Jung In-cheol (a pseudonym) saw his business plunge into a severe crisis when the IMF foreign exchange crisis hit the Korean economy in late 1997. With sharp interest rate hikes and a soaring won-dollar exchange rate, the loans and interest he owed to banks snowballed. His business faced a life-or-death crisis.
One day in March 1998, he flew to the United States on a business trip to break the deadlock. He checked into a motel near his factory. A devout Christian, he fell asleep that evening after a fervent prayer and had a dream.
"In the dream, Jesus stood with arms outstretched on a place like the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and looked down at me at the foot of the mountain. Suddenly an intense golden radiance shone, dazzling my eyes, and golden lava flowed down like a stream of water and embraced my chest."
This is his testimony. "I was so startled that I woke up. A deep emotion welled up in my heart. It was 4 a.m. Less than 24 hours later, I received a call from a foreign buyer. The product was specialty hardwood used for high-end hotel interiors. The contract was concluded, and a substantial sum was settled in dollars. This miraculous deal proved decisive in helping me revive my business."
A dream that foresees what is to come is called a precognitive dream. The phenomenon in which a mental event such as a dream and a physical event in reality cannot be linked through causal proof yet correspond in meaning was named "synchronicity" by psychologist Carl Jung and quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli. Although the two jointly established this theory in the mid-1950s, it has yet to be scientifically proven. Still, several scholars have attempted to do so.
In 1892, Hans Berger was thrown from a horse and slammed onto the road, narrowly surviving. The following is Berger's testimony: "My eldest sister, with whom I shared an unusually deep sibling bond, suddenly insisted to my father that I must have met with misfortune and urged him to contact me at once." Berger believed that he, in danger, had served as the sender and his sister as the receiver, performing telepathy. Berger, who later became a psychiatrist, decided to test this hypothesis. He inserted two electrodes inside the scalp and recorded the electrical activity occurring between them. In 1929, although he failed to measure telepathy, he proved that brain waves emanate from the human brain. Modern brain science has advanced dramatically on the foundation of his research.
In 2013, another attempt was made by Carlyle Smith, a Canadian psychology professor. He conducted a study on the extrasensory perception (ESP) phenomenon in dreams with 65 students as subjects. He showed the participating students a photograph of a woman and asked them to "incubate a dream" to induce a desired dream about her breast cancer. The students were not informed in advance about the woman's illness. They were asked what kind of dream they had about her. The attempt at proof, however, failed.
Precognitive dreams are typically experienced either by the dreamer themselves or, when not the person directly concerned, by someone with a strong emotional bond to them. A representative example is the conception dream (taemong), which is dreamt not only by the expectant mother herself but also by her husband or close relatives. Smith's experiment is seen to have overlooked this point.
As already scientifically proven by quantum mechanics, a wave is simultaneously a particle. Accordingly, the brain waves generated in the human brain are both waves and particles. These particles dissipate almost instantaneously the moment they are emitted from our brain. A hundredth of a second, which vanishes in an instant in the human world, is a very long stretch of time in the world of particles such as quanta. If quantum entanglement, quantum tunneling, and quantum teleportation occur in this fleeting moment, the particle information emitted from the human brain can sufficiently be transmitted to the other party.
Modern brain science and the mainstream neuroscience community, which regard precognitive dreams as a supernatural phenomenon, tend to substitute their study with research on "the brain's unconscious predictive processing," "implicit cognition," and "the mechanism by which dreams imprint vivid memories," rather than attempting to prove precognitive dreams, which are very difficult to measure.
