Editing Precognition (section)

==Precognitive phenomena==
Precognition is sometimes treated as an example of the wider phenomenon of prescience or foreknowledge, to understand by any means what is likely to happen in the future. It is distinct from premonition, which is a vaguer feeling of some impending disaster. Related activities such as predictive [[prophecy]] and [[fortune telling]] have been practised throughout history.

Precognitive [[dream]]s are the most widely reported occurrences of precognition.<ref name="inglis"/> Usually, a dream or vision can only be identified as precognitive after the putative event has taken place. When such an event occurs after a dream, it is said to have "broken the dream".<ref>Inglis (1985), p.89</ref><ref>Wyndham Lewis; "You Broke My Dream", ''The Wild Body: A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories'', Chatto and Windus, London, 1927.</ref>[[File:'Joseph's Dream', painting by Gaetano Gandolfi, c. 1790.jpg|thumb|"Joseph's Dream", a painting by [[Gaetano Gandolfi]], c. 1790. According to the [[Book of Genesis]], God granted [[Joseph (Genesis)|Joseph]] precognition through prophetic dreams and the ability to interpret the dreams of others.]]

=== In religion ===
In [[Judaism]] it is believed that dreams are mostly insignificant while others "have the potential to contain prophetic messages".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Freedman |first1=Rabi Dr Moshe |title=Do our dreams have any meaning? |url=https://www.thejc.com/judaism/features/do-our-dreams-have-any-meaning-1.430516 |website=thejc.com |date=12 January 2017 |publisher=The Jewish Chronicle |access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref> Others hold that dreams have meaning, and bad dreams require [[Dream amelioration|amelioration]]. According to the [[Book of Genesis]], God granted [[Joseph (Genesis)|Joseph]] precognition through prophetic dreams and the ability to interpret the dreams of others.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lang |first=Bernhard |title=Joseph in Egypt: A Cultural Icon from Grotius to Goethe |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-300-15156-5 |pages=23}}</ref>

Precognition has a role in [[Buddhism]] with dreams believed to be 'mind-created phenomena'. Those dreams which 'warn of impending danger or even prepare us for overwhelming good news" are considered the most important.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sri Dhammananda |first1=K |title=Dreams and their Significance |url=https://www.budsas.org/ebud/whatbudbeliev/321.htm |website=www.budsas.org |publisher=Buddhist Study and Practice Group |access-date=8 February 2022}}</ref>