I don't want to say that I'm a skeptic, because that carries with it a negative connotation. But I'd like to call myself a realist.
That is, until a few nights ago.
My girlfriend, Andrea, has lately had the ability to say what I was thinking. I have a stuttering problem, so sometimes I don't end up finishing sentences (rather I take a long time to do so), but before I can finish, Andrea will just say what I was about to say. And there usually aren't any hints in the context of what I'm saying to let her know what I will say next. She claims to have the sporadic ability to read my most outward thoughts (mainly things I'm about to say).
That's all good and well, and I would kind of pass it off as her thinking she had this ability, but instead being able to think quickly on her feet.
Then, a few nights ago, while laying in my bed, I voiced my slight jealousy that she could do it, but I couldn't. So I decided to test out my own abilities.
I asked her to think of a number between 1 and 20, I believe, without saying anything to me. She said ok, and I concentrated. A number then slowly surfaced in my mind and I said it. Turns out I was right.
Then I tried it out with a much larger range: 1-100 probably. I was precisely right again.
Then 1 to 1000. I was off by 1 I believe.
Then I told her to think of any animal at all. Again, I spooked her by being able to tell what she was thinking of.
Then I guessed what letter (A-Z) she was thinking of. Then a letter AND number (0-9) combo. Spot on.
Then a color. Then a fruit. Then a vegetable. Then a flower. Then a state (U.S.). Then a country.
The country one should've been the hardest to just guess. But when I told her to concentrate on it, my mind kind of envisioned a globe. Then it focused it on one country: Japan. Random enough to not be a common choice, right? Turns out I was right with that one, too.
I think there were 2 or 3 other categories, and only twice was I off, and not by much.
Basically, my point is, I've finally found someone with whom I have an almost eery connection with. I'm connected with her on a level that defies almost all rational thought. I was able to basically read HER outward thoughts that night, and it was at once both awesome and spooky. We stopped only because it was starting to freak the both of us out.
Have any of you guys ever had experiences similar to mine?
This....is the same girl that lets you "Hypnotize" her?
I want a girlfriend like that. :'(
(Sorry I've recently had my heart ripped out and nailed to the floor and ran over with a steamroller, and finally smashed into a million pieces by a sledgehammer.)
That's... quite amazing, TerranRich. Spooky, yes... but amazing. O_o
Quote from: TerranRich on Sat 28/01/2006 23:16:55
Have any of you guys ever had experiences similar to mine?
I once guessed what flavour of ice cream my mate Duncan was going to buy.
The boiler in my house blew up and burnt my house down, and i was in it when it happened. I was knocked off my seat and had to jump out of my window.
EDIT: I just realised this isnt really strange, it was just a bit crap.
When my cousin was born, I wasn't happy about it, not for my cousin, nor for my uncle or aunt. I asked myself, why I felt sad, and not happy, and the answer was: I had the strange feeling, that she wouldn't live for long. The next day she died.
And one night I awoke, because I heard some sort of crash. When I looked for it, I realised it was the floor mirror, which had detached from the frame and shivered on the floor. There is a saying, that, when a mirror falls of its own volition out of its frame, the owner of this mirror will die soon. One week later, my grandmother, until that very healthy, became sick and died few weeks later.
Seems that everything strange I notice is related to death. Like everytime I have to write a very very very important test, the conductor of the tram I ride discovers a dead body on the rails. Strange ...
cheers
nihilyst
I soiled myself four times last year. I'm sure that's a sign of some kind of impending doom.
Quote from: Squinky on Sat 28/01/2006 23:20:00
This....is the same girl that lets you "Hypnotize" her?
Yes, and why the quotes? Do you doubt me? ;)
This wasn't just a one-time thing where i got lucky and guessed one thing. I did about 10-15 times with different categories and no hints whatsoever. There's no way to get lucky or pick a very common number between 1 and 1,000.
nihilyst: That's pretty freaky. I'm really into semi-clairvoyant experiences and stuff. I'd love to hear anyone else's experiences.
Hee hee hee... My guess is that your girlfriend is just getting a kick of your ignorance ;D
Ignorance? Please explain.
If you're saying that she's lying about me being right, to humor me, then I can confidently say that you're wrong.
Now that DS stopped us mocking rharpe, can we come and mock your claims in this thread instead, Rich? :=
http://www.randi.org/research/index.html
Fund your own adventure game project
Also:
Set up a camera, record a 3rd person who has no idea what is going on opening a dictionary, picking 10 words at random and writing them on seperate note cards, close the dictionary and put it away. Enter girlfriend, you stay in a seperate room, she takes the cards 1 at a time and friend calls out to you to write down what you think is on the card. Only when all 10 cards are done do you enter the room, compare cards.
THAT would impress me.
Eric
Quote from: TerranRich on Sun 29/01/2006 00:32:47
Ignorance? Please explain.
If you're saying that she's lying about me being right, to humor me, then I can confidently say that you're wrong.
I'm saying that she's lying about you being right, to humor her ;)
Great. Thanks, you guys. I'll stop sharing shit with the lot of you from now on. Deal?
Why the anger? I just dont really believe in stuff like that, and are looking at every possibility in this case. But please, do continue sharing it all :D If it really is true, it's absolutely amazing ;D
EDIT: Agree with MrCollossal
Of course it's true. People around the forums know I'm not a bullshit artist. Sure, I may procrastinate on games a lot, but Im not a liar.
And it's not exactly like my girlfriend is some random girl I met a few days ago that I have fun with now and again. We have a very deep relationship and care for each other dearly, and are very open and honest with each other. I at first did not believe that I was really hypnotizing her, when I did, but she assured me that she was. Read that thread somewhere in the depths of this forum.
As for the guessing game, that too is real. I kept saying, "No, you're just humoring me," or "You're lying," but she assured me that I was right 9/10 times. At least I didn't say I got it right every single time.
Quote from: MrColossal on Sun 29/01/2006 00:38:41
Set up a camera, record a 3rd person who has no idea what is going on opening a dictionary, picking 10 words at random and writing them on seperate note cards, close the dictionary and put it away. Enter girlfriend, you stay in a seperate room, she takes the cards 1 at a time and friend calls out to you to write down what you think is on the card. Only when all 10 cards are done do you enter the room, compare cards.
Do this, and i'll believe you ;)
If I should name a person, that really isn't believing in such things like supernatural forces or experiences, then I would name myself, because I trust in logic and the sentence "What can't happen, won't happen." But, as I said before, I witnessed feelings, that I couldn't explain, and "chance" isn't an explanation.
I call myself a rationalist, but Walter Faber from Max Frisch's novel "Homo Faber" also called himself a rationalist, and he truly seemed to be, but when you read it twice, you realise, that he - from the beginning to the end - is the opposite.
cheers
nihilyst
TerranRich seems to be developing superpowers these days. I remember his last post about psychic powers....
But once, when I was like 9 or 10 I had the thought of calling my best friend, and when I picked up the phone, without ringing, there he was. he was trying to call me too.
Life is something, isn't it?
Terran, people aren't trying to be bastards or make fun of you (well, most, I think, aren't), that sort of thing would give me the same reaction!
I'm a realist too, and a skeptic through and through, but I've had lots of experiences which have made me question things. The thing is, if I imagine myself watching some TV show on angels or ghosts, and listening to someone else say what I experienced, I realise that there is no real evidence something 'strange' happened, and that there are logical explanations, even if it comes down to a real coincidence.
Honestly, she could have been pretending... it's just a fact. IT doesn't matter how well you know a person, you don't know everything about them. Girls in particular are very good at showing you most parts of themselves and keeping some parts completely hidden, even subconciously. Sometimes we pretend to lose at video games :/ Sad, but true. Sometimes, I even pretend to be stupider than I am, or surprised at something my fiance says. I can tell you, I'm damn, DAMN good at it. It's an art. Of course he might read this :P but that's okay, I'm sure he does it to me too. We're all deeper than we appear, really.
As I was saying in the other thread, we both finish each others sentences a lot, and I know exactly what he's thinking sometimes, even when it's completely off topic or weird. It's just a result of being so in tune with a person... it used to happen with my best friends in high school too.
Again, I'm not saying this is what happened to you, but it's a possibility that she was, either conciously or subconciously, making it up. Honestly, if it were me, I'd know to make one of the answers slightly off, and another completely wrong to make it believable. IF that's what happened.
Girls are good, dude. Real good ^_-
EDIT: And yes, I agree with Eric's post. Do that, and I'll be impressed!
My aim is not to wow you guys or prove myself to any of you. And don't take that as a sign that I'm bullshitting you guys. I just have better things to do than to set up a whole experiment. You don't want to believe me, fine, don't. I won't be offended. I was just sharing with you guys.
And I guess I'm going to grill Andrea on whether she was fooling me or not. I kept questioning her throughout the entire thing, making sure she was serious about having been thinking what I was thinking.
Maybe for my own amusement, I'll have her write down something, think about it, then try to guess via her thoughts.
Hey, who knows? If that works, I'll repeat it and videotape it for you guys. IF I have the time.
Having her write it down is a good idea... ! Don't give her a hard time about it though ^_^ It's all harmless fun.
You have something better to do than win a million dollars?
Hypnotize her, and the ask if she is lying to you.....Should work, unless she's messing with you on the hypnotizing thing too....
And I wasn't trying to piss you off, so sorry if I did.
Quote
.... Girls are good, dude. Real good ^_- ...
Careful there Kinoko, you're ratting out the sisterhood. Just don't go too far and tell everyone (all of us guys) what really happens in the ladies room. I always imagined it has something to do with marble palaces, eunuch male slaves, and other sorts of exotic wonders.
It's simple what happens in the ladies room...
That's where they fart.
Really?
In my not-so-limited experience, all ladies do in the ladies' room is talk and fix their hair.
Obviously you're not a real lady.
And Terran, I really would like you to prove your power because since eric showed us randi's site, although I've been amused at the various stories there, it's become depressingly clear that there's not a lot of magic going around in the world. So since you're not a bullshit artist like you say, I need you to be my superhero.
A few points you might want to work on:
when someone discovers they have amazing mindreading powers, it would be safe to assume that they'd like to persue the experimentation with them to great degree, just so see what's up. Shit, I'd just sit there in my house and read minds all day for weeks. Your knee-jerk reaction above
QuoteYou don't want to believe me, fine, don't. I won't be offended. I was just sharing with you guys.
pretty much shows a completely different mentality than that.
Also, that you were way more eager to take your girlfriend's word on your powers than do a SIMPLE write-your-answer-down test first seems to indicate you being partial to adopting comfortable superpowered explainations of what's going on, completely skipping the critical examination part of the deal. 'I can read minds because my girlfriend told me I can.' simply doesn't do it, really. Given your record of stating that you're able to put someone in a hypnotic trance 'by accident', having recieved no training whatsoever in the field, that pretty much makes me think you are just really wanting to believe shit, and that your woman is playing along. I suggest you beat some sense into her, if only by accident.
I have a magic power for predicting the future. However, it only works with guessing which repeat of The Simpsons is on. What happens is this: I'll think of a certain episode in the morning and it'll be on at 6pm.
Sometimes it's pretty useless. Like tonight. Last night they had the first part of the "Who Shot Mr Burns?" episode so it's pretty obvious what episode will be on tonight.
That's right. The Wacking Day episode.
http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/holographic-universe.html
Maybe the bond between you and your girlfriend is closer than even you could have imagined. As such, pulling in a random stranger for experimaentation would only fail, and also, attempting to perform the experiment under duress instead of during a moment of intimacy might also fail completely.
Or maybe you're full of shit. But I can't judge because I've not seen this in action. Until I have, I've no right to talk.
I have, seemingly unlike many others here, seen things in my life that 99.9% of the population has not. One of the lesser was a recurring dream throughout my life, since early childhood, that portrayed the exact time, location, and manner of my father's death. The dreams started when I was 5, and my father died, exactly as predicted, when I was 17.
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 29/01/2006 06:14:54
I have a magic power for predicting the future. However, it only works with guessing which repeat of The Simpsons is on. What happens is this: I'll think of a certain episode in the morning and it'll be on at 6pm.
Sometimes it's pretty useless. Like tonight. Last night they had the first part of the "Who Shot Mr Burns?" episode so it's pretty obvious what episode will be on tonight.
That's right. The Wacking Day episode.
Are you in Australia? Cause we got that ep last night as well here in perth. If so, I'll confirm that guess later.
I think you are this girl Andrea you speak of, after years of telling us the ins and outs of your private relationships, some how you've become your ultimate partner but it's all in your mind. ;)
It is possible that you are just on a similar wave length, or you totally just fluked it all.
I bet if you tried a number between 1-100 and had 100 attempts the percentage of correct answers would go down. also being 1 number off guessing is still wrong and may as well be 87 off.
Finishing off sentences is pretty common with people that know each other well, even knowing what someone is thinking and communicating that to each other without a word is common.
If you haven't known this girl for long and you are already at this stage, I bet you've both had similar friends or have similar thought processes, brought up in similar environments, similar interests etc, which is also what has probably brought you together.
I'd say it's nothing that unusual, and could make for an interesting relationship, just make sure she's not your long lost twin sister first :=
Dude! A few nights ago I was totally thinking about Japan! I think I can read your girlfriend's mind too!
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 29/01/2006 06:14:54
I have a magic power for predicting the future. However, it only works with guessing which repeat of The Simpsons is on. What happens is this: I'll think of a certain episode in the morning and it'll be on at 6pm.
That's what we call the "Simpsons Syndrome". It's pretty common, actually.
This is pretty strange what happened to me:
Last year sometime I was sleeping over at a friend's house and we decided to play Monopoly. We were playing a special rule that all money paid went to the middle and if you landed on free parking you got it all. It came to my turn. I was 5 blocks away from free parking. I held the dice in my hand and concentrated every inch of my thought on it, willing it to be a 2 & 3. It was. My friends said it was chance. I dismissed this and we carried on playing. It came to exactly the same situation and this time I visualised a 1 & 4. It was. Now my friends were amazed, so I told my one friend to think of a number between 1 & 10. I got that right as well!
Pretty weird, huh?
Oh yeah and another time my friends and I were doing magic tricks to each other and I did the same trick again! I got it right again!
Now THAT's weird!
Zor, let's end this stuff RIGHT NOW!
I think of a number between 1 and 10 and you try to name it!! :=
I have one, go ahead and guess.
I just want to add that James Randi is my hero. I've been a visitor to his site for years and the submissions from quacks offering to summon ufo's in vegas (provided it's not windy, loud, etc) and such never fail to amuse me. No, I obviously do not believe in psychic phenomena or mystical hogwash. It's just a way for people to feel like there's something 'more' out there. I especially love how Sylvia Browne believes in her powers so strongly she won't take the Randi test...Even for a million dollars (which she can donate to charity if it's not about money).
Quote from: dkh on Sun 29/01/2006 12:29:00
I think of a number between 1 and 10 and you try to name it!! :=
Pi?
Oh, you got me. Freak! ;D
Just kidding, it's a whole number.
Anybody that thinks he can guess the number, please try! :)
7
What the..?
Victor, you are my master from now on.
Seriously, it was seven. Darnit, looks like I might have to thing about quite a lot of stuff again.
EDIT: On second thought, let's take this further. Victor, try to guess the number between 1 and 20 that I have in mind!!
15
Ha! Wrong, it was 19. Finally I am free of your will. My brain is MINE! ;D
Thanks, now I am a sceptic again...
Ha! I knew that! I just didnt want you to feel imprisoned by my kinetic powers!
Terran, I find it strange that at the first sign of scepticism shown in this thread, you turn overly defensive and upset. What did you expect? A person starts a threads stating "my girlfriend says I can read her thoughts etc" and you expect everybody to go "woah, that's awesome!!".
We don't know you to that extent. Just because you've been around a lot doesn't mean we know all about your personality, to which degree you're likely to exaggerate or misinterpret situations of this nature.
A certain percentage of a population are notorious liers. I could be one, Eric could be one, you could be one. A mytomaniac for all we know. One thing we can be sure of is that we will never know who's the mytomaniac, because that person is probably a very credible one.
In an environment like this, we all need to make calculations, statistical estimations. Don't trust anyone blindly, that would be foolish.
Now for my personal opinion; I didn't believe you when you said you could hypnotize people, and I don't believe you have the ability to read anybody's thoughts, or at least not in a supernatural fashion. People here have explained that words can be guessed, sentences can be finished and moods can be detected by people who know eachother very well.
But telling a number between 1 and 1000? Again and again? No siree.
I think i'm for everyone when i'm saying that Andail is speaking for everyone!
I certainly am.
speaking
for everyone
EVERYONE!!!! (http://www.achtungfranz.com/everyone.mp3)
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dkh: you went for the old one. It has been investigated, that from 1-10 people always choose either 7 or 3 unless they know this. So don't read forth if you want to be surprised. this is because the human mind tneds to go for the mist irregular number... never 1 or 10. 2,4,6,8 are dividable by 2 etc. 5 is in the middle, and 9 is dividable by 3 and sometimes thought of being too close to 10. Then again, this is not always. You could very easily figure out ones personality by making him/her tell a number... 3 or 7 is somewhat like someone thinks he's very cunning, bu doesn't knowledge it.
And I can tell you, that if I have a good light, am not sleepy + such, I can guess a perfectly strange persons first name by just looking into his/her eyes... the thing is, there are a few letters that are most popular to start a name with. In Finland for example there are M, N, A, S... for girls... .there's an order you should go through if needed. You have asked the subject not to nod and NOT TO DO ANYTHING that would indicate you're on the track. If her name is, say, Anne, her eyes will move a bit once you reach the A letter... that's just a reflex. But I know it works in most occasions... then all you do, is think of names that start with A and tell her those, starting from the most popular. It should be rather easy if you practise very much ;D
thats just a poor excuse to find a way to talk to random girls! shame on you!
Admitted... but you see, it's a way of having them not run away... and they might be impressed... though I haven't gotten to that yet, but I'm working on it.
dkh. I would have guessed 7, too. Most people would. Same as most people would choose 4 if asked to think of a number between 1 and 5. It's what people perceive to be a random number, but that thanks to everyone thinking the same way, it becomes the most predictable.
Dargh, I was totally gonna post the 7 and 3 thing. Everyone's beating me to my posts today!
*gasp* Maybe... you're all psychically tuned to me! :o
I'd usually pick 7 or 3 myself, before I ever knew this. Movies and books always use these numbers too (5 is also common when the other two just won't do), particularly 3. People like to think it's an out-there number, slightly off kilter. Wacky. Not two. 4 is rarely used except in Coming of Age stories about young girls, in which case it's frequent because that's how many types of personalities there are among pre-teen girls.
The Three Muskateers is a good example. Noone liked D'Artagnon. Is it because he's a little pussy? No! It's because he ruins the three.
Reminds me of this article (http://www.friesian.com/gender.htm), which tends to state the opposite: usually, men are the ones who form groups of 4 (or two, or any even number). Women, however, tend to form the odd-numbered groups.
QuoteThe Three Muskateers is a good example. Noone liked D'Artagnon. Is it because he's a little pussy? No! It's because he ruins the three.
hah
also: enjoy how Terran now disappears from the forums for another month or two,
You have only yourself to blame. And that strange thing parked on your cranium.
Quote from: Kinoko on Tue 31/01/2006 00:28:09
The Three Muskateers is a good example. Noone liked D'Artagnon. Is it because he's a little pussy? No! It's because he ruins the three.
So right!
That is why 'Touché - the adventures of the fifth musketeer' (http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1175) is funny, because a fifth is added to balance out the annoying D'Artagnan.
On Topic:
It's funny how Terran begins with describing himself as an objective guy, while he now gets annoyed when other show the same trait.
Maybe he doesn't love himself enough?
QuoteGiven your record of stating that you're able to put someone in a hypnotic trance 'by accident', having recieved no training whatsoever in the field, that pretty much makes me think you are just really wanting to believe shit, and that your woman is playing along. I suggest you beat some sense into her, if only by accident.
You had to have been there, Helm. Yes, I put her under "by accident", but then I had her doing things that she would never do if she weren't under. It was mostly sexual in nature, which is why I haven't shared much of it, but what I
can share is the fact that I got her to stop biting her nails that way. I know I'm not trained, but I've read a lot about hypnosis and have seen hypno-therapy at work in person.
She used to have this disgusting habit of biting her nails until they bled. After a couple of times under hypnosis, I got her to just about stop. It's not perfect; she will go to do it, but then contort her face in disgust and not do it.
I'm not out to prove myself to anyone. Plus, it's too late for videotape proof of that incident.
QuoteAs such, pulling in a random stranger for experimaentation would only fail, and also, attempting to perform the experiment under duress instead of during a moment of intimacy might also fail completely.
Or maybe you're full of shit. But I can't judge because I've not seen this in action. Until I have, I've no right to talk.
You're probably spot on when it comes to needing the intimacy to do it. We were lying together in bed and the subject just came up.
And no, I'm not full of shit. I'll try an "official" experiment and see what happens.
QuoteIf you haven't known this girl for long and you are already at this stage, I bet you've both had similar friends or have similar thought processes, brought up in similar environments, similar interests etc, which is also what has probably brought you together.
Bingo. We've had a lot of similar life experiences, but more than that, I have a feeling about her that I cannot describe, like she's my soulmate. And NO she's not made-up.
QuoteDude! A few nights ago I was totally thinking about Japan! I think I can read your girlfriend's mind too!
With idiotic comments like these, how can I not get upset? :P
QuoteNow for my personal opinion; I didn't believe you when you said you could hypnotize people, and I don't believe you have the ability to read anybody's thoughts, or at least not in a supernatural fashion. People here have explained that words can be guessed, sentences can be finished and moods can be detected by people who know eachother very well.
True, I will admit that you guys don't know me very well, but I've tried to be an honest and open person on the forums. And I understand how this all looks. All I can say is that I'm telling the truth when I say that I have hypnotized Andrea. There's not much I can say to prove that, however, so I end up looking like a bullshit artist.
QuoteBut telling a number between 1 and 1000? Again and again? No siree.
Fine. And those are your beliefs. I did the 1-1000 twice and got it exact the first time, then off by a couple the second time.
Quotealso: enjoy how Terran now disappears from the forums for another month or two,
I have a life. ;)
"With idiotic comments like these"
It's a joke! You know that, there's no way to stop people making jokes especially in such a jokey forum.
Also I have serious doubts that hypnotherapy even works but whatever...
Personally I would think the first thing you'd want to do is study this in a better environment to see if you well and truly do have mind taking powers! [that's TAKING not asking!]
The idea that it takes a romantic or relaxed environment to induce mind reading is silly, sure be relaxed but to say one can only read minds after coitus, that, well.. Would be an awesome super power "Commissioner Gordon... I can tell you where The Joker is keeping your daughter but... Well..." AWKWARD!
"I did the 1-1000 twice and got it exact the first time, then off by a couple the second time."
Again, no matter how close, it's still a miss and not a hit. If I was thinking of Italy and you said France, just because the countries are near each other geographically doesn't make it a hit.
So if you were thinking 827, and I guesed 827, you wouldn't go "Hmm, okay, do it again."? And if you were then tihnking 349 and I guessed 347, you wouldn't go "Wow, that was close, it can't surely be just random chance."
Come on now. And yeah, I know it was a joke, hence the smiley! :P ;D
I know a lot of people won't take me seriously. It's the skeptic in all of us. Trust me, I know that if somebody told ME the same thing, I'd have a hard time believing it.
I suppose I just get defensive very easily when I'm called a liar.
Not that this matters to anybody:
Mobius51882: Hey, can I ask you something?
Mobius51882: Were you telling me the honest truth when we were in my bed that night and I was guessing numbers that you were thinking of, etc.?
THORNEDredROSE14: I swear... why would I lie?
Mobius51882: I have no idea, just wondering
Mobius51882: Like you honesly thought of a number/word/country and I guessed it right when I did?
THORNEDredROSE14: Babe I will never lie to you.. ever not even something like that
THORNEDredROSE14: yes
Mobius51882: ok cool
I know, I know, she's scamming me and our intimacy and honest and open agreement mean nothing, but still, I have no reason to suspect she's lying to me. I've known her LONG before we started going out, and I can honestly say that she's telling the truth.
And no, Eric, it's not just after we have sex. :P When did I say that?
It's obvious that you're a person who has been influenciated by yourself in the belief that you have paranormal powers (the hypnosis stuff)so, you've unconsciently trying to get an evidence of this since the "hypnosis" event. It's quite surprising that you've lasted two months to get an evidence, when your brain has been working hard in this for all this time.
I once said dad "My football team is going to score in a minute" (the other team was kicking a corner, a difficult position for guessing that my team was going to score, eh?) And my team scored in the next minute.
Then, that week, convinced that I had paranormal powers, I was seeing in tv a lotery show, and I said mom, "next number is going to be 63" and... bingo! Then I said "3" and bingo again.
I laughed for my fortune and discarted the paranormal stuff in one minute. And I was 7 years old.
Do the same.
If you guessed 1 number I thought of and then came close to the next one, I'd have you do it again and again, an odd number of times, maybe 15 and see if the hits were more than the misses, I'm just telling you how I'd do it, 2 isn't enough for me.
And as for sex, well I just figured, alone in bed together, relaxed... know'm'sayin'?
/me waggles his eyebrows
Also, my mind jumped to the awesome superpower so I had to come to that conclusion!
"I suppose I just get defensive very easily when I'm called a liar."
Did anyone ever actually call you that? Reading this thread I don't think you were lying about your story at all. I do, however strongly suspect your girlfriend likes to playfully indulge your clearly passionate faith in your abilities of the mind. Funny how with both this and that only-slightly-more-credible hypnotism situation, the entire burdon of proof lies on this same girl, don't you think?
You've convinced me Terran.
Just let me know when you start walking on water.....
OK, Here's one of my starnge experiences ...
I don't like to wear any kind of jewlery. I doesn't have anything to do with any kind of religious or other belief; it just bothers me having stuff hanging on me and weighing me down. So I especially don't like to wear a watch because watches are fairly heavy and annoying to me.
When we first met my wife asked me why I didn't wear a watch. I told her that I didn't need one to tell the time. She of course didn't believe me but I was determined to not take up the habit. So I told her that she could test me whenever she wanted and that I would know the time within 15 minutes of the actual time.
What I did was make a mental note of the time whenever I saw a clock or when the time was mentioned on the radio or TV. It's amazing how many ways we are reminded of the time. There is a time display on the radio in my car, nearly every bank building has a big electric sign that shows the temperature and time, radio and and TV programs start on the hour and half hour and regurly scheduled news and comercial breaks.
So then all I had to do was guess how long it had been since my last sync to the real time. She was convinced for quite a while that I had an amazing ability to keep track of time. After we were married for awhile she realized that I have no sense of time whatsoever and so I eventually confessed.
Quote from: TerranRich on Tue 31/01/2006 19:45:44
Quote from: Vince TwelveDude! A few nights ago I was totally thinking about Japan! I think I can read your girlfriend's mind too!
With idiotic comments like these, how can I not get upset? :P
Quote from: MrColossal on Tue 31/01/2006 20:58:52
It's a joke! You know that, there's no way to stop people making jokes especially in such a jokey forum.
Yeah. I live in Japan... It was a joke. Sorry, Terran. Didn't mean to ruffle your feathers.
My mom is an expert on EMDR which is not entirely dissimilar from hypnosis. I am a skeptic on the mind reading thing, though. But I wouldn't cut you down about it.
I personally think that it's more likely that your girlfriend is the only one with mental powers and that she was just choosing the number that she knew you would guess.
QuoteYou had to have been there, Helm.
I'd love to have been there when you and your wife were having sex.
Look, I'm not claiming I have some mystical supernatural powers! :P I'm not standing on top of a soap box, proclaiming to the world, "I AM TERRANO, THE ALL POWERFUL AND STRANGELY PECULIAR MYSTIC!" LoL.
And the argument that my girlfriend was lying to me doesn't hold, sorry. I trust her enough to know she wasn't lying. If she swears she wasn't humoring me or deceiving me, then I take her word for it. I know it's hard for most people to understand how two people can trust each other to that extent, but it is possible.
Again, all I am saying is that I had, that one night at least, the ability to concentrate on a projected thought. Is that so hard to believe? I know the skeptic in all of us tends to scream to us: "No! This cannot be possible! There is a rational explanation for this!"
Think about all the stories and reports you've heard or read regarding the paranormal. I know it's easy to dismiss them all as phony and that there's some grand conspiracy abound that can easily explain all of it. It is human nature to try to find a rational explanation to everything, or even irrational explanations that seem reasonable.
One example is the whole 9/11 thing where the number 11 shows up a lot. It is our way of putting some order or pattern to where there is chaos, because most of us cannot handle chaos. However, if you look at the facts behind the number 11 and the event itself, a lot of the information in that list (found at http://www.snopes.com/rumors/elevens.asp) is either false or innacurate and therefore the "11" pattern does not hold.
Sorry if I went off on a tangent there, but I'm just trying to explain how people generally find it easy and comfortable to explain away things they don't understand as phony or nonexistant.
All I can say is that I know for a fact that Andrea was not humoring me, deceiving me, lying to me, or tricking me. I was just focused enough in my thoughts to be able to "hear" her projected thoughts. So I picked a gimmicky subject like "guess-the-number"... it's all I could think of at the time! ;D ;)
Quote from: TerranRich on Thu 02/02/2006 19:27:20
Sorry if I went off on a tangent there, but I'm just trying to explain how people generally find it easy and comfortable to explain away things they don't understand as phony or nonexistant.
I thought the easy way was to just believe in it. Trying to explain things by logics and reason is quite a tedious and not very romantic task.
I'd much rather live in a world where people could sporadically read eachother's thought, and where everybody believed eachother all the time because everybody just told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Can anyone read my mind?
If you guessed I was thinking, "This thread is a minefield of retardation," then YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, DING DING DING!
Tell 'em what they've won, Bob!
Bob: Fuck you, DG!
Wow, Bob just read YOUR mind!
And this is the person who just got nominated for best debater.
We're quite a sophisticated forum after all.
You want me to debate whether or not a guy can read his girlfriend's mind?? Are you serious??
Okay, fine. Here we go:
Terran, quit wasting your "magic powers" on your girlfriend. Go down to the racetrack and bet all your money on Masked Bandit in the fifth. When you win, take a photo of your briefcase full of cash and post it here. There! That'll shut all those naysayers up!
Boy, will you guys be sorry when Terran becomes rich. The only way you can top that is if Mr Colossal uses HIS magic powers to travel in time to bring a sports almanac to his past self and make even MORE moneys!
In closing, your honour, I can only say... kthxby!
THERE ANDAIL, AN AIR TIGHT CASE FOR YOU
P.S. I was what for what now?
EDIT: Woo hoo! :D
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sat 04/02/2006 12:41:50
The only way you can top that is if Mr Colossal uses HIS magic powers to travel in time to bring a sports almanac to his past self and make even MORE moneys!
I'm using my magical powers and I reckon DG watched Back to the Future 2 tonight
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sat 04/02/2006 12:41:50
Terran, quit wasting your "magic powers" on your girlfriend. Go down to the racetrack and bet all your money on Masked Bandit in the fifth. When you win, take a photo of your briefcase full of cash and post it here. There! That'll shut all those naysayers up!
Well, if my argument (heightened intimacy=heightened awareness of each other) were to be consistent with this, Terran would have to engage in multiple counts of beastiality for that to work...
Quote from: Timosity on Sat 04/02/2006 13:04:46
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sat 04/02/2006 12:41:50
The only way you can top that is if Mr Colossal uses HIS magic powers to travel in time to bring a sports almanac to his past self and make even MORE moneys!
I'm using my magical powers and I reckon DG watched Back to the Future 2 tonight
No, I actually watched the great French arthouse film "le Time Travelles de Sportes Almanique".
Also, my French is le poo-poo.
QuoteWell, if my argument (heightened intimacy=heightened awareness of each other) were to be consistent with this, Terran would have to engage in multiple counts of beastiality for that to work...
Giddy-up...
I can guess the time accurate to the minute, I can forecast a thunderstorm and I've seen a UFO - but I can't tap into peoples psyche like you, Rich! Crazy stuff!
I've seen an unidentified flying object too, but after all, I can't exactly identify them really, not my field. It was stroboscopic and went in rather peculiar stop-start patterns which was cool. Me and my friends waved a lot and then started to call the 'aliens' names. What manners!
And Terran, I have absolutely no problem to believe in paranormal stuff, I'm not a hardcore sceptic. I'd RATHER if the world was a little magical and this explains why although an atheist I still do ritual sacrifice of virgins an the like... I just need a bit of proof, you know? I mean, the rituals I don't need proof for, they're awesome fun in their own right, fuck proof. But you reading your girlfriend's mind? I need proof. Testes, I mean, tests. Experiements, I'd also require to be present you know, maybe have a session with your girlfriend myself if you don't mind...