A Note About My Comment in Discussion with Deke Weaver
By Rachel Fleming (04/14/14 19:03:47)
I just wanted to elaborate on my comment about being better able to pinpoint sharks in the water on my kayak trip once I "pretended" I would see something. Although we were discussing fascinating "ghost stories" and such, I did not mean to imply anything mystical about this technique. I mostly meant to imply that the act of pretending probably had some effect on my mind's ability to pick out signals in my environment.


For example, pretend someone hands you an image and tells you that there's definitely something interesting hidden in it. You will probably we quicker to find that interesting thing faster than if that person told you that there "might" be something interesting in the picture.

I've found that the technique of assuming there is life somewhere in my surroundings (if I look hard enough) is true. Looking with a careful eye for even a second longer might reveal more than you expect :)

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