Precognition is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.
"Joseph's Dream", a painting by Gaetano Gandolfi, c. 1790. According to the Book of Genesis, God granted Joseph precognition through prophetic dreams and the ability to interpret the dreams of others.
A psychic is a person who claims to use powers rooted in parapsychology such as extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses, particularly involving telepathy or clairvoyance, or who performs acts that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, such as psychokinesis or teleportation. Although many people believe in psychic abilities, the scientific consensus is that there is no proof of the existence of such powers, and describes the practice as pseudoscience. The word "psychic" is also used as an adjective to describe such abilities.
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) was a psychic of the 20th century and made many highly publicized predictions.