I am arguing that precognition is just memory in reverse, or what we might for convenience call premory

John Wheeler, who studied under Bohr, underscored that observation not only brings the world into being but actually shapes it—an idea known as the “participatory universe.”

Precognitive dreams, Dunne argued, show that at night, as well as other times when the brain is in a relaxed state, our consciousness can wriggle free of the present moment and scan ahead (as well as behind) on our personal world-line, like a flashlight at night illuminating a spot on the path ahead.

For a piece of information to be meaningful, it needs to be reliably paired with another piece of information that gives it context or serves as its cipher.

Premonitions may not be “warnings” so much as previews of the equivocal reward of surviving some close call.

If we routinely orient to rewards in our future, and do so unconsciously, then causal tautologies and self-fulfilling prophecies ought to be constant features in our lives, dime-a-dozen formations in the Minkowski block universe.

dreams and precognitive visions represent not just future experiences but also our thoughts and emotions associated with those experiences. This goes a long way toward explaining why they often do not depict events completely accurately or literally.

“The dreaming mind,” Dunne observed, “is a master-hand at tacking false interpretations on to everything it perceives.”

How do you isolate the relevant causal factors behind any event, or any two events that seem to coincide? Any calculation depends on how you define an event, how you draw lines around pieces of data, how much weight you attach to which causal arrows, decisions that in the end must be arbitrary or guided by your particular interests and biases.