Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: ESP Message-ID: <1707@randvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 19:42:31 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.1707 Posted: Mon Feb 20 19:42:31 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Feb-84 04:40:25 EST References: <258@vortex.UUCP>, <162@ihopa.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 17 --------------------- 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 decvax!randvax!edhall