non local knowing is something that Naval Intelligence was up to in the 1970's and asked me if I knew people who could do it. I did but I lied and said no. Some of those who said yes, have suffered for it (as a Washington Post article revealed 3 years ago).
Old Al Eisnstein once said that "life goes against the grain of spacetime". Life does depend upon its accumalted genetic code over generations to turn on and off genes that cope with various circumstances of enviorment such as the amount of food, air, water, to name a few.
We always use our immediate memory to exploit the past for an intended future.
We use feedback loops to engage in many activities of survival and thought. Yet the "furure defending itself" is outside of those boxes, at least for current day humans.
What scenario could fit such a mold?
There are a group of people still alive (I saw them on Larry King) who believe they saw UFOs deactivate nuclear weapons in their silos as well as UFOs that shot beams at launched nukes rendering them decactived or changing their navigation.
Since space and time are no longer fixed but rather are relativistic could we allow for a technological feedback loop that changes history? Sci Fi stories such as Mellenium and innumerable Time Machine plots entertain this flexible past and future idea all the time.
It may be as subtle as changing our minds or as spectacular as "going" back in time to repair the future.
As in the dream, if you could see how the three space times interact and pop new appendages into existence that then flow into one another with a grand AH HAA... it would at least make a good special effect in the next movie that exploits time tommorrow, as we exploit thermodynamics today.