You are planning when you envisage a future and then work backward from that point to identify a possible series of steps that would lead up to it. In sliver language, the link or bond is such that it enables the current consciousness to imagine that, or those, future(s). Imagination or maybe visualization 'names' the bond.
Premonition is a stronger bond. Again, it is a type of imagination/visualization, with the additional sense of proximity. You are conscious of a greater likelihood.