Naughty_Felid
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The deep psychological trauma that follows,(some people), using an Ouija board has always intrigued me.
I get the skeptics view of the unconscious movement of the planchette but it really misses the whole story.
But then again Skepticsim usually does miss the whole story.
What is usual in most (strange). Ouija stories:
Ouija is usually played by children or teens.
There is a message that apart from one individual participant nobody else should know.
There is activity during and beyond the session.
There is a deep psychological change in one or more of the participants that is persistent after the session.
And yet it is impossible to replicate/never gets replicated.
I'm wondering if the whole thing is linked to a similar state of mind such as shamanic drumming? What is going on in the brain when people are involved in a Ouija experience?
Why does the Ouija event follow some people and not others?
I've never met someone who has been "haunted' by a Ouija experience, I've met one person, who was no-nonsense and unimaginative who said she experienced something that terrified her.
I still find the whole thing fascinating and I fully believe that it's the state of the mind of the participant that influences the activity of a Ouija session.
I get the skeptics view of the unconscious movement of the planchette but it really misses the whole story.
But then again Skepticsim usually does miss the whole story.
What is usual in most (strange). Ouija stories:
Ouija is usually played by children or teens.
There is a message that apart from one individual participant nobody else should know.
There is activity during and beyond the session.
There is a deep psychological change in one or more of the participants that is persistent after the session.
And yet it is impossible to replicate/never gets replicated.
I'm wondering if the whole thing is linked to a similar state of mind such as shamanic drumming? What is going on in the brain when people are involved in a Ouija experience?
Why does the Ouija event follow some people and not others?
I've never met someone who has been "haunted' by a Ouija experience, I've met one person, who was no-nonsense and unimaginative who said she experienced something that terrified her.
I still find the whole thing fascinating and I fully believe that it's the state of the mind of the participant that influences the activity of a Ouija session.