Your Consciousness May Be Able to Glimpse the Future—And One Scientist Is Testing That Claim
created: Jan. 16, 2026, 2:48 p.m. | updated: Jan. 19, 2026, 12:35 p.m.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:A new experiment is testing high-level lucid dreamers for an ability to dream the future, essentially precognition.
“There has not been a great deal of controlled research conducted on precognition specifically,” Luke says.
Still, Luke expects that lucid dreamers will show stronger correspondence with future targets if dream-based precognition exists at all.
If a window for detecting future information exists anywhere inside the mind, lucid dreaming may be the state most likely to open it.
High-facility lucid dreamers, he says, represent “a very unusual segment of the population,” meaning that even a positive result would not immediately generalize to the rest of us.
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