What is Precognition?

Question

How would you explain it?

Answer 1

It's the basis of some pretty good movies.The Final Destination series.In real life,it's a myth.

Answer 2

From dictionary.com

pre·cog·ni·tion      / Show Spelled Pronunciation

[pree-kog-nish-uhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. knowledge of a future event or situation, esp. through extrasensory means.  

2. Scots Law. a. the examination of witnesses and other parties before a trial in order to supply a legal ground for prosecution.  

b. the evidence established in such an examination.

Answer 3

Its a way of seeing into the future, of knowing whats going to happen.  Not distant future, but relatively not too distant if ya know what I mean.

Answer 4

Pre = prior to

Cognition =  knowledge

Knowing something before it happens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precognitio...

Answer 5

Being able to predict something that others would view as impossible.

If you were able to predict something from the future, I'm fairly sure you can't change it because of all the potential variations that would impede your attempt. I would know because I had a dream my sister got fired from her job and one week later she actually did. I would've considered this one dream bogus if I didn't have other things happen.

Its not really the future, its more of "what is", yet the supposed impossibilty of an individual having prior knowledge of this "what is" is why people call it the future. Its all about perception.

Answer 6

It's like Isaac Mendez.  He paints the future.  Except if you know the future you can stop it from happening, which means it isn't the future, so what the heck did he paint?

I'm confused now.

Answer 7

i knew you were going to ask me that.

Answer 8

It's the phenomenon which occurs when someone examines their past and perceives, via confirmation bias, a real or apparent (day)dream that seems similar to something that happened later.

Answer 9

Precognition is the gaining of awareness through extrasensory perception of some future event.  A related effect is presentiment, which parapsychologist Dean Radin describes as a vague  feeling or an "intuitive hunch" that something is going to happen.  Presentiment, though, does not involves cognition ('cognition,' simply put, means "knowing" about something).  The mechanism by which precognition brings awareness of a future event is unknown, but some researchers think there is a tie-in with a quantum physics principle known as "non-locality" or "quantum entanglement."  That has not yet been proved, however.  In any case, successful attempts at gaining precognitive awareness have been documented, but failures have often been demonstrated as well.

Answer 10

Just another way of saying you have seen the future