#2496 - Julia Mossbridge

Julia Mossbridge, a cognitive neuroscientist with degrees from UCSF and Northwestern, discusses her shift from mainstream brain timing research to studying precognition—perceiving future events—and other human capacities like telepathy. Drawing from personal experiences and experiments, she argues these abilities are natural, underutilized due to cultural suppression, and supported by data, while emphasizing the need to build practical applications rather than just debate.

Precognitive Experiences and Early Research

Mossbridge recounts childhood precognitive dreams, such as accurately dreaming a friend losing her new watch the next day on the playground, which she tracked in a dream journal. Family dynamics shaped her views: her physicist father dismissed anomalies like ball lightning in their home as impossible without explanation, while her therapist mother prioritized direct experience. In grad school, she suppressed these to pursue academia but later integrated them, studying "pre-sentiment"—unconscious physiological responses (skin conductance, heart rate) anticipating random future events.