For her doctoral dissertation, M.S. Stowell completed a deep study of precognitive dreaming. She approached this subject about the only way one can, which is by interviewing people who claim to have had such dreams.

Stowell interviewed five such claimants, and it is remarkable how many precognitive dreams they have had collectively. There are 51, and 37 of them have been confirmed as accurate. In addition, all five dreamers had precognitive experiences while awake. Many of these were also confirmed. It is important to bear in mind that it takes only one solid confirmation of precognition to shatter some sacred paradigms! Here we might have a couple score of them!

To give the reader the flavor of this type of parapsychological research, we select one dream that foresaw a plane crash. Here is how Elizabeth described her dream:

It starts out where I'm driving north
on the freeway in [City] . Right about
by [specific location], going north,
heading for the [specific] bridge, I
look up and there's a big plane
coming straight at me, and there's
also an overpass right where I am.
My initial reaction is that it's going
to crash on me and that I'm in trouble
and instead a split second passes in
which I realize that I'm going under
it, under the overpass, and the plane
will go right over me and crash
somewhere behind me. And I realize
in that time that it will crash on the
freeway and that a lot of people will
die and that I, I just want to keep driving
north and not look back [brief laughter],
is my reaction.

Elizabeth told her husband of her dream in the morning. The actual plane crash occurred a few weeks later just where she had been in her dream.

Many similar, confirmed reports are presented by Stowell in her study.

Source: Mary, Stowell
"Precognitive Dreams:
A Phenomenological Study. Part I
Methodology and Sample Cases"
American Society for Psychical Research
Journal, 91:163, 1997

Comment, Mainstream science follows the dictates of "logical positivism," which insists that the only acceptable observations are those that can be experienced by all normal persons. Since few of us have precognitive dreams, the rules of science would have to be changed they are to be embraced by science.