Some people say they know who is about to email them just before they receive an email from that person, or else that they think about someone they havenšt thought of for a while, who then emails. Many people have had similar experiences with telephone calls. We want to find out if this is just a matter of coincidence, or whether telepathy is involved.

This experiment involves a subject and four other people who send emails. If you are the subject, you know that you will get an email at a fixed time, and you know it will be from one of these four people. The emailer is picked at random. Just before the email is due to be sent to you, you will be asked to guess who it is going to be from. That's the test: you simply guess who's about to email you.

The four people who can email you should be family members or good friends, ideally people who you think you are likely to respond to telepathically. If you cannot think of four such people, then you can pick two or three. The other one or two will then be "virtual people" generated by our computer. You pick a time for a session, which lasts under 20 minutes, and make sure beforehand that your chosen emailers are available at the same time. During that session, you sit by your computer, trying to remain fairly relaxed. During the session there will be 10 trials at one-minute intervals. Before each trial, one of the four people will be selected at random by the computer and will be asked to email you. Just before this email is sent, you will guess who it is going to be from. Your guess will be right or wrong. By chance you would be right about 25% of the time. Scores significantly higher than this would suggest telepathy is involved. And of course you might be more telepathic with some people than others. We are interested in the effects of distance on telepathy, so if some of your callers live far away, all the better.

Before you can run an experiment you must first register an experimental group. During this process you will be asked to enter your details and the details of your senders.

After you have registered a group you can set the date and time for your experiment in advance. The experiment will consist of 10 trials. Each trial takes about one minute. Your friends will be emailed automatically to invite them to participate. You and they should then log on at the chosen date and time.

Or you can run the experiment right now if the other participants are ready.

Register an experimenter group

When your group is registered.

Schedule a future experiment (this will notify the other participants about the date and time)

Run experiment now, if the other participants are ready

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Troubleshooting

If the hosting server is busy the experiment may "time out" during one of the ten runs. You may be able to recover by pressing the back button on your browser then carrying on as usual. If this fails just log-on again and you will be given the option to rejoin the experiment.

If any problems are encountered with the experiment please send as much details as you can to:- onlinetelepathy@hotmail.com