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Ouija board messages explained (games) - C C - Jul 30, 2018
As if you didn't already know since circa the era of your Santa Claus disillusionment that it was a two-party equivalent of facilitated communication, minus the disabled person and associated victims.
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/07/27/clever-study-shows-how-two-minds-interact-to-create-the-spooky-sense-that-an-ouija-board-is-moving-by-itself/#more-34347
EXCERPT: Psychologists have proposed an explanation for why Ouija board users feel as though a spirit is moving the planchette (an ornate pointer) and spelling out messages. It is based on the idea that two (or more) living users unwittingly take turns at controlling the planchette, cooperating implicitly to create a message that starts out random but becomes more predictable as the number of meaningful options decreases. “It seems that meaningful responses from the Ouija board are an emergent property of interacting predictive minds that increasingly impose structure on initially random events in the sessions,” Marc Anderson at Aarhus University and his colleagues explain in their open-access paper in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
MORE: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/07/27/clever-study-shows-how-two-minds-interact-to-create-the-spooky-sense-that-an-ouija-board-is-moving-by-itself/#more-34347
RE: Ouija board messages explained (games) - Zinjanthropos - Jul 30, 2018
Remember when I was around 12-13 years old. We were playing with.the Ouija board, hands on the planchette when somebody asks "Ouija, Ouija, send us a sign". At.that very precise moment a sudden large electrical arc, flash and spark flew out from behind the kitchen stove next to us. Scared the crap out of us, 240V and all. My father checked everything later and reported it was fine back there. I always wondered how science could explain that one. Was there a poltergeist in the room?
RE: Ouija board messages explained (games) - Magical Realist - Aug 1, 2018
http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/ouija/
We once asked ouija for a sign and my easter basket sitting by my window blew off the shelf from a sudden gust of wind. We took that as a sign.