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What do you think about this? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by AnAnonymous@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Someone told me that if you keep your gaze fixed and imagine a completely black circle right above someone's head, what you are actually doing is telepathy... so far I haven't researched more about it but I have noticed that some strange things happen when I do that, I see spirals and the vision looks different, could someone confirm what your experience is when doing the same?

Edit: As someone said in the comments, have you ever seen an image in black and white with a red dot in the center what if you keep your stare fixed for a certain time in it and close and open your eyes rapidly you see the image of JesusChrist? Maybe it is realated to the phenomenon in some way.

If someone try it and notice some result please let me know.

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[–] inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] AnAnonymous@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago

I think it's a 50/50

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AnAnonymous@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago

I believe it should be a real human objective not a photo.

[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How long until you see shapes?

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Unlike others in this thread, I do happen to believe telepathy is real. I don’t know if this is how to access it, though. Might be worth checking techniques used by military researchers or the Princeton Consciousness Project.

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

I believe some things I'd also get downvoted for, but telepathy? The ability to read one's mind at will? Without any probing or device? That's far even for me. And I heed the fucking flat Earth theory.

[–] AnAnonymous@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago

The person who told me work for an intelligence agency.