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Premonitions & Precognition: Can We See the Future?

Prophetic Dreams, Strange Warnings and the Science of Knowing What Comes Next

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Test prophetic dreams, historical premonitions and laboratory precognition claims against coincidence, memory, statistics, replication research and the physics of future information.

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BOOK OVERVIEW

About this book

Can tomorrow ever arrive in the mind before it arrives in the world? Prophetic dreams, sudden warnings and uncanny coincidences have convinced generations of people that the future can sometimes be sensed in advance.

Premonitions & Precognition: Can We See the Future? examines Abraham Lincoln's famous dream, the Aberfan premonition collection, Futility and the Titanic, disaster warnings and other historical cases. It shows why a prediction recorded before an event is fundamentally stronger than a memory reconstructed afterward.

The book also follows modern laboratory research, including Daryl Bem's controversial experiments, later meta-analysis and increasingly transparent preregistered replication projects. Coincidence, multiple comparisons, dream generation, hindsight bias and memory are placed beside the strongest experimental claims, asking whether any effect survives when the future is tested before anyone knows the answer.

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER

What you’ll discover inside

How prophetic dreams and personal warnings can be tested using records created before the outcome.

What the Lincoln, Aberfan and Titanic-related stories reveal about historical source quality.

Why coincidence becomes surprisingly powerful when billions of dreams and predictions are considered.

What Daryl Bem's experiments reported and why later preregistered replication projects matter.

What kind of repeatable evidence would be required before precognition could challenge ordinary causation.

INSIDE THIS BOOK

Key subjects and case files

Prophetic DreamsPrecognitionAbraham LincolnAberfanTitanic & FutilityDaryl BemReplicationCoincidence
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1: What Is Precognition?
  4. Chapter 2: Premonition, Prophecy and Prediction
  5. Chapter 3: Why Future Knowledge Is Such a Radical Claim
  6. Chapter 4: The Problem of Coincidence
  7. Chapter 5: Memory After the Event
  8. Chapter 6: Dreams That Seem to Come True
  9. Chapter 7: Abraham Lincoln's Dream
  10. Chapter 8: Aberfan: Premonitions Before Disaster
  11. Chapter 9: Futility and the Titanic
  12. Chapter 10: Disaster Warnings, Hits and Misses
  13. Chapter 11: Personal Cases and Diary Evidence
  14. Chapter 12: From Card Guessing to Modern Psi Experiments
  15. Chapter 13: J. B. Rhine and the Duke Laboratory
  16. Chapter 14: Daryl Bem's Feeling the Future
  17. Chapter 15: Replication Crisis Arrives
  18. Chapter 16: The Transparent Psi Project
  19. Chapter 17: The 2025 High-Powered Replication
  20. Chapter 18: Presentiment: Does the Body React First?
  21. Chapter 19: Why Dreams Feel Prophetic
  22. Chapter 20: Memory Consolidation During Sleep
  23. Chapter 21: Déjà Vu and the Illusion of Prediction
  24. Chapter 22: Hindsight Bias and Memory Reconstruction
  25. Chapter 23: Confirmation Bias, Selection and the File Drawer
  26. Chapter 24: Pattern Detection and the Human Prediction Machine
  27. Chapter 25: Does Relativity Leave Room for Precognition?
  28. Chapter 26: Retrocausality in Quantum Physics
  29. Chapter 27: The Block Universe and the Direction of Time
  30. Chapter 28: Information From the Future: What Would a Mechanism Require?
  31. Chapter 29: Designing a Test That Could Convince Skeptics
  32. Chapter 30: Can We Know Tomorrow Today?
  33. Conclusion
  34. Special Dossier I
  35. Special Dossier II
  36. Appendix A: Evidence Scale for Premonition Claims
  37. Appendix B: How to Keep a Premonition Diary
  38. Appendix C: Glossary
  39. Appendix D: Common Cognitive Traps
  40. Appendix E: Timeline of Modern Precognition Research
  41. Appendix F: The Unexplained Files - Books 1-29
  42. Sources and Further Reading
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