Cityboy has been looking in your house already :eek: - remember the bottle collection!
I am prepared to reveal all (no, not that!) about my ‘so-called’ boxers once the first test is concluded. (Until then, I had better not discuss any object in my house.)
Season’s greetings to you, IWLN. 
Cityboy is still working on his ability.
Have a look at the first page where I give a contact for an Institute that has remote viewed planets!
Not only military applications, but also god for NASA…
Yes, but if I don’t start working on him now, how will I ever turn him to the dark side? If he gets good at it, he will be much too powerful. Haven’t you ever read a comic book?
So how about it, CityBoy? I know I’m kidding around with you a little, but this is a serious question. Suppose you were able to develop this “ability” so that you could do it regularly. Would you use your powers for good (police work, NASA) or for evil (blackmail, voyeurism)?
It seems to me like the temptation to peep into the ladies locker room would be too great. Why would you bother to look at distant galaxies when there are plenty of heavenly bodies right here on Earth?
I would not use it for any type of spying activity. Scientific curiosity, sure, but as I said in the other thread (linked in the OP) scientists want pictures to analyze and media want pictures to sensationalize. The best an AP viewer could do is a sketch.
True enough although I already know what Earthly heavenly bodies look like. If there is extraterrestrial life out there, it would be very interesting to see what it looks like, dont ya think?
CityBoy916, if you are able to astrally project to view extraterrestrial life, how could you distinguish between a “real” viewing and a phantasmagorical dream?
Conversely, suppose I had a dream about a frightful alien species. How could I tell if this was an astral projection? Or just too much chili?
Because a dream and a projection are very different experiences. I’d say they’re about as different from each other as either one is from a waking state. Once you’ve had an astral projection there’s no confusion about what’s going on when you have more of them.
When you’ve been dreaming and wake up, you realize that it was only a dream. When you’re astral projecting, you realize right away something’s different. Since the two can occur together it’s theoretically possible to view something mundane like a weevil or a poster for a sci-fi movie and, in a dazed dream state, interpret it as a scary extraterrestrial.
I am a Skeptic with no psychic abilities, but I gave astral projection a shot, once I was assured that glee wouldn’t be wandering in nekkid. I sat quietly for a moment, with my eyes closed and tried to envision glee’s desk. No luck. So I just wrote down a random list of desk-type things based on the crap on my own desk and one item I assume is on glee’s desk based on the things he’s written in this thread. Then I shut my eyes and stabbed the list with a pen to decide which item was “the one.” My control list, with the marked item italicized:
Thank you for your list and welcome to the control group!
I am going to have a very stern word with IWLN, who has put this … image of me in everyone’s mind. :eek:
Thanks, glee. I forgot to mention that the reason I couldn’t picture your desk during my attempt at astral projection was that all I could envision was you nekkid. In fact, if you look exactly like Aaron Eckhart, maybe I am psychic!
I don’t know whether I should ask this - but who is Aaron Eckhart?
He’s an actor in a stupid movie I watched last night. He isn’t nekkid in the linked picture. More’s the pity.
Is it me, or is Christmas a particularly flirty time of year?
Bah humbug!
Thank’s for the reply, Cityboy. You sound worthy of your mental powers.
You’re a better man than I! 
Oh dear. My apologies, GU – I don’t usually flirt on the boards, particularly not on GD… Well, we could just chalk it up to Christmas, or I could attempt to drag it back on topic, more or less… How about that? I really did make an attempt to astrally project myself. I tried to empty my mind and send it to glee’s desk. I actually thought, “Glee’s desk, glee’s desk…” However, my mind doesn’t appear to go empty very easily – or maybe I just don’t know how to do it. So, this thread, IWLN’s comment’s about glee’s underpants, the cute guy in the movie I watched last night, and my own prejudices about what an English guy’s desk ought to look like all melded together into a mental picture of a very British-looking library with Aaron Eckhart wandering around in it in his bare skin… I tried to zoom in on the desk but the only thing I “saw” there was the role-playing dice, which snapped me right out of my imagination with the realization that, “Hey! role-playing dice! I thought those would be there!”
So there. Very unflirty. And I am curious as to whether any others – skeptic or non – actually made the attempt to project themselves to glee’s desk or did everyone else just guess 12 desk-type items as I ended up doing?
Glee, when/if this test is over, just what are you planning on doing with those “control” test lists? Donate them to charity?
Seriously, what good are they for the purposes of this test, even as anecdotal interest? If the same object appears on two lists, and/or on CityBoy916’s list as well, what will that prove, if anything? Especially since they have been published here already, before some posters have submitted theirs.
Oops, sorry. I haaave perverted the sanctity of this test and I should be punished. :o
Jess, Just remember you flirty wench, I saw him first!! But hey, thanks for the link. I only visualized what was on glee’s desk. If I were going to drop in, I would bring my body with me. 
The Great Unwashed, For some of us, it’s always Christmas!!!
Well he’s better looking than I am…
Christmas comes but once a year (obviously needs some Viagra! :eek: )
I would be very careful about using such quotes just before Xmas - you could be visited by 3 spirits (which would be in the spirit of the thread! :smack: )
Your sense of humour will get you into the Pit one day!
At first I thought the control lists should be kept secret. But then I thought that if I have predictable objects in the test, then that should come out as non-psychic Dopers do their best. And it won’t matter if these predictions are influenced by each other.
If all goes to plan, we can choose the 12 objects for the second test carefully, building upon our experience.
I repeat that, as far as I know, this is the first time any remote viewer has been tested. So whatever happens, it will be a step forward…
I’m sorry, I seem to have completely lost my train of thought :smack:
Blimey, Jess is female? Ah well, I have a rigid rule to only flirt with one female per thread.
IWLN, if you have looked at my desk already, you should be investigated thoroughly by me … errr … :o
