ladycatlover
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Precognition is the claimed paranormal ability to predict the future – and is widely considered to be pseudoscience. Why, then, is the US psychic industry worth $2bn a year?
by Amelia Tait
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/sep/29/psychic-future-what-next-for-the-precognition-economy
Just thought you'd all like to get your teeth into this article!
I should warn you it's a long read, and my quote above is a tiny flavour that isn't really relevant to the *whole* article.
My thoughts are more along the line that our brains take in more information than we're aware of consciously (from TV/radio, from online articles, from newspaper articles and so on) and then sometimes we dream about the stuff we don't know consciously. If that makes any sort of sense.
And sometimes it just comes out without a dream eg for buying stocks and shares, if have been watching companies and reading financial pages - just a feeling that this stock is rising or this stock is falling. It's not really psychic, it's knowledge from reading, possibly over months, keeping an eye on the company's money (thinking of Thomas Cook spectacular crash here), not just its share price up and down.
If over health, maybe due to minor discomfort combined with reading articles in magazines etc might lead to dreams of sickness eg heart attack.
Shrugs, I just thought you all might find the Observer article interesting.
by Amelia Tait
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/sep/29/psychic-future-what-next-for-the-precognition-economy
Dr Julia Mossbridge, a visiting psychology scholar at Northwestern University in the US, and co-author of The Premonition Code: How Sensing the Future Can Change Your Life, says there is an ever-expanding “precog economy”, where people with alleged precognitive powers sell their abilities to business people, law-enforcement officials and even health professionals.
“People who are good at this can make money from it, and people who want the services can buy them for all sectors of the economy,” says Mossbridge, who had her first precognitive dream (about a school friend losing her watch) when she was seven. She says her so-called “positive precogs” (named after the mutated humans who predicted the future in the 2002 thriller Minority Report) differ from psychics with crystal balls and £1.50/min phone lines. “What I’m imagining is a much more sophisticated and structurally supported version of that,” she says. “The UN could have a group of precogs who’d work on climate change alongside experts in the area. They’re just one mode of knowing.”
Just thought you'd all like to get your teeth into this article!

My thoughts are more along the line that our brains take in more information than we're aware of consciously (from TV/radio, from online articles, from newspaper articles and so on) and then sometimes we dream about the stuff we don't know consciously. If that makes any sort of sense.
And sometimes it just comes out without a dream eg for buying stocks and shares, if have been watching companies and reading financial pages - just a feeling that this stock is rising or this stock is falling. It's not really psychic, it's knowledge from reading, possibly over months, keeping an eye on the company's money (thinking of Thomas Cook spectacular crash here), not just its share price up and down.
If over health, maybe due to minor discomfort combined with reading articles in magazines etc might lead to dreams of sickness eg heart attack.
Shrugs, I just thought you all might find the Observer article interesting.