belief in precognition. Psychologists have conducted experiments which are claimed to show that people who feel loss of control in their lives will turn to belief in precognition, because it gives them a sense of regaining control. See also Inner eye Third eye Oneiromancy (Veridical dreaming) Retrocognition List of topics characterized as pseudoscience Dream References Notes Bibliography Flieger, Verlyn; A Question of Time: JRR Tolkien's Road to Faërie, Kent State University Press, 1997. Inglis, Brian. (1986). The Paranormal: An Encyclopedia of Psychic Phenomena. Paladin (Grafton) 1986. (1st Edition Granada 1985) Priestley, J.B. Man and Time. Aldus 1964, 2nd Edition Bloomsbury 1989. Wynn, Charles M., and Wiggins, Arthur W. (2001). Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins. Joseph Henry Press. Further reading Chris French. (2012). "Precognition Studies and the Curse of the Failed Replications". The Guardian. David Marks. (2000). The Psychology of the Psychic'' (2nd Edition). Prometheus Books. Paranormal terminology Parapsychology Prophecy Pseudoscience Psychic powers Spiritual faculties