A Very Long-Distance Telepathy Test

 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."  

Postscript: I get quite a few experiences suggestive of telepathy outside of any tests I am doing. To give an example, today while making myself some tea using a tea bag, I thought to myself something along the lines of, "It would be nice if one of my daughters were to buy me one of those containers of loose green tea - maybe I'll get one for Father's Day." About 20 minutes later one of my daughters arrived, and gave me exactly that gift, a container of loose green tea.

Near-Death Experiences May Sometimes Have Orbs, But More Commonly Have Telepathy

 A recent study on near-death experiences ("Architecture of Near-Death Experience Space")  has appeared in pre-print form. Its methodology seems rather objectionable. The authors were trying to be able to classify something like shapes or fields-of-view during near-death experiences. They have given 48 reporting near-death experiences some survey designed to elicit reports about shapes or fields-of-view. This seems like a case of asking leading questions designed to extract particular types of reports, which may be a flaw in methodology. 

But at least the study does have rather interesting quotes from those who had these experiences. One subject states, "I was standing in the middle of a 360 degree sphere with a white, milky border." Another subject (subject 38) reports this observation of orbs:

"I encountered floating spheres glowing blue and white. They were gently floating around me, fading in and out of view. They did not seem to be moving.”

The authors of the study seem to have made the mistake of trying to extract reports about shapes, fields of view or geometry from the people having the near-death experiences, rather than letting these people speak for themselves, and reporting on the most salient features of their reports.  The authors make no mention of one of the most common features of the reports they have received: the claim by a person that during his near-death experience there was telepathy going on. 

I will quote all of the subjects who referred to telepathy:

• Subject 3: "They were communicating with me through thoughts and feelings."
• Subject 6: "She was wearing a dress, with dark hair and we were having an ongoing conversation telepathically....I spoke telepathically with the two beings I met.... We interacted with each other via telepathy.”
• Subject 8: " I encountered (in my thoughts) a god-entity that I had a negotiation in my thoughts."
• Subject 10: "Messages are telepathic but so strong as if it's a voice, was very specific on some topics general on others."
• Subject 21: "The entity first appear as the perfect human as it came closer it kind of morphed a little bit more a light fluid being entity. . . telepathic communication with the being."
• Subject 24: " I heard my boyfriends thoughts saying 'what am I going to tell her family ' over and over again. and when I asked him about it days later he said yes he was thinking that. I was telepathic."
• Subject 26: "There was a telepathic communication with my angel that I was in a place of what would be where my spirit will first go after I leave my earthly body, it was telepathically said 'it wasn’t my time.' ”
• Subject 28: "I was in a room made of light with beings that were also made of light. We communicated telepathically, without words"
• Subject 35: "So I could read their mind and see their whole life story."
• Subject 39: "I also felt/sensed that I was in a telepathic communication like a negotiation of deciding to return."
• Subject 44: "I could hear him talk in my mind, telepathically.”

So of the people reporting near-death experiences,  11 out of 48 have described telepathy occurring, about 23%. But strangely the study authors have failed to mention telepathy as something commonly reported in the 48 experiences they were studying. 

Psychic Bond?

Today I said to one of my daughters, "You'll never guess what I saw down the street." I gave no clues, but asked her to guess. After a wrong guess of an orange cat, her second guess was "a raccoon," which is just what I saw. No one in our family has seen such a thing on our street before. Later in the day I asked her what I saw in a weird dream I recently had, mentioning only that it involved something odd in our front yard. After a wrong first guess of a snowman, she asked, "Was it a wild animal?" I said yes. Then she asked, "Was it an elephant?" I said yes. The dream I had was of two baby elephants in our front yard. These were the only two times today she tried to guess what was in my mind. Tonight is one of several times in which it seemed as if there was ESP between me and her (two similar cases are described here).

Postscript: One or two times during the 13 days after this event I asked the same daughter to guess what I was thinking, without success. Then on the 13th day I asked her to guess what I had dreamed about, without giving any clues. I thought of a dream involving my father playing baseball catch with my sister. My daughter's first guess was wrong. Then she asked whether it was something that happened in my childhood. I said yes. Then she asked whether it was something happening in my back yard. I said yes. Then she asked whether it was some kind of sport. I said yes. Then she asked whether it was playing catch or some kind of baseball. I said yes. This was the same performance level noted above: one wrong guess, followed by all other guesses correct. On a test with my other daughter (the only telepathy test I can recall doing with her), I simply asked her to guess a thing I saw today, telling her only it was something that I hadn't seen in years. On her fourth guess, she got the correct answer: a grasshopper. 

Post-postscript: On later days (around November 12) I got similar results. I asked one daughter to guess what I had dreamed about, giving no clues. The first guess she gave (a car) was fairly close to the right answer: a red double-deck bus, as both are vehicles. I asked my other daughter to guess what I had dreamed about, giving no clues. Her third guess was a red bicycle, which was close to the right answer, since a red bicycle and a red double-deck bus are both red vehicles. 

Post-post-postscript: I don't do such tests often with either of my daughters -- maybe a single "guess what I dreamed of" or "guess what I saw" test about every 10 days or two weeks, with only one target subject per test. In my latest attempt (on January 7) I merely told one of my daughters I had a dream of touching something, and asked her to guess what it was. Her first guess was "a tree," which was not correct. Her second guess was "a dog," which was correct. I asked her to guess the dog's color, and she answered correctly, "Black." I had dreamed of a black Scottish terrier on my lap. We see the same pattern I have seen repeatedly: wrong on the first guess, but correct on the second or third guess, usually the second one. 

On another test (the first in a few weeks) I was with my two daughters, and told them simply to guess what I had dreamed about, telling them only it was something I could not recall ever dreaming about before. After two incorrect guesses, one daughter guessed a zebra. The other daughter then made her first guess: a donkey. That was exactly what I had dreamed of. 

I see in such tests a "warmup" effect in which there is very often success on the second, third or fourth try. I encourage anyone trying such tests to always allow for several different guesses, with at least a ten-second interval between guesses. 

Post-post-post-postscript:  I was playing with my daughters a word game I invented, one that could be called "By the City Name Only." To play the game, you think of some question prompt involving a city. The answer must be based purely on the name of the city, not any of its physical characteristics or population. 

Here are some examples:

Q. Which city is the most mobile?

A.  Rome, as in "roam." 

Q. Which city has a parent's animal?

A. Moscow, as in "Ma's cow."

Q. Which city is the most hopping?

A. Albany, as in "Al Bunny."

Q. Which city is the most managerial?

A. Boston, as in "Boss ton." 

Q. Which city is the bravest?

A. Boulder, Colorado, as in "bolder."

While playing the game with me, one of my daughters said this: "This one has two answers: which city has a body part in it?" I instantly gave two correct answers: Liverpool (containing the word "liver") and Geneva, as in "Juh -KNEE-va." How was I able to answer so quickly? In the seconds just before my daughter asked the question, I was thinking of exactly that question, and also the two answers. What is the chance of that happening by coincidence? Much less than 1 in a million.

Post-post-post-post-postscript:

In early 2026 I only very rarely did a guessing game test with either of my daughters (maybe once ever few months, with only a single question in each test). While one of my daughters was thousands of miles away 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 my daughter saying that "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. 

This post does not even discuss some other much earlier examples that very strongly seemed like ESP or telepathy between myself and family members, several of which are discussed in my "Spookiest Observations" post here. 

Post-post-post-post-post-postscript: During dinner tonight one of my daughters mentioned meeting someone about two blocks from a very famous building. The previous morning I had had a dream of her being at exactly that building, which was not a place I knew she would be near. 

Post-post-post-post-post-post-postscript: Today during the afternoon there for some reason popped into my mind the idea of asking one of my daughters whether she had ever been dancing with a particular friend of hers. I asked her that question at dinner, not knowing what she had done that day. She told me that on this day she had taken a dance lesson with exactly the friend I was thinking of.  If this was a coincidence, it had a probability of maybe 1 chance in 500 or 1 chance in 1000.