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|    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.              --       =======================================================================       = David --- No, not that one.       = Mitchell ---       =======================================================================              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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