1 a dream of doom In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was said to have had an upsetting dream In it Lincoln was walking through the White House Everything was quiet and still Then Lincoln found a mournful scene A crowd had gathered around a corpse laid out in the room Soldiers stood guard around the body Members of the crowd wept Lincoln turned to one of the guards Who is dead in the White House he asked And the guard responded The president He was killed by an assassin Lincoln heard a cry of grief from the crowd Then he woke from his dream Lincoln couldn’t sleep the rest of the night The dream continued to haunt him over the following days Lincoln described the dream to his wife and friends He told them how it had bothered him About ten days after having the dream Lincoln was shot and killed by an assassin 4
interested in paranormal topics These included psychics Abraham Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd Lincoln was precognition and communicating with the dead Did Lincoln predict his own death The timing of his dream could be coincidence But many people believe it was more than that Lincoln’s dream is one of countless cases that suggest the humans might have extrasensory perception 5
What 2 is ESP Knowledge of future events is a type of extrasensory perception ESP ESP is the ability to perceive information beyond the five basic physical senses These senses are seeing hearing tasting smelling and touching People with ESP are traditionally said to have a sixth sense They are often called psychics ESP is commonly divided into three different categories These are telepathy clairvoyance and precognition Telepathy is the ability to communicate with thought alone Clairvoyance is the ability to view objects people or events remotely And precognition is the ability to perceive future events before they happen ESP has been recognized throughout history But it wasn’t until the 1900s that researchers began looking for scientific evidence of ESP They did this by observing people under controlled laboratory conditions Over decades of research many subjects have displayed ESP abilities during experiments But other 6
The term ESP often brings up thoughts of cards palm reading and crystal balls However these kinds of readings are different from ESP subjects have failed to do so Many scientists doubt the existence of ESP because of these inconsistent results Other researchers argue there is enough evidence that ESP exists in some individuals In fact some researchers believe all humans may be born with some form of ESP But until this can be proven the debate continues Does a sixth sense exist 7
