Can dreams predict future events?

Experts study on dreams also known as precognition

Have you ever laid down to sleep and dreamed about something, and when you woke up it became a reality? This is called ‘precognition’, i.e. knowledge of the future that comes from somewhere other than the senses.

Precognition is usually dismissed as ‘coincidence’, but a new scientific theory is emerging that could change our understanding of the relationship between consciousness, dreams and time.

Since the dawn of human civilization, the notion that dreams can predict the future has been part of our society. The world’s oldest epic, The Epic of Gilgamesh, which was written in Babylon in 2100 BC, recounts several dreams of the heroes of the story, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, which later come true.

Later in the 20th century, Carl Jung, a philosopher and one of the founders of modern psychology, spent several years of his career researching this issue and called it ‘synchronicity’ or ‘temporal coincidence’.

Carl began working on ‘synchronicity’ while having dinner at his home with Professor Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity had come to him in a dream. Succeeded in making additions.

Precognition is now being researched by many scientists around the world. Dr. Stanley Kirpner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Seabrook, has been researching this issue since the sixties.

‘In short, what we did was have a guy go to bed and try to think of an image that would be chosen the next day. After repeating these experiments for eight nights, we asked the analysts to analyze their reactions to the correct image, which might turn out to be true one out of eight times. But he was proved right six times out of eight. It is statistically significant.

Continuing her research, psychologist Dr. Julia Mossbridge has recently done more work on the matter. ‘I think the research I’ve done, which is the most convincing to people, is that I looked at 26 different studies on how our body starts to change itself to prepare for future events. And what these experiments entail is that a future event is presented randomly. For example, you look at a computer screen and there is a picture of a person pointing a gun at you, or a future event may be that there are some pictures of flowers on the computer screen.’

‘The study found that people react quite differently after seeing them, but also found that people react quite differently even before they see them, even though they don’t even know what they’re about to see. And I think it’s just like a dream because it’s also a completely unconscious phase.’

Quantum physics is telling us that the universe is much weirder than we previously thought. Discoveries like quantum entanglement, in which two distant objects react at the same time, or retrocausality, in which the roles of cause and effect are reversed, raise serious questions about our current understanding of space and time. They are getting up. “The concept of quantum retrocausality is that events in the future can cause events in the present, thus creating a kind of loop or cycle,” says Dr. Julia Mossbridge. And now there are many people in physics who are researching the cycles of time and cause and effect.

If there was a way to transcend time and space, perhaps it could be done through the most complex machine in the universe, the human mind?

“I call precognition mental time travel,” says Dr. Julia Mossbridge. If you remember something from the future like the present, it’s like information from a quantum state of the future is moving into the past, so it’s now a memory of the past, so possibly But you are causing a different future.’

Dr. Stanley Kirpner says that time has been greatly misunderstood. Hypothetically, it is true that you can travel forward or backward in time during dreams or other states of consciousness. Time is a very complex thing, and it is not necessarily the same time everywhere throughout the galaxy. It may not be the same for any individual.

‘Time during a dream can be very different from our conscious states. During dreams, we reach a state of consciousness where time flows perfectly.’

Perhaps one way of looking at time is like water flowing in a river, in which the beginning and end of the stream are connected as a single stream even though they are in many places at the same time. But why is it that many scientists reject dreams predicting the future as reasonable possibilities?

The answer could possibly be that there are still many unanswered questions about the origin of our consciousness, its capabilities and its functioning.

Dr Julia Mossbridge says: ‘We’re getting data on a lot of things now. It used to be that if you asked ‘is it all real’, the scientific community would point the finger at you, but now I’m working a lot to make people understand that if you think something’s crazy at first, it’s because we don’t know human capabilities as much now as we will eventually begin to know.’

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