Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/07/2011 9:12:07 AM PST by djf
The term psi denotes anomalous processes of information or energy transfer that are currently unexplained in terms of known physical or biological mechanisms. Two variants of psi are precognition (conscious cognitive awareness) and premonition (affective apprehension) of a future event that could not otherwise be anticipated through any known inferential process. Precognition and premonition are themselves special cases of a more general phenomenon: the anomalous retroactive influence of some future event on an individual’s current responses, whether those responses are conscious or nonconscious, cognitive or affective. This article reports 9 experiments, involving more than 1,000 participants, that test for retroactive influence by “timereversing” well-established psychological effects so that the individual’s responses are obtained before the putatively causal stimulus events occur.
(Excerpt) Read more at dbem.ws ...
I don’t doubt it exists but I do think observation and deductive reasoning account for 80% of it. The gut feeling or intuition are a bit different.
I’m pretty good at predictimg what people I know will do but with strangers my accuracy falls way off.
*ping*
These appear to be classic “double blind” types of experiments. If experiments were conducted where somebody knew the other person or whatever, that would not really fit the description and might not pass peer review.
But I understand what you are saying.
The author makes some interesting observations and speculations that extroverted people seem to perform better than introverted ones.
It’s an interesting study but I am not sure the effect was statistically significant. The key here will be repetition.
I’ll suggest that time isn’t what we think it is, and some are better at sensing these, what, leaks from the future? How could you describe it, maybe something of a shock wave? The more profound and observed the future event, the more it crosses into the present, whatever you want to call the phenomenon.
So-called “ghosts” I suspect are often the same, the past lingering or leaking into the present. A particularly traumatic event is much more prone to do so, just as a future one is.
Well they have those what do they call them Eggs?? situated worldwide that are measuring various effects, and supposedly have seen surges in peoples brain wave patterns or whatever when big events happen. Or are about to happen.
*ping*
I’m far more inclined to believe in this than I am UFOs.
One interesting experience I had was finding some money a girlfriend had hidden in a book some 150 miles away. I had a dream that she had hidden some money in a book. The next day when I got to her house she said that she had to go through all the books in her headboard because she had hidden some money there but couldn’t remember which book. (From her thieving teenage brother who lived with her) I pulled the book I had seen in my dream out of the headboard, flipped through it and found the money.
I think people who are close become connected in some way.
I’ve read of those. Is it legitimate? Details were sketchy as I recall. I’m also recalling something about random number generators behaving oddly.
Thanks!
Interesting story.
I’m somewhat torn because for every time a person thinks “Hey, the phone is gonna ring...” then it does ring, then it stands out in our mind, but for every time that happens, probably five times we think it’s gonna ring and nothing at all happens.
There is a certain amount of statistical probability that things occur coincidentally, two neighboring housewives bringing the exact same thing to a pot-luck or whatever.
I myself have experienced a few things. I won’t go into them here as they were deeply personal. But I certainly can testify that there is SOMETHING we don’t understand about the human experience and what it means to be alive or conscious or dead.
Yep I can’t remember all the times I’ve thought to myself “Gee, I didn’t see that comin”.
I think I read this already.
You do realize that speakers make some noise just before a phone rings. Perhaps some people unconsciously connect the two ...
Or maybe are sensitive to the tiny change in electric fields from the phone wires.
But that would be only milliseconds before the speakers actually move and produce sound.
It’s very anecdotal.
What I mean is that “the hits” stand out in our minds as proof of something, but we quickly forget the hundreds or thousands of “misses”
Setting up a phone call is not instantaneous. It can take upto a few seconds, and there’s a lot of communication going on between the handset and the cell-tower in that time.
I ~knew~ you’d know and then post that reply.
[and I also know you’ll know that I knew you’d know and post a reply stating that, to this]
Time is definitely not what you think it is. I could relate personal experiences, but I have come to learn that most don’t want to hear it.
Some of QM really is strange when it comes to time. Look here for one of the clearer explanations I've seen of Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment (a version of which has actually been performed in the real world BTW).
Given those two, some degree of psi just doesn't seem that far out of the range of the possible to me...
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