# How often do you check to see whether you have telekinetic powers?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 16, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977 "2012-03-16T16:47:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/41 "2012-03-18T04:12:37Z")
> [@brittekland](#):
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> Does yours time travel backwards?
I made you write that.
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### Author:  [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/42 "2012-03-18T07:23:55Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> I made you write that.
No, I made you write that.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/43 "2012-03-18T07:39:27Z")
> [@brittekland](#):
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> No, I made you write that.
I made you think that.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/44 "2012-03-18T07:50:03Z")
Not since I was a kid, but like **jackdavinci** I can do it sometimes in my dreams, with considerable effort.
The dreams are so realistic that when I first wake up I sometimes think I should do a real-life test with something that wouldn’t take much power to move - a pencil tied to a string and suspended from a doorknob, or something. But I never get around to trying.
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### Author:  [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/45 "2012-03-18T10:17:40Z")
Many years ago I stayed over at a friend’s house and slept in her kid’s bedroom. There were several cardboard carousel type things hanging from the ceiling - one had animals, one had the alphabet… that sort of thing. I couldn’t get to sleep and was staring up at one of these carousels, so I thought I’d see how strong with the Force I was and tried to get it to move clockwise.
It moved clockwise.
I lay there for ages getting it to turn clockwise, then stop, then turn counter clockwise, before I finally fell asleep.
I tried again another time and had some minor success getting it to turn in whichever direction
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/46 "2012-03-18T16:49:34Z")
May 21st, 1980.
Ran out of the theatre ahead of my parents, reached the parked car well ahead of them and tried mightily to use the Force to pull up the lock on the door. Bitter disappointment, that.
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### Author:  [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/47 "2012-03-18T19:52:09Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> I made you think that.
No, I made you think that.
I’m not taking anything less than stalemate.
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### Author:  [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/48 "2012-03-18T20:32:19Z")
Had one once in a group- was with a bunch of hippies who were spinning fire and drumming, watching a lunar eclipse in a park in Brisbane. Annoyingly, there was a street light really close to the moon, so it was really hard to see what was happening. After a little while, someone suggested we all concentrate on the street light, and all will it to go out.
It took about 15 seconds.
Mind you, it randomly flickered on and off for the next few hours, and none of us were trying by then… 😉
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/49 "2012-03-19T15:33:47Z")
> [@brittekland](#):
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> No, I made you think that.
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> I’m not taking anything less than stalemate.
That’s only because I don’t want you to.
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/50 "2012-03-19T16:39:18Z")
I Jedi Mind Tricked my geometry teacher in high school.
“You don’t need to see my homework.” _handwave_
He just sighed and moved along. Success!
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### Author:  [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/51 "2012-03-19T17:39:51Z")
> [@Rala](#):
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> Oh, me too. I try to test it by yelling someone’s name in my head to see if they turn around, or thinking “If you can hear this, cough”. No-one’s responded yet, but that doesn’t conclusively prove they’re not just keeping me in the dark on purpose…
Call them names in your head and watch for barely perceptible frowns.
Or should BOO! really loudly in your head and watch to see if anyone jumps.
Do not try this in a very serious meeting where you will be unable to suppress your giggles at how silly you are being.
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### Author:  [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/52 "2012-03-20T22:47:46Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> That’s only because I don’t want you to.
Okay, as a proof that you do have this telekinetic ability, could you telekinetically will me to come up with a nifty checkmate response to end this stalemate?
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/53 "2012-03-21T03:17:25Z")
> [@brittekland](#):
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> Okay, as a proof that you do have this telekinetic ability, could you telekinetically will me to come up with a nifty checkmate response to end this stalemate?
Now, how did I know you would ask that, heh? 😃
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### Author:  [@Vicullum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicullum)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-to-see-whether-you-have-telekinetic-powers/615977/54 "2012-03-21T04:14:09Z")
I chose weekly. However, I also like to routinely test if I can shapeshift, read minds, warp reality, and sprout adamantium claws.
I have an active imagination.
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