Telepathy experience

Dwalaine

Hello physics forum

I wanted to describe an experience that I view as evidence for telepathy. I'm not a troll (even though I registered just to write this).

I was six years old and visiting my grandparents country house. They had a large garden of about an acre. One day my grandfather went out with his tractor lawn mower. My brother and I took turns sitting on his lap while he was mowing the grass. At one point, I was running towards the tractor and slipped on the cut grass, ending up with my right foot under the tractor. The blades cut a strap on the sandal I was wearing, but missed my foot by millimeters.

My grandfather stopped the tractor and all three of us stood there in disbelief and shock. As we were about go back to the house, I saw my grandmother with a very worried look on her face coming to check on us. She said "Your mom just called and told me to check up on you guys, she was sure something terrible had happened."

Dotini

Hi Dwalaine. Welcome to the Physics Forum and thank you for your post.

Unfortunately, even though your experience is interesting, may have really happened just as you described, and similar experiences have been reported by many others, it cannot be accepted as evidence of telepathy, certainly not according to the rules of this forum as I understand them. It must remain a charming anecdote.

The "scientific" literature on Psi is very thin. If you are motivated to explore what little of it I am aware of, you might take a look at some of the books written by Dean Radin.

Respectfully submitted,
Steve

Evo

I wouldn't read Dean Radin, his work is not considered scientific by his peers. Just one of many critiques. http://www.skepticreport.com/sr/?p=537

Dotini

If by "peers" it is meant other scientific experimentalists in an array of fields, then undoubtedly Radin is a very marginal figure. But compared to the general run of muck in the literary genre of the paranormal, he could be judged a rare tower of probity. :)

I am not aware of any work that is considered valid science in this field, but I would like to know of any.

Just for fun, here is a NY Times review of Radin. http://www.deanradin.com/nytimes_hires_f.html


Respectfully,
Steve

DaveC426913

"In a world as vastly complex as ours, the only event that would be astonishingly unlikely to happen is for fabulous coincidences to not happen."
-DaveC426913 0201110


You've lived how many decades? and in all that time you haven't had a second example of an astonishingly unlikely coincidence.

Statistically, giant coincidences - like giant meteors and giant earthquakes - have to happen occasionally.

lostcauses10x

You left out information.
Did you go to your grandfathers the same morning??

Are you or were you prone to getting yourself hurt at the age??

Your mother may simply been seeing a pattern related to you and got worried and called;due to a pattern of behavior at the time, and her worry, it conforms to coincidence.

The human mind has some great observational power. More often than not such experiences can be wrote off as coincidence.
Especially as a kid it is easy to justify such coincidences as more than such.

Evo

You might want to read an objectic review of the lack of science used by Radin.

http://www.skepdic.com/refuge/radin6.html

I have a whole list. He's been discussed here many times, perhaps it's time to put him on the banned topics list since his institute of Noetic Sciences publishes a study guide to What the bleep on their site which *is* on our banned topics list.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=342

DaveC426913

The identical thing happened to me when I was 17.

I went to a friend's farm. It was just the two of us in a shack for two weeks. No phone, no car.

One morning we woke up and half of his dozen goats were dead. We had to hoof it into town (a two hour walk) to try desperately to find a country vet open on a weekend.

Out of the blue, my mother showed up with with car, saying she just had a feeling we might need her help and decided to make the hour drive.

(I of course put no credence in a mother's instinct to let her son go to a deserted farm for two weeks, wait patiently through the first week, then decide that the weekend would be a good time to drop in to see if everything was all right. )

Dwalaine

I do not remember the other circumstances clearly.

No.

My original post wasn't completely clear on this point, but she freaked out. She also told me afterwards that "she knew something terrible had happened", so it wasn't a routine call of an overly protective mom. She has never freaked out like that again.

lostcauses10x

"She also told me afterwards that "she knew something terrible had happened","

Strangely enough the panic of the moment can be easily related to the phone call itself. It is always after the fact it was supposedly thought of, or reacted before.

Were as to you all this many seem real and since today you are even further away from the event, it is simply easier to accept as you do.

Since it is such you do not do such every day, there is no reason to argue it.
An event happened that I am sure scared you, and of course your mother when she happened to call and found out it happened.
How you view such today if your are satisfied with it needs not be changed.

Yet you placed your experience on a board that has people that can easily dissect such an event, and show how it can be an everyday thing without telepathy, or some other form of divine intervention.

I see the lack of injury as the greatest part of the event, and how you view the rest as unimportant. I see the whole situation as chance and luck including your mom's call, you see it differently. Yet no mater how you or I and others may view it; the result was good.

Dwalaine

In that short description, there's enough room for interpretation and fantasy to accommodate whatever position one feels comfortable with.

Reality is a different thing. Having experienced it, my position is that I would be lying to myself if I said that it wasn't telepathy.

To each their own. I see no need for anyone to change their opinion.

StevieTNZ

I remember having this dream about a woman who worked in this shop I use to go to. In the dream she couldn't serve me because she was lying down in pain, and was pregnant.

I told her about the dream. Before I didn't know she was pregnant, but I told her in my dream she was. She said she was pregnant and was having complications. I was stunned.

phinds

As long as you don't plan on going into a career in science, that's fine for you, but you really should give some more thought to the quote that Dave provided in post #5. He's quoting himself apparently, but Carl Sagan and others have said the same thing. It really isn't telepathy and science doesn't work on anecdotal evidence, but again, if you're not going into science, you can believe any nonsense you like.

Evo

The rules here are that you can tell an anecdote but you cannot make claims as to what happened.

DaveC426913

Your mom may have a different take on that.

No fair. I made it up on-the-spot. I was quite pleased with it.

DaveC426913

What makes you conclude it's telepathy? How can you rule out coincidence?

Ah but once you voice your opinion, you open it to challenge, and you are obliged to defend it.

phinds

Great minds think alike