Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future

Science writer Wargo (Time Loops) delivers a detailed consideration of dreaming and precognition. His aim, he writes, is to build a “grass-roots, citizen science movement” and legitimize the theory of precognitive dreaming. Wargo asserts that neither time nor memory are linear, and one’s future self sends experiences from the future into one’s dreams. Citing his own dreams as well as examples from Freud and Jung, Wargo suggests that precognitive dreaming is common, and that the mainstream scientific attitude toward it can “no longer dismiss this subject as mere credulity, superstition, and bias.” While Wargo includes a robust bibliography filled with “liminal dreaming” and psychological studies backing his claims, he admits the “highly personalized associations” of precognitive experiences will “hold little weight with skeptics.” The method Wargo relies on involves keeping a dream journal and reviewing the journal every few days to look for potential connections between dreams and experiences in waking life afterward. The practice of free association is also recommended when analyzing one’s dreams, to “note honestly what each character, object, setting, and striking details call to mind.” Wargo’s thorough guide makes an intriguing argument for precognition that anyone can put to the test. [em](Apr.) [/em]