These scientists claim that consciousness can ‘jump’ into the future, suggesting that time is not strictly linear and that gut feelings may sometimes be information ‘leaking’ from the future.
Cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge has collected many stories of such experiences and also had them herself since childhood.
One story she shares is about a four‑year‑old girl in 1989 who suddenly felt she would never see her father alive again when he left on a trip, and later that night he died in a car crash.
Mossbridge says her own dreams sometimes matched real events that happened later, and keeping a dream journal helped her see that some details were too specific to be simple coincidence.
Because of this, Mossbridge started to question the usual picture of time as a straight line: past, present, future in one direction only. She suggests the future might already exist in some form, and that people can sometimes “remember” future events the way they remember past ones.
She argues that there is both experimental evidence for precognition and support from physics ideas like “retrocausality,” where something in the future can influence the past. For her, the difficulty is not understanding the concept, but getting people to accept it, because it conflicts with their belief that time must be linear.
Dean Radin, a researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a psychology professor, who has written books like Entangled Minds, Supernormal, and Real Magic about consciousness and psychic phenomena.
Radin agrees that precognition is possible and says that time is “not how we experience it in normal life,” especially when you look at quantum physics. At very small scales, time might behave in a strange way, and this could allow consciousness to access information from past or future.
