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   Message 7,269 of 7,897   
   David Mitchell to rolandberry   
   Re: lucid dream vs. astral travel   
   14 Nov 06 07:08:52   
   
   XPost: alt.dreams.lucid   
   From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:26:47 -0800, rolandberry wrote:   
      
   > That aside, I believe any protocol the Randi Foundation will agree to   
   > has to beat a one in a million chance or better and remembering a   
   > sequence of cards is difficult to do under quite ordinary   
   > circumstances, let alone remotely viewing them or going there in an   
   > astral projection. I think some other method is required - perhaps   
   > relating a story. I have read that the people who remember pi to   
   > hundreds of decimal places do so by concocting a story to fit the   
   > digits. Perhaps something along those lines is needed but that is only   
   > a suggestion.   
      
   There are any number of possible experiments; but I usually suggest this   
   one because it's easy to set up.   
      
   I don't really think you need to worry about remembering four cards until   
   you can get one right ;-)   
      
   I suppose you could make some cards up with different images on them, or   
   just colours (or you could even use a Zener deck); but the odds would   
   diminish accordingly, so you'd have to remember more of them to reach that   
   level of chance.   
      
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