psi20 Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 I read a book by a psychic named Beverly Jaegars about ESP, enhanced sensory perception. She said that her psychic powers and stuff were because she practiced on enhancing her 5 senses constantly. It's weird but she did things with colors to try to see if touching things could give you the sense of the color of the object. She did memory exercises and stuff. She did imaginative exercises by visualizing. But what was weird was this. She said there were blind people who sewed. They could sense the colors with their hands. She said there were blind painters who could do the same, perhaps not with touch but with smell. You know Helen Keller? She was blind and deaf but she could tell who came into the room with their smells, or that's what I've read. Like when you're closing your eyes and someone talks. You know who is talking. So when someone gives off body odor, you can tell who it is. Can you or anyone you know smell people, feel colors, etc. etc. or do something weird like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glider Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 ESP stand for Extra Sensory Perception. Do a google search on 'blindsight'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psi20 Posted February 23, 2004 Author Share Posted February 23, 2004 I know that it's known as extra sensory perception. What I forgot to say was that Beverly Jaegars considers it to be enhanced sensory perception. She doesn't believe that she has an extra sense, she thinks that she has enhanced her other senses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glider Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Yeeees. The 'extra' in 'extra sensory' means 'outside of' or 'other than' (as in the difference between intra- and extracellular), not 'another'. Being able to touch or smell colours is unlikely to be an enhancement of any existing sense. Did you do a search for blindsight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt_f13 Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 I thought people close to Hellen kept certain smelly objects with them to help her tell who came into the room...(?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainMan Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Did you do a search for blindsight? I dont see how this is relavant. If one of these blindsight patients close thier eyes, they will not have the ability that they normally do to detect objects visually. Unconscious visual processing would, by deinition, not be "extra-sensory" because it is what we all normally do and is a normal part of vision. What does thier claim of not being conscious of it have to do with anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psi20 Posted February 24, 2004 Author Share Posted February 24, 2004 Nuts! I can't do blindsight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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