Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: ESP Message-ID: <609@orca.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 20:44:11 EST Article-I.D.: orca.609 Posted: Sun Feb 19 20:44:11 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 03:43:08 EST References: <258@vortex.UUCP> <162@ihopa.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 21 "I used to know a guy down at school who once told me in passing that he often knew that the phone was going to ring before it actually did so." When I lived in west Los Angeles, I also had this power. I would pick up the receiver just before the phone would ring, and talk to the calling party. This amazed my friends. It turns out that, for many of the GTE lines in west LA, a low power pulse would precede the ring signal by about a second. With sensitive hearing, I could detect the slight murmur of the ringer and know that the phone was about to ring. It is certainly possible that a person could become attuned to this signal at the subconscious, rather than conscious, level, and actually believe that he had the power to predict phone calls. Major world superstitions have been founded on less. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP] (orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]