Suggestions for Ouija Board experiments

[Drs_Res]

I could never get the planchette to move at all when I was a kid.

 

[Explorer]

......part of the subconscious does not even understand the difference between truth and falsehood.

So the subconscious could be amoral. By extension then, it may have no ability to reason, to empathise or to generate any other emotion.

Jekyl and Hyde?

 

[ExMinister]

In other words, our subconscious lies.

That was an interesting experiment with the newspaper. I'm not sure where to go from here.

I face the same problem talking to dream characters in lucid dreams. Any answers are untrustworthy at best.

This may sound rather silly, but I actually feel hurt that I may lie to myself. Or even give myself unpleasant dreams.

Funny story. One night I dreamed that thieves came and stole the wheels off my car. I then became lucid while still asleep. Knowing that my subconscious gave me that dream, I asked why it would torment me so. (My subconscious appeared as a dream person) My subconscious, perhaps as an act of remorse, then ordered the dream character thieves to put the wheels back, which they did. Not that they needed to as at this time I was fully lucid and aware that it was just a dream and that whatever happened didn't really matter. Perhaps it was the thought that counts.

I can just imagine getting into a fight with myself using a Ouija board!

That is funny, LearJet. Yeah, I guess it's the thought that counts.

The Ouija board really does reflect a very odd part of the mind. And to make it even stranger, every time you use the board the sensation is of a different voice, so that Voice 2 is almost never the same voice twice, at least in my experience. That means a different flow to the letters, a different feeling of force on the planchette, with some voices very weak and sporadic and others confident, spelling out long phrases in an unbroken flow. Some can't spell, some spell very well, some seem reasonably personable, others like petulant children. Go figure.

But then my own brain also conjures up sinister looking beings to stand by the bed as I am falling asleep, scaring the crap out of me. Some people get angels and deceased relatives. I get floating demon faces and hooded figures. I also had a problem with this in my lucid dreams. Seems totally unfair, but there it is.

 

[Ladewig]

So the subconscious could be amoral.

Upon reflection, I am unsure if it cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood or if it doesn't care if something is true or false.

By extension then, it may have no ability to reason, to empathize or to generate any other emotion.

Jekyll and Hyde?

Perhaps. But I did say only part of it could be that way. On the other hand, it would go a long way in explaining a lot of behavior in the world today.

Jekyll and Hyde?

Perhaps I am too cynical, but I think a great part of the world's population is Bozo and Hyde. And a measurable part is Mild Hyde and Intense Hyde.