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From: edhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: ESP
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Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 19:42:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 20 19:42:31 1984
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Sure; I've been able to do that, too--at least when the room is
relatively quiet.  Phones often make a faint sound before they ring.
It's hard to discribe, as it isn't exactly a `click'; it is sort of
like the buzzing sound a malfunctioning telephone bell makes, but
briefer and fainter.  And it happens because of a voltage transient
that occurs when the connection is made to your phone but before
the ring signal actually begins.

I'm often not aware of the sound, but just of the sensation that
`the phone is about to ring'.  We are so conditioned to react to
a ringing phone that the most subliminal sensory input can become
associated with it, even if it is so faint that our conscious mind
always rejects it as `noise'.

		-Ed Hall
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