Ever heard of the term “follow your gut?”
Because if you have and you’ve done so on more than one occasion, consider yourself clairvoyant.
Scientists define having a “gut feeling” as an unwavering strange feeling that something will occur in the future.
It’s a concept that has puzzled scientists time and time again. Though the eerie subject might sound far-fetched, many studies suggest there’s statistical evidence to support the existence of precognition.
Highlighted among the research is a mid-1990s study by parapsychologist Dean Radin, Ph.D., that redefines how we understand our ability to predict the future.
While working at the University of Nevada, Radin, who studied precognition for years, hypothesized that if consciousness transcended time, reactions to a stimulus would occur before the stimulus actually appeared. When Radin put his hypothesis to the test, he used an EEG machine to record the brain activity of study participants.
When subjects were hooked up to the EEG machine, they reacted to prompts and images, including positive pictures — such as a sunrise — and negative pictures — such as a car crash.
The EEG measured the subject’s brain activity during the short, five-second span between when they received the prompt and when they saw the image.
The results were staggering.
When a subject predicted a positive image, they didn’t react very much, but they showed a spike in brain activity when they expected to see a negative image.
Radin’s findings were statistically important, and since then, researchers have replicated his study successfully almost three dozen times.
His work was influential enough that the CIA declassified its pre-sentiment research in 1995, and statisticians confirmed the effect was statistically reliable.
However, there are still questions that remain about the science behind precognition. Numbers prove it exists, but is there a reason why? Is there something that causes those gut feelings that has the potential to predict things to come? Is it really linear?
While Radin’s work provided an opening for substantiating precognition, the next step is finding evidence of its mechanism — and maybe convincing others to overcome their fears of the unknown.