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Boxman Sick · #1 2006-08-25, 02:16

I just made a short list of infamous abilities, more or less looked down upon by the rest of humanity just because it's not too common:

Hypnosis: psychological condition of being able to be influenced positively or negatively depending on the will of the hypnotist. Could be used to make the hypnotised victim believe in hallucinations engineered by the hypnotist.

Lucid dreaming: What's real? Waking life or cloudy dream? You really can't tell, and that's why lucid dreaming is so cool. Again, a psychological condition where the dreamer tells himself that he or she is able to consciously realize that he or she is really dreaming, which in turn allows you to control, to a certain degree, the dream.

Can anyone name a few others that I've left out, that are scientifically proven, more or less, but not fully understood/not appreciated by people?

Elephantitis Man · #2 2006-08-25, 02:31

Fuckin' telekinesis, man!

There is no spoon! There is no spoon!

Rust · #3 2006-08-25, 02:31

Incomming, in 5... 4... 3... 2 ...

Martini · #4 2006-08-25, 02:36

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Rust

Incomming, in 5... 4... 3... 2 ...

I hope somebody else does the correcting soon. I'm too tired to fight ignorance right now.

Rust · #5 2006-08-25, 02:42

I'm terribly sorry for having ruined your day by misspelling a word in a joke post! Keep up the good fight against ignorance; we all know how misspelling a word is really indicative of that!

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Martini · #6 2006-08-25, 02:48

Rust, you misunderstood me. What I meant was, that I wasn't going to be part of the incoming posts regarding the OP.

Rust · #7 2006-08-25, 02:50

Oops! When I saw the word "correcting" I thought you were talking about my typo

My apologies.

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Boxman Sick · #8 2006-08-25, 15:13

Hmm, are the things that I wrote about hypnosis & lucid dreaming not true?

I won't pretend to know more than somebody on the subject.

Perhaps someone could write somehting constructive, huh?

---Beany--- · #9 2006-08-25, 15:38

I'm 95% sure they're both true.

As for telekenisis, telepathy, psychics, astral projection, psi balls and spinning bird kicks, I don't really know.

Edit: But there are exlanations as to how each works, I've just not experienced them myself.

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Graemy · #10 2006-08-25, 16:06

Hypnotism isn't really real. the person knows what they are doing, it only works if they are willing to follow along with what the hypnotist says.