(Note: I use AI to help me translate my stories from Japanese to English.)
Do you know the word ESP?
ESP stands for Extra-Sensory Perception, also known as a sixth sense.
It refers to the claimed ability to acquire information without using the known senses or conventional physical channels (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell). It includes phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
Several months ago, I had four dreams in which I used ESP. In those dreams, I was able to move objects without touching them. This ability is called psychokinesis.
Because of these dreams, I became interested in ESP. I wanted to find out whether I had psychic abilities, so I decided to conduct an experiment.
First, I made ESP cards.
ESP cards are a set of 20 white cards with five different symbols: a hollow circle, a plus sign, three vertical wavy lines, a hollow square, and a hollow five-pointed star. The front side is blank, and one of the five symbols is printed on the back.
In the experiment, I drew one card at a time and tried to guess the symbol using my intuition.
Each set consisted of 20 cards. I completed five sets, which means I guessed a total of 100 cards per session. I recorded how many cards I guessed correctly.
I conducted this ESP experiment for 29 days.
After that, I analyzed the results and created a graph.
Statistically, since there are five symbols, the probability of guessing correctly by chance is 20%. If I had psychic abilities, my success rate should be higher than 20%.
However, my overall success rate was 19.3%, which suggests that I do not have psychic powers.
However, there were some interesting results. In one set, I guessed 9 out of 20 cards correctly, which surprised me. On the other hand, there were also times when I couldn’t guess a single card correctly.
I think there may be people in the world who have psychic abilities. For example, I once watched a man on Netflix who claimed he could communicate with the dead.
I also wonder if humans once had such abilities or a sixth sense in the past, but lost them as civilization developed.
The other day, I talked with someone about superpowers. She didn’t believe in them. She said that if such powers really existed, people would use them to stop wars in the world. I agreed with her.
However, I am still interested in supernatural abilities, and I would like to learn more about them by reading books.