Telling people about psychic skills.

Have any of you heard of the pendulm test?

Originally posted by Valedamar
Have any of you heard of the pendulm test?

Swinging it over the back of the hand??

Originally posted by Valedamar
Have any of you heard of the pendulm test?

If you mean the one where you hold a pendulm in your fingers and stare at it trying to get it to swing, yes, and it's been debunked, kinda. It's small motor control. Some people can do this, some can't. I can do it, as can my sister, my father, and my mother, and none of us are telekinetic.

Nobody ever found that out in my case. It was all very vague about what I could or couldn't do, which may have actually been worse than having someone know.

It first started for me when a girl I was talking to kept asking me questions in a crowded pizza place after a Cross Country meet. I had a reputation for being able to hear things nobody else could, so she decided to play a little game and test me, asking the questions a little quieter each time.

The last question I answered was the problem though.

She put her hand over her mouth and turned to whisper it into a friend's ear. Her friend didn't hear her, so she was confused when I answered.

You see the problem was that this girl (who I had a big-time crush on, I might add) never actually spoke the words for her last question. She was surprised, to say the least, and that's where it started.

After that, people who hadn't been there heard about the story and it spread from there, with numerous changes along the way, just as most rumors and word-of-mouth stories change from person to person. "Whisper Down The Alley" if you will. By the time the stories passed, I could do everything from telepathic communication to seeing the dead to precognitive visions that were always true. Name a psychic ability you've heard of and somebody probably tied it to me in their version of the story.

People had always thought there was something odd about me, and now they had another reason to think it.

It's supposed to be this thing where u hold your a pendulum in your hand, and then u close your eyes and ask yourself a yes or no question. The pendulum should swing one way for yes, and another for no. It's supopsedly a way of communicating with your subconcious.....HAs anyone tried that?

I think it acculy is false, the test. Its goes by your heart beat that causes your hands to trembles one way or another.

I went to a psychic one time who used a pendulum. If it swung back and forth the answer was yes. If it swung up and down, the answer was no. If it swung in a circle, the answer was I don't know. Supposedly, according to her, the answers were coming from a man who used to live in her house that had died. We asked "him" many questions, writing down the questions and the answers. NONE of them came true! 25 bucks down the drain!!!

About your psychic powers - I'd do my best to improve them. I'm not sure how you'd do that but I've seen some books on the subject. I wouldn't tell anyone though, especially since you're young (not that there's anything wrong with that ) but kids in high school can be really cruel to people who are perceived as "odd." Sad but true. Eventually you'll be able to tell people, at least people who are true, non-judging friends.

Yeah, try to learn to control it. It might take some time and whatnot, but try it. Though, I would give a lot to be pyschic, so consider yourself blessed. I have researched in this phenomena a little myself, very interesting, mostly to do with meditating and the likes. Try that. Try meditating after school for say, 20 minutes to start with. That shouldn't be too much of a problem? Should it?

-wD

You should try creating psychic blue balls with your powers,,, Its a learned skill and can be frustrating at times..

Originally posted by Valedamar
Thanks, I still feel terrible though. This week was finals week, and I had like 6 answers pop into my head.

I think that you need to be a little more self-confident in your abilities! Having 6 answers "pop" into your head doesn't necessarily mean you're leeching them off other people. You could have just has easily had them surface from your own subconcious. A lot of the time when you take a test, one question can be answered further into the test by another question, and if you're paying enough attention, you get that "A-HA" moment, and recall the answer.

However, even if you are reading others' surface thoughts...think of it this way. Any test is an assessment of you being able to use the tools available to you to solve a problem. You simply have an extra tool available to you. Just as in life, it is't right to expect you not to use such a tool.

I've heard others say to learn to control it... Well, I've never quite gotten "control" of it either (except for blocking out the "white noise" so to speak), so a really strong thought is bound to make it into my head... I'm not so sure that's do-able...at least for me... I'd say just accept it, and have fun with it....

However, I'd also advise AGAINST letting others know...except for maybe some close friends who really are true, and won't go blabbing. I know myself, that each person I've told, and then later even shown, never quite saw me the same way..and it wasn't a good thing. I think that it plays on our own fears of the unknown... All I did was show a couple people I could make a streetlight come on and go off multiple times in a row.. Imagine how bad it would be to tell them what was going on inside their heads? Luckily, I rarely get words, usually just impressions.

However, here's an interesting thing. Many people are telepathic to some extent (especially young children, before they "unlearn" it). Try "talking" to some of them...it's a real hoot, hehe....

I had a thread Fun Party Trick or Is It? which I outline a trick I learn with a pendulum. Similar to the trick weedpickr posted...but it seems (my experience) very accurate.

Just and FYI.