Psychic Abilities Quiz

The classic esp test uses a bicycle-brand esp card-deck that has five symbols - circle, square, triangle , plus sign and wave. The examiner holds up one card at a time and you have to guess each in turn. This test has been around for decades and was even featured in the first Ghostbusters movie (where Bill Murray tests an unwitting subject).

But this test has a big problem (apart from Bill Murray). It is mainly a test of one type of ESP - clairvoyance. But there are many other types of psychic abilities - including clairsentience (the ability to feel others emotions and feelings) and clairaudience (the ability to know psychic information by hearing).

The other type of test is what scientists would call a qualitative one - in simple terms using a questionnaire to capture the "quality" of someone's experience (the opposite type - quantitative - measures amounts using statistics). Using a questionnaire-format recognises that it can be difficult to measure psychic ability in a black and white way. The world of the occult is more greyscale, with blurred edges and margins, and gradual transitions between different levels of ability.

So it might ask questions like the following:
1. Do you often see movement out of the corner of your eye but when you turn your head there is nothing there?
2. Do you often know which song will be playing on the radio before you turn it on?
3. Do you feel bad inside after watching the TV news?
4. Have you ever felt that you influenced the outcome of a dice roll or board game with your mind?
5. Do you often experience feelings, sounds or images when you walk into a new building?

These are the first five questions from the author's new psychic quiz site. Hopefully you can see how they might identify a much broader range of psychic ability compared to just flash cards. What are your answers to these five questions?

>Psychic ability tests can help you understand your psychic abilities.
>Many can be done over the internet.
>There are two major types.
>The classic type uses symbolic cards that the test subject tries to predict.
>The other (better) type uses a questionnaire-style format to identify personality traits and personal experiences that might predict the presence and type of psychic gift.