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28 September 2025
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Abstract

Keywords:
Introduction
Methods
Prepossessing of Narratives, Word Cloud, and Entity Extraction
Computational Linguistics, and Knowledge Graph
Ethics
Results
Illustrative Precognition Narratives
- (1)
- "I was preparing for MB with a classmate of mine then she said she did not understand a topic and I explained it to her. We got to the exam hall and saw exactly same topic. This dream was fulfilled within hours".
- (2)
- " I dreamt my sister-in-law who was pregnant then,she gave birth to a baby girl who resembles me and the following day I was called that she had delivered a baby girl who looked like me and I saw for myself". This dream was fulfilled a day later.
- (3)
- "It was a dream I had in the night and I was able to recall it later when I woke up. I had a dream that Chemistry 156 result was out and, in the dream, I score 67 and I was wishing I had an extra 3 marks to make it 70. The same day the result came out and I actually got 67 in the exam it was so surprising to me". This dream was fulfilled within 24 hours.
- (4)
- "I dreamt that the car deal between my brother and his close friend was unsuccessful. In the dream the friend gave an excuse of a faulty part in the car he needs to repair and unwillingness to return my brother’s money. My brother was hurt ". This dream was fulfilled two days later.
- (5)
- "I was called and confirmed Covid positive for a test. This dream was fulfilled two days later.
- (6)
- "I embarked on a long journey with a friend on road and we crossed many states. At first the purpose of the journey was unknown at the start but we arrived at a school which was very big and were received by some people who gave us papers to fill concerning our university admission process. After some time, they came out and gave us envelope. On opening it, it was our letter of admission into the university of which the name could not be clearly recalled on waking. The dream played out two weeks later when I was admitted in University of Ibadan and we travelled on raod to Ibadan across many states". This dream was fulfilled two weeks later.
- (7)
- "I dreamt that a family friend had an accident. Her bones started to dry out. Partial fulfillment two weeks later"
- (8)
- "Sometime in 2019 I had a dream where I went to price a car with my friend. Honestly in that dream I was so rich so I went for the best ride, I finally bought the car and was driving round the town, got to a place and parked my car oh, finally I woke up to found myself on the bed, I was so angry with myself for waking up. But 3 months later, I bought a brand new Toyota Corolla as an under graduate. Then I was able to relate that dream with reality". This dream was fulfilled three months later.
- (9)
- "I saw myself in the streets of Agbowo, eventually I was marveled by when I came to UI and saw exact same buildings on Agbowo street". This dream was fulfilled a few months later.
- (10)
- "I received a prize for coming 2nd in mathematics (SS2). I was celebrated by everyone especially since I have nit been performing well in mathematics". This dream was fulfilled at next prize giving day of the academic year.
- (11)
- "I had a dream of intimacy with a female friend of mine, whom I was never close to at the time of the dream. Five years later, we both dated and we had moments of intimacy".
- (12)
- "I dreamt about whatsapp innovation, told my brother about it but he didnt believe it. It was about introdcution of video status which seemed impossible at the time". This dream was fulfilled eight years later.
- (13)
-
I was in senior secondary school. It was a night dream. At that time, I was in Abeokuta,Ogun State. In the dream. I was the main character. I saw myself carrying out surgical operation on someone’s left thigh. There were few unknown faces around basically health personnel. I did not wake up immediately in the dream.I recalled the dream on awakening in the morning. After the dream, I realized that some people began to call me doctor in real life. The dream metamorphosed into a wish and ambition to pursue a medical career in the university which became fulfilled 13 years after I had the dream(2010) It may seem as a partial fulfillment relatively in the sense that I am not in a surgical specialty as occurred in dream, but I could also view it as fully fulfilled because at the same time I had the dream, my understanding was that I am going to be a doctor which was attained""
- (14)
- I had a dream about my first biochemistry test scores. The scores were 50 and 62 and the third score was unknown. The 62 was for me in the dream while the 50 was for my second friend, they had the unknown score. In the morning of the dream, I told my friend about it. When the result finally came out, it was the reverse, I had a score of 50, while my friend had 62. My second friend failed the test with less than 50 marks, which was the unknown score in the dream"
- (15)
- "During my first MB, I had dreams about myself writing each exam - biochemistry, anatomy physiology. In each dream, i saw myself answering some questions in the paper. The clothes i wore were not so accurate, and some of the questions eventually did come out and some did not."
- (16)
- There was a plane on a hill on my street, conveying everyone to London. People were packing and rushing towards and into the plane. However, I found it difficult to finish packing. It felt like I always had something to pack and that delayed me. My family kept calling out to me as well as neighbors and other people but unfortunately, I didn’t make it into the plane"
- (17)
- "One of my siblings being recruited into football academy based in Dubai.Dream was kind of vivid and intense though, not a full-time footballer"
- (18)
- "I was in the USA where I had just had my residency interview at Massachusetts general hospital Boston. It was an amazing process as I looked forward to getting marched into a residency program, a process started long ago. I was asked tons of questions about my background, why I chose medicine and many more. From their countenances, my interviewers were impressed and that made me more relaxed and confident"
- (19)
- "I had a dream and saw my self as a consultant physician who owns a massive hospital complex. The hospital was designed to help the needy and less privileged, and it had a lot of influx of patients needing help"
- (20)
- ’I dreamt of being settled down career-wise and marriage wise. My kids and hubby were living in the USA though the identity of my husband was not known in the dream. I thought I knew his identity in the dream but I couldn’t recall his face after I woke up’
Discussion
Precognition Narratives
Causality of Precognition, and Spacetime Theories
Conclusions
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