It's not telepathy. Telepathy isn't real. Your eyes are probably just moving thru different levels of focus and your brain is picking up on other patterns as it tries to find focus.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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Thats not telepathy.
Its imagination
Any time someone tells you they have an easy trick for some life changing ability ask yourself why everyone doesn't know about it already. Probably because it doesn't do squat.
That may be true, but this time might be different.
chemical saturation of the neural net activated by a fixed stare? like when you say the same word over and over and it loses all meaning
This. Happens more frequently than you think.
Most noticeable is when you just wake up, and begin to stare through a very bright area (like a window) and then close your eyes again.
The "sillouete" of the window (which is in a very weird color gamut) would appear with your eyelids closed, even if you move your eyes around.
After few seconds of eyes-closed, it disappears.
Let me know if you find any result trying what I say in the main post. I'm wondering if someone experience something relevant with that information.
If I do it with a photo, am I engaging in telepathy with the person in the photo?
Hmmm, time to ask Douglass Adams what he meant by 42.
I believe it should be a real human objective not a photo.
Mental eval time?
I always begin seeing weird shapes if I keep my eyes fixed somewhere. Doesn't matter where it is, can be a white wall even. I don't think it's anything more than a quirk of how our eyes work.
How long until you see shapes?
Oh, I remember I did this in kindegarden. I didn't have anything better to do during "activities" so I just stared down the caretaker(? I'm not native). Not long after halos and outlines apeared around her. My child self tought she was some angel. Anyways good drugless trip.
that's cute!
This whole thread is a hoot
Thank you
The human eye cheatsβ¦a lot. It fills in blinds spots with estimates to keep you from confusion. If youβre looking above someoneβs head, youβre using one of those blind spots.
Thereβs also an especially large emphasis on facial recognition hardwired into the amygdala, that we use to quickly identify potential threats.
When you put those two things together, you get some weird stuff. Try this video out. Youβll see how fast your brain will display distorted faces in favor of speed of identification over accuracy.
That's an optical illusion I agree about it, what I'm talking about isn't an optical illusion, it's about the key to access to a 6th sense. It's not about something you look with your eyes it's about something you look with your brain.
If you are in a complete dark room what you see?
The eyes trick it's just the way to make the brain telepathy work.
Or at least it's what I understand of this, you should try it just to find out if it work for you or not.
When I stare and blink my eyes I see Joe Pesci, maybe from how I was raised.
I have a question. Do you truly think it's more likely that something extraordinary is occurring, rather than concluding humans aren't built perfect? Or is it more exciting to believe that something cool and magical is happening, and you perhaps choose to pursue that possibility?
I think it's a 50/50
The scientific method aims to refine theories based on new and best available evidence. There isn't compelling scientific evidence supporting telepathy, but the fallibility of human vision is extensively documented. So how come you think it's 50/50?
I like to believe it is possible, I mean there is a bunch of people who believe in god beside there isn't any scientific evidence of it, so scientific evidence lack it's not exactly a determinating factor. Btw scientific evidence are made with in field work first and as I tested this in the field I can confirm there is something happening here.
Scientific evidence is through experiments using the scientific method, which tries to eliminate bias. The wikipedia article provides both adequate and inadequate experiments. You are biased and you're "testing" in uncontrolled environments. You could hardly call it evidence.
In this right moment I am unavailable to run a controlled experiment but if someone out there read this and want to do it i believe it will bring relevant information.
Edit: but at least they should try to do it wherever place they are first, cos as I told you I believe not all people are capable to do the trick.