognition is based on fear — fear of the unknown and that reality may differ from our perception.”
Unlike fortune-tellers, whose clairvoyance often relies on superficial analysis of social media, psychologists and neurobiologists strive to understand the nature of precognition, which is considered a form of extrasensory perception (ESP). This persistent feeling that something will happen has long been familiar to shamans and mystics, yet science has yet to explain it.
According to parapsychologist Dean Radin, Ph.D., and chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, precognition implies that our consciousness can transcend linear time perception. Radin studies consciousness and has written several books on the subject, including “Entangled Minds” and “Supernormal.”
Radin and Mossbridge, colleagues at IONS, are working together to provide evidence for the theory of precognition using statistical data obtained from experiments and support the concept of nonlinear time.
“Time is not what we think it is,” says Radin, who is also a professor of integral and transpersonal psychology. “In quantum mechanics, time may not be part of our physical reality. It behaves much stranger than we can imagine. This suggests that our consciousness is likely connected to something that transcends our ordinary perception of time and may receive information from the past or the future.”
In the mid-1990s, while working at the University of Nevada, Radin developed an experiment to confirm his findings. He hypothesized that if consciousness truly moves uncontrollably through time, then reactions to expected stimuli should manifest before the stimuli themselves. Participants were connected to an electroencephalogram (EEG) and asked to press a button to display a random image on the screen. The images could be either positive or negative.
The EEG recorded brain activity for five seconds between the display of the image and its perception. Positive images elicited slight reactions, while negative ones led to sharp spikes in activity, recorded before their display.
“Mossbridge’s research has shown that most people possess a certain ability for precognition.”
Since then, similar experiments have been successfully replicated about forty times. In 1995, the CIA even declassified its research on precognition, confirming its statistical validity.
When statistical data confirms the existence of a phenomenon, it should serve as sufficient grounds, says Mossbridge, founder of the Mossbridge Institute, where her team studies experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and the physics of time. She recalls how one physicist doubted her results based on the notion of linear time. However, research has shown that most people are capable of predicting the future. Mossbridge is convinced that people would be aware of this ability if it were considered more common.
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Precognition is viewed differently across various cultures. Radin, studying Tibetan oracles, noted that clairvoyance, or “remote viewing,” allows seeing not only through time but also across space. Shamans, predicting the weather or threats, used their abilities long before modern forecasts emerged. In some traditions, psychoactive substances, such as ayahuasca, are used to activate the “third eye.”
Radin also suggests that precognition can be explained through quantum entanglement, where particles exchange information regardless of distance, which Einstein referred to as “spooky action at a distance.”
This may provide an explanation for why we can recall events that have not yet occurred. “Some suggest that precognition is the brain entangled with the future, as entanglement exists not only in space but also in time,” he explains. “If it can become entangled with the future, then in the present, you will feel something like a memory of what is about to happen.”
