An ouia board is a board with many letters and numbers on it,
there is a circle next to it and if you want to communicate with a ghost you ask a question that you form with the letters on the board.
The spirit will also form an answer with those letters.
Answer
Dear Margot,
The ghosts’ answers are shaped by your muscles, only they can seem to come from ghosts. Many processes are active in our brains at the same time and the thoughts we experience are only a small part of them. Conscious thoughts correspond to processes about which our own brains have a lot of information. With our consciousness we can only process a small amount of information at a time, so there are also many unconscious processes active in our brain. These unconscious processes can also influence our muscles and cause (small) movements. This is called the ideo-motor effect and almost all people who are not paralyzed have this. Without knowing it, we often use this when we talk. Hypnotists communicate with people under hypnosis this way. If one turns his attention to what is called ‘ghosts’, the human mind can interpret this as the command: ‘activate certain processes’. The ouia board can then be an extra tool to convert processes into conscious thoughts via the muscle movements and the ouija board. You can find more information on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_Effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija
Note that the site describes how people perceive the use of an ouia board as both good and harmful, so it’s best to use it only once in a while.
Many greetings,
Answered by
ir. bruno Bauwens
Computer Sciences
http://www.ugent.be
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