Neuroscientist Explores How Dreams Could Predict Terror Attacks, Future Events: ‘Mental Time Travel’

Neuroscientist Explores How Dreams Could Predict Terror Attacks, Future Events: ‘Mental Time Travel’
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Tara MacIsaac
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There are rules in the physical world that don’t apply to the mental one. In a dream, you can fly. One can imagine a squirrel talking to one’s self. The realm of dreams and imagination is, however, often thought to be self-contained, with no tangible bearing on the real world.

But the study of precognition in dreams has taught cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Julia Mossbridge otherwise. She defines the term “precognition”, as “a kind of mental time travel into the future to get information.”

Is It Possible to Time Travel Mentally?

Tulving, a professor of Torento university, believes not only we remember the past events, but we remember the future. In fact, it is an ability of our memory to travel in time, and this ability is restricted to human while animals fail to picture the future in their mind. Actually our brain uses the past experiments to predict the future. That is how out memory involves in time traveling.