I sure hope that my dreams aren’t prognostic or one of these days I’m going to forget to wear pants to work.
Apparently at some point I’m going to go back to university and show up late at a test I haven’t studied for.
Only to suddenly discover that you’re naked from the waist down!
Thanks for your more even tone of reply, Qucksilver - I appreciate it. It’s perhaps possible to jump to the conclusion from my original post that I’m a damp-eyed tree-hugger who puts his fingers in his ears, shuts his eyes and sings, “La, la, laa…” whenever anyone suggests that his God may not be the real one or when someone shows a disinclination to believe their alien-abduction story.
But as you’ve seen I’ve nailed no pot-brained theory to my mast, made no major claims (yes I suggested that I **believed **it had been **demonstrated **that less people catch doomed trains…but I didn’t say I believed it in itself, only believed it had been demonstrated).
So you ask why put any weight to this line of enquiry. Well I’m interested in mechanisms, especially ones that may explain some of the more left-field claims going around. I’ve cited prescient dreams and water divining and suggest mechanisms that may explain this i.e. the subconscious drawing on evidence the conscious mind misses.
So this was the main thrust of my post. I’ll certainly make myself more transparent in future as I was a little taken aback at the violence of some of the responses.
I’m certainly not the ombudsman here nor do I wish to be. Yet, I would not be entirely wrong in admitting that we can be a cantankerous lot; Ofter wrong but never in doubt. 
Your OP seems better suited to the In My Humble Opinion forum rather than Great Debates because the nature of the subject lacks strong supporting and unbiased evidence. Maybe the moderators of this board will choose to move it there at some point. Until then, you’ll be asked for cites to evidence your claims or speculations and those cites will be critically reviewed. That’s the common practice in this particular forum and the OP is likely to be held to those standards while it is here and the discussion continues. Please don’t take it as a sign of unwelcome.
As to the OP… if there are indeed mechanisms in the mind responsible for the episodes of prescience, what evidence is there for said mechanisms? And what supported evidence is there for these observations that cannot be ruled out as chance or misattribution?
The way it normally works is to first observe that a phenomenon actually exists, then try to figure out the causal mechanism.
Trying to figure out a mechanism for something that isn’t even established as existing is a waste of time - and leads to false impressions about the underlying facts (even when there are none) - I mean, all those people trying to figure out why X maybe happens can’t be wrong, can they? - well, yes, they can - if they started trying to figure it out before checking if it’s even real.
Start with the facts.