Nor is parapsychology concerned with astrology, UFOs, searching for Bigfoot, paganism, vampires, alchemy, or witchcraft. Many scientists have viewed parapsychology with great suspicion because the term has come to be associated with a huge variety of mysterious phenomena, fringe topics, and pseudoscience. Many feel that the strangest, and most interesting, aspect of parapsychological phenomena is that they do not appear to be limited by the known boundaries of space or time. In addition, they blur the sharp distinction usually made between mind and matter. Obtaining information about future events, where the information could not be inferred through normal means.
Many people report dreams that appear to be precognitive.
This term subsumes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. Direct mental interactions with living systems. Often refers to a core experience that includes feelings of peace, OBE, seeing lights and other phenomena. The belief that we live successive lives, with primarily evidence coming from the apparent recollections of previous lives by very small children. Psi, psychic, and psychical are synonyms.