Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Research Fellow, Parapsychology Foundation Over the years there have been many speculations about the nature of precognition. A recently published paper is probably the most scientifically sophisticated attempt to explain this phenomenon to date and a useful contribution to guide future research on the subject. The paper in question, “Rethinking Extrasensory Perception: Toward a Multiphasic Model of Precognition,” is authored by Dr. Sonali Bhatt Marwaha and Dr. Edwin C. May (Sage Open, January-March 2015, 1–17. DOI: 10.1177/2158244015576056).
Dr. Sonali Marwaha
Dr. Edward C. May
I asked the authors for a statement about the paper and they send me the following: “In our view, the person-centric experience of precognition is a manifestation of the fundamental problem of information-centric retrocausal signals. Thus, we view the experience of precognition as a process rather than an event. The MMPC is a signal-based, process-oriented model designed to determine the causal mechanisms leading to the experience of precognition. The MMPC identifies two distinct phases:
Phase I: The Physics Domain (PD), addresses the question of retrocausation and how it is possible for information to traverse from one spacetime point to another. We suggest that the solution might be found within entropic considerations.
Phase II: The Neuroscience Domain (ND), addresses the acquisition and interpretation of retrocausal signals. We propose that this occurs across three stages:
Stage 1: perception of signals from an information carrier, based on psychophysical variability in a putative signal transducer.
Stage 2: cortical processing of the signals, mediated by a cortical hyper-associative mechanism; and
Stage 3: cognition, mediated by normal cognitive processes, leading to a response based on retrocausal information. Based on research data, the MMPC addresses both the PD and the ND by considering the well-established laws of the physical world and what we currently know—and will know—about brain–behavior relationships. Thus, the MMPC is a coherent assimilation of existing concepts that we believe can lead to understanding the process of retrocausation-precognition—from the point of information origin to cognition. According to the MMPC, precognition is an inherent, similar to musical ability, arising out of individual differences in brain connectivity. Thus, one cannot train to acquire the ability. Based on the model, we define precognition as an atypical perceptual ability that allows the acquisition of non-inferential information arising from a future point in spacetime. The model is comprehensive, brain-based, and provides a new direction for research requiring multidisciplinary expertise.”
See also Dr. May’s presentation.
Parapsychology 
My initial entry prior to watching the vid.
I am a precognitive Dreamer, I dream of things before they happen. For some reason most of my dreams stem from natural disasters (tornadoes, mud slides, plane crashes, volcanoes, etc)
I get a lot of ‘parts’, not necessarily in order of real time happening. After I’ve had a dream it usually happens within 24 hours to 2 weeks. I’ve woken myself up from very bad dreams that very possibly could have given me a heart attack. Others have woken me up
(On the dream sleep side) while they argued to others, that I could not handle the information I was receiving.
Examples: I woke up in a cold sweat after a tornado dream about ‘BarnFeld’ Wisconsin.
In my dream a chicken was running with handcuffs on. The only thing left standing was the water tower with town name on it, everything else would be leveled.
This was in 1984, I had the dream 3 days prior. I have no idea to this day about the significance of the chicken. Water tower part was true. Actual name of town was
Barneveld. I’d never been there or heard of it before.
Another was a mudslide dream happening soon, many dead. Town ‘Lima Beans’.
I dreamt this before Feb. 14th 1997, the mudslide happened Feb. 21st in Lima, Peru.
Its very frustrating to not be able to help people or know specifics, so that you can help people.
Just an idea.
Train yourself to be a lucid dreamer. So that if one of these dreams happen, you dream lucidly. You will then have the option of going to the location in advance of the event, within the dream, and warning as many people as possible. Maybe for example, you could imagine yourself on some kind of TV or radio station in the township, letting people know that there have been seismic increases observed in the area (if it is an earthquake) and it would be advisable to follow the local protocols associated with that.
This might not have real world results, but it would at least give your psyche a breather from that painful Cassandra Complex this sort of thing can create.
You know the one: if you had more details could you warn people and if you did would they listen?
They probably wouldn’t in a waking state, but in a dream state, they might. And at the very least, your mind will have less stress because it will have done something.
I am a precognitive but I can also see the past.
I have visions of things before they happen. I have all types of visions from from natural disasters to celebrity scandals! I think one of best visions was of the asteroid explosion over Russian, which happens about once in 100 years!