by Precognition (from the Latin prae- 'before', and cognitio 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.
There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real effect, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience.
Precognition violates the principle of causality, that an effect cannot occur before its cause.
Precognition is sometimes treated as an example of the wider phenomenon of prescience or foreknowledge, to understand by any means what is likely to happen in the future.
It is distinct from premonition, which is a vaguer feeling of some impending disaster. Related activities such as predictive prophecy and fortune telling have been practised throughout history.
Precognitive dreams are the most widely reported occurrences of precognition.
Usually, a dream or vision can only be identified as precognitive after the putative event has taken place.
When such an event occurs after a dream, it is said to have "broken the dream"
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There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real effect, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience.
Precognition violates the principle of causality, that an effect cannot occur before its cause.
Precognition is sometimes treated as an example of the wider phenomenon of prescience or foreknowledge, to understand by any means what is likely to happen in the future.
It is distinct from premonition, which is a vaguer feeling of some impending disaster. Related activities such as predictive prophecy and fortune telling have been practised throughout history.
Precognitive dreams are the most widely reported occurrences of precognition.
Usually, a dream or vision can only be identified as precognitive after the putative event has taken place.
When such an event occurs after a dream, it is said to have "broken the dream"
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