In my "Psychic Bond?" post of 2022, which you can read here, I describe how informal telepathy tests between me and my daughters have sometimes had remarkable successes. I only very rarely do such a test, which I will casually try in the form of a guessing game. Maybe once every few months I will ask a daughter to guess what unusual thing I saw, or what thing I dreamed about. The only such test I made recently was one involving a single question, with the unusual variation of being a very long-distance test.
While one of my daughters was thousands of miles away recently on a trip, I texted her, telling her I had a dream about a game, and asking her to guess which game it was. I got back a guess of "Skyrim," one of very many video games I have played. I texted back saying that was a good guess, but the dream I had was actually about the board game Monopoly.
I then got back a text from this daughter saying, "Oh, wow, I was actually thinking that for a second but thought it would be hard to have a dream about Monopoly." So apparently the long distance telepathy test was a success.
In my post here I discuss a casual method for testing telepathy between family members and friends. It involves doing a quick "what did I see?" or "what did I dream?" guessing game, in which the guesser gets three guesses. I have noticed a kind of "warmup" effect in such tests, in which the guesser often gives the correct answer on the second or third try.
My "Psychic Bond?" post of 2022 (which discusses some striking successes in such casual ESP tests) does not even discuss quite a few much earlier examples that very strongly seemed like ESP or telepathy between myself and family members, which are discussed in my "Spookiest Observations" post here.
The evidence for extrasensory perception (ESP) or telepathy in humans is overwhelming, and you can read about that evidence in my series of 81 posts here (keep pressing Older Posts at the bottom right to read them all). The evidence consists of both a gigantic wealth of anecdotal reports, and also a huge body of compelling experimental evidence done in laboratory conditions. An example of the latter is the "better than a smoking gun" Riess test described here.
You may want to test telepathy on someone who disbelieves in it, and such a person may shun participation in guessing games. An alternate technique is to pose something as a puzzle, and challenge the person to give the one-word answer to the puzzle with an answer hard to guess. One way to do such a thing is to ask a person to give the final word of a joke, one that finishes the "punchline" of the joke. I can give an example. You can tell this joke and ask the person to give the word that completes the joke. Give the person 20 seconds to answer, and during this time think silently of the answer.
"John was a single 35-year-old man with a very sick widower father, a father who was very rich. John expected to soon inherit the father's millions. One day John went into a bar, hoping to attract interest from a female. He met a sexy young woman and told her about how his father was very rich, and very ill. 'I speak the truth,' said John. 'Lots of people in this town know how rich my father is.' Instead of continuing to talk with John, the woman simply said, 'Nice talking to you,' and left. John was disappointed. Three weeks later the woman became John's __________."
The word that completes the joke is hard to guess. It is "stepmother."
