A guide to dream precognition and its implications • Outlines a set of clear principles to help guide dreamworkers, illustrated through real precognitive dream experiences • Shows how to detect precognitive dreams through their characteristic features, explaining how dreams relate to memory and why dreams about future experiences are often symbolic or distorted • Explores the mind-blowing implications of precognition for our lives, including how our present thoughts actually shape--or shaped--our past Once only the stuff of science fiction, evidence has grown that precognition--glimpses of your future in dreams and visions and being influenced subtly in waking life by what is to come--is real. Your future thoughts and feelings shape who you are now. And your present thoughts and feelings shape--or shaped--your past. In this accessible exploration of precognition, precognitive dreamwork, and a radically new biographical sensibility, the Long Self, that precognition awakens us to, Eric Wargo shows how dreamworkers can play the role of citizen scientists, adding to our understanding of this fascinating, almost unexplored dimension of human life. Wargo outlines a set of clear principles to guide dreamworkers, each illustrated through real dreamers' experiences. Drawing on psychoanalysis and contemporary sleep science, he explores how precognition relates to memory, explaining why dreams of future experiences are often distorted and what those distortions probably mean. He discusses never-before-described dream features, including "time gimmicks" (symbols hinting at time distortion) and "calendrical resonance" (the tendency of dreams to foretell experiences exactly a year or years later). He describes why an understanding of precognition augments Jung's theory of synchronicity by highlighting our own role in producing meaningful coincidences in our waking lives. He also shows how precognition manifests in other states of consciousness like lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, trance states, sleep paralysis, meditation, and hypnagogia. We are at a major turning point in science's understanding of time, causality, and the self. We are more than who we think we are from moment to moment--we are our past, present, and future simultaneously. When we understand this, a dream journal becomes a personal time machine, with mind-blowing discoveries in store for the traveler.

Acknowledgments Introduction: They Dreamed PART 1 A PRECOG'S PROGRESS 1 Unmanned My Psychic Due Diligence 2 Vaal and Redemption How a Star Trek Episode Taught Me Memory Goes Backward 3 Psychic Citizen Science Taking the J. W. Dunne Challenge PART 2 THE LAW IN THE MIND4 The Technicolor Elephant Freud and the Art of Memory 5 Future Towers from Past Bricks Basics of Dream Precognition 6 The Unusual Suspects of the Dreamworld Applying Free Association and the Mnemonic Theory PART 3 GIFTS IN THE LANDSCAPE7 Rules of the Grail Kingdom Dream Space and Dream Time 8 Library Angels and Scarab Beetles Synchronicity, Retrocausation, and the Tesseract Brain 9 Beyond Archetypes The Fractal Geometry of Prophecy PART 4 THE LAW IN THE COSMOS (ON FATE AND FREE WILL) 10 "But I Survived" Understanding Premonitions11 Four-Dimensional Billiards Time Travel and Meaning in a Self-Consistent Universe12 The Wyrd of Doctor WTF The Real Superpowers of the Unconscious 13 What's Expected of Us in a Block Universe New Myths for Precogs PART 5 THE CARE OF THE LONG SELF14 After the Miracle How Our Thoughts Influence Our Past15 A Precog Claims Her Gifts One Woman's Life-Altering Precognitive Awakening 16 Giants and Angels The Precognitive Self-Care System17 Look Back in Amber Time Gimmicks and Dream PaleontologyPART 6 SPACETIME TRAVEL IN THE BORDERLANDS (GAMES FOR ADVANCED PLAYERS)18 Possessed by Your Future Out-of-Body Experiences, Lucid Dreams, and Sleep Paralysis 19 Liminal Precognition Hypnagogia, Active Imagination, Creativity, and Meditation Conclusion: The Long Self Revolution A Call to Action Appendix: Precognitive Dreamwork Principles Notes References Index