For my third and final clinical Ganzfeld experiment and the University of Edinburgh it’s been made clear to me that precognition exists, but the key is that the choices we make based on this ability is contingent on first trusting our instincts and second accepting those choices we ultimately make.
I was both wrong and right in my final choice for this experiment. I knew the answer, felt the answer physically but chose a different answer because I misidentified the bodily sensation I received, but I accepted an answer/ video that I knew I would be more upset over getting wrong than the video that ultimately was right.
The first video was a 3D graphic/ video game (Final Fantasy-esque) style narrative of a battlefield. War raged between wizards, elves and trolls with swords and axes under an eclipsing and exploding planet with debris falling from the sky. The music was classical and light, which was at odds with the imagery.
The second video was handheld camera footage of a Japanese Shrine in the winter, focusing on a golden temple and the flowing stream underneath.
The third video was of dare-devils or young men doing extremely dangerous tricks like hanging off skyscrapers, dangling off cliffs and walking high rise scaffolding without any safety nets or ropes.
The last video was of the British queen’s lavish and religious coronation.
The first and last video meant nothing to me.
During the experiments mediation/visualization period I fell asleep many times for brief moments in which I dreamt very clearly- lucid dreamt. I saw water flowing and felt the presence of distance, like I was hovering over a river or a stream. Then, my body would feel as though it was dropping, and I would lurch awake. In between this state, as I stared into the bright red abyss I saw an owl, an empty room, branches of a dead tree and some other things I can’t recall at the moment.
As I watched the selected videos, the Shrine felt safe the video made me feel calm, and I had seen water and branches.
When I watched the men hanging from cliffs and buildings my heart started to race and my skin felt uncomfortable, the bodily reaction confused me. My first thought was, I just dislike heights, then I thought this may be the answer because I felt like I was falling or hanging in my dreams, but I actually saw the water from the shrine, so I accepted my choice of the Shrine because I would be more upset if it was indeed the Shrine and I picked something else instead.
So, when the answer came and was the men climbing and hanging from buildings, I thought to myself ‘oh eff of course it was’… but I felt calm because I fully accepted my choice even thought I was wrong.
At the very beginning of the meditation/ visualization period I decided that I would try to imagine how I would feel at the end the end of the experiment- feel confident in my answer. I worried briefly that I would see more than one video in my visualization and that I would be able to pick, and that seems to have affected the outcome in a way I didn’t expect. I did see many aspects of the videos presented.
Another interesting aspect of this experiment is that the woman who was doing the experiment (Thea, who was really friendly and kind) called me goth. I think this was accidental because she seemed embarrassed when she said it (I do often wear black and listen to goth music so this isn’t something to be ashamed of) but then went on to elaborate that judging by the appearance of the subject, meaning if they looked alternative or not, usually factored positively on their results, as there was a “Shaman” and “self-proclaimed psychic” also participating in the experiment.
I think that the idea that a person so believes or appears to believe in precognitive, occult or supernatural phenomena would indeed have an advantage because they trust themselves and accept the choice, they make based on their belief in their own subconscious.
The singular belief that you will be right.