How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up?

Hey everyone.

I was talking to one of my friends on AIM yesterday, and we were both bored. Then he said that we should try a few mental exercises. He told me to hold up a number with my fingers and that'd he'd try to guess. A little doubtful, I put up 9 fingers. After a minute, he guessed 9. I was pretty amazed, to tell you the truth.

Then I tried.

It took me a few tries, but after my sixth or seventh try.. I actually got it. What he says to do is to meditate for a minute to clear your mind. Then, you focus on the image of the person you're guessing the number of. The length of time varies, but what I saw was two hands, palms up, in my mind with the number of fingers given.

"8?" I said. "You did it."

Then we tried to take it a step up. We would each hold one of three objects up: a pen, a CD, or a CD case. The other person would then try to concentrate and figure out what the other person was holding.

When I was concentrating, I got a blurry image of a guy hunched over his computer desk and boredly pushing a CD case back and forth along the desk. I guessed the CD case. I was right. That's when I asked him if he had it in his hand or on the desk (on the desk) and if he had been moving it around (yes he had).

The image only stayed there for a moment or two, and it wasn't sharp. It was like a dream, I guess you could say.

Is this ESP?

-CW-

Well, first I was rather proud of myself.. then I began to wonder.

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