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.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    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.

          • PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org
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            25 days ago

            Not really. I tried staring at a picture of Obama for 5 minutes, keeping my eyes fixed on his nose exactly between the eyes. After two minutes it was like his face got squashed vertically, his mouth got closer to his eyes and his ears got more pronounced. After 3 minutes my mind began trying to fill in his mouth, stopped seeing the teeth and instead just saw closed lips, like the area was a blind spot that the mind had to guess about. I saw both teeth and lips overlaying each other, like if each eye saw a different version, or if you hold your finger close to your eye and see both it and the background simultaneously.

            For the last minute his features began morphing slightly, but never that much at a time before springing back. His eyes got a little downturned, his nose got a little less pronounced, and so on, but the features always corrected themselves immediately when my eyes moved just a little bit.

            Again, I think it’s about how our eyes work. They’re not cameras, they respond more to changes in their field of vision than they see the absolute image. Keeping your eyes still on a still image means nothing is changing, so the information reaching your brain is limited. It has to start making guesses to fill it in.

  • inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol
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    2 months ago

    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.eeOP
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      2 months ago

      I thought the same as you, but according to my results and possibly some people who have also commented, it may be that something peculiar is happening, I would not dare to assure that what my contact told me is real but I do think that something strange is happening.

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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    2 months ago

    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
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      2 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.