Precognition is the ability to know the future. Precognitive dreams are not unusual, and almost everyone has had one at some point or another in life. Knowing future events can be quite useful, but also disturbing if they are of a disastrous nature. Some people are naturals at precognition, and others can develop this with training. A premonition falls in this category of psychic experiences, but it is not quite as defined as precognition. It would be more like a hunch, a vague feeling, or sensation. Precognition is more detailed and clear compared to a premonition.

Seeing the future is a natural occurrence. Time as we know it is a human convenience. To the eternal self, our true nature, time is simultaneous. There is no past or future. There is only the eternal now. To the eternal self, everything happens at once. Eternity is not just a "long time." It is a whole different way of perception. All other versions of time are contrivances in order to organize experiences for versions of consciousness that are not aware of themselves as Eternity. People with psychic abilities "can leave the time stream temporarily—sticking their heads outside of it, as it were—to look into the so-called future or past," according to Dr. Hans Holzer in his book Are You Psychic? (1997). This is why psychic predictions are possible. Dealing with probable futures, however, is a whole other matter.

The fact that time is an illusion may give us cause to re-examine what we think cause and effect is. The law of cause and effect may be far more involved and sophisticated than we have previously believed. In the timeless dimensions, which is where a psychic "sticks his or her head" when perceiving the past or future, events themselves are stationary and may not have anything to do with cause an effect as we know it. However, this is a subject for another day! Something to think about though. The point is, the future is available to us whenever we are able to step outside of our belief in time as explained in human terms. When we are standing in the timeless dimensions, we are able access any point in time as if it is happening now.

Everyone has had the experience of having a "time warp," an occasion where a large amount of time passed, but it seemed to only be a short amount, or an occasion where the opposite happened. These are moments when you have stepped out of time as it is known in human terms. One factor that is almost always involved in time warps is that there is often a feeling of happiness and joy when "time flies." Have you ever noticed that time seems to move faster when you are happy, and drags endlessly when you are depressed? Time may after all be a perception experience more than a hard and fast physical law of the universe. Even scientists are beginning to question the nature of time. They have discovered that time moves differently around large masses of matter, like black holes, and other anomalies in the universe. This is still, as yet, largely undiscovered territory. Is time itself something that will become a myth that was once believed so predominantly among the masses, much the way the masses once believed that the earth was flat?

Over the years, evidence from experimental research has been found for the following extra sensory perception processes: telepathy—awareness of thoughts without sensory means, such as verbal communication; clairvoyance—visuals of an object or event without the known five senses; and precognition—knowledge of the future without use of the five senses. These experiences are ones of perception and cognition without the activity of our usual sense organs, thus being categorized as ESP.