GerdaWordyer
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They are pretty, fun collectibles.
Truth is personal. It's not my business to go around preventing other people from using Ouija boards if they wish, but I know I personally have a revulsion for them at a gut instinct level. Not dissimilar to my wife's aversion to scallops.
Truth is personal. It's not my business to go around preventing other people from using Ouija boards if they wish, but I know I personally have a revulsion for them at a gut instinct level. Not dissimilar to my wife's aversion to scallops.
Truth is personal. It's not my business to go around preventing other people from using Ouija boards if they wish, but I know I personally have a revulsion for them at a gut instinct level. Not dissimilar to my wife's aversion to scallops.
Nice type, someone should make a computer font of it.They are pretty, fun collectibles.View attachment 15509
Scallops? Get thee to a divorce court. They are one of life's pleasures. I do hope you get to indulge once in a while (if they're to your liking)?
The Ouijaboard must be combined with other methods to operate.Tom Blazak
When I was 14 years of age, me and some of my friends had a sleepover and as you do at that age we decided it would be a fun idea to play with a ouija board. We played with it for an hour maybe two before getting bored...
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The Ouijaboard must be combined with other methods to operate.
I think the Ouija is best left alone to be honest (only my opinion)
They are pretty, fun collectibles.
Truth is personal. It's not my business to go around preventing other people from using Ouija boards if they wish, but I know I personally have a revulsion for them at a gut instinct level. Not dissimilar to my wife's aversion to scallops.
When I separated from my first wife back in 2000ish I bought a house and started looking through all the old paranormal paraphernalia and books that I had accumulated over my misspent youth and that had ended up in our loft. Boxes of Tarot cards, Rune Stones and a second hand Parker Bros Ouija Board etc. I actually considered getting them framed and hung as conversation pieces but thought it would frighten my kids off visiting.
I don’t know where it is now but I’m sure I read in the instructions that for best results the board should be placed between 1 male and 1 female, a bit Yin and Yang. I never attempted to play with it as I really don’t believe a piece of mass produced cheap wood with transfers on it could open the gate to the other side.
A girlfriend I lived with for a couple of years would always try to use it when her friends were round and got diddley squat in the way of results. She always blamed me saying I was too negative and I stopped anything manifesting.
I may be wrong but didn't all the hysteria surrounding Ouija boards kick off after the making of the Exorcist. From memory it was a Parker Bros board that got the starring role?
No, predates the Exorcist . I was getting FOAF stories about the bad effects of the Ouija board in the late 60's. ...
No, predates the Exorcist . I was getting FOAF stories about the bad effects of the Ouija board in the late 60's. And my gut aversion to be anywhere near them predates even that. I actually didn't recall there were Ouija boards in the Exorcist.
My first recollection is an evening when staying with my cousins family about the time of the release of
Sergeant Pepper. We'd been playing board games -Cluedo, Totopoly, that kind of thing - and someone got out the Ouija board as if it was another inconsequential board game. It bloody well isn't.
Whether there is a supernatural aspect or whether it merely fucks with the brain I leave to you, but it is, as far as I am concerned a really bad thing and I will not stay in the room if someone is playing it.
I’m with Cochise on this one.
As a kid my wife had a functional and happy upbringing, until one evening her parents were introduced to the Ouija by some friends of theirs. Shortly after dabbling with the board her father turned from being a loving caring man into an angry drunken monster
6 months later her parents relationship broke down, which led to divorce and a complete meltdown of my mother in law’s mental health - which lasted for years due to her addiction of a certain (now banned) prescribed medication, which left her in a zombie like state.
As a result of this my wife had an absolutely horrible and dysfunctional childhood, which I think (but she denies) still affects her to this day.
Of course I have no idea if this was down to the Ouija, but I have heard so many stories of people dabbling with the board, and suffering mental health issues and bad luck.
Also and interestingly after the dabbling with the board, the family started experiencing minor poltergeist activity around their flat, nothing particularly disturbing or malign but definite activity.
Sounds like a movie plot!
Not in the sense that I don't believe you, just the opposite! but all that misery and strife starting with a Ouija game. It's like a Greek tragedy.
I have never dared dabble with the ouija. I don't fear the board itself, but what it might make happen to my brain.
I'm an author. As such I spend a LOT of time writing down conversations that don't happen, between people that don't exist. I sometimes feel as though my brain treads a fine line between imagining these conversations (which sometimes go in surprising directions - writers frequently talk about 'their characters coming alive and doing things the author couldn't predict') and actually hearing those conversations. The imagination is a very powerful thing. I have a fear that using a device like a ouija board might somehow bring that part of my subconcious that runs these things to the fore, and that part of my mind that creates these people and their lives, activities and conversations might somehow make that happen off piste, as it were.
Authors often feel as though we are in very tentative control of our created characters. What if an external device could somehow cut loose our creative side and make us unaware of it and give a kind of life to these voices?
Well you've just described the plot of your next book...I'm an author. As such I spend a LOT of time writing down conversations that don't happen, between people that don't exist. I sometimes feel as though my brain treads a fine line between imagining these conversations (which sometimes go in surprising directions - writers frequently talk about 'their characters coming alive and doing things the author couldn't predict') and actually hearing those conversations. The imagination is a very powerful thing. I have a fear that using a device like a ouija board might somehow bring that part of my subconcious that runs these things to the fore, and that part of my mind that creates these people and their lives, activities and conversations might somehow make that happen off piste, as it were.
Authors often feel as though we are in very tentative control of our created characters. What if an external device could somehow cut loose our creative side and make us unaware of it and give a kind of life to these voices?
I guess what ive described there is so called hypnagogic/pompic hallucinations.
As an aside and a teaser this week i'll be going to a flotation centre to try sensory deprivation. Having heard various claims of the effects on the mental landscape that it may have, im curious to see what comes of it. I'll start a thread on Friday to report anything of interest.
Sadly, not quite the sort of thing my publisher expects from me (I write rom coms!)Well you've just described the plot of your next book...
It's interesting. A lot of people on here have noted the fact that sometimes dream plots appear to have been scripted by someone other than ourselves..whether in imagination, plot detail or the use of memorable words and phrases unknown to us until we look them up after the dream. A few times ive had this experience without yet being asleep, where the wandering mind broadcasts a conversation between other people (real or imagined) from which I suddenly pull myself back into conscious awareness and think what the hell was that about, unable to retrace the origin of the semi dream.
A few times ive had this experience without yet being asleep, where the wandering mind broadcasts a conversation between other people (real or imagined) from which I suddenly pull myself back into conscious awareness and think what the hell was that about, unable to retrace the origin of the semi dream.
I guess what ive described there is so called hypnagogic/pompic hallucinations.
Look forward to hearing your review - there is a vaguely new-agey centre near me offering sensory deprivation tanks and I've considered trying it.