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From: dmesatr@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (Arthur van der Harg)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Signals from electronic devices?
Message-ID: <1206@dutrun2.tudelft.nl>
Date: 19 May 91 12:27:53 GMT
References: <19377@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Computing Centre of the Technical University of Delft The Netherlands.
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In article <19377@csli.Stanford.EDU> cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix) writes:
"Some background: I used to have a small digital clock (LCD display)
"that switched between displaying the time and date every second or
"two.  I noticed that every time I looked at it, at first glance it was
"displaying the date, and from then on switched normally.  I even took
"it to school and demonstrated this to a few other people.  It happened
"at least 20 times in a row, and the only time I remember it failing
"was when I looked at it twice in a few seconds.  I recently remembered
"this, and became curious.

[ Mechanisms for "look-now" signals deleted ]

"So: Can anyone comment on the possibility of any of these modes of 
"communication working?  Can anyone think of any others?  If no one can
"think of any way this could happen aside from chance, I'll try to get 
"another of the clocks and do a test on it.  I may solicit suggestions for
"the test later, from these groups or from sci.skeptic.

"Chris Phoenix			cphoenix@csli.stanford.edu

It's very well possible that you happened to look at the clock when it
showed the date a couple of times in a row. When you got aware of this,
two things could have happened:

a] If you looked at the clock and it showed the time you did not
consciously see this, and only got aware when it showed the date.

b] You saw the clock from the corner of your eye (subconsciously) and
when it showed the date you would say "hey look, it shows the date
again".

My mother has about the same phenomenon with the clock on the VCR. She
always manages to see the times "10:10" "11:11" "12:12" etc. .

I think it is the recognition of the event that made you aware of it.

Does this make any sense ?

Arthur


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